Laptops

Court Says Border Agents Have the Right to Search Your Laptop

Customs agents already have the power now to search your luggage when you cross borders, thanks to a circuit court ruling, they have the power to inspect the data on your laptops as well. The decision was handed down relating to this case: Stuart Romm boarded a plane in Las Vegas on February 1, 2004.…

Tech News Jason Chen

India Rejects $100 One Laptop Per Child Project

Nigeria may have ordered 1 million of the OLPC laptops, but India isn’t saying “Thank you, come again” to Nicholas Negroponte and his band of MIT hooligans. The Indian Ministry of Education said the laptop was “paedagogically suspect” and that “We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyone the pilot stage.…

Tech News Jason Chen

DIY Pong Clock, Good Idea, Poor Execution

We’ve been hyping the Pong Clock since last year, when we first heard word of it. Nine months later they finally shipped and we will have to admit that is pretty disappointing. The manufactured Pong Clock is tiny, and costs nearly $300. Somebody else out there shared our same feelings and created a little DIY…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Apple Rumors: Significantly Faster Macbook Pro Come August?

Dream, fanboys, dream. Here’s the formula for a rumor: Add in the July 27th launch date for Intel’s Core 2 Duo chips (redundant name? yes, and yes.) Add the approach of Apple’s Developer Conference in early August. Bake at 300 degrees, no, wait, 150 degrees, and instantly arrive at the idea that the new chips…

Tech News Brian Lam

Medion Launching Inexpensive, Personalized Portable PC in the UK

If you so happen to live in Albion you’re in luck since word has it that German outfit Medion will be offering its MIM 2000 portable Centrino PC in the coming weeks for just $742, including all those wacky taxes. For your hard-earned money, you’re getting a fairly capable, if not long in the tooth,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Motorola Q: Hacked into an Eternal Fountain of EVDO for Laptops

The collective hive mind of Howard the Forum have hacked together a way to let you use a Motorola Q’s EVDO connection with your Laptop. The registry tweak in Windows Mobile 5 gets around Verizon’s typical Cockblockery, letting you use the EVDO connection over the phone’s Bluetooth link. Even if the Bluetooth link will bottleneck…

Tech News Brian Lam

Lenovo Unveils Z61p Mobile Workstation

This is the latest laptop from Lenovo. It is being dubbed a “mobile workstation,” but then again, what laptop isn’t a mobile workstation? If it is portable and allows you to do work, then it is essentially a mobile workstation. Hell, the sudoku I do every morning on the crapper could be considered a mobile…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Artec T14A USB TV Tuner: HDTV on a Laptop

Plug the Artec T14A USB TV Tuner into your laptop, install the software and you’re watching HDTV. All of a sudden you’ve bypassed buying an HDTV, setting up an HD cable box or anything else. Using its included antenna, it pulls in over-the-air HDTV broadcast stations in the US, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina,…

Tech News Charlie White

Hitachi Travelstar 5K160: Bigger than Mikey, but Groundbreaking Anyway

Hitachi calls the hard drive “the new bling,” as exemplified by its Microdrive 3K8 (“Mikey”) worn by the sumptuous model here. This post is not about that, but now that we have your attention, get your mind out of the gutter and think about hard drives for a minute. While desktop hard drives have been…

Tech News Charlie White

Heat Battle: Dell Latitude vs. MacBook

This just in: laptops can get pretty damn hot. Brian Krische wanted to know just how hot, so he decided to run a little test. He pitted a 1.83GHz Core Duo MacBook (left) against a 1.83GHz Core Duo Dell Latitude D620 (right). Brian ran The Hills Have Eyes—not the best movie choice, in my opinion—in…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Malibal Moves 14-inch and 15.4-Inch Core Duo Notebooks

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but when you’re talking about Malibal, a laptop purveyor which calls Las Vegas home, the company is moving out two stylish-looking notebooks with Intel Core Duo processors. Malibal says it has the fastest gaming laptops, notebooks and high-end laptop computers in the world. Though that bold claim remains…

Tech News Charlie White

Dell Releases Draft 802.11n Wireless Card

The Dell Wireless 1500 card is available now for Dell XPS laptops and certain Inspiron laptops, but judging from the all the problems that draft N has been facing, we’re glad they’re releasing this as an addon card and not embedding it in the laptop itself. The card supports 802.11n as well as 802.11a/b/g, which…

Tech News Jason Chen

Worst. Laser. Etching. Ever.

More like laser retching (*rimshot*)! This laser etched Powerbook with a word cloud of Web 2.0 terms has got to be the worst thing we’ve ever seen. Worse than goatse and definitely worse than tubgirl. But it may be tied with that goatse/tubgirl mashup that made us vomit up two day’s worth of beans. Oh…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel Core 2 Duos In, Puts Intel Back On Top

This year we’ve been hearing lots of the Core Duo, especially when it comes to the media and their loads of Apple laptop news. But now the reviews of the Core 2 Duos are in, and they’ve supplanted the Athlon 64 FX as the top pocessor out now. The results also show a significant advantage…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ellen Feiss Stars In A Movie

Ellen Feiss, star of the most famous and most watched Switch Ad, is back! She’s starring in a french movie called “Bed and Breakfast” as one half of a set of newlyweds (I think, as my French is nonexistent). We doubt she’s going to throw in any Feiss-isms in the movie—beep beep beep—but she’s still…

Tech News Jason Chen

HP Offers Cutesy Skins for PCs, Laptops

HP will soon begin offering skins for their desktops, monitors and laptops. From the initial photos it appears these skins are more child-oriented with Batman, Tweety Bird and sports teams being offered. The stickers are vinyl and include an adhesive that allows them to be easily switched depending on the mood or even theme of…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Acer Aspire 5100 Dual Core AMD Turion 64 X2 Notebooks

The Acer 5100 has the dual-core AMD Turion 64, along with up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM (upgradeable to 4GB). This kind of power, combined with 120GB of hard disk space, a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD, Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics card, and an 8X DVD dual-layer burner makes this quite a steal starting at $899. Various…

Tech News Jason Chen

Michael Dell Sez XPS, Alienware to Remain Separate

In a roundtable discussion with journalists this past weekend, Michael Dell boldly said that the XPS line of Dell computers would still remain separate from the recently acquired Alienware branded computers. I previously thought that these machines were essentially the same damn thing, but according to Dell, they have different targeted audiences. I’ll just let…

Tech News Travis Hudson

My PC Is On Fire – Dell Laptop Inspired Video

Reader Robert made a parody of the “Numa Numa” song called “My PC Is On Fire”, inspired by the Dell laptop catching on fire. To complete the self referential loop, we need a fat kid lip-syncing to this song, filming himself on a Dell laptop, which then catches on fire. https://gizmodo.com/dell-laptop-explodes-in-flames-182257 Thanks Robert!

Tech News Jason Chen

OtterBox Waterproof, Rugged Laptop Case

There are two types of people who should own a rugged laptop case like this. Either clumsy people who have tendencies to drop laptops often or people who just want to look like a bad-ass, carrying around a nuclear-football style briefcase. I probably fit in the latter category. The water-proofness of this case will only…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Court Says Border Agents Have the Right to Search Your Laptop

India Rejects $100 One Laptop Per Child Project

DIY Pong Clock, Good Idea, Poor Execution

Apple Rumors: Significantly Faster Macbook Pro Come August?

Medion Launching Inexpensive, Personalized Portable PC in the UK

Motorola Q: Hacked into an Eternal Fountain of EVDO for Laptops

Lenovo Unveils Z61p Mobile Workstation

Artec T14A USB TV Tuner: HDTV on a Laptop

Hitachi Travelstar 5K160: Bigger than Mikey, but Groundbreaking Anyway

Heat Battle: Dell Latitude vs. MacBook

Malibal Moves 14-inch and 15.4-Inch Core Duo Notebooks

Dell Releases Draft 802.11n Wireless Card

Worst. Laser. Etching. Ever.

Intel Core 2 Duos In, Puts Intel Back On Top

Ellen Feiss Stars In A Movie

HP Offers Cutesy Skins for PCs, Laptops

Acer Aspire 5100 Dual Core AMD Turion 64 X2 Notebooks

Michael Dell Sez XPS, Alienware to Remain Separate

My PC Is On Fire – Dell Laptop Inspired Video

OtterBox Waterproof, Rugged Laptop Case

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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