Lenovo’s New Laptop AC/DC Adapter

In 3-4 weeks, Lenovo is set to start shipping a new, much slimmer, AC/DC adapter for its laptops. It will charge Lenovo’s laptops (such as the ThinkPad X61, 3000 V200 Series, the IdeaPad and probably the ThinkPad X300). In addition, it will charge cell phones, … Read more

Tablet PC Convertibles In The White House

Some of you may have opened up your newspaper this morning to see the picture on the right (apparently from Reuters), of US President George Bush talking about the latest budget, and holding up a Tablet PC. It’s being considered the first “paperless” budget and … Read more

HP tx2000z Now Available for Order

A couple of people have emailed to say that HP is now taking orders for the HP Pavilion tx2000z, with a base configuration of $1299 and the recommended configuration of $2300+ (the recommended comes with Vista Ultimate 64-bit, a 2.2GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core … Read more

More Information About Intel’s Silverthorne

This week, at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, Intel will be presenting a large amount of information about Silverthorne, it’s latest processor line, although it’s being treated as more than just a processor, at least as far as Intel and the industry is concerned. … Read more

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – RTM

Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has officially been released to manufacturing:

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers……Windows Vista SP1 includes quality improvements that help enhance reliability, security and performance.

You can read the full press release here (Microsoft.com).

Some interesting information:
– It will be released through an Windows Update as an option to existing customers in Mid-March if you do not have any driver issues with SP1 – SP1 contains some driver issues/problems and will not automatically install on those machines. This will be for English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
– Windows Vista users who have updates set to download and install automatically will receive SP1 in mid-April, although, again, systems that have known driver issues will not receive it automatically. Once those drivers are fixed and received through Windows Update (automatically), then it will be turned on and installed.
– All other languages not being released in March will be released to manufacturing in April.

More from the Windows Vista Team Blog (excerpts):

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