LAS VEGAS -- Litl's webbook looks and feels almost like a traditional laptop, but is billed instead as an internet appliance; think Chumby with a keyboard , and you won't be too far off the mark. The device was released in November, but I got a chance to check it out here at CES. The litl i...
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Nvidia has unveiled it's second-generation Tegra mobile system-on-chip processor, before the first generation has seen much traction (outside of the excellet Zune HD , Tegra hasn't really appeared in any marqee products). So what's new in Tegra 2? A faster ARM processor and better graphics and vide...
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Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said. Laptops today contain either dual-core or quad-core processors, and offering a triple-core CPU could bring laptops that are faster than the dual-core chips but more power-effic...
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If you want to play games on your laptop - real games, not Farmville on Facebook - you need one of those big, heavy, expensive desktop replacement laptops. Or so goes the conventional wisdom. Or, maybe you can get away with a fairly heavy and pricey 15" laptop. Well, Dell's Alienware division...
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CES 2010 is just getting under way and already everyone is talking about tablets. Lenovo has already unveiled the intriguing IdeaPad U1 , a hybrid tablet/laptop that features an ARM-based tablet that can dock into a CULV-based ultraportable notebook. Put the two together and it's a laptop, or pull ...
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Apple must be patting themselves on the back, as the Hewlett-Packard (HP) tablet unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday night failed to wow those expecting a true competitor to the mythical Apple tablet . Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrating the HP tablet. Photo Credit: Mic...
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Gateway's newly-announced EC14D ultraportable laptop bucks the trend of others in this segment by adding an integrated DVD drive, just as so many others are shaving down size and weight by removing optical storage from the design. The new system features an 11.6" screen with a resolution of 13...
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HP is unveiling a slew of new and updated products at CES 2010, and notebooks are front and center in the company's lineup. As with nearly every other major laptop maker, the new processors from Intel have spurred an almost complete top-to-bottom product refresh. First up is the TouchSmart tm2 tabl...
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Touch technology is a godsend on our phones and tablets, but can it do anything innovative for gaming? Boutique PC vendor, iBuyPower, is betting so with the announcement of its new 15-inch Battalion Touch CZ-10 multi-touch gaming notebook--the first in a new series from the company. No other specs ...
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CES is in full swing in Las Vegas, Nevada, and PC World's editors have been all over town checking out the hottest gadgets for 2010. In this late-night episode of the podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer and Tim Moynihan recap the coolest things they've seen so far. Among the highlights of the pre-sh...
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You know those HP Envy 13 and Envy 15 notebooks we were so excited about last year? The ones that look suspiciously like a Macbook Pro, have great hardware and design, have few flaws aside from a very big price sticker? Well, they just got a whole lot more attractive. The Envy 13 has dropped in...
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Intel on Monday launched its next-generation Atom netbook processor, saying it will bring longer battery life and improved system performance to low-cost laptops. The single-core Atom N450 chip is 60 percent smaller than existing Atom processors, and consumes close to 20 percent less power, ...
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Here's a rhetorical question: How are netbooks any less attractive to consumers when Intel improves the Atom chips inside them? That's a question Intel will have to answer with the launch of its new Atom chip for netbooks, the Atom N450. It's 60 percent smaller and 20 percent lighter than ex...
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The nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child wants to produce a touchscreen tablet computer by 2012 that will cost less than $100. OLPC released its device roadmap this week, which includes two upgrades to the original XO computer, as well as lofty plans for a new 8.5-by-11-inch tablet device called the...
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After months of rumors, we still know very little about Apple's tablet device -- but that could change very soon. Apple is reportedly holding a media event in San Francisco on January 26, where the company is expected to make a major product announcement. According to the Financial Times' unn...
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My index finger went completely numb. You could poke it and I wouldn't feel a thing. That was the flashing red neon sign telling me something was wrong. The culprit: laptops. My esteemed partner in crime, Patrick Miller, recently wrote about what bugs him about laptops . Now it's my turn, but I wan...
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Thinking about picking up one of those Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbooks? Good news! The company has announced that the product line has been refreshed to include the new Intel Atom N450 processor (the newly announced Atom that previously went under the code name Pineview). The N450 clocks in at 1....
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Dell announced Thursday that it's offering a memory module called Latitude On Flash that can boot up a computer in seconds as an option for some laptops. The module is available alongside the option of an existing quick-boot system that uses an Arm processor. Dell's Latitude On Flash module snaps i...
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It's an age-old question: When you're done using your laptop, or just taking a break from work, should you put it to sleep, let it hibernate, or turn it all the way off? Allow me to answer by way of a mnemonic: hibernate is great. You see, sleep mode (a.k.a. standby) puts your system into an off-li...
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Dell has made available a customized download of Google's Chromium OS (the open-source version of Chrome OS), specifically for its popular Mini 10V netbook. Google discussed its upcoming operating system (OS) at a recent press event, and released the source code . Since then various builds of Chro...
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