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My Life With a Hackintosh--and How the Movement Suggests a New Model for Innovation

Farhad Manjoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0400

Not long ago, I got my hands on one of the slowest, ugliest, and least-user-friendly Macintosh laptops the world has ever seen -- and I love it. My Mac sports a couple of features that others can't match. First, it's tiny and lighter than Apple's vaunted MacBook Air. Even better, its portability doesn't carry a premium; it set me back only about $500, a third of what Apple charges for the Air.

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

Kit Eaton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:23:39 -0400

Dell's much-hyped Adamo--its high-style MacBook Air-rivalling laptop--failed to deliver on the technology side when it was released recently. That could be because Dell's really banking on its Latitude Z machine to be its high-style MacBook Air rival, as evidenced by its first hands-on review.

Dell's Adamo Revealed: Big Luxury, Big Price, Low Greenness

Kit Eaton — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:09:00 -0400

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 specs.

Will Asus' MacBook Air-Like Eee Tempt Apple to Make a Netbook?

Kit Eaton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:19:07 -0500

The MacBook Air, love it or loathe it, is a design classic--that is why MSI, Olidata and Dell have taken a stab at replicating their own versions. The latest attempt to do so comes from the netbook PC master itself: Asus.

Ultraportable Olidata Conte is Latest Contender to MacBook Air's Throne

Kit Eaton — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:32:17 -0500

Olidata's Conte has just been shown for the first time, and it looks like a serious competitor to the MacBook Air class of ultra-portables. Check it out: Skinny aluminum case, 13-inch screen, back-lit keyboard with chicklet-style keys, oh and built-in 3G broadband capability.

Dell Adamo, Rival to MacBook Air, Pictured in the Wild

Noah Robischon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:01:57 -0500

Brian Solis has posted several top-notch photos of the Dell Adamo. Still no technical specs available on Dell's MacBook Air competitor, but it sure does look pretty.

MSI's X320 Netbook Clones The MacBook Air

Kit Eaton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:31:40 -0500

Apple's MacBook Air is about as far as Apple will go towards a netbook currently--touting its super-thin sized ultraportability. But MSI knows a good idea when it sees it, and the company has stepped up with its own super-slim x320...which looks almost identical to the Air.

Dell's Ultra-Thin Adamo Notebook to Rival MacBook Air

Kit Eaton — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:37:41 -0500

Rumors and snippets of information are circlating that Dell has a novel new laptop on the way: An ultra-thin, ultra-light machine in the MacBook Air class. Only Dell's machine, dubbed Adamo, is to be thinner.

Tech Watch: Apple's MacBook Announcement Eclipses Toshiba's New Notebooks; Warner Reveals DivX Distribution Plans

Chris Dannen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:45:04 -0400

Apple Showcases New MacBooks

At a special notebook-themed product event today, Apple revealed significant revisions to its two lines of portable computers, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The big news: brighter displays, faster graphics, and one-piece aluminum enclosures, with some innovative, smaller features making their debut as well.

Has NVIDIA Leaked New MacBook Details?

Chris Dannen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:58:23 -0400

Rumors have been afire that Apple [AAPL] is coming shortly with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, the latter of which feel as if they haven't been updated in centuries. Now there's word that a MacBook event is planned for October 14, and news out of NVIDIA [NVDA] seems to support that news.

More Apple Gear To Come?

Chris Dannen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:52:01 -0400

Tuesday's event was a great refresh of Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] music offerings, but left some Mac faithful a-wanting. Thankfully, the rumor mill is here to provide hope.

Intel Standardizes Macbook Air Mini-Chip

Chris Dannen — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:48:08 -0400

At its Developer Forum this week, Intel [NASDAQ:INTC] announced it would officially begin producing on a large scale its Core 2 Duo "S" chip, which is the special edition 45-nanometer chip featured in the notebook market's two ultra-thin beauties: Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] MacBook Air and Voodoo's [NYSE:HPQ] Envy 133.

VooDoo Envy Ordering Goes Live

Chris Dannen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:16:40 -0400

Toshiba Portege Gets Massive Solid State Hard Drive

Chris Dannen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:28:52 -0400

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 solid state hard drive. That's twice the storage of other solid state machines on the market, like the Lenovo X300 or the MacBook Air, without a commensurate price increase. The R500 is still prices at just $2,999, becoming perhaps the first practical value proposition amongst its ultra-light counterparts.

Dell Reveals "E" and "E Slim" Ultra-Portables

Chris Dannen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:20:57 -0400

Apparently convinced that there just aren't enough vowels in the current crop of netbooks, Dell [NASDAQ: DELL] has revealed its own group of ultra-portable laptops to compete with Asus's Eee PC and Apple's MacBook Air, and they're calling the two models the "E" and the "E Slim."