laptops

Most of us will agree that the new Netbooks will make lugging that laptop through airports and while traveling easier than their heavier laptop cousins. But I read an article that seems to indicate that Netbooks are limited. The author states that without Internet access, the Netbooks are nothing more than scratch pads. But is [...]

Dell is planning to try and sell their manufacturing plants here in the U.S. and also located in other countries. What is disturbing about the news is this statement:
Other factories could close
What this basically means is more jobs could be lost here in the U.S. if Dell is unable to locate a buyer. In [...]

Sony is recalling their Vaio laptops which may be a fire hazard. Not all Sony models are involved in the recall according to this government announcement which states:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. [...]

Those little compact mini-laptops known as Netbooks, may be heading for a fast price slide as more and more companies bring their models to market. It seems that companies were not entirely aware who was bringing the mini’s to market, until the Intel Developer’s Conference, which took place in San Francisco last week. It than [...]

It seems that laptop thefts from the nations airports are skyrocketing, and according to one report, over 647,000 laptops are stolen each year. The estimate is that about 12,000 go missing each week. That seems like an incredible amount of thefts and should warn laptop users of the dangers they may face while traveling. According [...]

Acer has been quite vocal when it comes to Microsoft and it’s Windows operating system, in particular its dislike of Vista. Acer has previously stated that Vista is the worst OS ever as reported in this article here. But now the #2 computer company is shaking its fist at Microsoft once again, this time throwing [...]

From a company in the UK comes a laptop system named Elonex that appears to be a possible alternative to the OLPC laptop, The laptop prices at about $195 US offers similar performance as the OLPC does and offers a Linux operating system as well. On their site the Elonex laptop is described as:
The vision [...]

The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is one of the first full size laptops to go up against the thin of the thin, Mac Air. Though the X300 isn’t as thin, it does offer some hardware features that the Mac Air can’t handle because of its thinness. But the X300 still fits inside a standard interoffice [...]