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We are sadly reaching this time of the year when the summer holidays are almost over, but a lot of you will be making it back to your second favourite holiday destination: college! All jokes aside, we know you’re planning on getting a lot of work done, and moving to a new accommodation might just prompt you to think: “Yeah […]
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Thinkpads were first developed and manufactured by IBM, however in 2004 International Business Machines announced that the Lenovo Group was buying IBM’s coveted brand. Thinkpad aficionados were left worrying if this was the end of an era. Fears were allayed in July 2005 after Lenovo unveiled the innovative X41 Tablet PC. Since then Lenovo have released a number of quality […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »Dell has gone where it hasn’t gone before: a cheap notebook that’s got an AMD processor and is Vista ready. The AMD processor thing is a first for a Dell machine of any kind-laptop computer or desktop. And the Vista thing-well, that’s not so much a first as a rarity. Most bargain laptops on the market aren’t coming Vista ready […]
Continue reading »Dell has bypassed the 10″ netbook frenzy with the new Inspiron Mini 12, a 12.1″ netbook, which was released earlier this week in Japan. The Inspiron Mini 12 will make up for what we consider the largest shortcoming in netbooks today, the shrunken keyboard, by providing one that is nearly full size. Dell has also upgraded a number of other […]
Continue reading »Posted by Daniel Shain in IBM Lenovo Laptops, Dell Laptops Well, this came as a surprise. Whether you liked Macs or you didn’t, for a long time it has been hard not to concede that Macbook displays have been superior to standard notebook displays, much to the joy of photographers and designers everywhere. So what’s all this about a Dell […]
Continue reading »We’ve talked before about Dell allowing you to put artwork on your laptop for various reasons, but there were just a few options at that time. Now there’s more than a hundred. You could already artsy design on your Dell Studio too. But now Dell is cashing in on the popularity of these design options, and you can choose from […]
Continue reading »Dell has released two brand new Vostro laptops, and another one is on the way. Both new laptops, with the imaginative names 1310 and 1510, seem to offer a lot of bang for your buck, but the 13″ Vostro 1310 is undoubtedly the most interesting model. Dell recently announced its revamped Vostro line of cost-efficient “small-business” laptops. The Vostro 1310 […]
Continue reading »Security conscious IT departments may fall in love the SafeBook. This thin laptop is like disappearing ink. Data can be accessed and applications can be tapped by the people in your organization who are meant to do the accessing and the tapping, but if the SafeBook gets into the wrong hands, that confidential data vanishes without so much as a […]
Continue reading »Which notebook weighs in at under 5 pounds, has the latest and fastest Verizon wireless broadband hookup, and a dual-core processor to boot? Business guys, you should know the answer to this one – The Dell Latitude D620 laptop. This Dell’s dual-core processor is a 1.83 GHz Intel T2400 with 1GB of RAM. Additionally, this business notebook comes with 80 […]
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