A new breed of extremely small and light (2 pounds or so) laptop has emerged just in time for summer travel. Called mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and also known as mini-laptops, mini-notebooks, or mini-notes, these lightweight laptops are practically naked, stripped of all extraneous features. And starting at around US$400, they're far cheaper than other mobile PCs.
Buying a notebook computer can be an exercise in limitless possibilities, whether you're buying for yourself or for 250 users in your organization. That's because most laptop vendors offer a dizzying array of configurations.
My Lenovo Thinkpad R500 Batteries just hit its fifth birthday, and the years haven't been kind to it. When it was new, the notebook was reliable and fast, and it traveled with me to many places throughout the world.
This configuration of the Dell Latitude E6400 battery is a 4.4-pound, consumer level notebook computer.Compared to other mainstream notebooks on the market, it is relatively inexpensive at around $770.The 14.1 inch widescreen has a native resolution of 1280 x 800, which is fairly standard among notebooks.Built around the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU.This unit comes with a 80GB hard disk and 1.0 GB of memory.
Through its Laptop Hunter campaign, Microsoft has proved there are so many people in Los Angeles looking for a laptop that I am surprised Apple A1060 battery has not responded with an exclusively LA version of its own ads.You know, 60 seconds of people just talking about themselves and eating wheatgrass, while Justin Long looks on, mesmerized.
Dell recently unveiled the Della, a small, lightweight laptop, made just for chicks. It’s basically the same as any other laptop, except that the Della comes in a variety of pastel colors and styles and has a bunch of cutesy accessories to go with it. Like, oh mi gawd! Why do companies always decide to market products to women by emphasizing style and trendiness rather than something substantial—like, say, function? The deets on this new Dell, after the jump…
Toshiba's Digital Products Division on May 14 unveiled the world's first laptop with more than a half-terabyte of solid-state storage capacity, but at this point, it isn't exactly cheap.
You're returning to the U.S. from a quick trip to Canada. A customs official says he wants to examine your laptop. You boot it for him and he finds (gasp!) a bootlegged copy of Allen Toussaint's new CD. "Sorry, sir, we'll have to hold on to that."
