NVIDIA Launches GeForce Go 7900 GTX and Go 7900 GS

Subject: Mobile | April 18, 2006 - 10:02 AM | Jonathan Hung
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Today NVIDIA unleashes their next generation mobile GPU - the GeForce Go 7900 GTX and Go 7900 GS. These new parts replace their top end mobile processor and gives a lower power consumption top-end GPU respectively.

Origami has been released

Subject: Mobile | April 14, 2006 - 04:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The worlds first Origami based UMPC was shown off earlier this month and VIA Arena can tell you all about it.  Can this be the beginning of serious competition for Blackberry and other similar devices?

20 hour laptop batteries

Subject: Mobile | April 10, 2006 - 05:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer has spotted some new movement in the quest to extend battery life.  If Casio's plans continue the way the expect, they wil be showcasing a fuel cell that will give laptops about 20 hours of run time, sometime this year.

Portable power from DELL

Subject: Mobile | March 27, 2006 - 03:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BleedinEdge examines a Dell notebook with some real power under the hood.  This may well be a glimpse at the components that will continue to keep Dell's Alienware mobility systems on the farthest edge of performance gaming laptops.

"Bleedinedge reviewing a notebook? Not only that but it's a Dell and not an XPS
system! You must be wondering what gives? To be fair, this review is about
much more than just about a Dell.

Not just mobile, it's ultra mobile

Subject: Mobile | March 21, 2006 - 04:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The new portable computer will be tiny, at least if Intel and Microsoft are right about the Ultra Moblile PC (UMPC).  While it may bear a resemblance to a supersized PSP, it knows a few more tricks, and XYZ Computing can tell you about them.

"Simply put, the ultramobile PC (UMPC) is a tablet computer which will run a modified version of

Windows XP Tablet edition and is powered by an Intel processor.

Tablet sized goodness from Gateway

Subject: Mobile | March 15, 2006 - 06:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The next complete system to be reviewed [H]ard|OCP is the Gateway CX200X Tablet PC.  Gateway has been fairly low profile recently, but from the looks of this tablet, they may be in for a resurgence.

"While prowess in gaming is a key feature of our program, we also like to test the overall

utility of the machine, which is why we also feature the video encoding test and put so much

emphasis on the general usability of the system.

14 hour fuel cell for laptops

Subject: Mobile | March 9, 2006 - 05:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNET reports on a new product to help those with an on the go lifestyle.  The UltraCell will last you for a cross Pacific flight, as they are expecting about 14 hours worth of power.  This may be the first Fuel Cell application for PC's, and probably not the first.

"A start-up called UltraCell is showing a 2.2-pound fuel cell prototype at the Intel Developer

Forum that can power a laptop computer for 14 hours.

Production models will be available in

ATI Introduces Mobility Radeon X1800

Subject: Mobile | March 7, 2006 - 11:37 AM | Jonathan Hung
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Today ATI is rolling out the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 and X1800XT GPUs for mobile users which follows the release of the X1600 mobile part in December (which we previewed here). The X1800 has 12 pixel shader pipelines and 8 vertex shaders, and the X1800XT has 16 pipelines and 8 shaders. In contrast the X1600 mobile has 12 pipelines and only 5 shaders.

The Mobility Radeon X1800 parts are clocked slightly slower than their desktop cousins.

Securing your laptop, physically

Subject: Mobile | March 3, 2006 - 06:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Your laptop may be perfectly secure for web browsing and email, with firewalls, anti-spy/virus ware and other programs; but what about the actual laptop?  Laptop Gamers runs through some steps to ensure that your laptop stays with you, in the real world.

"Think about it — What other piece of equipment or personal possession do we routinely carry

around that is worth over a thousand dollars, by itself, and may be worth thousands more in data?

No one can resist the Lapinator

Subject: Mobile | February 24, 2006 - 04:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With a name like that, how can you not want one?  Virtual-Hideout has the review of this insulating pad, designed to make laptop use a little more comfortable, and more importantly, to save your lap from being baked.  Read the review to see if the regular version is what you need, or if you should get the Lapinator Plus, and maybe a Mousitizer too.

"If you've got a tiny laptop, the original Lapinator will do wonders for you.

Keep it going ... and going ... and going ...

Subject: Mobile | February 16, 2006 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Laptop Lifestyle reveals every trick they know to extend the battery life of your laptop.  Don't get caught with a dead laptop again, go check it out.

"You've got a five-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York City, and one battery in your laptop.

You've got work to do, DVDs to watch, and games to play. How are you going to get that battery to

last?

A breath of fresh air for PDA's

Subject: Mobile | February 10, 2006 - 02:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CoolTechZone examines the 02 XDA Atom, a small PDA that succeeds the Mini.  It runs Windows Mobile 5, has WiFi, as well as all of the camera phone features you would expect.  Read the full review before you make up your mind about this little guy.

"The O2 XDA Mini is easily one of the best PDAs around. It's sleek, it's light and it offers all

the functionality you would really need on the go. However, it lacked a couple of features.

Building a gaming laptop to be proud of

Subject: Mobile | February 7, 2006 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Laptop Gamers presents a must see shopping list for anyone about to order a customized gaming laptop.  Instead of listing a bunch of components they feel are the bestest, they layout the things you shoud look for.  Whether you can only drop about a $1000, or if money is no object; this article will get you headed in the right direction.

"Gone are the days when you would have been laughed at if you walked into an all-night LAN party

carrying your trusty laptop and expecting to hang with the giant comput

How versatile is NEC's new Centrino Duo?

Subject: Mobile | January 31, 2006 - 06:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Hardware Zone has taken a NEC Versa S5200 Centrino Duo Notebook out for a spin, and want you to know what they thought.  With a Core Duo Centrino, just over a gig of RAM, a big battery and incredibly low power consumption, it is not going to dissapoint.

"The Centrino mobile technology from Intel is known to deliver excellent mobile computing

experience and that has been true so far. However, will this trend stay true with the latest Intel

Centrino Duo mobile technology?

What's new with laptops

Subject: Mobile | January 25, 2006 - 06:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Laptop Gamers attempts to bring everyone up to date on all of the new technology that has appeared in laptops over the past 12 months or so.  If you find yourself wondering what you really need in a laptop, or what exactly the catch words mean, stop by.

"But laptop technology is changing so fast new innovations are coming on stream as you read this

article. There is a whole new generation of notebook technology every two years or less.

Portable power from ASUSTek

Subject: Mobile | January 18, 2006 - 03:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ASUSTeK's A6JA 'Napa' Notebook undergoes a close examination at HEXUS, give them a couple of minutes of your time and maybe have a new notebook to dream about.

"When judged in relation to benchmarks that are single-threaded, the supplied A6JA's Intel

Centrino Duo T2500, humming along at 2GHz, and thanks to a dual-core architecture that's been

enhanced in the transition over from single-core Dothan's, together with the use of a faster FSB,

performs in the general vicinity of, say, a Pentium M 780 (2.2

A notebook as powerful as it is small

Subject: Mobile | January 12, 2006 - 06:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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X-bit Labs reviews the Samsung Q30 Plus Notebook.  This little guy has all the newest and best features, like PCI-x and SATA, in a package that is 287.7 x 197.5 x 23.8mm and weighs 1.09kg.  If you need a powerful notebook that will fit into a briefcase, then you have found it.

"We would like to introduce to you a new sub-notebook from Samsung - the Q30 Plus model based on

the Sonoma platform (915GMS chipset and Intel Pentium M 733 ULV Dothan processor).

Intel's Core Duo Notebook Performance

Subject: Mobile | January 5, 2006 - 09:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Anandtech has a review up today of the recently announced Intel Core Duo technology behind the Yonah processor. 

Today's article is very much a look at Yonah and Centrino Duo as they were intended to be viewed - as members of a mobile society.  The primary point of comparison here today will be Dothan and the previous generation Centrino.  While we would like to compare to AMD's Turion 64, we only had a very limited time with the notebooks in this review and we could not get a Turion 6