Apple – Aluminum MacBook?

Is Apple looking to replace the polycarbonate shell of the 13.3-inch MacBook with an aluminum casing, similar to the MacBook Air? While it is a rumor at this point, it would not be surprising, since the iMac recently went through a polycarbonate to aluminum change, … Read more

Laptop Industry Notes (Apple, Linux, Intel)

Register Hardware and others are pointing out that Apple’s market share in the US jumped up to 6.6. In doing so, they took over fourth place on the list of units sold by computer makers, passing up Toshiba. Dell, HP, and Acer were in first, second, and third, respectively.

Register Hardware is also reporting that Intel will ship more mobile CPUs than desktop CPUs this year, rather than a year or two down the road as previously predicted. This is helped by the netbooks (or Small, Cheap, Computers – SCCs as they call them) such as the Asus Eee PC, and will be helped even further when Intel’s Atom platform starts rolling out this quarter.

A Red Hat Press Release mentions that Red Hat won’t be creating “a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future”, which is a big deal for laptop users who prefer to install Linux distributions from Red Hat (but there are options).

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Asus Eee PC 900: Reviews (CNET and Stuff.tv)

A couple of more reviews of the 9-inch ultraportable Asus Eee PC 900 that was officially announced by Asus today. The first is a video review/preview by Stuff.tv. The second is a full review by CNET UK, and they gave it very high marks (8.7 … Read more

MacBook Air and 128GB SSD: Performance/Battery Life

Anandtech has measured the performance and battery life of the Apple MacBook Air, when a 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) is installed. Now you are saying “the MacBook Air only has a maximum size of 64GB when talking about SSDs” and normally you would be … Read more

HP 2133 Mini-Note, Windows XP: May

According to Mark Spoonauer over on the LAPTOP Magazine blog, the new 8.9-inch HP 2133 Mini-Note netbook will soon be available (well in mid-May) with Windows XP as an option. As of now, Microsoft Windows XP is listed on the HP Mini-Note’s website as an … Read more