How to extend battery life

Although laptops are the epitome of convenience and mobile work efficiency, snags like dead batteries can leave you frustrated and impotent. Battery life is a key feature of laptops because nobody wants to find themself out of power. Fortunately, battery performance is affected by computer usage, so you can take an active role in extending [...]

Review: Dell XPS 15z

In the past, the ultra thin laptops were the greatest motivations for Dell engineers and designers, only to fail miserably in one feature or another. It could be a lousy battery life, low performance or just tad too pricey. Now, in 2011, Dell promised something that will balance out all these issues. For quite some [...]

Whitebox cheaper brands of tablets emerging

Display Search released Mobile PC shipment and Forecast Report. In diagram above we can see that Apple still dominates Tablet market by whopping 53.6%, but we also see quickly emerging and fast growing segment of local or non-branded manufacturers – whitebox. In Q4 of last year whitebox produced 567K units and by growth of 235% [...]

OpenTablet 10 with transreflective display by OpenPeak

Open Peak recently released its 7 inch tablet and now, they just introduced the new OpenTablet 10. It is quite bigger than the first one and on top of that, it uses a trans-reflective display. This means, you will not have a hard time reading on the device and using it outdoors. The company has [...]

Hands On: HP Pavillion dm1 with AMD Fusion

Ay $480, you would not expect the most amazing ultraportable, unless you do not know HP. Recently, the brand allowed a hands on test of the HP Pavilion dm1 for Laptop Mag. The new HP Pavilion dm1 utilizes the Fusion APU from AMD with a dual core CPU running at 1.6GHz.the GPU is a Radeon [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 for $549!

For a limited time offer you can pick up this IdeaPad for $300 off of a regular price. This Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 15.6-Inch Core i3-i5 laptop for $549 is a deal and a half. Core i3 CPU and 3GB RAM has plenty horse power to handle multitasking. 500GB HDD offers enough space for storage. It [...]

1st smartbook of its kind

Why first? Well, it’s sort of a cross between a smartphone and a notebook. Compaq Airlife 100 Android powered netbook was first shown in January on Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. It has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 10.1 inch. 1024 x 600 pixel display, 16GB of flash-based storage, and SD card slot, 3G and [...]

Two new models of MSI netbooks seen at FCC

Two new models of MSI notebooks, with names MS-1243 and MS-1241 were noticed at FCC. According to the PDF found, they have an 11.6-inch (and 12.1-inch) display, 1366×768 resolution, 3G WAN, HDMI, TV output (optional), Bluetooth and WiFi.

Broadcom single-chip WiFi/Bluetooth combo approved by netbook makers

Broadcom’s new all-in-one chip, which features both WiFi and Bluetooth radio on a single chip has been selected by the various netbook/notebook vendors. This includes the big guys like Acer, ASUS and Lenovo.

This chip will help the manufactures and vendors to lower the cost of their netbooks as-well-as notebooks as they won’t have to buy separate chips and will help them to conserve space on the already cramped logicboards.

Broadcom’s triple combo which includes three radio, WiFi, Bluetooth and FM has been selected by HTC, Acer, Qisda and Foxconn to lower the price of their upcoming models.

Flash 10.1 – no love for netbooks, at least for now

Adobe released BETA of newer version of flash that is supposed to provide GPU acceleration. However, since it does not supports GMA 950 which is used in most of the netbooks, it is going to make little to no difference at all in the flash performance in the netbooks.

Right now, it only supports GMA 4500 and Nvidia ION. So, users ION powered netbooks and nettops should update to the this version. Others shall wait for Adobe to include GMA 950 support

Note: Linux and Mac netbooks/notebooks are not yet supported

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