Acer, ASUS, Duel For Netbook Dominance

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 […]

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Notebook Sales Surge in China

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 […]

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Notebook Dawn is Brightening – Sales Surge

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 […]

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My Notebook Left Me

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 […]

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Wireless in the Classroom: Part 2,376

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 […]

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