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What's Behind Intel's Expensive Ultrabook Push?

The continuing storm of mobile devices is changing the way people compute on the move and at home--and that's forcing Intel to innovate. READ»

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Apple Roundup: Skinny MacBooks, iPhone 5 Cases Leak, iPad 3 In The Fall, iPhone Lite Leaks?

You may not be shocked to learn that a lot of rumored Apple news is bubbling up around on the Web--here's our roundup of the most interesting bits.READ»

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What Will You Do With All Those Discs Now That Apple's Killing The DVD?

Apple's new MacBook Airs and Mac Mini desktop machines have one less hole than they used to: A CD-DVD slot. Apple thinks the spinning optical drive is done. And soon the rest of the computing world will follow.READ»

Apple's New iMacs House A Few Secrets After All

Though Apple's taken a pretty conservative line with the hardware refresh for its iMac desktop PCs, it turns out that the guts of the machines harbor some juicy secrets.READ»

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Apple's New MacBook Pros Revealed [UPDATE]

Apple's new MacBook Pros are now official, after a high-profile leak. The specs teach us a couple of things: The Light Peak/Thunderbolt data link is here, but otherwise Apple seems to be playing it safe. READ»

Justin Bieber Confirms Black Apple MacBooks: Rumor Roundup

Justin Bieber boasts to a Rolling Stone writer that he has one of the world's only black MacBooks, tying up a number of new rumors.READ»

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The Apple iPad may affect global memory prices

Will the forthcoming Apple iPad’s potential success have a knock-on effect for global memory prices?First, a startling fact for you – Apple already consumes almost one-third of total global NAND flash memory for use in its ...READ»

Forget Adamo: Dell's Real MacBook Air Rival Is the Latitude Z

Dell's forthcoming high-style laptop may finally be a worthy rival to the Apple MacBook Air, right down to its lofty price tag.READ»

QUAD-CORE   |  Comment

How Expensive is Samsung's Viral Video Super PC?

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the ...READ»

EMTEC   |  Comment

Emtec's Innovatively Odd Gdium Netbook has Portable Main Drive

Emtec is jumping on the crowded netbook bandwagon with its Gdium Liberty 1000. It's a pretty standard machine with one oddly innovative exception: It has a main solid-state drive that's designed to be easily undockable. This ...READ»

MSI U115 Is World's First Hybrid Storage Netbook

The MSI U115 looks pretty much like any other netbook, but purring away inside its smallish frame is an exclusive data storage system: It's the world's first netbook on the market with hybrid storage.The U115 has a solid state drive ...READ»

SAMSUNG   |  Comment

Samsung Attempts Purchase of SanDisk

Samsung [005930] had a few billion laying around, so the company decided today to make an unsolicited offer to purchase Flash memory maker SanDisk [SNDK]. In what was apparently an attempt to broaden its influence as the ...READ»

DELL   |  Comment

HP Releases 24-hour Notebook with Intel SSD

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»

Special Report: Hard Drives Not Dead Yet

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»

Special Report: What's Up With Solid State Hard Drives?

It seems like every new drool-worthy notebook these days -- from the MacBook Air to the VooDoo Envy -- is sporting solid state hard drives instead of traditional hard drives. If you don't know the particulars of what solid state ...READ»

SAMSUNG   |  Comment

Samsung Mass Produces Solid State Hard Drives

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»

Toshiba Portege Gets Massive Solid State Hard Drive

The venerable Portege line, Toshiba's [OTC: TOSBF] ultra-portable notebooks, has just gotten a little more venerable. The R500, the company's well-received 12.1-inch LED-backlit laptop, has officially gotten an upgrade to a 128GB ...READ»