Archive for the ‘Laptops’ Category

Lenovo’s Y410: their first consumer laptop in US

Monday, October 29th, 2007

US netizens can now call dibs on Lenovo's 3000 Y410 laptop for the home. That's right, a consumer laptop -- their first for the US market. * Specifications: * 1.46GHz Pentium Dual Core T2310 processor * 1GB of RAM * Intel X3100 graphics * 160GB 5400rpm disk * dual-layer DVD writer * 6-in-1 media card reader * ...

India comes back to OLPC

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

After referring to the OLPC laptop as "pedagogically suspect" a year ago and rejected it, and claiming that they could build a laptop for $10 this past May, India has come back down to Earth and decided to take part in the project by delivering 22 of the laptops to ...

Ageia’s PhysX 100M processor for gaming laptops

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Although it's been well over a year since the Ageia PhysX processor made any noise at all over on the desktop front, the firm is taking full advantage of the exposure provided at the Games Convention in Germany to unveil the PhysX 100M processor for "high-performance" gaming lappies. According to ...

Apple Patents Hideable Ports on Notebooks

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Apple's latest patent for laptops shows a collapsible port scheme that lets you hide and show connectivity ports when necessary. These ports—USB, Ethernet, Firewire—take up most of the room on the sides of laptops now, and if Apple ever gets around to releasing an ultra-portable notebook, being able to ...