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Media Companies Help Promote Laptop Project

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

After a rocky beginning, the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child thinks an advertising campaign will give a lift to the organization’s effort to place low-cost laptops in the hands of children in developing nations.
About 500,000 of the group’s light and rugged machines are being used in 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iraq, [...]

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An ace in the entry-level laptop deck

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Halloween has yet to arrive, but according to major retailers, the holiday shopping season is well under way. Head to your local big box electronics store, and you’ll encounter new laptops that were granted shelf space at the beginning of the month.
We’ve lined up 20 such models for our holiday [...]

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Cool your laptop with Chinese opera

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

(Credit: SourcingMap)
Back when I was a kid, we had to blow on our laptops (and carry them 10 miles in the snow, by the way) to keep them cool. These days, you young whippersnappers have things a whole lot easier.
Take, for example, the Chinese Beijing Opera USB laptop cooling pad. Just [...]

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Samsung’s first laptop on sale in U.S.

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Samsung Q310
(Credit: Newegg.com)
Samsung announced earlier this week that it would begin selling laptops in the U.S., and the first model, the 13-inch Q310 has is now for sale on Newegg.com. Two Q310 models are listed, the СЕКРЕТУТКА,049 Q310-34G and the нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,249 Q310-34P. (The prices reflect a $100 and a $50 discount, respectively.)
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If you’re really, really serious about keeping prying hands off your laptop

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Computer security gets a new meaning in this mockup from Yanko Design, a “Web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design.” We can’t think of too many people who would risk checking their e-mail on your laptop with this laptop finger trap installed.
The designer calls it “an analog extension [...]

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Video: First Mac laptop for less than a grand?

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

On Tuesday, Apple will announce plans and possibly redesigns for its laptop line. As usual, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been tight-lipped on details, but CNET editors have their suspicions.
On this edition of the CNET News Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi and Crave chief correspondent Erica Ogg discuss new design possibilities, [...]

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Asus has a WiMax laptop, too

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn’t Asus? Late Wednesday, the company announced the immediate availability of the M50Vm-A1WM, a 15.4-inch laptop with a built-in WiMax module for the recently launched Sprint Xohm data network.
Next-generation data connectivity aside, the нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,399 M50Vm-A1WM (catchy name, that) looks to be a fairly typical media-oriented [...]

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The case of the mysteriously shrinking laptop battery

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments

We just reviewed a new retail-specific version of Dell’s popular Inspiron 1525 laptop, and found ourselves wondering why this new system’s battery life was so poor compared to its very recent (and largely identical) predecessor. How can two versions of essentially the same laptop have a difference in battery life as big as the 3-hour [...]

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HP launches its first 13-inch laptop, Pavilion dv3500t

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments

HP's first 13-inch laptop, the Pavilion dv3500t
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If 12 is too small and 14 too big, HP now has a laptop to sell you. With the Pavilion dv3500t, the company has slotted in a 13-inch model to its crowded laptop lineup. The dv3500t features a choice of four Intel Core 2 Duo processors (up [...]

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We cavity search two TSA-friendly laptop bags

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Few tasks in life approach the horror that is modern commercial air travel. Arguably the most dreaded aspect of which is the infamous security checkpoint, where one’s person and belongings are poured over, with a curiously particular attention paid to shoes, liquids, and naturally, laptops. There are two certainties to life on the checkpoint line: [...]

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