Tag Archive for 'notebook'
Fresh on the Centrino 2 bandwagon, Toshiba have launched their latest media-happy Qosmio entertainment notebooks, including the world’s first laptop with Cell Processor technology. The three new models, which were first announced last month, comprise the G55, the F55 and the gaming X305, and all use Intel’s latest mobile platform.
Sony invited us down to the Hilton in midtown Manhattan earlier on today to spend some hands-on time with their new 2008 VAIO lineup. While the company could never be accused of pushing out exactly unstylish notebooks, the latest Z, FW, SR and BZ machines are particularly successful when it comes to a cohesive and [...]
It’s not all glib home users who are in line for some new Lenovo fun; business users may be slightly more predictable in their usage, but that doesn’t mean they’re satisfied with last year’s ThinkPad. The new SL-series of SMB notebooks - the SL300, SL400 and SL500 - all have an options list weighed under [...]
Lenovo has delivered details on the range of IdeaPad consumer notebooks it first discussed at the beginning of the year. The four new models - the U330, Y430, Y530 and Y730 - slot in above the successful U110 and offer a range of display sizes and casing color schemes.
Sony has pulled the wraps off of its 2008 VAIO lineup, and there are fresh Z, FW, SR and BZ machines serving everything from the sober-suited business-person to the Blu-ray media junkie. All running Intel Centrino 2 processors, the smallest of the new range is the Z, with a 13.1-inch display, NVIDIA 9300M graphics, Blu-ray [...]
Most people would say the frustrating thing about the MSI Wind is its shipping delay, but Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien has taken issue with another aspect: its OS. Working on an Advent 4211 rebadge, Paul has stripped the budget ultraportable of Windows and replaced it with Apple’s OS X Leopard. The result is a 10-inch mini-MacBook.
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Dell’s Latitude XT convertible tablet PC is getting a multitouch upgrade tomorrow, which will introduce fingertip control from multiple contact points to the notebook’s capacitive touchscreen. The XT was the first tablet PC to use a capacitive panel, and at launch could recognise both fingertip and multi-tipped pen contact. Now it gets iPhone-style pinch zooming [...]
There were plenty of people who didn’t think Elonex could bring their original One notebook to market at its £99 ($196) price, but the machine was a surprising success. Now the company is looking to build on that with the One T, which lacks the removable keyboard of its predecessor in favor of a less [...]
Having experienced multiple delays and the indignity of a downgraded battery, MSI’s budget ultraportable offering, the Wind, is finally available in the US. Intended to rival the Eee PC 1000-series, according to the company’s press release the Wind should now be available both at MSI’s online store as well as Newegg.com, Amazon.com, Frys.com, ZipZoomFly.com, mwave.com [...]
Apple has reduced the cost of specifying the solid-state drive option on its Air ultraportable notebook. The SSD, originally priced at $999, now costs $599 as an addition to the 1.6GHz entry-level Air. The 1.8GHz Air, which is pre-configured with the SSD, has dropped to $2,598.
