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Acer 3-D Aspire Laptop, Complete with Glasses, Arrives

October 21st, 2009 | No Comments

The Acer Aspire 5738DG notebook can turn 2-D content into 3-D. It features high-definition playback, Dolby surround sound and a 15.6-inch CineCrystal, LED-backlit display coated with a 3-D film. The 3-D glasses are included.
– Acers newest notebook, the Aspire 5738DG, announced Oct. 21, comes with its own 3-D glasses.

The entertainment-focused notebook features a TriDef 3-D
solution that includes a 3-D screen, software and glasses for 3-D
visuals, and it can additionally convert 2-D content into a Â“vivid 3-D
exper…

Acer Aspire Laptop Sports Touchscreen Display Plus Windows 7

October 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Acer is getting touchy-feely, with its first touchscreen notebook, plus a 3-pound, 11.6-inch addition to its Timeline series that features a Multi-Gesture touch-pad. Both models feature Windows 7, as will several other coming Timeline models.
– Acer introduced two new notebooks on Oct. 14 and updated several existing models to support Microsofts Windows 7 operating system.
Windows 7, which is said to feature integrated touch capabilities, is
additionally on the two new models, which put touch front-and-center.

The Acer Aspire 5738PG…

Dell Unveils Latitude Z600 Laptop, OptiPlex 780 Desktop, Precision T1500 Workstation

September 29th, 2009 | No Comments

On Sept. 29, Dell rolled out a trio of new PCs designed for enterprise customers, especially those working in finance, banking, real estate and the insurance industry. The first PC is the Dell Latitude Z600 laptop, which offers a new technology that gives users access to Microsoft Exchange and other applications without fully booting the notebook. In addition, Dell unveiled two desktop models. One is the OptiPlex 780 desktop, which is designed for larger enterprises, and the second is the Precision T1500 workstation, which is geared toward CAD (computer-aided design) workers.
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Dell Latitude Z600 Laptop Targets High-End Enterprise Customers

September 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Dell is releasing a new, high-end enterprise laptop called the Latitude Z600. The newest Dell notebook boasts a thin and light form-factor design thanks to low-voltage Intel chips and solid state drives. In addition, Dell is using Linux technology for a new feature that allows users access to their e-mail without fully booting the laptop.
– Dell is releasing a new high-end, enterprise-class Latitude
laptop that utilizes new technology, which allows users to access to their
e-mail and calendar without fully booting the notebooks operating system.
The new Dell laptop, the 16-inch Latitude Z600,
officially goes on sale Sept. 29. In cr…

Chip Shot: Intel’s Fastest Laptop Chip Just Got A Lot Faster

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Intel introduced the latest in wireless notebook PC processor technology at IDF in San Francisco – the Intel® Core™ i7 mobile processor series. The new Intel Core i7 mobile processors are designed for users who expect maximum performance for digital media, productivity, gaming and other demanding applications on-the-go. The new series includes “intelligent” processing features like Intel Turbo Boost Technology, which allows you to accelerate the processor clock speed up to 75% to match your workload, and experience better performance on highly-threaded apps with the multi-threaded power of Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.

Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New IntelÂ® Coreâ„¢ i7 Mobile Processor

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2009 – Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processor and Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture to the mobile market.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet, T400s Laptop Offer Multitouch Displays

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Lenovo is looking for new ways business users can interact with their laptops. The PC maker is now offering multitouch screen technology, along with a new application called Simple Tap, with its ThinkPad X200 tablets and T400s notebooks. The technologies add multitouch capabilities to the laptops and take advantage of new features found within Microsofts Windows 7 operating system.
– Lenovo is looking to change the way business users
interact with their ThinkPad laptops and tablet notebooks.
On Sept. 15, Lenovo
plans to start offering multitouch capabilities with its ThinkPad X200 tablet
notebook and its ThinkPad
T400s laptop. In addition, Lenovo plans to release a new tech…

Dell Teases Adamo XPS Laptop on ’09-09-09′

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Dell offers a quick sneak peek at its upcoming Adamo laptop on Sept. 9, or 09-09-09. Little is known about the new Adamo laptop, but the new material from Dell indicates the notebook will be thinner than the first Adamo machine, released in March.
– It took a once-in-a-lifetime day 09-09-09 for
Dell to make some noise about its latest Adamo
laptop.
On Sept. 9, Dell posted a picture on its Website of the upcoming Adamo
laptop, which appears to go by the name Dell Adamo XPS. There is no other
information about the Adamo laptop on the Website…

Horrendously Ugly Notebook Has Performance at Heart

August 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Product: U505-S2930 Laptop Manufacturer: ToshibaWired Rating: 5 #package_banner { display: none; }

One hates to judge too harshly, but someone at Toshiba didn’t get the memo that with a thin and light computer, the operative descriptors are both …

Netbooks Beat Apple Macs with Student Laptop Shopper, Survey Says

August 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment

More than a third of the students surveyed by Retrevo reported wanting small, lightweight notebooks this year, and more than half had a budget under $750. The result, says Retrevo, is that back-to-school shoppers are passing on Apple laptops.
– Retrevo, a product search engine, says it polled more than 300 of its 4
million monthly visitors and found that the Â“majority of student laptop
shoppers will not consider buying a Mac,Â” the company reported in an Aug. 18
statement.

According to Retrevo, 34 percent of students said they want …

Western Digital Rolls Out First 1TB Laptop HHD

July 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment

WD’s Scorpio Blue 1TB is now the 2.5-inch laptop disk drive with the world’s largest capacity, eclipsing Toshiba’s 500GB laptop SSD, released May 14. How long will it hold the title? Probably not for long.
– It certainly didn’t take long for somebody to roar past Toshiba’s
short-lived record of 500GB for the largest available laptop storage capacity,
announced on May 14.

Western
Digital on July 27 introduced two new laptop drives that knocked Toshiba’s
Portege R600-ST4203 solid-state laptop out …

Michelle Obama honours US designers

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

US First Lady Michelle Obama honoured the countryâ€™s top designers at an annual luncheon at the White House.
She called them â€œcompelling innovatorsâ€ who mix beauty with practicality.
â€œYour work is both practical and poetic, educational and inspirational,â€ the Politico quote her as saying at the luncheon on Friday.
Michelle Obama added: â€œWhat I love about design is [...]

Laptops with SSDs Bring Greater ROI, Research Says

July 10th, 2009 | No Comments

As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives such as Toshiba’s 512GB SSD laptop become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. But prices remain 20 percent to 40 percent higher than standard spinning disk drive portables.
– Industry analysts and vendors are predicting
that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future
for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.

As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher Toshiba
has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away they…