Tag: laptops
New Toshiba Portégé laptops announced
There’s an old trick in marketing for if you want your product to stand out: Give it a foreign sounding name. Häagen-Dazs have done it, and even Matsui isn’t a real electronics manufacturer – it’s just Dixons own-brand that they tried to make sound Japanese. Hell, even terrorists do it. Al Qaeda sounds much more scary and mysterious than, say, “The IRA”.
Toshiba knows this too, and have come up with some new laptops for their Portégé range. By the name, you’d think they were some sort of exclusive laptops perhaps available only in a Parisian boutique – the sort of shop that has a wooden floor and practically nothing on display, yet inexplicably stays in business – though all indications point to the laptops being available at PC World.
IFA 2008: Portable Solar Panels from Onlink
In the video above, Dan checks out a company called Onlink who have a great idea for a product – solar panels built into your laptop case. Their cases have two pockets – one for your laptop and one for two big solar panels that then attach to your laptop and help you charge while on the go…
NEC LaVie J – special edition laptop for Sky Crawlers
Sky Crawlers is a series of Japanese books by Hiroshi Mori which were recently adapted into an Anime film. The movie came out on August 2nd in Japan and to co-incide with the launch NEC have announced a special edition laptop…
HP planning a cheaper 2nd gen Eee PC rival
HP’s current Mini Note apparently missed the meeting where the ULPC acronym was explained, specifically the ‘UL’ part, and is one of the most expensive netbooks on the market. That hasn’t really made much of an impact on sales, apparently, but HP is now keen to introduce a new ‘economy’ device for those who didn’t want to make the stretch to the existing 2133 model.
Dell E(ee PC) specs and price leaked
Uninspired as Dell’s laptop naming system seems to be, we’re getting mighty confused about what Dell’s upcoming Eee PC knock off is actually called. First it was rumoured to be the Mini-Inspiron, then we heard it was going for a more direct parody of the Asus’ wunder-top, the Dell E. Now, apparently, it’s back to being called the Mini-Inspiron. You keeping up?
HP hopes Voodoo magic will defeat MacBook Air – world's new thinnest laptop
While most of the computing world is dedicating itself to creating the smallest possible laptops from baked bean cans and bits of string, it’s easy to forget that there is still a market for full sized notebooks that look good and weigh next to nothing. Hewlett Packard hasn’t though; it has just launched the Voodoo Envy 133.
At 0.7-inches thick and sporting a 13.3″ display, there obviously one target in mind: the MacBook air. The Envy has a price tag of $2099, which also puts it in the same ballpark as the Air, and it offers the same choice of 1.6 or 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo CPUs and 64GB SSD or 80GB HDDs. The Air, however, is just a shade thicker, at 0.76-inches thick…
Low-cost PC popularity forces Microsoft to revise its plans for Windows XP again
At the ongoing Computex tech show in Taipei, Microsoft has announced its decision to further extend the life of the Windows XP operating system for new low-cost desktop PCs. PC manufacturers will be allowed to keep selling XP – Home, not Professional – until 2010.
Oooh – Asus Eee PC 901 also comes in black
We’ve seen leaked shots of the white Eee PC 901; we’ve heard leaked prices and dates of the White 901; now we have some leaked shots of the black 901. Psssst. Asus. Rumour has it you’ve got a leak somewhere…
One Laptop Per Child reveals XO-2 – even lower price and no keyboard
The $100 laptop? Sooo 2007. Now it’s time for the $75 laptop, from the same One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. The new model is also raising eyebrows thanks to an interesting new design strategy: it’s ditching the keyboard entirely.
Microsoft signs up with One Laptop Per Child
Microsoft has announced an agreement with the One Laptop Per Child (OLCP) organisation to bring Windows XP to the company’s XO machines, often referred to as the ‘$100 laptop’…
