Archive for the ‘Laptops’ Category

Using a laptop can become quite hectic and more so if you are using it the entire day round. Stress injuries are the worst effect, and more and more people seem to be suffering from them because of bad sitting posture. Logitech’s Notebook Riser N110 raises your laptop for comfortable viewing  up to a certain height. Combined with an external keyboard and mouse, this Logitech gadget increases the comfort factor in laptop usage. The stand can also be locked at 20 degrees to 40 degrees angle.

The Notebook Riser N110 is priced at $29.99 and is a good option if you want to sit back, relax and work on your notebook. This Logitech product is not the first of its kind in the market but is definitely a good buy.

Once in a while, air related work is ahead of schedule, it doesn’t happen very often, but it has today, Delta has confirmed that they have finished testing the in-flight WiFi and are going to install it to 2,000 planes by the end of 2009. They have installed it some Virgin America planes, but these are the only planes to have confirmed Wi-Fi at this time.

I’ve found this is a great step forward for Wi Fi, first it was becoming popular in certain coffee cafes, then McDonald’s and now on flights, the question I’d like to know is: Will Wi-Fi coverage soon be all over the world? Will you be able to walk down the road on your iPhone and connect to a Wi-Fi connection, anywhere.

It must of gone though everyone’s mind at one point, what if my laptop was stolen, now most people protect their accounts with a password and encypt their DATA, although this isn’t engouth, the thief is still able to sell the laptop, Eircsson and Intel are developing a tracker within a laptop, which allows the owner of the laptop to disable the laptop via remote-SMS.

This means your not only able to find out where your laptop is via GPS, you can also shut the laptop off so it’s no use to the thief what’s so ever. They are hoping to be able to ship at least one product with this technology in it around the middle of 2009.

Over 2008, the size of notebooks has been decreasing, this 14inch Notepad is definitly portable, the height of the laptop while closed is about the same as ink-pen, now with a lot of small notepads,  you don’t have very good specs, in the Zpeto Notus A12, you’ve got 800MHZ intel processer, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 80GB hard drive (4,200RPM), gigabit Ethernet, wifi and all the useal ports, USB etc.

This is probably one of the top small-notebooks out, although it will cost you $1,360 to buy, if you need to transport a laptop/notebook around with you daily, I think it’s worth the money, for exmaple if you need to travel long-distances every day to get to work and back, this is a light-small notebook which will suite your needs fine!

You can find out more about this Notebook on the Zepto website, here.

For those of you who are still running XP because you’re waiting out your trust issues with Vista, you may not have to wait much longer… or you’ll have to come up with a new excuse. According to ZDNet, a beta build of Service Pack 2 is in the hands of some software partners. Apparently, it’s also Microsoft’s intention to deliver the Service Pack before Windows 7 hits the shelves on June 3rd of next year. A new OS coming out only two years after Vista is a little foreboding, but hopefully SP2 will fix some of the remaining issues with Vista, namely,compatibility issues. There’s very little known about the features of SP2, but we’ll be sure and keep you updated.

After Steve Jobs called the Blu-Ray format a “bag of hurt”, it’s sort of surprising to find a company which is already producing Blu-Ray players for MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. The unit is external, so if you’re fine with hauling around an extra piece of hardware, not to mention the discs, you’ll have portable Blu-Ray access where ever you go. The drives come in a glossy black or white finish and they’ll burn BD-RE and -R discs at 2x. The cost isn’t too painful at $289, but we’re still hoping to see internal Blu-Ray support. So c’mon Steve! Open up that bag of hurt!

It looks like touchscreen technology isn’t reserved to cellphones anymore. Apparently, HP is looking to reinvent it’s portfolio over the next 16 months and one of the improvements to be made is touchscreen for their laptops. They’ve already debuted the TouchSmart PC, but The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP plans to have a touchscreen laptop out by the end of the year. It seems Frog Design will be helping HP get the model ready by developing the new software and hardware. Not to miss out on the cellphone bandwagon, it’s reported that HP will also release a touch screen cellphone in Europe, but currently there’s no word about a release in the US.

No, you’re not being paranoid if you’re in public and surfing the internet. Computer screens are like a magnet for human eyes, whether you want people looking at what you’re looking at or not. Traditional privacy filters tend to leave your view a bit murky as well, so LG has announced the solution for the privacy vs. clarity problem. It’s new Viewing Angle Image Control display has the ability to have its viewable area cropped from just 175 down to 60, via a push of a small button. This change is not supposed to impact the brightness of the screen in any way. It’s not really the first screen which we’ve seen this ability from, but it’salready in mass production and will be showing up in laptops every where, very soon.

Samsung has all eyes focused on them after announcing plans to enter the US laptop market with five different branded models. The laptops will be available in both online and traditional retail shops and the models featured will be the NC10, Q310, X360, X460, P460, and the P560. The N10 starts with a screen size of just 10 inches, while the P560 sports a nice 15.4 screen. The prices for these babies range from just $499 for the small NC10, all the way up to $1,49 for the P560. It looks like Samsung has thought this through and is hoping to target the entire laptop market by offering a wide range of laptops for a wide range of budgets.

Microsoft is set to hand out pre-betas of Windows 7 to various developers, and it looks like they’ve finally found the perfect name for it’s next-gen OS. Get ready… introducing.. Windows 7. That’s right, it turns out the code name which has been used all through development has been chosen as the real name, which is a first for Windows. Apparently the company decided to stick with Windows 7 because it “just makes sense”. Seinfeld must have helped them on the set of the commercials with this idea. Whatever it’s called, I just can’t shake the feeling that Windows 7 is little more than a patch Vista.