Last year, in anticipation of my Euro Trip, I bought the Samsung NC10-14GW notebook and was excited enough about it to write a semi glowing review. This year I decided to upgrade to the new Samsung NC20-21BK, feeling emboldened by the Obama administration, brimming with Hope and Change over the state of the economy ……juuuuust [...]
“Acer’s Aspire One 531 has been floating around Europe since April, but it looks like it’s finally made its way to a few retailers over here, and in a couple of different versions no less. Those include the AO531h-1791 "Pro" version, and the AO531h-1440 and AO531h-1766 "Normal" versions, the former of which packs 2GB of [...]
I am one of the early adopters into the netbook world and therefore have a puny SSD drive. In the past upgrading or modding your netbook was painful… not anymore.
Super Talent has come out with a batch of SSD drives for upgrading your EEE PC. The EEE 900, 901, 901A, 901 GO, and [...]
For a while there it seemed every manufacturer was recalling laptop batteries because they were bursting into flames. It has been quite for some time… but HP doesn’t want to let it die.
Today HP announced a voluntary recall of about 70,000 Li-ion batteries. Similar to recalls of the past… the batteries overheat and can [...]
Ideas like this one make me wonder. Couldn’t you just get any external battery device that has an AC outlet? Or, even better… something like this that has multiple purposes and cost about 5x less?
Either way, Sanho’s HyperMac is basically an external battery pack marketed toward the MacBook crowd. The HyperMac will power the [...]
Dell (in a copy cat sorta way) is making their own version of the Panasonic Toughbook and gave it a long silly name – Dell Latitude E6400 XFR ($4,300).
Thanks to Dell’s Ballistic Armor Protection System, the XFR has 2-times the impact strength of magnesium alloy and a higher drop-tolerance than any other computer in [...]
When I saw the Laptop cooler by Microsoft a couple of things came to mind… first of all why? And second of all, time to short Microsoft stock.