More Details about Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Emerge

This forum thread over at ThinkPads.com has produced a tremendous wealth of information about the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X300. Of note, in some of the documents, Lenovo is comparing the X300 to other popular ultraportables, including: – ASUS U3 – Dell XPS M1330 – Sony … Read more

Solid State Drives – Increase in Capacity

CNET is reporting that large-capacity Solid State Drives (SSD)s should be available later this year, ranging in capacity from 120GB to 160GB. This is very important news for the ultraportable market, as this approaches the capacity of mechanical/spindle-based hard drives, as well as it should … Read more

Intel Penryn Mobile Platform

This page last updated: February 8, 2008 Features and Information – Information first released at April 2007 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) – Released on January 6, 2008 – Sequel to the Merom-based Core 2 Duo CPUs – Will be succeeded by Nehalem (Wiki) (Late 2008) … Read more

Review: Toshiba Portege R500 (Mobile01 News)

Mobile01 News has published a very in-depth review of the Toshiba Portege R500. The model they reviewed is the PPR50T-03302W, that comes without an optical drive (allowing it to weigh in at just over two pounds) – the PPR50T-03R02W comes with an optical drive and … Read more

PC Magazine: Sexy Laptops

PC Magazine has put together a rather interesting list of laptops, saying “These laptops bring sexy back” . Outside of the 15″ Apple MacBook Pro, all of the laptops mentioned are basically ultraportable, with three having screen sizes of 13″ (while retaining a low weight), … Read more