Archive for the ‘Notebook/Laptops’ Category

HP Gives Option of 24 Hours Battery Life with EliteBook 6939p

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

With laptops, if mobility is what you seek for, and the convenience of working on the battery for longer, you would usually buy several spare batteries and keep one or two of them charged inside the laptop messenger bag. Imagine not having to hit the mains for 24 hours on ...

Toshiba’s Newest Notebooks to Feature Modified CELL Processor

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The first thing that comes to your mind when you talk about CELL Broadband Engine is probably the Sony Playstation 3. Toshiba, a prominent player in ultra-portable computing have announced that a new pair of laptops, the Qosmio G55 and Qosmio F40, which will feature processors derived from the CELL ...

AMD Receives Next-Generation OpenGL ES 2.0 Graphics Technology Certification

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

AMD today announced that it has reached a new milestone in the mobile graphics industry as the first 3D graphics technology provider to achieve OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance certification. AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile graphics technology, which will be included in AMD processors, is based on the same AMD Unified ...

VIA Unveils VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

VIA Technologies today introduced the new VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design targeted at the rapidly growing global market for ultra-portable notebooks. The VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design introduces a host of new innovations, including the next generation of VIA Ultra Mobile Platform, based on the VIA C7-M ULV processor and ...

VIA Unveils VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

VIA Technologies today introduced the new VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design targeted at the rapidly growing global market for ultra-portable notebooks. The VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design introduces a host of new innovations, including the next generation of VIA Ultra Mobile Platform, based on the VIA C7-M ULV processor and ...

HP Officially Unveils Full-function Mini-Note 2133 PC for Education Market

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

o help schools offer affordable computing to every student, HP today introduced a full-function, mini-notebook PC priced starting under $500. Designed for the education market, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is flexible enough for students to use from the classroom to the family room. The HP Mini is packed with ...

Everex CloudBook CE1200V Now in Stock at Wal-Mart

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

After a few delays, the Everex CloudBook CE1200V ultra-mobile PC is finally available for purchase through Wal-Mart for $399. The CE1200V model weighs two pounds and provides five hours of battery life, according to Everex. It features the VIA C7-M ULV processor at 1.2GHz, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 30GB ...

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Now Shipping

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Lenovo's highly-anticipated ThinkPad X300 notebook PC, designed to compete with Apple's MacBook Air is now shipping. The ultra-thin, ultraportable ThinkPad X300 notebook measures less than three-fourths of an inch at its thinnest point, or approximately the height of a U.S. quarter coin, and has a starting weight as low as ...

Apple Introduces New MacBook and MacBook Pro Models

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Apple today introduced new models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. MacBook Pro models feature the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (running at up to 2.6GHz with 6MB of shared L2 cache), larger hard drives (up to 300GB), and 2GB of memory standard in most models. They also ...

Acer Prepares 16-inch and 18.4-inch Blu-Ray Notebooks

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Acer plans to start offering Blu-Ray equipped laptops in the spring of this year, the company's Taiwan head explained on Monday. The executive confirmed that the computer firm will have two notebooks available with the world's first 16- and 18.4-inch widescreen notebook LCDs, capable of playing Blu-Ray movies in full ...