Laptops

How To: Steal a Laptop

Here’s a video of a lucky thief lifting a laptop from a computer store. We say lucky because the guy looks super conspicuous, wearing an oversized coat while store workers rock short sleeve t-shirts. He walks around like a spaz, pacing and fidgeting. And if that weren’t enough to give the whole caper away, all…

Tech News Brian Lam

Franklin Wireless USB EV-DO Card

The Franklin USB EV-DO card is perfect for readers with laptops that don’t have a PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot, or those with tablets, PDAs, and UMPCs. This goes directly into the USB slot, unlike the Novatel, which had a separate cable but looks bit bulky in comparison. Franklin’s solution seems a bit more compact. https://gizmodo.com/novatel-usb-evdo-adapter-166223…

Tech News Jason Chen

Another PowerBook Mel Gibsons

Another horror story of a PowerBook meltdown comes to you from a guy who woke up to an apartment full of smoke and a laptop on fire. https://gizmodo.com/apple-powerbooks-eksploderer-too-191968 Just a warning to everyone: we woke up this morning at 6am because the apartment was filled with smoke and our laptop was on fire. It wasn’t…

Tech News Jason Chen

Is This A New Glossy Black MacBook?

A reader writes in to tell us about this black MacBook he saw somewhere—we can’t say where he saw it since it would get him in some deep doo doo—and says it may be a new revision of the black MacBook series. The standard MB right now is matted and non-reflective, as you can see…

Tech News Jason Chen

Victoria’s Secret Models Like MacBooks Too!

The two sexy Victoria’s secret ladies, Allesandra Ambrosio and Gisele Bundchen, were caught backstage at a Victoria’s Secret event woman-handling some Apple hardware. This picture is excruciatingly confusing for Apple fanboys. What are they supposed to look at, the women, or the black and white Apple MacBooks? Their brains—and pants—asplode at the possibilities. By the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Powerbooks Eksploderer Too

It looks like Dells aren’t the only laptops on the block to catch fire. Employees in Kristiansand “got an unpleasant surprise when the battery In their 12″ Powerbook G4 laptop suddenly caught fire yesterday.” https://gizmodo.com/another-flaming-dell-laptop-191013 The fire originated from the battery, and then “fell out, even though it was locked.” He pushed the laptop into…

Tech News Jason Chen

WWDC Poll: What Do You Think Is Coming?

Scoble says there’s tons of junk headed our way from WWDC next week. What do you think is the most likely product to be launched? https://gizmodo.com/robert-scoble-says-there-will-be-a-dizzying-amount-of-n-191572 iVoting after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

Tech News Jason Chen

Robert Scoble Says There Will Be A Dizzying Amount Of New Products At WWDC

There’s only one week left until Apple’s WWDC and the rumors are already flooding in about what’s going to be released. Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, throws out this very interesting nugget on his blog: Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an…

Tech News Jason Chen

Road Gear: Targus Bluetooth Laser Notebook Mouse

Targus makes some pretty nice-looking laptop bags, and is also known for its creative mouse design, and now adds to its family of Bluetooth mice with this diminutive notebook laser model. https://gizmodo.com/targus-notebook-cases-for-him-and-her-176080 It can switch from 800dpi to 1600dpi on-the-fly, and can charge up via USB cable while you’re using it. Measuring 4 inches long,…

Tech News Charlie White

TabletKiosk i7209 and i7210: Slim UMPCs, Fat Price

For those who haven’t figured out that UMPCs do nothing well, here’s a series of the mini-tablets that can do a bad job of everything, only faster. That’s because the TabletKiosk i7210 has a faster 1GHz Pentium M processor. But wait, the lower-priced i7209 isn’t as lucky, it’s still stuck with a 900MHz Intel Celeron…

Tech News Charlie White

Acer Aspire 9800 20.1-inch Laptop With HD DVD Released

Starting at an astronomical price of $2,800, the 20-inch Acer Aspire 9800 lets you take your HD DVD anywhere, as long as you can lift 17.2 lbs. Not for the weak of heart, wallet, or back, the Aspire 9800 has a Core Duo T2600, 2GB of RAM, Geforce Go 7600 graphics card, 240GB hard drive…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Torture: Invisibly Shielded Macbook vs Drywall Screws

The Apple and Invisible Shield fanboys have collected a bunch of screws loosened from their noggins, and used them to test the gadget protecting stickers. The unnamed Macbook owner drags his precious over a bed of spindly drywall screws over and over and over again. Make it stop! Somehow, the laptop emerges unscathed, as if…

Tech News Brian Lam

Another Flaming Dell Laptop

As the old saying goes, when you smell smoke there’s probably a fire. In a Singaporian man’s case, he smelled smoke, heard popping noises, and knew it was fire when he saw flames bursting coming out of his Dell laptop. He quickly plopped his machine into a sink put out the blaze. Are these Dell…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel Core 2 Duo Laptops Last 5 Hours In Cross Country Flight

Intel set up their own internal publicity video to hype how power-efficient the new Core 2 Duos are. They set two employees on a cross country, West to East flight, to see how well the new C2Ds would perform compared to the old Core Duos an AMD Turion system. These guys did what most users…

Tech News Jason Chen

QuickerTek MacBook Pro Handle

Cases, schmases. Display the fact that you are a proud MacBook owner with this simple handle. It attached to the MacBook and provides an easy and convenient way to tote it from Starbucks to Starbucks. But wait, there is more! If you order now the QuickerTek Handle will include elevation functionality! It can rotate underneath…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Apple Recalls Certain 15-Inch MacBook Pro Batteries

If you have a 15-inch MacBook Pro bought between February 2006 and May 2006, Apple is offering to exchange your battery for a new one. WTF? According to Apple: “We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high standards for battery performance. To give our users the…

Tech News Charlie White

Lenovo 3000 V100 Subnotebook: Hands On the Thinkpad’s Ugly Little Sister (Verdict: Go Subnotebook, go!)

Lenovo, the guys who ate IBM, just had their 12-inch subnotebook groped by PC World. The V100 is hideous, it really is — I’d call it the Super Chunk of light computing. Everyone laughs at it. But everyone stopped laughing after the benchmarks. Why? This, and why you might consider buying this machine, after the…

Reviews Brian Lam

LG LW25-EV Core Duo Laptop With EVDO, DMB – Boobies Sold Separately

This laptop was made for people on the go! Features like the EVDO enabled data, the DMB TV Tuner, and the 2.4 pound weight all scream “take me to the pool and perhaps you’ll meet three Korean ladies.” Other features like the 12.1-inch screen, Core Duo T2400, 1GB of DDR RAM and GeForce Go 7300…

Tech News Jason Chen

Another Dell Laptop Goes Ka-Bloom

It was only a month ago that we saw the first Dell laptop explosion. From which Dell said “Oops, our bad.” Well it seems it has happened again, this time it was the battery catching fire in an office building. What is even worse is that it appears to have happened while the laptop was…

Tech News Travis Hudson

DIY MacBook Pro Sleeve Case

Sure, those convenient MacBook sleeves are getting pretty cheap, but then you would be like every other trendy Starbucks sipping, MacBook owner. This is the only true way to make your laptop stand out, and it is by creating a DIY trapper keeper carrying case. Everyone remembers the trapper keeper. It was so cool and…

Tech News Travis Hudson

How To: Steal a Laptop

Franklin Wireless USB EV-DO Card

Another PowerBook Mel Gibsons

Is This A New Glossy Black MacBook?

Victoria’s Secret Models Like MacBooks Too!

Apple Powerbooks Eksploderer Too

WWDC Poll: What Do You Think Is Coming?

Robert Scoble Says There Will Be A Dizzying Amount Of New Products At WWDC

Road Gear: Targus Bluetooth Laser Notebook Mouse

TabletKiosk i7209 and i7210: Slim UMPCs, Fat Price

Acer Aspire 9800 20.1-inch Laptop With HD DVD Released

Apple Torture: Invisibly Shielded Macbook vs Drywall Screws

Another Flaming Dell Laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo Laptops Last 5 Hours In Cross Country Flight

QuickerTek MacBook Pro Handle

Apple Recalls Certain 15-Inch MacBook Pro Batteries

Lenovo 3000 V100 Subnotebook: Hands On the Thinkpad’s Ugly Little Sister (Verdict: Go Subnotebook, go!)

LG LW25-EV Core Duo Laptop With EVDO, DMB – Boobies Sold Separately

Another Dell Laptop Goes Ka-Bloom

DIY MacBook Pro Sleeve Case

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