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Offers for free laptops may end up costing you money

Baltimore - In the digital age, you want to be connected, but no one wants to be actually tied to their computer. Laptops can be expensive if you’re ready to cut the cord, so if someone offered you one for free, you might be tempte [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Professor Arrested for Battery After Shutting Student's Lapt...

When I was in college, we didn't bring our laptops to class. Maybe it was because they were much bigger and bulkier than they are now, but we were all notebook kind of folk. And that was good -- because without the trusty Internet, w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Lords pick iPad over old fashioned laptops

The House of Lords will allow iPads and other tablets in official proceedings - but not laptops, over fears typing would be distracting. The Lords approved a one-year trial of "electronic handheld devices" to access documents r [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Your Next Laptop PC Could Be a Mac

Your next laptop PC could be a Mac – that is, in terms of design. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, NVidia’s chief executive, the MacBook Air hints at the design of future laptops. “You’ll have trouble finding one that [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Geek deals: $300 off the HP Envy 14

If you act fast you’ll be able to get $300 off HP’s Envy 14. The enthusiast system is normally priced at $1299 but this coupon will get an Intel Core i5/i7 equipped build down to a penny under $1000. That’s a pretty swe [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Nvidia pushing tablets to quad-core chip this year

With its Tegra chip already well-ensconced in some of the most highly anticipated tablets from Motorola and Samsung, Nvidia is keen on moving the market quickly to super-high-octane tablets packing quad-core processors. Nvidia's dual [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Will Tablets Cannibalize Laptop Sales?

If any of you have gone out to buy a laptop computer lately, you may have asked yourself "do I need a laptop or could I get by with a tablet?" We know from our research that this question is a major concern for a lot of consume [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Desktops and laptops are out, tablets are in

Apple's iPads and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tabs are seen everywhere but it doesn’t mean that the world of tablets only belong to these giants. Here is one competitor in Korea that is throwing down the gauntlet to these G [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

HP Updates Current Pavilion Notebook PCs, Delays Sandy Bridg...

HP (NYSE:HPQ) on Tuesday pushed back the launch of its new Pavilion DV6 and DV7 consumer laptops featuring Intel (NSDQ:INTC)'s latest Sandy Bridge integrated graphics processors, and refreshed its current line of Pavilion PCs. H [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Laptop howler

While to err is human, Minister Webster’s parliamentary howler in pricing the netbooks for the government’s one laptop per family (OLPF) programme betrays something else more fundamental. It unmasks a government that has beco [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Laptops are so 2010

Consulting firm Deloitte and networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. have some interesting forecasts about technology beginning this year. Deloitte predicts a major shift away from desktop and laptop PCs this year to mobile devices such [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Retrostriper LTB-1041 Laptop Brief

There's nothing subtle about Oxio's Retrostriper LTB-1041 Laptop Brief for 15-inch laptops. Most of the bag is the kind of bright orange you might wear to avoid being shot by hunters. Yet somehow, Oxio has managed to make the loo [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

HP, Dell laptops still advertised with faulty Intel chip

Hewlett-Packard and Dell as this afternoon were still advertising laptops with Sandy Bridge--despite the fact that Intel has halted shipment of the processor due to a flaw in a companion chip. Intel announced yesterday that it had s [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Sensitive Laptops Stolen From Irish Revenue

Gardaí in Dublin said today they are investigating the theft of the laptops from the Dublin based offices. Detectives said they believe three men walked in to the offices on the Navan Road at around 7pm last night and took all ten [...]