Laptops/Notebooks News

Benny Villanueva recalls being in a Starbucks rushing to finish a college paper that was due when his laptop battery, which he'd been led to believe would last hours, conked out after only about 30 minutes.

While we had high hopes for Sony's sleek and beautifully crafted VAIO P back in the day , it's become a major point of frustration and thus, ridicule, ever since we first powered it up .

The Consumers Foundation said yesterday it might take U.S. computer maker Dell Inc.

The NetBook appears to be evolving to an even more powerful, portable workhorse, with the next generation of Acer's Aspire family.

Microsoft is back with a new Laptop Hunters ad, part of an ongoing campaign, that takes a swipe at Apple's most economical laptop, the 749 13-inch MacBook.

As wireless carriers look for more customers, they're starting to offer netbooks with contracts and subsidies just like they sell mobile phones.

In the last few weeks numerous technology and mass media web-sites published hundreds of stories about Apple, its products, their availability or their issues.

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When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access , the rubric that covers AT&T's two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream and HSUPA for upstream.

So there's a new OS that's based on the web, relies primarily on a web browser, and whose native apps are web apps.

Sony did take a stand against manufacturing netbooks simply because the profit margin was so low, and with the company's notorious reputation of pricing their goods beyond the average figure, consumers who are looking for a cheap and yet decently equipped netbook will most probably pick one from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, Gateway and numerous other ...

Eurocoma s Core i7 Notebook: Walking The Panther Performance notebooks with desktop processors are nothing new, but Core i7a s thermal challenges are new.

QuickerTek has released its newest external battery for the MacBook and MacBook Pro, Apple Juicz Lite .

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster issued a research note to clients this morning noting that some configurations of the new 13" MacBook Pro have constrained supplies both online and in Apple's retail stores.

Though many PC makers were quiet about Chrome OS earlier today, Google has now named the companies it is working with to bring their operating system to Netbooks next year.

Following Google's announcement it's joining the OS party, Renai LeMay asks, has the search giant got what it takes to fully embrace open source? Google's revelation today that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide: "Not another Linux distribution." They'll say this because ...

After being hampered by slow adoption, laptops with quick-boot capabilities may soon be upgraded with new features that could make them attractive to users.

Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

There's a reason the first thing Microsoft chose to show publicly of Windows 7 was its support for touch input .

When I reviewed Apple's prior "unibody" 15-inch MacBook Pro , I gave it high marks.