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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 […]
Continue reading »Acer recently reported that shipments of its Aspire One could exceed sales of the ASUS Eee PC by all of a million units. Although ASUS is largely responsible for starting this whole netbook craze, Acer is playing the role of the bigger kid on the block and is poised to steal the show. They recently said that sales of the […]
Continue reading »Education – Textbooks Phased Out? Some folks are not interested in quad core 3D gaming, they just want steady performance and price. With a modest 1.73 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and adequate 1GB of RAM, that’s what this latest offering from Acer delivers. “There’sjust no money to put back into education!” This has been the battle cry for educators […]
Continue reading »We live in an ever smaller world, it seems like the trends that burn a trail through America find their way to the shores of the UK within seconds, and vice versa…..But what about the East? We hear about the technological wonders coming from Japan, and playing yet another race of “Ridge Racer” on my Jap PSP I couldn’t be […]
Continue reading »Recently many pundits and assorted experts and industry leaders have been spotted announcing that netbooks are actually bad for the computer market as a whole, despite recent reports of record sales projections. This guy Mike though, he makes some pretty good arguments for why those various pundits’ arguments are bunk. Read on as we summarize: Netbooks are known to run […]
Continue reading »Monday, January 31, 2005 By Catherine Van Herrin and Lucy Layman Read all about it: Computer technological history is being made. Everyone’s logging on these days, from sprightly fifth graders to zimmer frame wielding octogenarians. Today’s notebook buyers are savvy and price-conscious smart, and computer manufacturers and retailers know they can’t be blindsided. Laptops are no longer viewed as a […]
Continue reading »My laptop left me. She left me without warning. One day, she was behaving like nothing was wrong between us. We were sitting on a picnic bench in the shade on a beautiful summer day. I was typing away. Her hard drive hummed, chuckled every now and again, and faithfully recorded my data and shut down when our date under […]
Continue reading »A photo taken by an Inquirer reader has been orbiting on the Internet, something along the lines of an exploding laptop. Some would say it was on fire. Mere semantics. The picture from Osaka, captures flames and sparks and smoke, and nearby conventioneers, perhaps dulled by beers and saki from the night before, staring on in disbelief and fear. The […]
Continue reading »Laptops and teaching value is a fav topic at Laptopical, in large part because it is fast becoming a real issue in the educational world. Many teachers are out there improvising and innovating with notebooks on university campuses and in high school hallways. But many more teachers are terrified of wireless laptops. We came across an interesting discourse on this […]
Continue reading »Toshiba recently unveiled a prototype handheld device that marries the convenience of a tablet PC to the power of a notebook computer. The prototype is a 12.1-inch TFT LCD display with XGA resolution and detaches from a notebook “base station.” Users interact with the display with a stylus. It can communicate with the base station using a 802.11b wireless protocol. […]
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