Category: Laptops / Notebooks
Powergorilla and Solargorilla juice up your laptop on the move
Powergorilla is a brilliantly named product from Powertraveller. It’s basically a big ol’ battery, which you plug your laptop into, and it’ll charge your laptop’s onboard battery for you. A fully charged Powergorilla will give you two to six extra hours of laptop battery…
Samsung X460 14" laptop – portable, but not a mobile phone
Doesn’t anyone at Samsung search for their product names on Google before releasing them? The Samsung X460, as well as being a new laptop, is also a mobile phone. It’s not even a good mobile phone…
Intel introduce new nettop Atom 330 CPU system
The minute I read that Intel had launched their new dual-core Atom chip, my little netbook-crazed heart skipped more than the one beat. Then I read on and, before you do the same, you should know that the Intel Atom 330 is a nettop solution and is not set to cause a craze in the release of sub-notebook computers…
Packard Bell bandwagon-it-up with the Dot Netbook
Gosh – there’s lazy and then there’s this. Packard Bell are about to bring out a netbook. You can probably count on one hand the number of companies who *haven’t* brought one out lately. This modele, however, is almost identical to the Acer Aspire One A150X. Acer own Packard Bell. Sigh. They’ve just rebadged it…
Samsung floats into the netbook party with the NC10
Anyone had enough netbooks yet? No, me either. Samsung have joined the party with the NC10 – it is a netbook, but only just. It looks like it’s targeted more at people who are a bit nervous of the full-on netbook experience, or want a bit more from their netbook…
Over 60,000 portable gadgets left in London taxis over the last six months
Oh, so that’s what happened to your previous phone. And your previous MP3 player. And your previous laptop. And your previous house keys, wallet, trainers, watch and coat.
A survey by security firm Credant Technologies asked London cabbies what devices they’ve found in the backs of their cabs recently, coming up with the amazing figure that more than 60,000 gadgets have been forgotten in taxis by people we would assume to have been massively intoxicated, over the last six months…
Toshiba launches its first netbook – the NB100
You can’t move around here for netbook releases. Lately we’ve had models from Dell, Medion, LG and Emtec, among others. Toshiba, however, aren’t daunted and is leaping in to the fray with the NB100. The NB stands for “netbook”, I would imagine, and the “100” presumably because it’s about the hundredth netbook released in the last month.
Shiny Video Preview: HP HDX16 and HDX18 Premium Laptops
As well as getting a look at the HP TouchSmart IQ800 yesterday, I also got to have a sneaky peek at HP’s new series of HDX Premium laptops, and gosh they’re swish. Very sleek design, Apple-style light-up logo, titanium casing, and swooshes across the trackpad below the keyboard. Beautiful…
Dell & Tesco bringing Linux to the masses – launching £299 Inspiron Z530 "Web Browser" in October
Tesco selling Dell laptops – a match made in retailer heaven. Only, the thing is, and we’d hate to be the ones breaking this to the poor, confused buyer, the Z530 will be running Linux.
The Z530 is described by Tesco as a “Web Browser” rather than a Laptop, PC, portable computer or any of the more usual terms, so presumably Dell and Tesco are aiming…
Samsung R610: 16" Blu-ray multimedia laptop
Given that we were talking about the difference between ‘traditional’ 16:10 displays and “full HD” 16:9 displays just last week, it’s rather convenient that Samsung have decided to announce the R610, a 16:9 Blu-ray multimedia laptop with a 16″ screen. Not the Samsung R610 mobile phone. I hate it when companies do that…
