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MSI introduces nine-hour netbook with HD video playback

MSI has announced its U110 "ECO" netbook with a promised battery life of up to nine hours. The U110 is only 1.3 inches thick and weighs just 2.2 lbs. when using a three cell battery. The six cell battery is where you'll get the nine-hour battery life,...

Tags: Battery, Video, Netbook, MSI, U110, Corporate Communications, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Engineering, Marketing, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Laptop picks by the inch

There has never been more choice in notebooks. The standard 12-inch ultraportables, 14-inch thin-and-lights, 15-inch mainstream laptops and 17-inch desktop replacements are still commonplace. But there are new shapes and sizes filling in the gaps ranging from 11 inches all the way up to 18 inches....

Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Hewlett-Packard Co., Gateway Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Battery, Memory, Configuration, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., LED-backlit, IdeaPad, U110, ThinkPad X200, X200s, Dv3510nr, Sony VAIO FW, Gateway P-Series FX Edition, 8930G, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-12-09

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Dads & Grads: Top 10 laptops for college students, class of '09

Got a kid who is about to graduate high school and pestering you for a laptop to accompany him or her on the great adventure that is higher education? As if the last 18 years and the next four years of tuition bills isn't enough. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Student, Battery, HP Pavilion, Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Satellite Pro U400, Battery Life, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-01

HP Pavilion Dv2

When we first saw the 12-inch HP Pavilion dv2 at CES 2009, we noted that, "at first glance, another glossy HP laptop with an AMD processor may induce yawns, but when we learned this was the first system to use AMD's new Netbook-like Athlon Neo platform, our ears perked up."...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, laptop computer, netbook, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, HP Pavilion Dv2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Neo

Product reviews 2009-04-08

Samsung NC20

Samsung's NC20 stands out from the crowd in two very important ways. First, it's one of only a handful of 12-inch Netbooks (the best-known example being Dell's Vista-addled Mini 12); secondly, it's the first laptop we've tested with Via's Nano CPU, intended as an alternative to Intel's popular Atom processor....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung NC20, netbook, Nano

Product reviews 2009-04-01

News to know: SAP's mistake; Mozilla; Yahoo; CRM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases to select testers updated IE 8 build CES: Zune phone, no. Pink, maybe Ryan Naraine: Window Snyder leaves Mozilla...

Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Laptop Computer, CRM, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Linux, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Competing with Asus, MSI to demo touchscreen Wind at CES

MSI will show a touchscreen version of its popular Wind at CES to compete with rival Asus, according to an interview with MSI's Director of U.S. Sales, Andy Tung, by LAPTOP's Joanna Stern: Are the MSI Wind Nettops/All-In-Ones planned to hit the U.S.? Yes, we plan to...

Tags: Touch Screen, ASUS, Consumer Electronics Show, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

When you're shopping for a low-priced media laptop, the Lenovo brand is not likely to come immediately to mind. After all, the company is best known for its serious, business-oriented ThinkPad line. But Lenovo has been doing some interesting things with its consumer-oriented IdeaPad line, from creating a stunningly beautiful...

Tags: Notebooks, IdeaPad Y530, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-11-26

Solo Tech Netbook Mini Instant-Messenger laptop bag (black)

Solo's Netbook bag is compact, comfortable, and TSA approved, which means you can zip through airport security without removing your laptop from the bag. While it's a well crafted Netbook bag, I must back up and question the very idea of a Netbook bag. I thought the appeal of a...

Tags: Notebooks, Netbook Mini Instant-Messenger, compartment, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-11-18

Asus Eee PC 1000 (black)

We've been fans of the Asus Eee PC line ever since the very first 7-inch model kicked off the Netbook craze in the fall of 2007. A year later, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer all have small, inexpensive systems powered by Intel's Atom processor, but Asus still has the biggest selection...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, ASUS, ASUS Eee PC, Asus Eee, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-11

News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Asus Eee PC 900 (white, Windows XP)

When we first saw the diminutive Asus Eee PC back in the fall of 2007, we were duly impressed by its capability to mix small size with a small price, and rightly predicted it would be popular with consumers and influential with other PC makers (although, to be fair, the...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, Intel Celeron, Intel Corp., ASUS

Product reviews 2008-05-12

MobileTechRoundup show #133, REDFLY and Nokia N82 arrive, IdeaPad U110 is rocking

Listen here (MP3, 32.1 MB, 35:00 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James, Kevin, and I were up early Saturday morning to record MobileTechRoundup show #133 and as you may be able to...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Nokia Corp., James, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Lenovo's 11-inch laptop now available

Lenovo announced today that its new 11-inch widescreen laptop for consumers is now available online. The IdeaPad U110 was one of three notebook models Lenovo announced at CES in January when the company rolled out its new consumer brand, which includes IdeaPad laptops, and outside of the...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Face Recognition, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-04-29