DailyTech first reported in late March that a new, Windows XP-based version of the Eee PC would be in store during the opening days of April. Reports from around the web pegged the price of entry at $399 despite the fact that the hardware specs appeared to be identical to the similarly-priced Eee PC 4G […]
DailyTech reported earlier this morning that Microsoft is in a bit of a pickle with regards to end-of-sale date for Windows XP and the rise of low-cost sub-notebooks. Microsoft needs an operating system to combat the various iterations of Linux that come pre-installed on these machines and Windows Vista won’t suffice given current hardware requirements.
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When Everex first announced its $399 CloudBook in during CES 2008, we thought it had a winner on its hands. The device rocked a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 30GB HDD, 7″ 800×480 display, and a 4-cell battery.
Everex is looking to tackle those problems head-on with the new CloudBook Max. The CloudBook Max, like the […]
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The race for large capacity for desktop hard drives has been on for long time and not so long ago, on April 25th, Hitachi announced the Deskstar 7K1000, the first drive to offer a 1 terabyte capacity running at 7200RPM. That’s a great leap but what about the laptop scenario? How is going the 2.5” […]
The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel said Friday that the chip maker would join the board of the nonprofit and contribute funding.The nonprofit effort — known as the “$100 laptop” because of the low price it hopes to reach with mass production — has been trying to line up governments in several countries […]
The Dell Precision M4300, which debuted on the Round Rock, Texas, company’s Web site June 27, is immediately available and is the eventual replacement for the M65 workstation notebook.
In addition to the Centrino Pro platform and the latest Core 2 Duo processors, the M4300 will take advantage of Intel’s TurboMemory, a feature that allows applications […]
Two makers of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) platters for hard disk drives (HDDs) said recently they had started to produce platters with leading capacities that enable creation of 1TB hard drives for desktops as well as up to 320GB drives for mobile computers.
Both Fuji Electric Group and Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) this week said they […]
Apple on Tuesday upgraded its MacBook Pro product line with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors and an LED-backlit display on the smaller model. The 15- and 17-inch notebooks are powered by Intel’s latest Core 2 mobile processors, code-named Santa Rosa, which started shipping last month. With speeds up to 2.4 GHz, the new processor […]
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Anyone who has a notebook or laptop nowadays knows about their heat issues, mostly during intensive tasks - like gaming, for example - and using it in your lap can become impossible due to how hot and uncomfortable it can get. For this reason, the cooling market has offered some products designed specifically to solve […]
AppleInsider has the word on the updates to Apple’s portable range, which have been missing out on all the Santa Rosa action that seemingly every other notebook range has been enjoying lately (this is getting to be a habit). If AI’s sources are correct, then we’re to expect some rather uninteresting updates to the MacBook […]