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Entries from May 2007

Laptops are dangerous / not dangerous: back pain edition

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Laptops
Look out, laptop users — your machines are out to kill you in more ways than one. Not only do you need to worry about exploding batteries, a new article in London’s Daily Mail claims that “girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage” from slouching over laptop screens. The […]

Targa intros Raptor-60 laptop with three hard drives

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Laptops
Those looking to ditch their desktop without giving up a scrap of hard drive space now have another over-stuffed laptop to consider, with Targa introducing a newly upgraded version of its already high-end Raptor-60 laptop. Near the top of the laptop’s selling points is its three SATA hard drives, which can be configured […]

NVIDIA faces barrage of civil lawsuits

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Laptops
Those price fixing allegations that AMD and NVIDIA were facing late last year may have vanished from the forefront of your memory, but you can rest assured that the legal teams connected to the two are still workin’ overtime to clean things up. Apparently, NVIDIA has been slapped with as many […]

Mouse Computer’s LuvBook PL series offers Merom on the cheap

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Laptops

Not even a week after unveiling the HDMI-equipped m-Book PR200S and PR200X laptops, Mouse Computer is at it again with the budget LuvBook PL lineup. The low-end 500BH and 500S machines are throttled by a 1.46GHz Intel Celeron M 410 processor, but the 500XH and 500X step things up with a 1.66GHz […]

Palm’s Ed Colligan: Foleo is the Wii of portable computing

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Laptops

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We’ve seen Jeff Hawkins‘ — the synaptic guns behind the Palm Pilot, Handspring, and Treo — take on the ill-received Foleo. Now we’ve got the thoughts from his boss, Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, Inc. As you’d expect, Ed totes the party line with the “mobile companion” […]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X61, X61s and X61 tablet PC get official

Date May 31, 2007

Filed under: Laptops

Hearing about Lenovo’s ThinkPad X61 shouldn’t come as a total surprise to anyone, but while leaked information always satisfies the pallet, official details on a few new machines in the X-series shouldn’t hurt. The X61 tablet will sport your choice of a 1.4GHz L7300 or 1.6GHz L7500 Core 2 Duo CPU, a 12.1-inch […]

Lenovo 3000 V200 ultraportable gets a taste of Santa Rosa

Date May 29, 2007

Filed under: Laptops
While most of the Lenovo attention of late has centered around the mysterious Reserve Edition and Olympic-trained lappies, the firm hasn’t forgot about the budget set in the meantime. The 3000 series is seeing the new V200 machine get a jolt with Santa Rosa, and aside from the 1.8GHz T7100 Intel Core 2 […]

Fujitsu shows off “Fab PC” laptop concept

Date May 29, 2007

Filed under: Laptops

Fujitsu’s already shown its fondness for foldable laptops and e-ink displays, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that the company’s now put the two together in the form of a new concept device, with a few other uncommon design touches thrown in for good measure. Dubbed the “Fab PC”, […]

Toshiba going AMD in some US, European laptops

Date May 29, 2007

Filed under: Laptops
We know it’s probably a big deal for AMD and all, but we just weren’t all that shocked to find out that Toshiba will shortly follow in Dell’s wake and sell AMD-based laptops in the US and Europe. We really don’t see much reason for these guys to hold out at this point […]

Mouse Computer rolls out more Santa Rosa-based laptops

Date May 29, 2007

Filed under: Laptops

It may have been a bit late to get in on the Santa Rosa action, but Japan’s Mouse Computer looks to be making up for lost time, following up its just announced m-Books with another pair of new models today. Filling in the slightly lower-end side of things are Mouse Computer’s m-Book Z960 […]