Michael Dell thinks so. Sure, they're fun and light at first, he told a group of associates Tuesday. "But 36 hours later, they're saying... 'Give me my 15-inch screen back.'"
Dell says that he foresees consumer excitement swinging ...READ»
Dual-screen notebooks are out there, and while they may not look as cool as this Asus concept, they have some serious appeal to coders, designers, and other nerd-types who need pixel real-estate to go.
Want one? The company to ...READ»
Dell announced today that it will be launching new versions of its studio laptops, which were made famous by their multifarious artist-designed lids. The new version will feature another trending spec: multi-touch screens, according ...READ»
This is hot news on the InterWebs this morning--Nokia's apparently going to move into a totally new market: It's making a PC, a netbook number that's also integrated with the Ovi App Store. Is Nokia taking on Apple's iTablet?
Nokia ...READ»
We already know that 3-D tech is supposed to be the next big thing for home TVs, but we've also been hearing about it coming to computers. Well, it's here. Acer actually has a 3-D display notebook in the works.
The ...READ»
"Everyone's surprised by it," admits Eric Bone, a retail VP at SanDisk, the leader in SD cards, when I reached him just after Apple's keynote address wrapped up. Bone did a double take--along with the rest of ...READ»
As I write this, my computer's Wi-Fi antenna mopes among the pay-per-hour networks inside La Guardia Airport, wondering why it costs $8 to access the Internet for the short period before my flight. While it wanders, I fume.
It ...READ»
A Lenovo netbook with a nine-inch screen is making its way through FCC approval as we speak, according to several blogs. And unless Lenovo is populating a seriously redundant product line, this one probably has a new trick up its ...READ»
After taking his three months leave as CEO, Steve Jobs may still be running development of Apple's special projects from home, according to The Wall Street Journal. Chief among them: new iPhone models, the iPhone 3.0 operating ...READ»
After all the fuss, Dell's finally revealed the first machine in its Adamo line of notebook PCs. As expected, it's pretty high on the luxury scale and correspondingly high in price. And surprisingly not so high in terms of ...READ»
The best new feature in Apple's [AAPL] new MacBook Pro is the 8-hour, ultra-durable battery that Apple says it custom-designed. But is it really the advanced powerplant it claims to be?
Conventional notebook batteries, or lithium-ion ...READ»
It's the holidays, and that means offering peace and clemency to your nemeses. Or, in my case, coming to tolerate -- even appreciate -- a netbook.
I didn't think it was possible at first; every UMPC I've used has felt cramped, slow, ...READ»
Dell's apparently ultra-thin laptop Adamo teaser campaign from last week is joined by an even more intriguing one from Sony. It bears little more than a swishly-photographed Vaio logo on a shiny-looking black device, and the words "On ...READ»
While Apple's Steve Jobs wowed Mac addicts with the latest versions of the MacBook today, Toshiba quietly announced a roundup of new notebooks. Care to wager on the winner?READ»
Not much to add to the already-reported rumors of new Apple [AAPL] MacBooks on their way in 5 days, but Apple has finally acknowledged the event by sending out an invitation to special media folks. The event will start at 10AM PST ...READ»
Now that Sprint [S] has announced its big WiMAX launch in Baltimore, bunches of companies are scurrying to announce products that will incorporate the wireless broadband technology.
As of this week, the XOHM network in Baltimore ...READ»
Panasonic [MC] announced a handful of new Toughbooks this week, refreshing the venerable line of go-anywhere, drop-me notebooks. The three new models come in three different form-factors: a lighweight notebook, a tablet PC and an ...READ»
Not content to be outdone by the rash of ultra-marathon computers coming out of Dell [DELL] and HP [HPQ], Lenovo [LNVGY] announced yesterday that they'd be releasing two new ThinkPads, one of which is a 2.5 pound business ...READ»
Not long ago, Dell [NASDAQ:DELL] thought it had the ultra-marathon laptop market in the bag with its 19-hour battery. Now HP [NASDAQ:HPQ] has shown them up with their new EliteBook 6930p, a notebook that features a whopping ...READ»
A couple of weeks ago, I gave you the lowdown on solid state drives: what they're for, how they work, and where they're headed. In the name of equal time, I also got the scoop on the future of traditional hard drives, in case you ...READ»
This week Toshiba's [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry's first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state drives, which store their data on ...READ»
Admittedly, hard drives are not the stuff of most peoples' dreams. But they are, however, increasingly important in the future generations of notebooks: because they have no moving parts and can be configured to sip energy, they ...READ»
Taipei-based Asus [TPE: 2357] is expanding its consumer electronics line so quickly that it almost doesn't do justice to the impressiveness of each device's individual specs. Case in point: two large-screen portables they were ...READ»
Taipei-based Asus [TPE: 2357] is expanding its consumer electronics line so quickly that it almost doesn't do justice to the impressiveness of each device's individual specs. Case in point: two large-screen portables they were ...READ»
