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Fujitsu announces 80GB notebook storage
News Fujitsu on Monday announced its new MHT line of notebook hard drives that offers manufacturers the ability to boost their notebooks' maximum storage capacity from 60GB to 80GB. Though notebook drives have gotten a boost from areal density, they lag...
[March 10, 2003, 15:39]
Toshiba puts DVD-RW into notebooks
News Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into portable multimedia studios. As previously reported, Toshiba will introduce such a notebook with its Christmas product-line refresh. Toshiba's new notebook drive will help DVD burners...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
Toshiba bulks up with 60GB notebook drive
News Toshiba on Tuesday announced what it says is the first notebook hard drive to put 60GB of storage onto a two-platter hard drive. Although IBM has a 60GB drive that is included on some high-end notebooks, that drive has more platters and thus is...
[April 10, 2002, 11:40]
Seagate goes mobile with new hard drives
News On Monday the company will introduce a new line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile market. Although other notebook drives run at this speed, most of today's drives add a second platter to help...
[June 16, 2003, 8:16]
Toshiba makes 100GB laptop drive breakthrough
News Toshiba also made improvements that help increase the new drive's shock resistance and reduce its power consumption and noise production, compared with its current 80GB notebook hard drive, Seiji Kawagoe, senior manager of the hard drive product...
[April 22, 2004, 18:10]
Seagate announces 1.5TB in a single drive
News Organisations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented...
[July 11, 2008, 13:06]
What's new with notebooks in 2004? review
Reviews With prices of 2.5in.notebook hard drives expected to drop further in 2004, many manufacturers will be offering higher-capacity storage in their upcoming systems. Power users can watch out for faster notebook hard drives running at 7,200rpm, up...
[January 6, 2004, 15:15]
Seagate gears up 1-inch hard drive
News Seagate's Momentus 7200.1 notebook drive will offer up to 100GB of storage capacity and spin at 7,200rpm. The company plans to release a range of new products, including a 400GB, 3.5-inch drive for desktops; a 100GB, 2.5-inch drive for notebook PCs...
[June 14, 2004, 15:45]
Hard-drive maker notes gap in market
News Other more established players in the market, including Hitachi Global Storage, Toshiba and Fujitsu, have the advantage of well-known notebook drive lines that cover a wide range of models. Currently, the top notebook drives offer a maximum of 80GB...
[June 20, 2003, 14:10]
Macworld speculation focuses on ultraportable
News Analysts and the media have suggested that a new notebook computer, with half the thickness of currently available models, might be announced. The long-range wireless technology is due to make its way into many new notebook computers from this year...
[January 14, 2008, 17:03]
Matchbox hard drive packs in 4GB
News IBM's Web site emphasises the 4GB drive's possible use with notebook computers: "Take advantage of the latest removable disk drive technology by adding the IBM 4 GB Microdrive to your ThinkPad notebook," the site says.
[February 12, 2004, 7:40]
Intel unveils new chipsets
News The notebook will come in several different configurations, ranging from a seven-inch display to a 10-inch display, solid-state storage or a traditional hard drive, and a choice between Linux and Windows.
[June 5, 2007, 9:49]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with Vodafone mobile broadband review
Reviews The notebook's flash memory slot supports both SD and Memory Stick formats. Also, getting online via Vodafone's mobile broadband took longer than we usually experience with its USB dongle in a standard notebook.
[October 10, 2008, 10:21]
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
News The notebook drive, the MK2035GSS, has a capacity of 200GB of data, 25 percent more than the 160GB drives touted by Seagate and Hitachi. Toshiba also has aggressively pushed for more market share in notebooks, which helps the sister drive division...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
Tiny Toshiba drives to offer storage aplenty
News Based on the design of the company's 2.5-inch notebook PC drives, the new 1.8-inch designs are smaller than a credit card in width and length and, at 5mm and 8mm respectively, only slightly thicker than a credit card.
[January 16, 2002, 16:33]
US Report: Gateway will chop DVD's cost
News Gateway will kill three birds with one notebook later this month when it delivers the Solo 5150 machine. The notebook's modular drive bay supports DVD and LS120 drives, a 120MB floppy disk drive, or a second hard drive.
[August 14, 1998, 9:19]
New York - PC Expo: Show will reflect PC evolution
News Panasonic will show a new ruggedised notebook PC. Umax plans to introduce an ActionBook 300 notebook, priced below $2,000 (£1,226), sources said. New storage products will debut from Procom Technology which will introduce a disk-based, network...
[June 15, 1998, 11:09]
Toshiba turbocharges tiny drive
News The 1.8-inch drive, which has been used in products such as portable music players, is very similar to 2.5-inch hard drives found in notebook computers, but at about the size of a credit card is thinner and lighter.
[November 5, 2003, 15:55]
ASUS Eee PC 701 review
Reviews One final note about the design: the Eee PC's power adapter is proportionally as tiny as the notebook itself. The Eee PC isn't a fast notebook, but its 900MHz CPU and 512MB of RAM are just fast enough.
[October 29, 2007, 10:08]
Fujitsu promises 170GB notebook hard drives
News See ZDNet UK's Mobile Technology News Section for the latest news, reviews and price checks on mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers and anything else you can take away. This would translate to about 170GB of capacity on hard drives with 2.5...
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
