Laptops Archive

  • Pink Sony Vaio prompts question: who buys pink gadgets?

    Pink Sony Vaio prompts question: who buys pink gadgets?

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, it’s a pink Sony Vaio. Amazing, right? No, no it’s not. Can anyone answer this question: why do companies think that by making an otherwise unremarkable item PINK that women will AUTOMATICALLY want it? Silly.

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  • Toshiba’s Dynabook Qosmio V65 is a high-end laptop, Blu-ray player and DTV in one

    Toshiba’s Dynabook Qosmio V65 is a high-end laptop, Blu-ray player and DTV in one

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Toshiba in Japan announced [JP] a new Qosmio laptop today, the Dynabook Qosmio V65. The main selling point of the device (of all Qosmios, in fact) is the "multi-media" capability: Toshiba promises that the laptop produces high-quality images, thanks to the SpursEngine coprocessor (that Toshiba has been using in its CELL TV and Qosmio laptops since 2008), LED backlight, and the 15.6-inch "Clear SuperView LED" HD TFT screen with 1,366×768 resolution.

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  • Report: Laptop sales are rocking fueled by netbooks sales

    Report: Laptop sales are rocking fueled by netbooks sales

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    People might not be buying houses and cars at the pre-recession levels, but laptops are flying off the shelves led by netbook sales. (Quiet, don't tell John. He hates netbooks.)

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  • Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    What do you do with a laptop when you're done with it? That's an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is sitting in the closet, broken beyond repair. Now, if I had one of these new Asus laptops, I could, somehow, recycle them. Helping the Earth, one laptop at a time.

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  • Does your MacBook need a colorful keyboard?

    Does your MacBook need a colorful keyboard?

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    "Oh, neat." Thus spoke Nicholas Deleon when he saw these MacBook keyboard decals, and it was Good.

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  • Was the laptop school district photo situation just a giant misunderstanding?

    Was the laptop school district photo situation just a giant misunderstanding?

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    How convenient. You'll recall that we (well, pretty much just me) have been covering the case of the Pennsylvania school district that allegedy took thousands of photos of students with laptops that it gave them. Of course, these photos were taken without any of the students (or their parents) knowing, so it looks pretty bad. Or looked pretty bad? Lawyers hired by the school district have concluded that the school didn't do anything wrong, and we should all go to Cold Stone and have two scoops of ice scream to celebrate.

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  • Who needs privacy? 56,000 photos taken in Philly school district kerfuffle

    Who needs privacy? 56,000 photos taken in Philly school district kerfuffle

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    This MacBook-spying story could be the creepiest story in quite some time. We already know the allegations: that the school district provided MacBooks to its students, but then took photos of the students without their knowledge or consent. Now we're getting numbers. One student claims he was photographed more than 400 times, and now it has emerged that, over a period of two years, school district officials took some 56,000 photos in total, with many of those including students in the frame. FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND! You know, you send your kids to school expecting them to learn a little bit of math, maybe about evolution and the Big Bang, but you do not expect them to have their privacy violated as if we're living in East Germany.

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  • Use your laptop to detect the next big earthquake before it happens

    Use your laptop to detect the next big earthquake before it happens

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It's pretty great that people are just now realizing that Planet Earth isn't some sort of static strip mall. There are volcanoes, and earthquakes, and hurricanes, and tornadoes, and tsunamis—objects from outer space regularly invade the atmosphere. This planet is alive, brother! So, idea: you know how certain laptop models, like ThinkPads and MacBooks, come with built-in accelerometers? They're there in order to protect the hard drive from a devastating fall, but what it you could use said accelerometer to detect an earthquake before it happens?

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  • Allegation: School district used laptop to take 400+ photos of student without permission

    Allegation: School district used laptop to take 400+ photos of student without permission

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, this school district is totally boned. You'll recall that the Lower Merion School District, in Pennsylvania, had given students MacBooks so they could do their schoolwork. Fun. What wasn't fun, though, was that the school is alleged to have snapped photos of the students without their consent. The whole kerfluffle is wrangled in the legal system now, and one of the district's employees who had access to the images called it a "little LMSD soap opera." Replied another: "I know, I love it." Oh boy, not good for the school district.

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  • Onkyo’s new notebook is 22mm thin, offers over 14 hours of battery life

    Onkyo’s new notebook is 22mm thin, offers over 14 hours of battery life

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Onkyo in Japan announced [JP, PDF] a new notebook today, the Sotec MX1007A4. It has a 10.1-inch screen featuring 1,024×600 resolution and LED backlight, with Onkyo saying one of the two selling points is its thickness (the notebook is 22mm thin - 18mm at it thinnest part). It weighs just 1.16kg, too.

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  • MacBook 3D concept: How long till it becomes a reality?

    MacBook 3D concept: How long till it becomes a reality?

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    What's most surprising about this next story is that it took so long to emerge. Presenting... someone's MacBook 3D mock-up! "See 3D, make 3D." Yes, that's very Apple-like indeed.

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  • Acer preps its second-gen Android/Win netbook

    Acer preps its second-gen Android/Win netbook

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Not long after Acer announced last year that it was launching an Android netbook did the company unveile the first-of-its-kind Acer Aspire One D250. Then just yesterday Acer’s mobile product manager Martino Mombrini let slip that an updated model is on its way. The D260, like its predecessor, will also be able to dual boot Android and Windows. Not much else is currently known about this netbook, except that the chassis is getting a redesign. But wait, there's more.

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  • Alienware M11x autopsy photos

    Alienware M11x autopsy photos

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    The Alienware M11x is a fascinating modern notebook. May I say that it probably took "out-of-this-world technology" to pack so much power into a little kit? Get it? Because it's an Alienware. You got? Yes, I know I'm dumb. John tells me that everyday. Just click through for the photos, pal. Let's get on with this.

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  • Dell Vostro 3000-series: You know, for small businesses and entrepreneurs

    Dell Vostro 3000-series: You know, for small businesses and entrepreneurs

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    So you're hopping on a flight and you sit next to a sexy member of the opposite sex. You've got to get some work done so you whip out your nasty laptop, a fat and ugly IT department-supplied monstrosity (probably from Dell or HP). Your seatmate looks over, idly contemplating your potential as a lifemate, and sees your junk laptop and starts reading the Skymall catalog. After all, laptop makers for years have been saying that a persons value as a genetic donor is wrapped up in the look and feel of their hardware. That's right: if you don't buy something from the Dell Vostro 3000-series, you will die alone.

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  • The Dell Precision M4500 brings serious power to the 15.6-inch party

    The Dell Precision M4500 brings serious power to the 15.6-inch party

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Dell made a huge splash back in December when it launched the Core i7 Extreme Precision M6500 beast, but it isn’t exactly a perfect mobile solution weighing in at 8.5 lbs weight and 17-inch screen. The new Precision M4500 aims to solve that dilemma by offering nearly the same power with a Intel Core i7-920XM [...]

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