A few days ago, I had a long-winded rant about Apple dropping FireWire from the new MacBooks. A lot of other people have been ranting about it as well, going by Discussions.Apple.com and various other blogs and Mac-oriented forums. Steve Jobs has responded to one … Read more
ifixit, a popular site in the Mac community that features in-depth looks at taken apart various Macs made by Apple has now posted a couple of articles about taking apart the new 13.3″ MacBook (Late 2008) (as well as the new MacBook Pros). It should … Read more
The Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ NEC LaVie Light netbook has been announced. So far it’s being listed as only available in Asia / Japan. This may change over time of course. It’s being positioned in a slightly more expensive area than most netbooks, at around $650 … Read more
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is working on touch-oriented devices, and will even roll out a touchscreen consumer-oriented notebook later this year.
Keep in mind that while Tablet PCs might have touchscreens, not all touchscreens are used in a Tablet PC form factor (or even the “convertible” form factor). This will look like a normal laptop and will not be a convertible like the HP Pavilion tx2500z.
TrustedReviews has gotten their hands on the upcoming Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ Toshiba Satellite NB100 netbook and have posted several of their impressions of it. Keep in mind these are engineering / pre-production sample units of the NB100 / NB105. The NB100 they had access to … Read more