Laptops/Notebooks News

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The new 13in MacBook Pro is aimed at people who like the look of Apple's other aluminium 'unibody' models, but don't want to lug around a leviathan laptop just to have Mac OS on the move, or pay a premium for the MacBook Air .

Lenovo announced today that more than 25 of its Think-branded business and Idea-branded consumer PCs meet the new ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 Specification for Computers, which goes into effect on July 1, 2009.

I've been trying out two new notebooks, each designed to pack powerful performance into a package that's thinner and lighter than many mainstream notebooks.

DMN Newswire--2009-7-2--Sonnet Technologies today announced a new, faster 1TB version of its multiple-award-winning Fusion F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage system that employs 7,200-RPM drives.

Toshiba's mobile offerings for education include its newest mini NB205 for note-taking and laptop training in early grades.

If Circuit City went out of business last year, why are you still getting emails from the company? Circuit City went bankrupt last year, but some of you have forwarded us emails you got with the company's name and logo pitching great deals on laptops, and other electronics... So what's the deal? A company called Systemax purchased the Circuit City ...

Lin Jialai, vice director of the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, is pushing for Chinese companies and individuals to donate their used computers to schools in rural areas.

HP's line of fashion-oriented notebooks, designed by Chinese-born, American-based fashion designer Vivienne Tam , are being marketed globally around the world, including China.

Searching for a phone charger that works with your phone will soon be a thing of the past, as the world's ten major mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to produce a harmonised charger for users across Europe, with the first such chargers expected to be introduced on the EU market next year.

AmTech analyst Doug Freedman is concerned about the build quality of early production models based on the Intel CULV platform because PC makers have cut too many corners.

Steve Jobs went back to work today at Apple . How many other CEOs can make the news just by going to work? This is one of those days when I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the secretive Cupertino company, which has mastered the art of operating in stealth.

A number of sites are following on a report from newcomer website semiaccurate that says that Apple plans to ditch NVIDIA chips and that the relation between the two is deteriorating.

Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.

Embedded software maker Bsquare Corp. confirmed today it has ported Adobe System Inc.'s Flash mobile player to ARM-based smartphones and smartbooks running Google Inc.'s Android operating system.

An aggressive back-to-school promotion and a more affordably-priced overhaul to Apple's MacBook Pro notebook line are boosting Apple's personal computer shipments to levels not seen since last October, shortly before the economic climate caught up with the Mac maker in earnest.

Apple has seen its score rise while HP, Lenovo and Dell see their scores drop in the latest edition of Greenpeace 's "Guide to Greener Electronics" ranking, released today.

What goes up must come down, and lately what's coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers .

According to AppleInsider , Apple will follow its high successful laptop revamp with the same strategy for its iMac line this fall .

If you're in the market for a new notebook, Dell wants you to consider the new small business-oriented Vostro 1220.