Articles on Notebooks

Netbooks going downhill? - Jul 20, 2009

Crave Cheaper or faster? That's going to be the burning question for computer shoppers perusing the aisles of electronics retail stores this holiday season. That's when the new line of notebooks powered ... Read story »

AMD Tigris and Congo platforms promise better battery life - Sep 16, 2009

Crave AMD on Thursday announced its Tigris laptop platform, intended for mainstream applications and offering full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU. With new ... Read story »

Logitech Portable Lapdesk with retractable mouse pad - Sep 17, 2009

Crave Logitech this week introduced its Portable Lapdesk N315, an inexpensive accessory to aid in using a laptop computer without a desk. The Lapdesk keeps overheating and what I refer to ... Read story »

Asus hitting new product categories? - Sep 22, 2009

Crave It made a splash with the Eee PC. Now Asus, once known chiefly as a components maker, is looking to make the leap to consumer gadget maker. One of the largest ... Read story »

More details on the Latitude Z - Sep 30, 2009

Crave The Latitude Z on wireless charging station, and wireless dock adapter on the right. That Dell is releasing a new laptop for business customers is the opposite of surprising. But ... Read story »

Intel pays US$1.25 billion to AMD, but it's no big deal for consumers - Nov 13, 2009

Crave The settlement between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices isn't just a matter of business between companies. Sure, it's a big financial deal when the biggest chipmaker in the world forks over ... Read story »

The Apple notebook guessing game - Oct 14, 2008

Crave As with any Apple event, there's plenty of rumor and speculation to go around. The lead-up to the event in which "the spotlight turns to notebooks", according to the event invitation, ... Read story »

Sony Vaio to go touchscreen - Jul 24, 2009

Crave Might Sony add a touchscreen to one of its notebooks, like the Vaio P? A Sony Vaio notebook with a touchscreen interface is on its way, a company executive said. ... Read story »

HP gets serious about Netbooks - Oct 29, 2008

Crave After a brief experiment in the education market, Hewlett-Packard is set to introduce a whole line of Netbooks for mainstream consumers. The HP Mini 1000 comes in three versions, with starting ... Read story »

The evolution of the Netbook - Jan 19, 2009

Crave It's getting harder to tell the difference between a Netbook and a notebook. Except when you look at the bottom line of the companies making them. Though initially thought of as ... Read story »

Dell officially unveils Adamo, Mini 10 - Jan 12, 2009

Crave A model shows off Dell's new luxury notebook called Adamo. Dell trotted out a fashion model to show off the newest addition to its notebook lineup, but beyond explaining the ... Read story »

PC shipment growth drops to virtually zero in Q4 - Jan 15, 2009

Crave After several years of seemingly tireless 15 percent quarterly growth, the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008. Overall PC shipments worldwide dropped 0.4 percent to 77.3 million ... Read story »

Dell Adamo: All dressed up with nowhere to go? - Mar 18, 2009

Crave Dell's sleek, pricey new Adamo: Love it, or leave it? Just over two months after Dell first showed off Adamo at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company says the notebook ... Read story »

HP laptop batteries recalled for overheating - May 15, 2009

Crave After two reports of flaming laptop batteries, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and ... Read story »

Netbooks a temporary Band-aid on PC industry - Oct 15, 2008

Crave Netbooks like Acer's AspireOne are selling well, but are they cannibalizing less-expensive mainstream notebooks? Despite the volatile economy, the PC industry overall appears on the surface to be doing fine ... Read story »

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