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?