Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp’s main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world’s biggest chip maker.
PC makers using Puma chips include Acer Inc, Asus, Dell Inc, Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV and Hewlett-Packard Co, she said. Prices for the mobile PCs will be mid-range for laptops, from about $700 up to $2,000. Most will be available in…
Rands takes apart a pile of different notebooks looking for the best parts of each.
The idea had never occurred to me… writing for myself rather than for Ms. Ockerman, the 3rd grade teacher. Every five years, I go back and reread portions of that journal, looking for the same transition. I start the journal and…
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There you have it. Griffin changes to Turion Ultra.
Mountain House (CA) - Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in. Nvidia will release its new GeForce GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, AMD its Radeon 4850 and…
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Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. So how do you protect yourself? By hiding your data.
So your best defence is to clean up your laptop. A customs agent can't read what you don't have. You don't need five years' worth of email and client data. You don't need your old love letters and those photos (you know the…
The MacBook Air has become the best advertisement for why companies should use LED (light-emitting diode) backlights in notebook screens, and is driving adoption, according to market researcher DisplaySearch.
Notebook PCs, desktop monitors and LCD-TVs (liquid crystal display televisions) are the next ground for LEDs to conquer, and DisplaySearch believes the technology will perform well this year. The number of laptops, monitors and…
An area that many notebook users overlook is the software that is running in the background on many notebooks that acts as a leech, sucking away at your power and making your notebook work harder than it should.With a few minutes worth of simple changes, you can easily crank out some more time from your notebook following our guide.
Anti-Virus Software: AV software is a huge performance hog, but also a life saver depending on what type of sites your visit or what sorts of files you encounter. I am relatively savvy enough to steer clear of harmful items in my daily…
Toshiba this week said it plans before April to ship a 128 GB solid-state drive that will appear first in Toshiba notebooks sold in Japan. The drive, which has no moving parts, achieves the unusually high capacity at a lower cost than most SSDs through the use of multi-level cell NAND flash technology.
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If you want to get people’s attention (and you product doesn’t have an Apple logo stamped on it), one of the best ways to do that is to release a convertible tablet laptop.
If you want to get people's attention (and your product doesn't have an Apple logo stamped on it), one of the best ways to do that is to release a convertible tablet laptop. Although, while these devices offer something different…
A solar-power notebook concept by Designer- Nikola Knezevic to save computer users the trouble of charging batteries by plugging them in, the notebook is powered with the help of powerful batteries that are recharged by wide Solar Panel attached to the computer.
When it comes to keeping this device alive, the solar panel may be completely detached from the main body to be put away for recharging, then smaller battery inside the computer is on. This small battery is recharged with solar power too when DC…
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