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Entries Categorized as 'Laptop'

ASUS U6S ultraportable gets reviewed

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

ASUS certainly got our attention with its ultraportable U6S laptop, and it looks like it piqued the interest of the folks at HotHardware as well, who’ve now turned out a full review of the diminutive, leather-bound system. While they expectedly found a few shortcomings with laptop — namely, lackluster battery life (even […]

Apple reduces iPod / iPhone build rates, increases iMac production

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Although Apple has said that it’s still on track to ship 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, it looks like that rumor about scaled back production may have been true after all: several analysts are now reporting that the company’s pulled back iPod touch, iPhone, […]

Walt checks out ThinkPad X300, also fits in manila folder

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

Well, would you look at that. The image we’re certain your eyes are fixated on above is indeed the first look at Lenovo’s forthcoming X300 ultraportable, and it’s being provided courtesy of Walt Mossberg. ‘Course, if we were betting souls, we’d guess that nifty office envelope won’t be bundled in, but hey, crazier […]

Fujitsu’s LifeBook P8010 now available for purchase

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

For those out there (yes, we know you’re out there) who’ve been refreshing Fujitsu’s online webstore like mad just waiting for its cute-as-a-button LifeBook P8010 to become available — well, we’re probably telling you something you’re already quite aware of. Nevertheless, we’re sure everyone else not totally infatuated with the aforementioned machine (but […]

Dell acquires MessageOne from Michael’s brother Adam Dell

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

In the oddball acquisition of the day, Dell just swept up email services provider MessageOne in a $155 million cash deal. How odd? Get this, MessageOne was co-founded by Michael Dell’s brother Adam who now manages investment funds — the very funds with partial ownership of MessageOne which Michael and his genetic […]

Acer prices themselves right out of “low-cost” laptop game

Date February 13, 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Acer’s little low-cost laptop plans just emerged from the rumor closet. Chairman J.T. Wang says they’ll launch a cheap-o, 7- to 9-inch laptop in Q2 or Q3 of 2008. That puts the world’s number 3 computer maker in direct competition with the Eee PC and CloudBook in the burgeoning low-end laptop market. However, […]

Woman files $54m lawsuit against Best Buy for losing laptop

Date February 12, 2008

Filed under: Laptops

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We’ve definitely heard some horror stories about Best Buy, but it looks like a DC woman named Raelyn Campbell has had enough: she’s opening up a big can of America Sauce on the retailer in the form of a $54m lawsuit after it lost her laptop during warranty […]

Haiku brings back those BeOS glory days

Date February 12, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

If you haven’t heard of Haiku by now, it’s probably for good reason: as of a year ago, the OS could barely connect to the internet, and certainly wasn’t anywhere close to replacing your Linux build of choice. Luckily the open source replacement for the gone-but-not-forgotten BeOS of yore is maturing nicely, […]

Microsoft VP: “I personally got burnt” by Vista Capable stickers

Date February 12, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Those “Vista Capable” stickers certainly caused consumers a lot of confusion, and it looks like they even tripped up some senior Microsoft execs. According to internal MS emails introduced as evidence in the ongoing lawsuit over the program, several MS managers expressed concern that they were misleading people, with the VP of […]

Intel offices raided in Germany

Date February 12, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

As part of their investigation into the company’s alleged abuse of its market position at the expense of rival AMD, EU competition regulators have raided chip giant Intel’s offices in Munich, Germany, along with those of Metro AG-owned Media Markt and other unnamed PC retailers. The European Commission has been keeping a […]