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Spring colors for your Eee PC this holiday
Subject: Mobile | December 20, 2007 - 01:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
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If the standard Asus Eee PC in black for $399 or even the new 8G model of it selling for $499 weren't enough, Newegg now has a pair of colorful Easter colors to offer as well:
Ye olde Turbo button
Subject: Mobile | December 13, 2007 - 02:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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It's been a long time since we've seen a Turbo button, but that is exactly what you will find on the MSI GX600 gaming laptop, and if you are plugged into the wall you can get a jump from 2GHz to 2.4GHz. BCC found that while this will never be a favourite when it comes to gaming, there are a lot of other applications it is quite proficient at.
ASUS U6 Notebook Series Elevates Mobile Computing to a New Level
Subject: Mobile | December 10, 2007 - 11:39 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (December 10, 2007) - ASUS, worldwide leader in notebooks, consumer electronics and PC components, today unveiled the new U6 notebook series for mobile warriors who demand ultimate functionalities and head-turning style.
A general use laptop
Subject: Mobile | December 6, 2007 - 05:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you drop $4000 on the new Wow laptop, you are not likely to take to too many places where it might get damaged or stolen. You might even chase away anyone with a drink that comes within 10' of you at a LAN Party. It isn't going to go on vacation with you, no one else will ever be allowed to touch it and you may even go so far as to handcuff it to yourself if you ever flew somewhere with it. For those of us who actually want to be able to use the laptop in less than pristine environs, Digital Trends of
Fixing a big oops
Subject: Mobile | December 3, 2007 - 01:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Madshrimps have a very specfic review, covering some surgery on a Gateway laptop, but their experiences can be carried over into other laptops. Opening up and upgrading a laptop is a bit more time consuming and frustrating than a full sized PC, so if you have never tried it before this article will give you a good idea what is involved.
Cooling for the laptops that need it
Subject: Mobile | November 27, 2007 - 03:03 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Tiny notebooks can produce some heat with their 14.1" screens, but they are nothing compared to the larger gaming style laptops with their 17" displays and more powerful components. Evercool's widescreen laptop cooler, called the Space Station for reasons best known to their marketers, will keep your large laptop nice and cool, although Virtual-Hideout recommends picking up Micro QuietFeet Sticky Feet to help with airflow.
Build your own laptop
Subject: Mobile | November 20, 2007 - 06:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ASUS is trying the upgradeable laptop idea again, this time with their C90S. It comes with a lot already, from a high quality screen, stereo speakers and a finger reader and 4 cooling fans, among other things. The big feature is that by removing only 4 screws, you have access to the interior of the laptop, and can start swapping out parts. See how well this worked for Neoseeker in their full review.
Back to the paperless book
Subject: Mobile | November 14, 2007 - 06:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Sony revists the eBook with their Sony Reader, a 7"x5"x.3" e-book reader. In a move from their usual ebooks they have not included only proprietary inputs, this will accept SD cards and will play AAC and MP3 files. If you are even a little tempted, check out the review at Ars Technica to see the other new tricks that are included in this 9oz reader.
Vista and Santa Rosa, dream or nightmare?
Subject: Mobile | November 9, 2007 - 04:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you head over to X-bit Labs, you can learn a lot about Santa Rosa. They start off by covering all the features included on Intel's new mobile platform and how laptops that conform to their standard should operate. Then they jump straight into real life testing, with 3 Santa Rosa notebooks, so you can see how this standard actually performs.
The bionic notebook
Subject: Mobile | November 6, 2007 - 01:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ASUS has rebuilt the idea of a notebooks physical construction with the U1F Ultra Compact notebook. The shell is formed from carbon fibre, giving it great strength without adding to the weight, extras like a backlit LCD that is 1366x768 and treated with some special goop from ASUS that is designed to make the image much better than other screens. Drop by X-bit Labs to
The internets are full of pervs
Subject: Mobile | October 31, 2007 - 01:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With the Eee from ASUS finally being sold, and released to reviewers, we can expect to see lots of reviews of this slightly more expensive than advertised, but still small and light notebook to appear. Normal, well adjusted sites, like us here at PC Perspective, opened up the Eee to test how well it runs and what software it comes with. Other, morally challenged, sites like TweakTown took the arrival of an Eee in their testing labs as
A handy guide for the partial upgrader
Subject: Mobile | October 30, 2007 - 03:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AnandTech has published a guide that anyone looking at picking up a Wolfdale or Yorkfeild processor. After speaking with the major motherboard manufacturers they have compiled a list of motherboards that will be compatible with the new CPUs. In many cases it is as simple as a BIOS flash, but there is some bad news as well.
nVIDIA plans to invade the mobile market
Subject: Mobile | October 26, 2007 - 11:49 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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According to discussions Ars Technica has had with nVIDIA, the GPU maker is working on developing mobile versions of their graphic processors to be used in phones. Instead of relying strictly on gamers, they want to be the ones to supply the hardware that people use to watch YouTube or stream video with on their smart phones. It isn't as easy as just jumping in and making chips though, so read on to explore the implications of choosing ARM over x86, and what their competition
Mobile cooling for the big guys
Subject: Mobile | October 23, 2007 - 12:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Keeping a smaller laptop cool is important, but it is the big 17" or 19"ers that someone has managed to shoehorn an SLI setup into that really need serious cooling. Dragon Steel Mods has posted a review of the Vizo Ninja II (Sumo Size) Laptop Cooler, for larger size notebooks. It is the better part of 3 pounds of aluminium, so the portability isn't wonderful, but your 17" notebook isn't made of feathers either. It was certainly capable of cooling o
Gigabyte leaps into the UMPC biz
Subject: Mobile | October 16, 2007 - 05:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Gigabyte has certainly been diversifying their product lines recently. The newest is the U60 UMPC, a 1GHz VIA C7-M, 704 MB of DDR2 667MHz PC2-5300 and runs WinXP SP2. TweakTown immediately ran 3DMark2001 SE and managed a score of 901 ... this little 740g UMPC ran all the tests, try that on another manufacturers UMPC! The final verdict was "The GIGABYTE U60 is the equivalent of your desktop PC five years ago."
The new Centrino on the block
Subject: Mobile | October 11, 2007 - 03:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The next generation of Centrino, Santa Rosa in other words, is showing off the strengths of Intel's mature mobile platform. The MSI MegaBook PR200X is the newest notebook from MSI and sports a C2D T7300 at 2 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, a 12.1 display and some thing kind ogf new. They call it Intel Turbo Memory, and is essentially Vista's ReadyBoost for Centrino platforms. Read on over at InsideHW.
The Newton Lives!
Subject: Mobile | October 4, 2007 - 06:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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boingboing has noticed that an ambitious hacker has finally found a use for Apples failed PDA, the Newton. Since he lives in Britain, the hack works much better than it does in North America, but the chances are good going on great that this is only a temporary problem. If you are wondering what exactly this hacker has done, he has turned the Newton into an iPhone ... more or less.
The Zonbu is breaking all the rules
Subject: Mobile | September 28, 2007 - 01:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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For $99 you can get a Zonbu with a 2 year subscription to their online storage service, or $249 without. As it only has 4GBs of flash memory onboard, the online storage can come in very handy, but that same fact keeps the power drain below 13W! It comes pre-loaded with Gentoo Linux and FireFox, the Evolution mail client, OpenOffice.org, the Gimp and more.
Is your notebook full rugged, or only semi?
Subject: Mobile | September 26, 2007 - 02:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Panasonic Toughbook series is designed to take the abuse that most notebooks receive at some point in their lives, often just before they fail. XYZ Computers reviews the W5 model, which has a Core Duo U2400, and 1.5GB of DDR-533 and weighs in at about 2.9lbs. They have trimmed down on a few extras, like a wide screen backlit LCD, but the overall design feels nice and spacious and sturdy. Too bad that XYZ didn't try testing it to destructino though.
Blackberry or lemon?
Subject: Mobile | September 21, 2007 - 03:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The brand new Blackberry Curve 8300 has been trimmed down in size and weight, as well as missing some features that many might consider necessary. Neither Wi-Fi nor 3G are supported, your only wireless connection is via EDGE, which is good enough for many people, but has caused some head scratching. There are some other nice features that may make 8800 users jealous, check them out at Hardware Zone.
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