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And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use: And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually useSo are you saying that a business can't use the Air?I'm not sure that is a safe bet. I don't have a use for it. But what of those who end up buying the Air and using it...; Tags: Notebooks, notebook, MBA, Lenovo Group Ltd., optical drive, sexy notebook, Ethernet; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Flyweight bout: Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook Air: Flyweight bout: Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook AirWith the exception of ProcessorThe X300 wins almost hands down. One specification that you didn't list and can't really check without some expensive investigation would be durability. While the Lenovo probably is a fairly sturdy laptop, but still plastic. Compare that...; Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, aluminum case, Lenovo X300, optical drive, MBA, MacBook Air, Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook; Discussion threads 2008-02-13
MacBook Air - Will all the cool evaporate when someone asks you to read/rip/burn a disc?: MacBook Air - Will all the cool evaporate when someone asks you to read/rip/burn a disc?I don't think the floppy comparison is a good analogyThe limited capacity of the floppy disk (1.44MB) effectively rendered it useless for a lot of purposes. Further more an alternative to the floppy, at least...; Tags: Notebooks, disc, optical drive, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., floppy disk, USB; Discussion threads 2008-01-21
MacBook Air - Will all the cool evaporate when someone asks you to read/rip/burn a disc?: Over the weekend I was discussing the pros and cons of the MacBook Air with a bunch of other tech geeks and we came to the conclusion that the lack of an optical drive is a brave move of Apple's part (a move that other notebook manufacturers are likely to...; Tags: Optical Drive, Apple MacBook, Disc, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-01-21
Apple introduces MacBook Air: At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduced what he called "the world's thinnest notebook": MacBook Air. The sub-notebook uses a special slimmed-down version of the Intel Core 2 Duo, but a full-sized keyboard. And while it doesn't have an optical drive it can use one wirelessly from a nearby PC or...; Tags: Optical Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Sub-notebook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2008-01-15

Are expectations too high for the Apple subnotebook?: In the calm before the storm that is Macworld Expo, it seems that Apple's announcement of a thinned-down version of their popular MacBook (or MacBook Pro, depending on who you ask) is a foregone conclusion. I'm just as guilty as the rest for fanning the fire. Call...; Tags: Subnotebook, Optical Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-01-07
Apple's secret weapon: Apple TV 2.0: Steve Jobs announced the Apple TV at Macworld Expo last January and then in May relegated it to a "hobby." In the Fast Company article All eyes on Apple, Jobs told USA Today that he hopes that Apple TV will be the fourth leg on the Apple...; Tags: Optical Drive, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound PortÃ©gÃ© R500 includes optical drive, all-day battery: Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound PortÃ©gÃ© R500 includes optical drive, all-day batteryYow...I've yet to have a machine that had a trackpoint that it didn't need to be disabled after a few months of use. Every one of the trackpoints seemed to randomly start moving the pointer in one direction or another...; Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, Portégé R500, battery, Toshiba Portege, optical drive, Toshiba Corp., video; Discussion threads 2007-10-01
Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound PortÃ©gÃ© R500 includes optical drive, all-day battery: As you can see in the attached video taped at Digital Life in New York City, I can vouch for the fact that Toshiba's PortÃ©gÃ© R500 sub-notebook has a built-in optical drive for CD-ROMs and DVDs. You hardly ever see this in a sub-notebook because they take up so much...; Tags: Optical Drive, Battery, Toshiba Portege, Video, Toshiba Corp., Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Photos: Cracking open the Wii: A step-by-step summary of TechRepublic's project to take apart the Wii. Caution: This will seriously void your warranty.After a week of trying, I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Wii. After taking it for a test drive, I began the painstaking and somewhat frustrating disassembly process. I started by...; Tags: Game players, optical drive, photograph, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo GameCube, GameCube controller, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo GameBoy, screw, memory card, antennae, heatsink, USB port, plate, GPU, cable, console, CPU, manufacturing, board, chip, hardware; Image galleries 2007-08-27
Lenovo X60 Tablet PC road test begins: The kind folks at Lenovo have provided me with a review unit of their latest Tablet PC, the ThinkPad X60. Ill have a few months of hands-on time to evaluate this convertible and share my impressions at last of Tablet PC life in Vista. Ive been laboring mightily, but ultimately...; Tags: Hardware, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Windows; Blog posts 2007-02-28
Best practices: optical media selection and care: Last week after a piece of optical media destroyed my MacBook Pros SuperDrive, I began getting more cautious (bordering on paranoid, actually) about the types and kinds of optical media that I trust my backups and data to. Some of my best practices (with some help from Jonas at Media...; Tags: Optical Drive, Media; Blog posts 2007-02-26
The DVD-R media that destroyed my SuperDrive (photos): Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like Ive done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive.After I inserted the blank DVD-R media I didnt immediately notice that it didnt mount in the...; Tags: Hardware, MacBook Pro, Media, Optical Drive; Blog posts 2007-02-20
HP Compaq Presario V6000T: The highly customizable HP Compaq Presario V6000T can be configured as anything from a Celeron-based $449 bargain-basement system to a nearly $2,000 Media Center. Our review unit costs $1,219 and offers decent specs, including an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and a glossy display. Despite the very nice fit and...; Tags: Keyboards, Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Compaq Presario V6000T, Compaq Presario, keyboard, HP QuickPlay, battery; Product reviews 2006-11-22
Micro Express NP6260 Rugged UltraLite: High-end features such as HD-DVD drives and flashing lights are certainly fun when it comes to laptops, but there's a very large segment of the public primarily interested in the smallest, simplest tool available. For those consumers, the ultraportable laptop is where it's at, but that convenience doesn't always come...; Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, laptop computer, NP6260 Rugged UltraLite, Micro Express; Product reviews 2006-11-09
HP Compaq nc8430 Notebook PC: At first glimpse of the HP Compaq nc8430, you're likely to think it subdued. Like other HP business laptops, its black-and-gray case won't attract any envious stares at the airport, and its performance likewise doesn't necessarily stand out among the crowd of midsize business laptops. But look more closely, and...; Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Processors, notebook, PC, notebook computer, nc8430, Hewlett-Packard Co., keyboard; Product reviews 2006-10-17
The end of the road for Parallel ATA: The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA PATA interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA SATA interface (in case some of you are wondering, PATA and SATA are ways of connecting your hard...; Tags: optical drive, Serial ATA; Blog posts 2006-06-06
Photo: Toshiba notebook goes HD DVD: Qosmio G35-AV650 combines several heavy-hitting performance components with a high-definition optical drive.; Tags: performance, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Qosmio, HD-DVD, notebook, optical drive, photograph; Image galleries 2006-05-09
Sony says PS3 still on track for spring launch: Sony says PS3 still on track for spring launchWell they won't mess up like MSI mean they wouldn't let optical drives be a problem again like they were in the original Playstation, . . so the only thing they have to worry about is the whole rootkit problem from the...; Tags: Rootkits, Game players, Sony Corp., rootkit, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Corp., optical drive, disc; Discussion threads 2005-12-09
Sony ships blue laser optical drives: Sony ships blue laser optical drivesUV/Blue Optical Storage has USA PatentsIt will be interesting as time goes on what patent violations will occur in relation toColossal Storage Corp. licensing of patents5 years ago.; Tags: optical drive, laser, Sony Corp.; Discussion threads 2003-12-02