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Dell chose Macy's flagship Herald Square store in New York as the location to introduce its new line of laptops Tuesday. Models strutted down the catwalk sporting the line's eight different colors, including what the company calls "flamingo pink," "sunshine yellow," "alpine white," "ruby red," "jet ...
Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry's first 1.8-inch solid state drives at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use. "Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market," Rob Ender...
Gateway, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, announced the recall of some 14,000 notebook computer batteries. Laptop PCs with the defective batteries can overheat and pose a fire hazard for consumers, the organizations said. "Gateway is working with its suppliers to cove...
Once a feisty competitor that beat Intel to market with processor innovations and lower costs, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has lately slumped a bit. That could change, as Japanese electronics giant Toshiba confirmed Tuesday it plans to use AMD processors in some of its laptops. The deal would p...
Hard-core gadgeteers never need a rationalization to buy a new piece of hardware, but for those who need at least a tissue of temperance when seeking new tech, the introduction of Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, is an invitation to splurge. Where should you start your shopping? How about a ...
AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about "Griffin," the company's code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, as well as its "Puma" platform for notebook computers. Expected to debut in laptops in the latter half of 2008, the chip and platform will go into production lat...
Chip maker Intel is set to launch an overhaul of its Centrino laptop platform -- the first to use flash memory chips, which should mean faster performance and longer battery life. The latest Centrino, dubbed "Santa Rosa," is the fourth generation of the company's successful laptop platform brand tha...
Word that the price of the so-called $100 laptop will now be upwards of $175 per unit is not sitting well with long-time observers of the One Laptop Per Child program, who fear the numbers might mean the initiative is in trouble. Reacting to reports that OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte now figures ...
Taiwanese computer maker Acer announced a voluntary recall of 27,000 lithium-ion laptop batteries Wednesday. The batteries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said, may overheat and pose a potential fire hazard to consumers. "Acer advises customers to stop using these recalled batteries imm...
Dell has announced it is offering home PC buyers a choice between Microsoft's older XP operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines. As with most computer makers, Dell stopped installing the XP operating system on its new PCs after Redmond in January launched Windows Vi...
Fujitsu Computer Systems unveiled two new models in its notebook line that come with something special -- solid-state hard drives that make the computers more durable for work in the field, according to the company. The two new machines, the LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 models, are now availab...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn...
Hewlett-Packard has redesigned three versions of its desktop PC line to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy standards. The EPA's Energy Star 4.0 regulations, which take effect on July 20, 2007, require PC manufacturers to convert 80 percent of incoming electricity into usable comput...
China-based computer maker Lenovo said Wednesday that it would recall more than 200,000 batteries manufactured by Sanyo and sold in its ThinkPad computers, including 100,000 sold in the United States. The recall covers ThinkPad machines sold between February 2005 and September 2006, spanning the tim...
The One Laptop Per Child project is close to making computer users out of a million children in developing nations. The company building the inexpensive laptops for OLPC, Quanta Computer, has received an order for a million of the lime green notebooks, according to published reports. The Taiwan comp...
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