With the price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline, Apple Inc. this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand, AppleInsider has discovered.
PC World - Nvidia said it will take a one-time charge to cover costs related to repair of defective GPUs used in notebooks.
Many new Mac buyers are switching from years of using Windows computers. Here's a quick tip sheet on a few of the most common differences in using the two operating systems.
Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598.
Dozens of portables in stock, 802.11n Airport Express, the lowest price on the fastest iMac ever...
Apple has very quietly reduced the price of the fastest version of its prestigious MacBook Air notebook by $500, so it now weights in at $2,598.
Associated Newspapers has admitted that a laptop containing financial details of thousands of staff, suppliers and contributors has been stolen. By Tara Conlan
Filed under: Laptops If you're the type to watch the late stock tickers, you might have noticed that NVIDIA's stock just took a pretty big hit, down 24 percent to $13.56 -- that's because the company just informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.
Walt Mossberg answers questions about the "n" version of Wi-Fi, using the iPhone with a new Wi-Fi service on airplanes, and exporting Firefox 3.0 Bookmarks.
ASUS' Eee Monitor today has been captured in official photos that confirm the system to be the company's direct answer to the iMac, according to LAPTOP. The all-in-one computer confirms earlier teaser photos and reveals a design that appears influen.
Just because celebrities are overflowing with cash, it doesn't mean they should treat their Macbook Air inappropriately. A simple protection case would suffice. But then again, they can afford as many as their Apple loving hearts desire.
Asus has launched a bigger (and better) version of its popular Eee PC. Dubbed the Eee PC 901, this new version includes a lot of welcome improvements from the previous model, including more screen real estate, storage, and processing power.
Love the MacBook Air's keyboard? Who doesn't - it's probably the best keyboard I've seen so far. Heck, even Steve Jobs said it's the best keyboard Apple ever made, and you know he cares about the details… Anyway, what do you think about having that kind of keyboard on your iPhone?
NVIDIA reported that there is a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in a "significant quantities" of laptop PCs. NVIDIA has provided no details as to which laptop models are affected, but plans to release a software driver in the nea.
At HP's Connecting Your World 2008 conference in Berlin, Germany, Rahul Sood of VoodooPC announced the Voodoo Omen, a new top-of-the-line water-cooled PC using an as-yet-unannounced new set of nVidia SLI GPU's and a new Intel CPU as well.
Budget notebooks aren't for everyone - indeed, buyers with a bit of cash to spend might want to check out the Fujitsu limited edition 'Pink Gold' LifeBook P8010 notebook...
Although it's thin, weighs less than 3 pounds, and sports innovative, executive-friendly leather trim, the Asus U2E can't hold a candle to more powerful ultralight laptops.
At the Asus booth during Computex 2008, we had the pleasure of looking at their new EeeStick video gaming controllers. Similar to the Nintendo Wii's Wii Remote and Nunchuk, aiming and player movement is controlled by swinging the right controller around and moving the left thumbstick.
Apple has filed a patent for a new multi-touch gesture language that will allows us program gestures into our computers. Similar to the zoom and rotate gestures currently programmed into the iPhone and MacBook multi-touch touchpads, the new patent describes a Sign Language for touch screens, which uses a minimum of twenty five chords, thirty one combinations and thirteen different motions to tell the OS what it is you want to do.
Following Monday's rumours surrounding the Eee PC line, more details have emerged from a source at Asus. Trusted Reviews suggests that it has confirmed details of Eee PC 904 with Asus, though it still appears to be relying on a "source" inside the company.
Last month, I was lucky enough to head to a gathering of music and visual artists at the studio of artist Duncan Laurie in Jamestown, Rhode Island, accompanied by performances in Providence and Boston.
The new Dell Studio 17 Laptop has all the design sense of its Dell XPS laptop range and it is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5850, and it features 17-inch Widescreen WXGA TFT display, Integrated 2.
This is a weird statistic: Some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey.
Following on from this discussion of the Tablet needing more pen-abled applications I have some questions for you. What would you like to be doing of your tablet that you can't today? Which existing applications would you like to be tablet aware?
After a week of intense voting and friendly competition, the Top Secondbrainers have been decided by you – the Secondbrain community. All ten finalists are winners of course, but the super cool Macbook Air goes to none other than the self proclaimed “Greatest Living American Dude” - The Dude Dean.
Imagine that you own a wine-bar and you have more than 12000 bottles of wine in your warehouse. What can you do to easily let your customers pick what they want drink? Monvínic is a wine-bar with a little restaurant and even a library where you can learn all you need about wines.
Technorati Tags: Dell,Jeff Jarvis 3+ years ago, world class journalist/blogger Jeff Jarvis was in a serious war with Dell computer. Reading Jeff's "Dell Hell" became almost a national obsession. In fact if you 'Google' Jeff, before you even get done typing his name, you will.
freesoftwaremagazine.com: First Asus, then Dell, then MSI, Elonex, the Cloud and all their clones. Now Acer has entered the fray and it is all, at least initially, good news. It looks like they’ve all found a bit of Dutch courage and started to turn on the schoolyard bully from Redmond.
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