More Laptops News
- 11 December 2007
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News: Toshiba Portege tablet PC has LED screen
Toshiba has launched its first tablet PCs with LED screens, taking some thunder away from Dell, which is also due to launch a convertible PC with an LED screen called the Latitude XT.
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News: Windows Vista SP1 changes revealed
Microsoft has revealed details of the changes Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will bring to the operating system in a 17-page Word document ahead of SP1's public beta release this week.
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News: Dell hit by touchscreen lawsuit
Touchscreen technology developer Typhoon Touch Technologies has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against PC maker Dell and Motion Computing, a developer of tablet computers.
- 10 December 2007
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News: 128GB flash drives for laptops in 2008
Toshiba will begin manufacturing flash-based solid-state drives for laptops early next year, which the company said will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard-disk drives.
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News: FAQ: Microsoft kills Vista 'kill switch'
What's up with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) modifications in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)?
- 08 December 2007
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News: Switching from Vista to XP: the truth
We show you how to move back from Windows Vista to Windows XP - without glossing over the tricky bits. We show you how to transfer your Vista email, contacts and user data back to the old standby operating system.
- 06 December 2007
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News: Public test for Windows Vista SP1 next week
Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), and plans to send it out to a wider group of testers next week
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News: IBM makes 'laptop supercomputer' breakthrough
IBM claims to have made a breakthrough in chip design that could result in supercomputers that are the same size as laptops.
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News: Windows XP trials for '$100 laptop'
Windows XP is going to be made available for One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC’s) ’$100 laptop’ next year, according to Microsoft, which has announced plans for field trials in January 2008.
- 05 December 2007
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News: OQO launches Vista-capable pocket PC
OQO's first ultramobile PC with built-in 3G support is now available in the UK for £1,290.
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News: Microsoft loosens WGA for Vista SP1
Vista's first service pack will overhaul the operating system's automatic antipiracy checks and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system, Microsoft has revealed
- 04 December 2007
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News: Intel & AMD end PC processor price war
Intel and AMD are calling an end to the PC processor price war and focusing on features and functionality instead, according to a study released by iSuppli.
- 03 December 2007
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News: Samsung plans superfast graphics memory
Samsung Electronics is to start mass-producing Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) memory, claiming it consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips.
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News: Interview: Linus Torvalds on the future of Linux
Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux, so we shouldn't be too surprised that he predicts big things for the open-source OS kernel. But in this interview Torvalds says he is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says Linux is strong in virtualisation.
- 01 December 2007
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News: The 10 things we most hate about laptops
Growth in notebook sales is astronomic, and portable computers have changed the way business operates to the point that we cannot imagine work life without them. But IT professionals, whether they're dealing with accident-prone users or keeping the network secure, say that laptops are a nightmare. We present, in no particular order, the top 10 things IT professionals absolutely hate about laptops.
- 29 November 2007
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News: AMD shock as chipmaker loses top-10 spot
Struggling chipmaker AMD is no longer one of the world's top 10 chip makers, according to research firm iSuppli.
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News: PC upgraders look forward to bargain DRAM
Strong online sales after the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. could mean some renewed need for inventory restocking at DRAM (dynamic RAM) and NAND flash memory houses, according to DRAMeXchange Technology, a Taiwanese company that runs an online DRAM market.
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News: Flammable battery maker sued for using IBM logo
IBM is suing Shentech for selling laptop batteries that catch fire and sport allegedly fake IBM logos.
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News: $100 laptop firm sued for patent infringement
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group behind the so-called $100 laptop has been sued by a Massachusetts company for allegedly infringing its patents for designs for a multilingual keyboard.
- 28 November 2007
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News: Rambus plans 1TB PC & console chips
Rambus hopes to would significantly speed up data transfer rates inside game consoles and PCs with a long-term plan to increase the bandwidth in computer chips to 1 terabyte per second.
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