Intel Bolsters Pentium 4 For Laptops
News The company's new 600XL computer incorporates the 2.5GHz Pentium 4-M and sports a 15.7-inch screen and a DVD burner for a starting price of $2,499, or about £1,575. The 600XL is Gateway's first notebook to offer a DVD burner, a DVD-RW drive.
[April 17, 2003, 8:17]
Digital Photo Standards Getting A Push
News The OSTA is best known for the MultiPlay standard, which gives a uniform way to organize and display the contents of an audio disc created by a PC's CD burner. MPV supporters include Hewlett-Packard, chipmaker LSI Logic and software makers Roxio...
[February 26, 2002, 11:42]
Dell Introduces 'desknote'
News Meanwhile, Toshiba recently fitted its popular Satellite 1905 desknote with a DVD burner, creating the new Satellite 2405. Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Sony all now offer desknote machines, with prices starting as low as $1,200 (£760...
[February 26, 2003, 16:28]
Toshiba Puts DVD-RW Into Notebooks
News Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into portable multimedia studios. But the DVD-burner manufacturers are currently waging a battle between DVD-RW and DVD+RW formats, reminiscent of the VHS versus Betamax conflict that...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
HP Increases PC Competition With Itself
News One of its first new models, the HP Pavilion a250n, will incorporate a 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with hyper-threading, 512MB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD burner and an Nvidia graphics card with its own 64MB of RAM.
[June 6, 2003, 11:08]
Gateway Unveils New Sub-$1000 Notebook
News When rebates and special offers are applied, the machines often end up near the $799 mark as well, and the companies are also touting attractive features such as 15-inch screens and combination CD burner/DVD-ROM drives.
[August 22, 2003, 15:35]
HP Hopes New Blue PCs Will Tempt Consumers
News Earlier this month, Sony launched a number of new Vaio desktops, including the $899 PCV-RS310 equipped with a DVD burner. The $999 HP Pavilion a250n will come with a 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with hyper-threading technology, a 120GB hard...
[June 19, 2003, 15:51]
HP Rounds Out Notebook Lineup
News One thing that HP does not have yet is a DVD burner in a notebook. Toshiba and also Sony have each announced plans to add DVD burner notebooks to their notebook lineups this month. Hewlett-Packard this week released a septet of new Compaq Presario...
[October 17, 2002, 16:54]
Toshiba Notebooks Aimed At Small Businesses
News All of the Satellites include wireless networking and a combination CD burner/DVD-ROM drive. One, a 17-inch screen Satellite dubbed P25-S509, comes with a wide-angle screen, a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 80GB hard drive, a DVD...
[October 22, 2003, 13:10]
Smallest Laptops Lose Weight
News The company also fitted its 3-pound PCG-TR3A notebook with a DVD burner. The DVD burner model, dubbed PCG-TR3AP3, will offer a 10.6-inch wide-angle display, a 1GHz Pentium M processor, 1GB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive and a dual-band wireless module...
[February 4, 2004, 7:35]
Acer Widens Notebook Screen
News The notebook model will also sport 1GB of RAM, a DVD burner, Nvidia's GeForce FX Go5700 graphics card and 802.11g wireless networking, according to Acer's Web site. The entry-level model, the AS1711SCi-XPHome model, includes a 2.8GHz Pentium 4...
[March 3, 2004, 10:35]
Flat-panel IMac Pictures Leaked
News Apple apparently hopes to repeat the magic with the successor, with prices that range from $1,299 to $1,800 (about £900 to £1,200), with the high-end version containing a DVD burner, according to Time.
[January 7, 2002, 8:55]
Manufacturers Turn To High-spec Games PCs
News The machine, which includes a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of 400MHz DDR memory, a 160GB Serial ATA hard drive, a DVD burner and a 19-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor, will sell for $2,099 (£1319). Hewlett-Packard said last week that it, too, will...
[August 19, 2003, 11:55]
Computer Makers Get Ready For Seasonal Battle
News But in early October it is expected to introduce its holiday lineup, which will include the first notebook to be sold with a DVD burner, sources familiar with its plans said. As the traditionally big-selling Christmas seaon approaches, Toshiba is...
[September 26, 2002, 6:27]
Coral Signals A New Era For DRM
News While multiple, incompatible flavours of rights-management technology have existed for years, the release of Apple’s iTunes music store and the stellar sales of its iPod MP3 player finally put the question on the front burner.
[October 4, 2004, 8:50]
Researcher: Macs Not As Expensive As Thought
News Dell, meanwhile, recently had a sale that saw a Core Duo laptop with 1GB of memory, an 80GB drive, a 15.4-inch screen and a DVD burner selling for $699, down from a usual price of $1,234. The Piper Jaffray report compares an $1,874 (£995) 20-inch...
[May 17, 2006, 9:35]
AMD To Unleash New Desktop Beast
News The Compaq X GX5000Z desktop, configured with AMD's current Athlon 64 FX-53 chip, 1GB of RAM, twin 160GB hard drives, a DVD burner and Nvidia's GeForce FX 5500 graphics card, sells for about $2,500, according to the HPshopping Web site.
[October 18, 2004, 9:20]
