Apr 19
Specifications: 2009 has been a great year for ultra-thin laptops as so many models were released into the market. They are affordable, just as portable as netbooks and have enough computing power to handle a wide variety of light to moderate computing tasks. In this article we are going to make a quick comparison between two of some of the best ultra-thin laptop models this year. Both these models are 13.3-inch laptops.
The Asus UL30A-X5 model comes with a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and an Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo processor. The Toshiba Satellite T135-S1307 model on the other hand also has a 500GB hard drive but has 3GB of RAM and runs on an Intel Pentium SU4100 processor. In terns of specs, the Asus laptop is the slightly more powerful model.
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Apr 17
The notebook market is a billion dollar business and every brand wants a share of that pie. The manufacturers get more customers by either producing a better, faster, lighter version of the same laptop their competitor makes, or try to diversify a little. The more types of notebooks there are the better for us, customers, because we get to choose a device that fits our needs more.
Most people don’t know what they really need from a notebook, usually they know they want a portable computer with that stuff that opens and shows other stuff and then they want it to connect to that wireless stuff, you know, but that’s barely enough to go out and buy one. Almost every laptop computer has wireless connectivity, I haven’t seen one in years that hadn’t and they all have a decent color TFT screen. Most wannabe customers haven’t even heard of different kinds of notebooks, and they think they are all 15″ and about 6 pounds heavy. They don’t know about netbooks or subnotebooks and they’ve never seen a tablet PC in their life. That’s why I thought it would be a good idea to cover a few different kinds of the portable computer world and give a few extra options before choosing.
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Feb 16
Apple announced its newest creation, the iPad, while I was in the Kutch area in Gujarat, and had no reliable internet access so I’m still pretty much out of the loop in as far as its technical specifications are concerned…but that won’t stop me from expressing my knee-jerk opinion on it from what I already know.
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Jan 31
Apple may Ship 10 Million Tablet PCs a Year, Lee says (Update2)
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. expects to ship 10million tablet computers in the device’s first year of release,former Google Inc. executive Lee Kai-fu wrote on his blog,citing a friend familiar with the project whom he didn’t name.
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Jan 16
Two research and analysis firms have come out with figures for the PC market at the end of last year, and both show that Apple enjoyed dramatic growth year-over-year. why, then, will you read about how badly Apple did?
Both IDC and Gartner have released their figures for PC sales, both in the U.S. and worldwide, for the last quarter of 2009. both show that the PC market “exploded” (IDC’s word) and tout “the recovery of the PC market on a global level” (Gartner). Gartner has the U.S. market up 26.5 percent over the fourth quarter of 2008, while IDC came up with 24.0 percent for the same comparison. Worldwide, Gartner sees a 22.1 percent increase last quarter over a year ago; IDC sees 15.2 percent. Comparing the year as a whole, Gartner came up with 5.2 percent more computers being sold worldwide in 2009 than in 2008; IDC has 6.5 percent for the same figure.
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Jan 10
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – call it a “slate” or call it a “tablet,” the technology world is suddenly awash with a novel category of mobile devices seeking to grab the spotlight from a hugely anticipated product launch by Apple Inc later this month.
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Jan 06
Lenovo laptops are great, but they’re boring, right? Plain black slabs that epitomize function over form. well, the company is coming out of its shell with the designs of its new Skylight netbook and IdeaPad S10-3 tablet.
The Skylight is a netbook based on a 1GHz ARM Snapdragon processor, promising 10 hours of battery life and sporting both 3G connectivity and Wi-Fi. The company bills this as a “smartbook,” a growing term for netbooks that behave something like big, powerful smartphones but don’t necessarily run Windows or other standard PC operating systems.
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Dec 28
Dell is one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. It offers some of the most amazing laptops at very affordable prices. You can get a laptop from Dell that has everything you could ever want in a notebook: a DVD burner, Blue-ray DVD player, Blue-tooth capabilities, Wi-Fi, LCD monitor, and so forth at a special price with a discount. Dell laptops are the #1 choice for many, many people, and it’s easy to understand why.
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Dec 24
Computerworld – Netbooks have had no shortage of naysayers since they first appeared two fall seasons ago.
Critics said they were too small, underpowered, and fragile, for starters.
tell that to the consumers who bought more than 50 million netbooks worldwide in the past two years, according to ABI Research.
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Dec 24
Skeptics are criticizing the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child for losing its educational focus by designing unrealistic hardware at a price point that cannot be achieved.
OLPC and the Fuse Project on Tuesday unveiled the latest design for XO-3, a handheld tablet with a touchscreen for users to surf the Web and watch videos. it will be based on an Arm processor and include a software-based keyboard for users to type.
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