September 1, 2010 9:52 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Small laptops aren’t necessarily getting any smaller, but they are getting more powerful. Here’s a quick look at the power-efficient engines purring inside the latest laptops from Hewlett-Packard.
HP Mini 210: there's a lot going on below the colorful skin.
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Hewlett-Packard)
The newest welterweight laptops from [...]
August 29, 2010 10:53 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
What is the tipping point for having too many gadgets? Well, it depends.
MacBook, iPad 3G, iPhone 3GS, and Windows laptop. The 'essential' entourage that travels with me. How many is too many?
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Brooke Crothers)
First, let me count the ways I can be connected: a [...]
August 26, 2010 10:16 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Hewlett-Packard will refresh its Netbook lineup next month with new Atom chips that bring dual-core technology to these mini laptops for the first time.
HP Netbooks to get new dual-core Atom chip.
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CNET Reviews)
Documentation on HP’s U.S. Web site (PDF) indicates that the HP Mini [...]
August 23, 2010 10:53 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Intel announced on Monday the first dual-core Atom processor targeted specifically at Netbooks, finally putting the same number of processing cores inside these tiny laptops as found on larger mainstream laptops.
Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba, among others, are expected [...]
August 16, 2010 3:30 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
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Toshiba)
After recently debuting in Japan, Toshiba is now selling its dual-screen laptop/tablet in the U.S., the company said Monday.
As previously reported, the Libretto W105 (marketed as the W100 in Japan) is a small, 1.8-pound, 7-inch
Windows 7 clamshell device that sports two capacitive LCD [...]
August 15, 2010 3:22 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
A new video shows the dual-screen Toshiba Libretto W100 strutting its stuff in uncharted territory somewhere between a tablet and a traditional clamshell laptop.
What is the Libretto W100? It’s a small 1.5-pound, 7-inch
Windows 7 clamshell device that sports two capacitive LCD screens: one [...]
August 11, 2010 3:58 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
While Wall Street analysts have turned bearish on PC and chip demand, they’re still bullish on forecasts for
Apple’s iPad. Does this tell us something about the future of the PC industry?
An Apple store on first day of iPad sales: iPad shipment forecasts continue [...]
August 6, 2010 4:13 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
Dell has published a back-to-school chart comparing its Studio laptops with Apple MacBooks–all very favorable to Dell, mind you. So, what’s accurate, and what’s missing?
First, the chart in all of its stark Dell-Apple price gap glory, which Dell shows as $1,249 per model: [...]
August 2, 2010 9:20 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
The unstoppable sales juggernaut that is the
iPad has pushed Apple past Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba into the No. 3 slot for laptop shipments, according to a Deutsche Bank analyst.
iPad sales juggernaut makes Apple No. 3 in laptop sales, analyst says.
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Brooke Crothers)
So, how did [...]
July 29, 2010 1:31 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers
To quote the iconic 1960s drummer Buddy Miles, the graphics chip market is “going through them changes.”
As Nvidia falters, Advanced Micro Devices’ ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by “radical” shifts in the market, according to Mercury Research, which tracks the [...]