Samsung: SSDs Are Reliable

Over at CNET’s Nanotech: The Circuit Blog, Brooke Crothers writes about Samsung’s efforts to educate people on the reliability of Solid State Drives (SSDs): A concern often mentioned is wear. That is, flash has the potential to wear out after tens (or hundreds) of thousands … Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 – Taken Apart

It’s a very popular trend these days to take new devices and computers part, and show the world what they look like inside. The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is not a stranger to this trend any longer. “moore101” over on the ThinkPads.com Forums has taken their … Read more

The Design of the Lenovo ThinkPad X300

The Lenovo ThinkPad design team has written about just what went into the design and engineering of the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 on their Design Matters blog (LenovoBlogs.com): The Lenovo design and engineering team has been working on this one for well over a year. It … Read more

PC World: MacBook Air Alternatives

PC World is running an interesting article, comparing three other ultraportables (one Toshiba, two Fujitsus) to the Apple MacBook Air with different display sizes (12.1″ widescreen and 10.6″ widescreens). Unfortunately there hasn’t been a chance to test and review the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, which is … Read more

More on Intel’s Silverthorne

Arstechnica has published an in-depth article covering Intel’s Silverthorne processor, due out later this year. This thing is small (25mm) as you can see in the picture below, and clearly geared towards the ultramobile PC market. Silverthorne could easily end up in something like the … Read more