Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700ds now really official: starts at $3,663
It’s sort of tough to say that Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700ds is not yet official, but if you’ve been scouring the intarwebz for a legitimate press release from the outfit, here’s your sign. The dual screen beast is at long last being confirmed by Lenovo, offering up workstation performance along with a 17-inch primary display and [...]
Lenovo debuts three new Y Series midrange laptops
Lenovo has just dropped the dime on its new IdeaPad Y Series notebooks, including the 14-inch Y450, the 15.6-inch Y550 and the 16-inch Y650. All of these guys feature 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen displays, up to 500GB storage, up to 4GB memory, surround sound, optional NVIDIA GFX graphics, a multi-touch touchpad, and facial recognition technology. [...]
Lenovo adds multi-touch, facial recognition to its S10 netbook
Lenovo has announced today that its dapper young netbook will be getting an upgrade, starting with a modest boost in screen size — from 10-inches to 10.2-inches. In addition to this embarrassment of riches, the new IdeaPad S10 netbook will pack LenovoSocial, a suite for “social networking enthusiasts,” VeriFace facial recognition tech and a multi-touch [...]
New HP laptop releases rumored, Mini 1000 Mi included
With CES just around the corner, it’s no surprise to hear whispers of a new lot of laptops from HP (or anyone else, for that matter). A smattering of from reports around the web have it that Hewlett-Packard is looking to debut a few new machines here in the near future, starting with the AMD-powered [...]
More 10-inch Acer Aspire One rumors trickle out
We’d already gotten a solid word from Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin that there would indeed be a 10-inch Aspire One in early 2009, and now we’ve got some purported pictures and informations to chew on. According to the Aspire One fan-blog macles*, the upcoming revision will come in white, black and red flavors, with [...]
TG Sambo releases well-equipped LLUON B2 all-in-one
The LLUON B2 isn’t TG Sambo’s first LLUON all-in-one, but it’s the first one we’ve seen that doesn’t wear its iMac inspiration on its sleeve — or rip off a variant of itself. This well-equipped AIO packs a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 processor, 320GB hdd, and an NVIDIA GeForce 9300 graphics card with [...]
Laptop Sales Exceed Desktop Sales Globally
For the first time ever, laptop sales have exceeded desktop sales worldwide, nearly four years sooner than anticipated.
For the first time ever, laptop sales have exceeded desktop sales on the global level, at least according to iSuppli, a market research firm.
In the third quarter of 2008, PC laptop sales increased forty percent over Q3 2007, [...]
ASUS 14.1-inch B80A business laptop: it’s for the corporate elite
Yeah, the “corporate elite.” Or, so says ASUS, anyway. Just months after the business-minded B50A hit the scene, along comes a slightly more portable iteration to tickle the fancy of the fanciest suits. The B80A comes rockin’ an all black motif, 14.1-inch WXGA (or WXGA+) display, your choice of Intel’s Core 2 Duo T9400, T5850, [...]
Aspire One shipments on pace to beat Eee PC
Acer’s Aspire One has been somewhat overlooked in the face of a relentless barrage of Eee PCs and other netbooks, but slow and steady tends to win the race — Acer says it’s on track to ship six million machines this year, which is ahead of ASUS’s target of five million Eees. Acer’s mostly pulled [...]