Since the heyday of the UMPC, Intel has dominated the mobile PC market, from the Intel Celeron M in the Samsung Q1 to the current Atom processor which is present in nearly every netbook on the market. According to market research company ABI, those days of Intel dominance may be slowly coming to an end … Read More

Just a few days after revealing its X-Slim X420 , MSI is back at it again with another Intel ULV-powered laptop — but this time the redesigned 15.6-inch version of its X series has made room for an optical drive that, as expected, adds a bit of heft to the 1.4-inch thick / 5-pound. Other … Read More

You know, making that jump from HDD to SSD still costs an arm and a leg, so how about somewhere in between that gap? That’s what Lenovo ’s offering as an option for the IdeaPad Y460 and Y560 coming in March. The idea with this RapidDrive technology is that you can have a 32GB or … Read More

LG GW990 is manufacturers first device to run the Linux based Moblin 2.1 operating system. GW990 is powered by Intel’s Moorestown CPU and features a 4.8-inch panoramic widescreen display, 3D gaming, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, digital compass and 5 megapixel camera. Basic specifications: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS 2100/900 Big display - 1024 x 480 pixels 5 megapixels Camera, … Read More

LG GT540 is LG’s second Android phone. It attracts the attention with its design – with very round edges and metal like trim around the corners. The controls are a combination of two touch sensitive buttons (back and menu), while the home, call and end are regular ones. Specs-wise, there is not a lot to … Read More

We’ve long said that wireless video streaming direct from a laptop is one of our dream gadgets, and while most of the gear we’ve seen is based on Wireless USB , it looks like Netgear’s trying something a little different: this PTV1000 Push 2 TV Adapter just hit the FCC database, and it looks to … Read More

How will Apple redesign the ultraslim, seminal MacBook Air that launched dozens of me-too ultraportable laptops? Only Apple knows. But here are some gratuitous musings anyway. In a previous post , I said I wouldn’t hazard any guesses on what Apple may do with the MacBook Air . And I won’t. That doesn’t stop me … Read More

New Atom chips from Intel means better netbooks, right? Sorta. Here’s the skinny on the new netbook brains. Pine What? Okay, so one of the big things about the new Atom chips is that for the first time, it integrates a graphics core and a memory controller directly onto the same die as the processor. … Read More

Since the dawn of computing, gamers on a budget have been flaunting their ability to best higher-spec’d systems courtesy of a little extra cooling and a lot of time fiddling with BIOS settings. So, no real surprise here that an Intel Core i5 processor can keep up with a Core i7 when properly configured. What … Read More

Taking a break from making headlines over infringement rights , Smartbook AG has found an entirely new way to get our attention. Introducing the Zenid GC Crystal, a “smartbook” that’s, as Netbooknews.de points out, one of the most common Chinese ODM netbooks, the S40 — 10.2-inch WXGA LED screen, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N280, 2GB DDR2 … Read More

Just when you thought you had enough gigahertz in your life, along come the folks at Impress to blow the doors off Intel’s upcoming crop of desktop processors. In the highly detailed charts there’s wild talk of a low-powered “S” version of Core i5 that lowers the chip from 95W to 82W, a new Core … Read More

Somehow or another, we’ve figured out how to send mere mortals to the moon, create (and mass produce) a laptop thin enough to floss with and add multitouch capabilities to a mouse . But for whatever reason, we’re still stuck using AA batteries that last approximately one-fifth as long as you need them to. Outside … Read More

Filed under: Hardware , Hacks For shoppers in the US, Black Friday is right around the corner. With it, of course, are lots of deals, including many that don’t make you wait for Friday. Dell is currently offering the highly Hackintoshable Mini 10v unit for just $229 shipped (it’s $20 more for Bluetooth, which you … Read More

BFG Technologies , which could admittedly move laptops based on company name alone, has decided to actually toss in some unnecessary legwork with its latest beast. The 18.4-inch Deimos X-10 (likely a rebranded Clevo M980NU ) is undoubtedly one of the larger desktop replacements on the market today, boasting Intel Core 2 Duo, Quad and … Read More

We just caught a glimpse of ASUS’ EeeBox EB1012 nettop last month, but it looks like the company is already doing things one better with its new, redesigned EB1501 model. As before, this one packs the increasingly common one-two punch of NVIDIA’s Ion chipset and Intel’s Atom 333 dual-core processor, but makes its mark by … Read More