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A Year Ago: Notebooks faster, but not cheaper
News Speed and ease of use are nice, but analysts say it's about time manufacturers thought about making notebooks less expensive, too The laptop performance push continues -- thanks to some upcoming chip upgrades -- but don't expect a slew of cheaper...
[May 16, 2001, 6:28]
Notebooks faster, but not cheaper
News The laptop performance push continues -- thanks to some upcoming chip upgrades -- but don't expect a slew of cheaper notebooks to flood the market any time soon. While higher-performance notebooks based on the forthcoming PIII chips should be well...
[May 16, 2000, 15:24]
PCs, notebooks to get a memory speed boost
News New parts allowing mainstream PCs and notebooks to support a next-generation memory type are on the way for AMD and Intel processors as early as this month. The chipset for AMD notebooks, called the MobileMagik 1, will cost $36.
[September 7, 2000, 14:55]
Notebooks plan a thinner 2005
News Notebooks will go on a diet in 2005. After several years of bulking up to meet consumer demand for high-performance models with large screens, many notebooks will shed weight to dip below 3.4kg. But that's beginning to change, according to PC...
[December 23, 2004, 11:30]
Notebooks set to overtake desktops by 2011
News As worldwide desktop shipments continue to slow, notebooks are expected to represent more than half of all client PCs by 2011, according to an IDC report released on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in the US, retail sales of notebooks surpassed desktops in 2005.
[March 21, 2007, 8:24]
Notebooks: top 5s review
Reviews The three new Pentium M notebooks (pink diamonds) we have tested so far occupy the hitherto-elusive top-right quadrant of the graph, where performance is excellent (>50 on Business Winstone 2001) and battery life long (3-5 hours).
[March 14, 2003, 10:08]
Dell, Acer clash over notebooks
News Toshiba equals notebooks in a lot of customers' minds, in the way that Compaq equals servers. But the difference is that with Compaq it is 'we always buy Compaq notebooks because we buy their servers', and there is a softness there.
[January 24, 1997, 15:14]
Sony tosses in free wireless modems with notebooks
News Sony is giving away a wireless modem with its Vaio notebooks, one of the many deals being offered by PC makers in this exceptionally dire holiday selling season. Sony's deal mirrors two ongoing trends in the PC industry: the promotion of wireless...
[December 14, 2000, 13:35]
Faster notebooks target bigger spenders
News Instead of buying low-cost notebooks with less memory and cheaper dual-scan screens, consumers are opting to pay a little extra for fully featured notebooks, said Steve Andler, vice president of PC marketing for Toshiba America Information Systems...
[September 15, 2000, 11:41]
Flash-based notebooks plagued by returns
News Notebooks with flash-based hard drives cost a lot and, according to managing partner Avi Cohen at Avian Securities, don't work very well either. A large computer manufacturer is getting around 20 percent to 30 percent of the flash-based notebooks...
[March 18, 2008, 11:41]
Dell sees future in miniature notebooks
News Some companies have come up with low-cost, tiny notebooks and suddenly it's taking off because there is a form factor for each usage. But they also want lighter and smaller notebooks. In a sign that the convergence trend is reaching even technology...
[February 7, 2008, 16:47]
HP ProtectTools: Firmware Security Features in HP Compaq Business Notebooks
White Papers This paper explores the embedded security features built into HP Compaq business notebooks. A computer system is only as secure as its weakest component. Creating a secure system involves looking at all areas of vulnerability and creating solutions...
[August 26, 2006, 1:00]
AMD Palomino notebooks running late
News Athlon-based notebooks from top-tier PC makers will arrive fashionably late this year. Notebooks that run on Palomino -- a version of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon processor that consumes less power than standard Athlon chips -- could come out as...
[March 15, 2001, 7:59]
Acer clinches top spot for Euro notebooks
News Sales of Acer notebooks rose 39 percent quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest analyst statistics. Acer is the notebook brand most in demand in the UK and Europe, relegating perennial favourites HP and Dell into second and third place.
[January 3, 2007, 15:48]
Notebooks under siege from handhelds
News For one, the results indicate that the notebooks are not nearly as attractive as they were before there were other ways to check e-mail, and they suggest that laptop makers will need to beef up their products.
[April 17, 2001, 13:46]
AMD speeds notebooks
News Chief executive Jerry Sanders said at AMD's recent annual analyst meeting that the company will be relying on notebooks and servers to continue to grow in 2002. Later in the fourth quarter, AMD said will come out with a 1.3GHz Athlon and a 1.2GHz...
[November 12, 2001, 14:50]
Dell and startup team on wireless access for notebooks
News On Wednesday, Dell and four-year-old Wayport will announce a cross-marketing arrangement for selling notebooks enabled for wireless networking and Wayport's service that permits consumers to make wireless notebook connections in wired hotel...
[February 21, 2001, 9:25]
Notebooks for business review
Reviews Entry-level users need do little more than connect to a company or home network and run standard productivity applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, email client and calendar; in the future, these (and other) applications are likely...
[November 17, 2008, 16:46]
Dell: New notebooks will be WANderful
News The company has been shipping local-area network (LAN) wireless products for its notebooks, based on the 802.11 wireless standard, for about a year. Possibly at the bequest of its chairman, Dell's Personal Systems Group is developing such three...
[September 22, 2000, 11:11]
Turion notebooks going in different directions
News HP and Acer launched notebooks on Wednesday based on AMD's latest Turion chip with 64-bit processing capabilities. In a recent survey of small businesses commissioned by HP and conducted by Harris Interactive, 36 percent of respondents said they...
[June 22, 2005, 17:05]
