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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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Posted by Daniel Shain Come along with us and peer into the guts of the new MacBook Pro 13″ as only the boys at ifixit can do. Apple recently introduced a 13″ variation into its MacBook Pro line and from the outside, it looks much like its 15 and 17 inch cousins. But how about from the inside? Not trusting […]
Continue reading »Deciding on which notebooks should receive a coveted Laptopical laptop award was difficult. But now that the votes have been counted, and the contents of thick brown envelopes have been safely deposited in a Swiss bank account, we are finally at liberty to reveal our selection. We decided to have a little fun, and compare these laptops with characters from […]
Continue reading »Super Talent Technology has announced two solid-state drives which are significantly smaller than regular hard drives. These new SSDs have a form factor of merely .85″ or 1″, which is just a little under or a little over half the size of the smallest HDD available, which is 1.8″. The new drives make use of the older parallel ATA interface […]
Continue reading »Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 by Daniel Shain This week Sony issued a battery recall for 100,000 of its notebook batteries worldwide. It might sound small next to the millions of batteries that have been recalled in the last few years, but it all adds up. Another batch of Sony batteries have been considered dangerous, mostly for the likelihood of […]
Continue reading »Posted ago by Daniel Shain by Daniel Shain in Microsoft Laptops Sprint Nextel announced today that it will be selling WWAN modems capable of both 3G and 4G connections starting Sunday. Labeled the Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U300 will connect to both Sprint’s 3G network and the new 4G WiMax network being built as part of their Clearwire venture. The […]
Continue reading »The highly anticipated Opera Mobile browser will be available to the public next month. Opera Mobile 9.5 BETA will be available for download on July 15th. The release will be for Windows Mobile devices, and is based on the browser engine of the desktop version. More specific details will be released in the next week or so. The 9.5 browser […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain According to a recent Pricegrabber.com consumer report which focused on netbook and SSD trends, netbooks are doing well and here to stay. We’ve been hearing a lot of back and forth about netbooks, with most industry leaders maintaining that they are harming the industry and a growing number of other experts and commentators who are defending […]
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