Archive for the 'Laptops' Category

HP Launching Tablets And Notebooks With Integrated Pico Projectors This Year?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The details are few at this time, but DigiTimes is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is working on busting out some pico projector support in its laptops and tablets in 2010. Currently the wee beamers haven’t found much of a home in the pockets of consumers, but integrating them into these devices might just make sense. There [...]

HP Compaq AirLife 100 Smartbook Hits The FCC

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

There’s unfortunately not much in the way of details or pictures (beyond that artful illustration above) for this one, but HP has sent a smartbook called the Compaq AirLife 100 the FCC’s way, and the bands in use suggest that it could well be headed to AT&T. As you may recall, however, HP was also [...]

ASUS’ Congo-Based Eee PC 1201T Pops Up On Amazon’s German Portal

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Tired of waiting for the Eee PC 1201T to ship? Impatient, aren’t we? We’ve been wondering about the status of this here netbook since it came to light last November, and now it looks like the Germans are about to get a real, live taste of AMD’s Congo platform. Boasting a 1.6GHz MV40 CPU, the [...]

LG’s X300 ad Strikes An Amazingly Familar Tone

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

LG’s X300 laptop may have largely avoided comparisons to a certain other thin-and-light when it was announced at CES earlier this month, but it looks like LG is intent on driving that point home regardless. As you can see for yourself in the promo video after the break, not only has [...]

HP EliteBook 8440w Lives Up To Its “Workstation” Title, Says The Reviewing Masses

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Since the royal unveiling of HP’s six new Elitebooks and ProBooks last week, the Elitebook 8440w (w standing for workstation) has been making the review rounds, and receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from the chaps at Notebook Review, LAPTOP and Computer Shopper. All were impressed by the Core i7-620M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M power that’s [...]

FIC Outs Pineview-Boasting SVE00 Netbook

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

FIC’s just launched its new Pinetrail netbook, the FIC SVE600. This little guy (which measures 10.1-inches) isn’t exactly ground-breaking, but that Atom N450 is still new enough to spark a little interest, right? The SVE600 boasts the aforementioned 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a choice of an [...]

IBuyPower Battalion Touch Now Available To Order, Starting At $999

Friday, January 15th, 2010

iBuyPower announced  its new Battalion Touch gaming laptop at the beginning of CES last week, but it’s just now made the multitouch rig available to order, and finally revealed a price. As expected, there are a whole range of configuration options (including a $150 “Flame” add-on), but if you just want to get your hands [...]

MacBook Pro With Intel Core i5 Processor Revealed Via Intel Promo Flier?

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Far be it for us to argue with order of operations, but an apparent Intel Retail Edge Program promotional email has revealed a contest where those who pass this month’s training can win one of two MacBook Pros with Intel Core i5 processors inside. Only catch is, that’s a model that doesn’t yet exist — [...]

ATI Radeon HD 5670 Brings DirectX 11 And Eyefinity To The Budget-minded Market

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

AMD and ATI have got yet another GPU contender under their sleeve, and this one’s got quite a one-two punch. The Radeon HD 5670 can boast DirectX 11 and Eyefinity support are for a suggested price less than one Benjamin Franklin. The usual suspects have weighed in on the card, and while “solid value” that [...]

Vicar Gives His Blessing To Cellphones And Laptops (but not to their most common uses)

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Not to be outdone by the Catholic Church with its iPod wielding Bishops and text messaging Pontiffs,
the Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed mobile phones and laptop computers today at the St. Lawrence Jewry Church in London. The service, he said, was to “remind the capital’s busy office workers that God’s grace can reach them in [...]