Laptops

Laptops Designed by Children

When adults design a laptop for children, it looks like the OLPC or Speak and Spell. When laptops are designed by children they look like the setup above. The PurC PC (Purple Construction Paper PC, my name) was made by an 8-year old girl in the youngster-founded, no-adults-allowed “The Laptop Club”. Alphanumerics are pegged where…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 19

NVIDIA Launches GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS Notebook GPUs

NVIDIA got official today with its GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS notebook GPUs, which you might remember from the fresh-out-the-door Alienware beast from a few hours ago. Mark Rein, Epic Games’ VP is “ordering one” exclamation point, if that makes you more blisteringly excited. [Nvidia] https://gizmodo.com/alienware-further-teases-us-with-powerful-area-51-noteb-324442

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 19

Official Dell Latitude XT Tablet Specs Leaked

An internal Dell document for the Latitude XT Tablet has surfaced, more or less confirming previously-leaked specs, while revealing a few new ones. https://gizmodo.com/more-dell-latitude-xt-tablet-details-squirt-out-309978 The internal document shows the XT will have a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage processor, 1 Gig of RAM (expandable to 3), Bluetooth 2.0 and built-in mobile broadband.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 19

Black-Hawk XR5 Laptops to Have Dual GeForce 8800s, Core 2 Quad Processor

With the inclusion of two 512MB GeForce Go 8800GTX graphics cards, the Black-Hawk XR5 will be the first laptop to feature such graphical power. Along with a 17-inch screen, Core 2 Quad processor and EV-DO support, Black-Hawk clearly is not messing around, and intend for the XR5 to be a desktop replacement. However, our friends…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 19

Dell Matches Asus Eee and XO Laptop With $399 Vostro 1000

Dell matches the economy class XO and Asus Eee laptops by permanently chopping its $700 Vostro 1000 to $399. It’s got superior specs to both: 15.4-inch screen, 1.7 GHz dual-core Athlon64 X2, 1GB RAM, 256MB integrated ATI gfx card, 8x DVD burner and 802.11g Wi-Fi card, running XP Home. The super-cheap laptop market’s getting nicely…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 19

“Recycled” Electronics from U.S. Poisoning Workers Abroad

We ship 50 to 80 percent of the 300k to 400k tons of electronics that actually make it to recycling each year—out of 2 million tons tossed—overseas. The “recycling” part happens when workers in places China, Nigeria and India bust up old gear with hammers, gas burners or their bare hands to pull out metals,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 18

54 Percent of Computer Users Admit to Stealing Wi-Fi

Fifty-four percent of you fess up to lo-jacking someone else’s Wi-Fi without permission, you free-wheeling bastards. We’re guessing the other 46 percent just didn’t wanna own up to it. [CNET]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 16

OLPC Founder Realizes Verbal Agreements Are Not Equivalent to Money

If you were wondering why you’ve been asked to help pick up the tab with the OLPC project, its founder offers a lesson in international business: https://gizmodo.com/olpc-releases-details-of-christmas-sales-initiative-302829 “We are making the XO available to U.S. and Canadian consumers as a financing scheme for the developing world, to trigger global demand and government closure,” Negroponte told…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 16

Alienware Confirms Upcoming Area-51 m15x and m17x Laptops

Crave just uncovered the meaning of the weird Alienware emails we’ve been getting, obliquely worded invitations to a November 19 product unveiling. Well, the product, or products, are two new laptops, the Area-51 m15x and m17x. The 15″ and 17″ systems are ground-up redesigns featuring crazy angles, Martian runes (as seen above) and as many…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Nov 16

Galaxy Black Asus Eee PC Now Available

The $400 Mac laptop just got even sexier with the arrival of the Asus Eee PC in Galaxy Black at Newegg. If you’ve wanted a cheap black Mac, now’s your chance. Better still, there’s no “black tax” on this baby. Sorry early adopters! Update: Buy.com has it with free shipping. [Newegg via I4U] https://gizmodo.com/399-ultraportable-apple-laptop-os-x-on-asus-eee-pc-323279

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 15

LG Develops Smudge-Free LCD Screen: Touch Tablets Rejoice

I go into a conniption when I show someone something on my notebook and they press their dirty, oily finger into my screen, knowing I’ll have to bust out an LCD wipe to restore its pristine state. No more! LG Philips LCD’s latest LCD panel—which takes after non-stick frying pans&dmash;will let you wipe off smudges,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 15

$399 Ultraportable Apple Laptop: OS X on Asus EEE PC

Word of warning if you have an Apple-shaped twinkle in your eye: Lo-jacking the Asus Eee PC with OS X is legally dubious (like a lot of worthwhile tech endeavors tend to be) thanks to licensing restrictions and whatnot. Dan’s method more or less follows Adam Pash’s awesome Hackintosh tutorial over at Lifehacker, but an…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 15

XO Laptop Hacked to Remotely Run Roomba ‘Round Rooms

This is probably not one of the uses Nicholas Negroponte had in mind when he thought up the OLPC, but at least we know some child, somewhere is benefiting from this little project. The hack lets you control the Roomba from a web browser, using the XO laptop’s webcam and microphone as your eyes and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 13

Latest Developing Area to Buy OLPC Laptops: Alabama

It’s fantastic to see that all of OLPC’s potential is being brought home to our own developing corner of the world, Alabama. Kids in grades 1-8 in Birmingham—15,000 of ’em—will receive XO laptops. Rumor has it Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virgina are also looking, and we can’t think of better places to send ’em. [AL.com,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 13

8GB Asus Eee PC To Get Bigger Screen

We thought the only difference between the different pricepoints of Asus Eee PCs would be the storage and a few tiny features, like the $299 version lacking the $399 version’s webcam. But Asus’s upcoming 8GB model will not only feature an extra 512MB of RAM, but a screen size of nearly 3″ over its counterparts—10″…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Nov 13

Panasonic Toughbook Y7, T7 and W7 Are Built to Take a Business-Class Beating

Panasonic’s newest Toughbook Y7, T7 and W7 are designed to combat the Homer in you: that is, they’re for people who work with sensitive data yet are prone to dropping laptops, spilling drinks and generally messing stuff up. Forget accelerometers, the hard drives in this can take a serious hit at 2.5 feet and on…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Nov 12

Drive eRazer Tabula Rasas Hard Drives, No Computer Required

Need to kill the data on a hard drive you have lying around but don’t wanna bother hooking it up to a PC? Wiebetech’s pocket-sized eRazer plugs directly into lonely hard drives and genocides whatever naughtiness you have have etched into it at a rate of 35MB/s, leaving a 250GB hard drive scorched earth in…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 12

OLPC’s Give 1 Get 1 Program Starts Now

The OLPC’s Christmas initiative, also known as Give 1 Get 1, is starting now. What this means to you is you can pay $399 for two laptops, one of which you get to keep and the other you get to send to a child. The only caveat is that you can’t specify where your donated…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 12

Asus’ Updated EcoBook Bamboo Laptop Hands On (Gallery)

We reported on Asus’ ultra green EcoBook bamboo laptop back in March, but now that we’re seeing it in person, we can tell the design has changed. This latest edition of the bamboo beauty features even more wood accents than before with bamboo surrounding the touchpad, as well as the bamboo facade. The bamboo is…

Tech News Hook Nov 12

AppleInsider Says Apple Ultra-Portable 13″ Laptop at Macworld

We’ve heard rumblings about that ultra-portable 13-inch notebook on its way from Apple for a while now, but now AppleInsider says it’ll finally be rolled out at the MacWorld Expo and Conference in the middle of January. Because an optical disc will be reportedly omitted from the design, the new Mac book will be 50%…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 12

Laptops Designed by Children

NVIDIA Launches GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS Notebook GPUs

Official Dell Latitude XT Tablet Specs Leaked

Black-Hawk XR5 Laptops to Have Dual GeForce 8800s, Core 2 Quad Processor

Dell Matches Asus Eee and XO Laptop With $399 Vostro 1000

“Recycled” Electronics from U.S. Poisoning Workers Abroad

54 Percent of Computer Users Admit to Stealing Wi-Fi

OLPC Founder Realizes Verbal Agreements Are Not Equivalent to Money

Alienware Confirms Upcoming Area-51 m15x and m17x Laptops

Galaxy Black Asus Eee PC Now Available

LG Develops Smudge-Free LCD Screen: Touch Tablets Rejoice

$399 Ultraportable Apple Laptop: OS X on Asus EEE PC

XO Laptop Hacked to Remotely Run Roomba ‘Round Rooms

Latest Developing Area to Buy OLPC Laptops: Alabama

8GB Asus Eee PC To Get Bigger Screen

Panasonic Toughbook Y7, T7 and W7 Are Built to Take a Business-Class Beating

Drive eRazer Tabula Rasas Hard Drives, No Computer Required

OLPC’s Give 1 Get 1 Program Starts Now

Asus’ Updated EcoBook Bamboo Laptop Hands On (Gallery)

AppleInsider Says Apple Ultra-Portable 13″ Laptop at Macworld

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

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HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

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