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laptops
This Laptop Thief Has Balls Of Steel
According to a police report, 19-year old Jesse Phoutthaphaphone...pppppthft was sitting by a cracked window in his home, typing on MySpace when a thief suddenly popped in the window and stole the laptop right out of his hands. More » -
mods
Eee Lights Up Like Christmas Whenever a Message Comes In
With all the lights that adorn modern notebooks, it's truly a shame that most of them aren't at all useful. One modder, sharing this philosophy, added a 3-color LED to an Asus Eee 901 to track incoming messages. More » -
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Microsoft's Latest Laptop Hunters Find That PCs Are Perfect For Families On a Budget
Microsoft's latest laptop hunters were looking for four things in a computer: a big screen, long battery life, the ability to share pictures and a price under $700. Naturally, they chose a PC over a Mac. More » -
review
Toshiba Portege R600 Review: 512GB SSDs Are the Bee's Knees
Just last summer, Toshiba's Portege R500 was the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. A year later, Toshiba's Portege R600 is the world's first 512GB SSD lappie. So for this one moment, Toshiba is on the top of the world. More » -
netbooks
Sony's Got an Honest-to-Goodness Vaio Netbook
Well, you wouldn't take a real notebook into a kitchen would you? This Vaio W must obviously be a netbook. [Sony via Engadget Japan] -
mods
Ben Heck's Latest Xbox 360 Laptop
Ben Heckendorn—true geek god amongst men—is back with revision 5 of his portable Xbox 360 console. More » -
peripherals
Cooler Master Offers the Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get
It's tough to tell without anything to scale this image, but the Cooler Master SNA 95 is the smallest 95W laptop adapter around—yet still manages to integrate some convenient extras. More » -
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proclamations
So Long Desktop PC, You Suck
Desktop PCs have been in decline for a decade, and countless people have said their piece about it. But new evidence suggests the desktop tower's death spiral is underway—and we're not too broken up about it. More » -
netbooks
Select Asus Eees to Get Free Windows 7 Upgrades...Technically
The good news: two models of Asus Eee, the 1101HA and 1005HA, are eligible for free upgrades to Windows 7. The bad news: your 1101HA needs to be preloaded with Vista Home Premium and your 1005HA needs to be preloaded with Windows XP Pro or Vista Business. As Lilliputing so eloquently put it, "I didn't even know those options were available." If you own any other type of Asus system, check the link to see the company's other Windows 7 upgrade offers. [Asus via Softpedia via Lilliputing] -
acer
Acer Quietly Poised To Surpass Dell As Second-Largest PC Maker
Don't look now, but Acer—yes, that Acer—is on the verge of unseating Dell as the second-largest PC maker. More » -
sony
Sony Finally Achieves the Unholy Grail: A $2,000 Netbook
We're not sure if there's been a lot of clamoring for an crocodile-skin laptop, but Sony's new Vaio Signature Collection looks to fill that void. Even crazier is their customized Vaio P netbook, checking it at a crazy $2,000. More » -
apple
Is the New Macbook Air Actually Slower Than the Last One?
Sluggishness was a consistent gripe with two prior versions of the MacBook Air, especially compared to the rest of the MacBook line. The latest version has speedier processor options, but according to recent benchmarks, might have gotten slower. Huh? More » -
viral
I Don't Want Any Service That Transforms My Laptop Into a Jet
I'm not sure why anyone would buy into this crazy French online snail mail service (especially if they are stealing laptops by turning them into jets...tricky bastards), but their viral ad is interesting at least. [Laposte / Thanks Ravi!] -
toughbook
Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots
Most of us have no need for Panasonic's Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. More » -
netbooks
HP Mini 5101: When Did Netbooks Get This Nice?
It's safe to say we've hit the third generation of netbooks. They're nice now. The HP Mini 5105 strikes at Asus Eee Seashell's fancily contoured plastic with aluminum and magnesium. Oh yeah, and 95-percent chiclet keyboard that feels fantastic. More » -
laptops
Lenovo Considering Thinkpads with Multitouch and OLED
If Apple won't do it, maybe it's time for us to celebrate the potential of another company's multitouch laptops. Because Lenovo's worldwide product marketing manager Franciso Carias revealed that the company is considering building multitouch screens into their Thinkpads and creating a 15-inch OLED version of the T500 "if demand is there." Well Lenovo, we demand it, so chop-chop. [ComputerWorld via OLED Display] -
netbooks
Gateway LT3100 Netbook Runs an AMD Athlon Processor, LED Backlit 11-inch screen and Multitouch
What's up, Gateway? You think you're too good for the Atom? All the other netbooks are using it. Doesn't this really make your new LT3100 more of a tiny-screened, $400 laptop? Yes, plus LED backlight and multitouch. More » -
lenovo
Lenovo's T400s Aims For the Line Between Portability and Performance
Lenovo's new T400s laptop aims for the sweet spot between portability and performance, offering up a whole bevy of options in a device with a 14.1-inch screen that weighs under four pounds. More » -
apple
Apple Releases Firmware Update to Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed
We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. More » -
transport
2UNFOLD Laptop Bag Is Probably Too Attractive for You or Your Computer
Your MacBook Air or whatever is a sharp machine, sure. But it's not timeless, handcrafted Italian leather that's transformable into one of eight different styles. More » -
laptops
The Acer Aspire AS5739G Is a Powerful Blu-ray Laptop For $750
Today, Acer announced their updated line of Aspire laptops. But the most interesting has to be the Aspire AS5739G, a no-compromises performance machine with a tempting price of $750. More » -
laptops
Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computer's Hot Spots With Movable Fan
We've seen other laptop stands with built in fans, but this one promises to only cool your computer's hot spots. More » -
vaio
Sony Vaio NW Is A Blu-ray-Toting $880 Notebook
Sony has just trotted out the Vaio NW, their new line of Blu-ray equipped, mid-market notebooks, and at 1.2-inches, they are quite slim too. More » -
laptops
Why Laptop Battery Claims Are So Useless, And Why That Won't Soon Change
It's one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone's using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don't plan on stopping. More » -
laptops
You Can Run Over a Lenovo ThinkPad T400s with a 26,000-Pound Truck
I mean, I don't really see why you'd want to run over a non-rugged, Lenovo T400s laptop with a large truck. But as I was told many times as a kid, it's a free country. Anyways, the spinnerific HDD survived. More » -
netbooks
Toshiba NB205 Netbook Gets 8 and a Half Hours of Real-Time Battery Life
10-inch, Atom-based netbooks tend to blend together in the mind, as they all have similar specs and similar designs. But when you can boast an insane 8.5 hour battery life in real-world conditions, we sit up and take notice. More » -
netbooks
Disney Partners With Asus On Netpal Eee Netbook For Kids
In what seems like a natural partnership, Asus and Disney have teamed up to develop the Disney Netpal—a netbook designed specifically for kids that's "fun, web-safe and easy to use." More » -
dell
Dell Latitude Z Gets Leaked, Tentatively Held For Photo Shoot
Well, it looks like the Dell Latitude Z, a svelte, mid-range ultrathin, has come out of hiding for its first photo shoot. More » -
notebooks
Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Just Made Your Notebook Old and Busted
A year after Nvidia's monstrous GeForce 200 series graphics cards first stomped onto the scene (literally the biggest GPUs ever), Nvidia's finished making them mobile, delivering double the performance of current 9M series using half the power. More » -
laptops
MSI's Skinny 15.6-Inch X-Slim X600 Laptop Specs Revealed
We're not really sure about the market for a svelte-yet-comparatively-large-screened laptop like MSI's 15.6-inch X-Slim X600, but now we've got the full spec list so you can decide for yourself. More » -
mids
Viliv X70: A 7-Inch Netbook Without the Keyboard
The Viliv S5 was sort of charming in its own way—a tiny Atom-powered touchscreen MID that went for $599. Well the Viliv X70 is the S5's bigger cousin, and it runs just $599, too. More » -
laptops
Acer Rumored to Release Laptop With 3D Display In Stores by October
According to Digitimes, Acer is planning a late October release for a 15-inch notebook, complete with a glasses-free 3D display that can convert 2D movies into 3D ones. More » -
apple
13-Inch MacBook Pro Arrives and MacBook Air Gets a Price Cut
Apple just announced a spec bump for their 13-inch MacBook that brings it into MacBook Pro territory, and the MacBook Air got a whopping $700 price drop. More » -
laptops
Hybrid Android/XP Tablet/Laptop Looks Nice, Has Me Confused
At first this seems like a good idea: A tablet that runs Android in stand-alone mode. Then you connect it to an HP Mini 1000 netbook and it will run Windows XP. More » -
netbooks
Microsoft Wants to Rebrand Netbooks 'Low-Cost Small Notebook PCs'
Microsoft wants us to move away from the term "netbook", instead referring to the tiny, cheap laptops, which the company says demand recognition for handling more than just browsing, as—brace yourselves—"low cost small notebook PCs", according to Digitimes. Sorry, Intel! More » -
netbooks
Toshiba's First US-Bound Netbook Features LED-Backlit Screen and Monster Battery Life
Toshiba's NB205, similar to the NB200 available in the UK, will be coming to the US, and given Laptop Mag's glowing recommendation as possibly "the best netbook yet," we've got reason to be excited. -
laptops
Acer's 8-Hour Aspire Timeline Drops to $599, Available Now
Acer has finally made an honest product of its Aspire Timeline, so to speak, and Intel's brand-new ULV processors, designed for precisely these kinds of laptops, make a surprise appearance, pulling the base price down to $599, from $699. More » -
netbooks
New Asus Eee Seashell Features 11.6-Inch Screen and 11-Hour Battery
We loved Asus' super-slim Eee Seashell, and it looks like Asus can see they might have a hit on their hands. In Asus' mind, that means it's time to bring on the new models, and the first seems to be an 11.6-inch Seashell with an alleged 11-hour battery life. More » -
laptops
MSI X340 Review: The Unemployed Man's MacBook Air
It's impossible not to be at least a little impressed with the MacBook Air, but who can spend almost $2,000 on that laptop? The solution? The MSI X340, a $900 MacBook Air. And it's a great idea...in theory... More »
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