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| ASUS Announces New Laptops |
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| Ultraportable laptops: Their rise and possible fall |
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| Laptop or handheld |
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| Figuring Out Why You May (or May Not) Need a Laptop |
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| Can You Make Your Laptop Identity Theft Proof |
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| Dell Latitude XT |
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| Asus A7K (17 inch) Notebook |
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| Dell Readies MacBook Pro Rival |
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| Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience |
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| Build your own laptop |
Do you want to build your own laptop and you'd like to find out how it's done and where to do it? If yes, you are reading the right column as I will discuss how to build a laptop that contains all the features that are essential to your mobile computing needs. Many computer shoppers do this not only to get a perfect notebook but to save a substantial amount of money.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| The Secrets of Laptop Encryption |
To maximize the effectiveness of encryption in providing effective security assurance solutions, organizations must deploy it as part of a defense in depth security stance. Like any technology, encryption is plagued with pitfalls, mistakes, and traps that could easily provide an organization with a false sense of confidence in its security, while still allowing attackers to easily compromise the organization’s data.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| LG DVB T PC W1PRO EXPRESS |
LG Electronics has unveiled its next generation of notebook computers, incorporating a Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting TV Tuner (DVB T) with a view to providing a mobile, fully integrated, multi media hub for the home and office. The 17inch widescreen DVB T Notebook PC W1PRO EXPRESS DUAL enables high quality picture broadcasts on a 17inch widescreen LCD when connected to a home or office antenna.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Affordable Vista Premium notebooks |
For new computer buyers, there are two widely acknowledged facts. Firstly: the odds that you're going to purchase a notebook rather than a desktop are already close to even, and moving steadily in favour of the portable option.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| HP tx1000 Convertible |
This is a first impressions look at the recently announced HP tx1000 convertible notebook. We have only had this unit for a few hours, but so far it seems good for the projected price. If you are in the market for an affordable, entertainment Tablet then the tx1000 may be what you are looking for, but you will have to wait until February 28.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Toshiba A8 and M7 |
We look at two Tecra models, the A8 notebook and the M7 Tablet PC notebook. The notebooks are different in a number of ways, but the components in each of our tested units were almost exactly the same. This leads to an interesting question, do both notebooks perform similarly, given their near matching components? That question is answered below.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Sony VAIO SZ Vs Apple MacBook Comparison |
This review is inspired by those cute "I'm a Mac... I'm a PC" commercials, and while it may be less humorous, it will hopefully be a bit more informative as to the differences between at least this Mac and this PC....The weight is the most significant difference and for that the Sony wins hands down. The weight difference is so considerable, that the Sony actually feels smaller when handling it even though it is the larger of the two machines dimensions wise.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Toshiba's Newly Announced Portege R400 Has Exciting Features |
It's Sunday January 7, 2007. I'm sitting in my hotel room in Las Vegas playing around with Toshiba's Portege R400 S4931 Tablet PC notebook. It arrived in Los Angeles a few days ago and I dragged it to Vegas so I could do a quick handson first look review for you in time for Toshiba's announcement at CES on January 8th.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Toshiba Launches Signature Vista Laptop |
Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, has announced the Portege R400 notebook computer. Highlighted by two world's first technologies, the Portégé R400 is the product of a joint collaboration between industry giants, Toshiba and Microsoft, to create the signature Windows Vista PC.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Twinhead DURABOOK D13RY, D14RY Rugged Laptops Announced |
Twinhead Corporation launched its DURABOOK D13RY and DURABOOK D14RY rugged laptop models at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The two new DURABOOKs feature Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors, magnesium alloy cases, spill resistant an anti shock mounting design, as well as optional hardware based security technology TPM 1.2.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| WidowPC Sting 517D |
The Sting 517D gaming laptop from WidowPC is a next generation gamer's notebook. I don't use cliches like "next generation" lightly. But the Sting 517D deserves it because it has multiple components that few other notebooks can match on the market right now the most important of which are associated with graphics and gaming speed.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Samsung Fuel Cell Dock Powers Laptop for a Month |
If you are tired of your laptop petering out after a mere few hours of use, Samsung has a dock they are showing off set to be launched at the end of 2007 that could power your laptop for up to one month.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Taking Your Tablet PC Out for a Spin |
If you haven't already futzed around with your Tablet PC, now is the time to start playing with your newest high tech toy. Different models put that all important power switch in different places. For example, one model may have a slider button on its right edge you push the slider forward to turn the power on. Another model may have a small button on its face. Your user manual shows you the exact configuration and location of your power button.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| What will replace the laptop? |
Laptop computers now outsell desktops in stores; for the majority of consumers, the smaller devices serve perfectly well as their main computer. That would have been hard to imagine back in the mid Eighties, when IBM and Apple introduced their first primitive laptops, each weighing in at about twelve pounds. And for long after that, laptops remained either much less functional or much more expensive than the dominant desktops. But now, twenty years later, the laptop has truly become the "desktop replacement."Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Dell XPS M1710 Blu Ray Multimedia Laptop |
Dell has introduced Blu ray Disc technology into its product line, offering the next generation optical disc format as an option on the extreme performance XPS M1710 consumer laptop computer. This enhancement furthers Dell's strategy to offer customers PCs that can function as a single platform for a compelling digital entertainment throughout the home.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Tablet PC Holiday Gift Guide |
It's retail's mad season and those dearest to you are out shopping at Target or perhaps Walmart. They spend countless hours rummaging through piles of sweaters, slippers and let's not forget the dreaded socks and underwear. After all of this effort, they just don't understand your gift needs! Well, if it takes a bit of guidance or a few hints to save you from conjuring up a fake smile upon receipt of yet another pair of slipper socks, perhaps our Tablet PC Holiday Gift Guide is the answer to your prayers.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Locating the Power Button on Your Laptop |
Laptop designers have grown very adept at hiding or masking the power button. The most recent trend is to put the power button under the laptop's lid; you have to open the laptop up to find and press the power button, turning the laptop on. Here are some common facts about a laptop's power button...Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Figuring Out Why You May (or May Not) Need a Laptop |
You need to ask yourself this question: Why buy a desktop computer that's stuck in one spot all the time?Naturally, a desktop computer is more powerful, expandable, and cheaper than a laptop. But you can't take it with you! Well, you can, but by hauling all that desktop stuff around, you'd really look like a dork.
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| Sneaking a peek at the OLPC OS |
The first One Laptop Per Child hardware devices are still months from deployment, but you can sneak a peek at their Sugar desktop environment and bundled applications by running an OS image under an emulator. It's a great way to finally get some hands on time with this long anticipated project, even though it's not perfect.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| 10 Ways to Extend Laptop Battery Life |
We've all been there. You're an hour into the flight and Ross Geller is about to say the wrong name at his wedding, Bruce Willis is about to find that his shirt is blood stained, or the guy in the black cape is about to bypass the need for a Skywalker family DNA test. But you don't know any of these things yet, and, because your laptop just died and became little more than an expensive TV dinner tray, you're going to have to wait until you get to a power socket to see just how Rachel will react to this startling development in her love life.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Identifying Power Adapter Problems in Your Laptop |
Say that you plug your laptop into a wall socket you press the On button, but the lights don't flash, the screen doesn't change colors, and the earth doesn't move. The power doesn't be. To identify the problem, you need to understand the nitty gritty of the electrical system. Nearly every laptop uses DC (direct current) voltage, usually in the range of 5 to 20 volts; almost nowhere in the world, outside of a laboratory, does that type and level of power come out of a wall outlet.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Running Anti Spyware Software on Your Laptop |
The best way to protect yourself from spyware is to be very, very cautious about what you download from the Internet and which Web pages you visit. Sites that cater to children, to music swapping fiends, and pornography sites are full of means and devices for delivering spyware directly into your computer. If you can avoid such sites, do so.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Lose your laptop (but not your mind) |
So you just lost your laptop full of military secrets, a partner's billion dollar idea and other intellectual property, or health care data for the Massachusetts State Home for the Mildly Bewildered. One moment you were happily sipping a latte in the airport, and the next, you were wondering why your rolley bag was so light.Oops.
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| WidowPC Sting 517D Gaming Laptop Introduced |
WidowPC gaming laptop boutique today announced Sting 517D, a new Intel Core 2 Duo-powered notebook claimed to be a solution for "those seeking an alternative to mass produced laptops like the Dell XPS M1710". WidowPC Sting 517D 17 inch 1920 x 1200 widescreen laptop sports the nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800/7900/7950 GTX or nVIDIA Quadro FX Go 2500M graphics with 256MB and 512MB of DDR3 video memory, Intel's High Definition Audio, up to 4 GB of main memory and up to 200 GB SATA hard drive.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Taking your laptop? Keep it and your precious data safe |
If you're one of the millions of Americans who travel with laptop PCs for business or pleasure, are you sure you're properly protecting your computer companion? According to tech security giant Symantec, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the USA and 97% of them are never recovered.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Microsoft's BitLocker Alters the Security Dynamic |
A feature that automatically encrypts laptop hard drives will likely be the first thing security managers look at when the enterprise edition of Microsoft's new Vista operating system ships later this month. The feature, BitLocker, will intensify the spotlight on an area that has become a major concern for big companies in recent years.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| How to protect your mobile data |
In today's workplace, it's impossible to eliminate mobile computing devices laptops, thumb drives, mobile phones, PDAs and iPods. If you follow the news, you know that dozens of organizations have had mobile devices lost or stolen, and many of them were not as lucky as Lincoln Health. Since California enacted a data breach notification law in 2002 (followed by 32 other states), there have been a host of embarrassing disclosures about missing computers, most recently at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Trade Commission, the Transportation Department, accounting firms Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young (three separate occasions this year), Wells Fargo and ING banks, Fidelity Investments, the YMCA and Chevron.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| First $100 laptops ship, finally |
It seems as if the $100 laptop (give or take a few bucks) has been discussed forever, but the first ones appear to have finally been built and shipped. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project says it has received its first 10 from Quanta, its Taiwanese manufacturing partner.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| First take: The Core 2 Duo MacBook |
Announced last week, already on store shelves and measuring up well not only to its predecessor but to its big brothers in the MacBook Pro lineup, the new MacBook is an even better value than the model it replaces. With a notable speed boost from the new Core 2 Duo processor, more standard RAM and larger hard drives, the MacBook arrived just ahead of the holiday shopping season. It's as if (insert your holiday icon of choice here) had arrived early.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| The Easy Way to Replace a Dying Notebook Hard Drive |
Maybe it's talent, maybe it's just luck, but it's a basic fact of the universe that I'm pretty good at breaking electronics especially hard disks. My track record is one or more dead hard drives per year. So, I've been thinking a lot lately about the rise of redundant disk drives in notebook computers, especially those in Alienware notebooks. RAID 0 buys no redundancy, but can drastically increase performance because data are placed on the disks to optimize access.Linked by LT Hacker (...Click here to Read more)
| Core 2 Duo Laptop CPUs: No Big Boost, But 64 Bit Ready |
Laptops got only a small performance boost and battery life improvement from the use of the new Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (code-named Merom) processors, the PCWorld.ca reports.The magazine tested three Core 2 Duo based notebooks: a Dell XPS M1210, a Gateway M685 E and HP Pavilion dv6000t.
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