October, 2009Archive for

Mouse costs more than a laptop (almost $1,200)

Great. So you sprang for an uber-expensive laptop the likes of the Sony Vaio X or Dell Adamo. But what's this? You dare put your el cheapo $50 mouse next to that gorgeous and overpriced portable? If you do not want to be arrested by the fashion police, then only this wireless mouse by Dutch firm Intelligent Design will do. To quote from the press release, the ID Mouse is made from "grade 1 titanium and high-quality plastic resin" and has a neodymium scroll wheel. Using the standard Blueto...

Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies

With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further — introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen. The abstrusely named Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165 has a 15.6-inch screen that, with the help of special glasses, appears to take on depth if used with the right games or movies. It's not the first laptop with a 3-D screen. Sharp Corp. introduced one in 2003. It worked without glasses, but the viewer had to be...

Dell Adamo XPS Ultra-Thin Laptop Announced

Dell announced the XPS Adamo, an ultra-thin 13.4-inch laptop with an innovative hinge. According to the leaked data, the pre-installed 1.5-pound XPS Adamo features 1.4GHz or 1.9GHz Intel Ultra Low Voltage processor, the GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 120 GB 180GB Solid State Drive with Windows 7 OS, and two batteries Options: 20Wh for 2.5 hours or 40Wh for four hours battery life. The notebook is said to be 0.4 mm flat. The Dell XPS Adamo is expected to cost aroun...

Eee PC T101H To Come Out in 2010

We’ve told you before that Asus may be delayed ‘next to the Eee PC Convertible Netbook T91, the Eee PC T101H, but was supposed to come in September. Now it looks like Asus pushes further the publication in 2010. Hopefully, the Eee PC T101H will be ready for the next CES. The good news, Netbooknews.de received a copy of the details of the Eee PC T101H. So what should we expect from this convertible netbook? A lot actually. * 10.2-inch resistive multi-touch display (1024×600) * Intel At...

Acer Aspire One D250 Hands-On

Now that the Acer Aspire One D250 with dual-boot Win7 Android function is already in the wild, we have two separate contributions from Pocket-Lint Hardware tab, and writers got their hands-on during his run of that netbook. Interestingly, two dresses a major flaw with the machine noticed – it is the inability to actually boot directly to Windows 7 Instead, the boot-up process will take you straight to the Android platform and Windows 7 is running, you need to do some manual procedures. T...

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y550P Core i7 Notebook

Lenovo announces three new Windows 7-powered IdeaPad laptops today - the U150, U550 and Y550P. The first two emphasize portability and durability, but the Y550P’s focus is power. Sporting Intel’s new Core i7 processor (which turbo boost technology), up to 8 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 240M graphics card, which is Y550P glimpse into the hearts of gamers and multimedia experts to grasp. Lenovo claims that this is the most powerful laptop with a Core i7 inside. The 15.6-inch system incorpora...