Archive for the 'notebooks' Category

new sony notebooks

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

 
Sony Korea announced two new VAIO TX series notebooks, the VGN-TX17LP/B and VGN-TX16LP/W 2 both made of carbon fiber making them the strongest and lightest with the least amount of thickness.

The Vaio TX series has been adapted by white LED technique, this carbon fiber technology is usually being used when manufacturing airplanes or […]

cheap laptops

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Geekblue has a pic and some information on an interesting project to develop cheap laptops for developing countries. It is an attempt to improve the standard of education in underdeveloped countries. Interesting looking laptop – what is that thick area around the hinge – a big battery?

‘MIT’s Media Laboratory has announced the development of a […]

Brushed Titanium for IBM Thinkpad

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Finally IBM move away from those black computers.
“For more than a decade, US computer company IBM echoed Henry Ford in its design approach toward its iconic Thinkpad laptop computers: customers could have any colour they wanted – as long as it was black. “
Lenova are starting to have an impact:
“ The move away from the […]

Sony Vaio VGN-TX670P

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Pcmagazine writes:
‘Sony is drawing oohs and aahs once again with its coolest ultraportable yet, the Sony VAIO VGN-TX670P. Like its predecessor, the VAIO VGN-T350P, this laptop integrates Cingular’s EDGE 3G WAN radio. The TX670P also includes some very cool improvements, is even slimmer than the T350P, and integrates something all ultraportables should have—a built-in DVD […]

Toshiba Qosmio G20 and F20 laptops

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Ubergizmo has some information about a some new toshiba laptops. The new Toshiba Qosmio G20 and F20 laptops.
‘Toshiba, Japan has announced their latest Qosmio laptops: the G20 and F20. The high-end G20 features: 
• 17-inch (1440×900) display• Pentium M 750 (1.8GHz / 533 Mhz bus)• 2GB of RAM• 200Gb HDD (2×100)• Bluetooth v2• GeForce Go 6200 […]

samsung 19” notebook

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

gizmag has some information about a new samsung 19” notebook.

Samsung will debut a promising new notebook concept at the upcoming IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin which opens September 2. It would be easy to accuse Samsung of continuing to play the same “mine’s bigger than yours” game it plays with camera phones, but the […]

Toshiba Satellite R15-S822

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Toshiba Satellite R15-S822
Pcmag.com review the latest toshiba tablet oc offering. They say that the bottom line is “It’s not your run-of-the-mill tablet: This one is ready to replace your everyday laptop”.
I am still undecided if a replacement is the way I want to go. In leaning towards buying a second hand slate tablet […]

Review of Motion LS800

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Craig Pringle has a nice summary of his experiences of playing with a motion LS800 tablet pc over the weekend.

I have had the pleasure this weekend of having the ultra mobile tabler offering from Motion Computing – the LS800.
After three days I have to say I am very impressed.  As previously posted my first […]

Toshiba Libretto U100

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

cnet have a review for the Toshiba Libretto U100 which is a very light sub-notebook that can be carried around easily.

The Toshiba Libretto U100 is built for road warriors and gadget hounds who feel that even four or five pounds of computer gear is just too much to carry between airport gates or meeting rooms. […]

windows 2000

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

I am about to install windows 2000 on an old Dell notebook. The notebook will basically be used as a spare computer and to connect to the TV to show some DIVX tv shows.
I came across this article about how to run windows 2000 on a computer with just 32meg of ram. I have more […]