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Toshiba, the creator of HD-DVD and sore loser in the battle against Blu-Ray, as decided not to include Blu-Ray drives in their laptops. Though Toshiba hasn’t given an official reason for this, speculation assumes that it due to two reasons: Adapting the Blu-Ray drives would be supporting the competitor, Sony, who won the battle against Toshiba over HD-DVD. Also, the […]
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Intel-supported and Linux-based, Moblin is a new OS designed specifically for netbooks. The alpha is now out and ready to be tested by those brave souls out there who like to test products before they’re actually ready to be used. Moblin is derived in large part from Fedora, but with a few tweaks for mobile devices. It has a unique […]
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Samsung has developed the technology to create power efficient and highly productive DRAM at the 40 nanometer level. That’s really, really small. Fresh on the heels of their 50nm 8GB success, Samsung has hit another benchmark by producing the highest quality 40nm DRAM to date. They promise it will deliver 60% more productivity and waste less energy than the 50nm […]
Continue reading »Ah when I was a lad back in the 80’s, a TV series tied heavily into selling toys to kids was hugely popular. Entitled Transformers, the show followed the exploits of autobot Optimus Prime and his battle against the incorrigible leader of the Decepticons – Megatron. Optimus Prime, the main protagonist of the series could transform into a truck, but […]
Continue reading »With a plethora of desktop replacements, thin and lights and ultraportable laptop computers on the market today, how does the bewildered buyer make an informed choice? By relying on personal recommendations from colleagues, family and friends, and also by reading opinions and laptop reviews such as those found at sites like Laptopical. Portability, processor type (AMD Turion, Intel Core 2 […]
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Talk about designer laptops. Taiwan-based component manufacturer Micro-Star International Company, or MSI, has released a collection of laptops that could top your great-grandmother’s crystal chandelier for shininess, while providing enough power to trump your desktop for usefulness. The first installment in MSI’s collection is the Crystal M677. It gets its name, and its bling, from 120 pieces of real-deal Austrian […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks with Ubuntu Linux initially only recognized 4GB of hard disk space, regardless of whether you ordered a 4GB, 8GB or 16GB. Dell’s error was in using the exact disc same image to format every single Mini 9 loaded with Ubuntu, regardless of the actual size of the hard drive. This means at first all Ubuntu […]
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Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 by Daniel Shain Strangly enough, Apple has decided it is in your benefit for their new MacBook to not perform very well when running on AC power alone. That’s right, when the battery is out of the laptop it takes a serious performance hit. And we mean serious – tests revealed a 37% drop. Many […]
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Teaming up with AT&T and Ericsson, Lenovo is dropping the price and widening the availability of its 3G capable notebooks. Lenovo has recently stated that the built-in 3G option has become available in many more of its laptops, from the T series to the X series to the SL series ThinkPads. Beyond that, they have also dropped the price. The […]
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Remember that project started by Nicolas Negroponte for the “$100 notebook” (Laptopical first reported on it back in early 2005)? Well, it’s still going strong, despite a recent name change. The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) team have now named the PC the 2B1 “children’s machine”-but they’re also calling it just about done. Yes, the 2B1 is near ready for […]
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