It seems like only yesterday that consumer notebooks were simply analogs of their corporate cousins. Think grey slabs of plastic with no personality. Those were sad times.
Something happened recently to change this. I don’t know if it was a resurgent Apple showing the big PC makers how to infuse some soul and character into their [...]
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Plantronics’ Virtual Phone Booth Stereo Headset is my first review item fresh from CES. Although not a brand new item, this headset is geared towards notebook users and gamers, with special sound-isolating earbuds to block out noisy environments like airports or conferences.
I decided put the Virtual Phone Booth to the ultimate test to see if [...]
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HP has finally updated the very popular tx1000z. Welcome the tx2000z convertible notebook. It has the same design as its predecessor, but now has an active digitizer and touchscreen. I have to say I am quite impressed with this 12.1-inch convertible notebook/tablet. The entertainment features make this notbook a real head turner, especially when you [...]
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Google maps, Google search, Google mail, and next it seems will be Google storage, although the company has yet to announce official details. Increasingly, when Google sneezes, entire industries catch cold, and if the report in this week’s Wall Street Journal is correct, the nascent remote storage business may soon feel the chill.
In the wake [...]
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“Virtualization is essentially a new operating system, which is something that hasn’t been done for a long time, and it enables an intimate interaction between underlying hardware and the environment,” says Rich Ptak, founder and principal analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates. “The potential for messing things up is significant.”
Server virtualization makes it possible to [...]
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Hitachi said that its new 500 GB drive would be available to computer manufacturers in February. Asustek Computer, based in Taiwan, said it would use two of the drives to create the world’s first laptops with a monster capacity of 1 terabyte. It was just last year when desktop PCs or external storage devices began [...]
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Intel said its 16 new low-power 45-nm mobile processors have been designed to work in low-power devices, and that the Penryn and Menlow platforms should be very popular for a variety of mobile devices in addition to notebooks. The first Menlow-based devices won’t hit stores for some months, but Intel is already looking ahead to [...]
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If you have a smartphone with a high-speed data connection, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to use that connection with your laptop? PDANet from June Fabrics Technology is an application for Palm OS and Windows Mobile phones that lets you do just that.I have a Dell Latitude D630 with a built-in broadband card [...]
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