Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Toshiba has recalled thousands more Sony battery packs in response to concern over fire risk. The recall is not connected to the industry-wide recall last year in response to other faulty Sony batteries.
Toshiba has logged laptop battery overheating incidents in both 2006 and 2007 in connection with the latest faulty battery batch.
Toshiba said, “Over a [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Apple Inc. got help from the update to its MacBook laptops to push its share of the laptop market in the U.S. up nearly two points in May, to 14.3%, a research firm said today.
“Whenever Apple gets a new product out, they get a nice bounce,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group Inc. [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Clarification came today from Gateway, the Irvine computer company that issued a voluntary recall yesterday on laptop batteries that had a tendency to overheat and cause a fire hazard.
I immediately thought about last year’s fiasco with the Sony laptop batteries that forced Dell, Apple and other computer makers to recall their own laptops. At the [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Via Technology announced a “NanoBook” reference design with a partner, FIC, that uses plug-in USB modules – about the size of an iPod nano – to add additional features.
If it sounds like yet another twist on ultramobile computing, you’re right. The NanoBook runs Windows XP and even Vista Basic, but allows users to use a [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Toshiba Corp., the world’s fourth- largest notebook computer maker, aims to replace Taiwan’s Acer Inc. as the industry’s No. 3 this year, helped by a new model that uses chips instead of hard-disk drives to store information.
The company expects shipments of its notebooks with screens measuring less than 13 inches to double from the fiscal [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Apple has improved the speeds of its MacBook Pro laptops up to 2.4GHz, increased memory to 4GB and added Nvidia graphics.
Apple on Tuesday introduced a refresh to its line of MacBook Pro laptop computers, raising CPU speeds, memory capacity and improving graphics performance across the line. The new systems can accommodate up to 4GB of [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Dell, the world’s No 2 computer maker, unveiled Thursday its first three models preloaded with Ubuntu Linux: the Insprion E1505n, a 15-inch notebook; the XPS 410n, a desktop that starts out with virtually identical specs to the Dimesion, and the Dimension E520n, a middle of the line desktop.
The new models give buyers a third choice [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Nick Negroponte, founder and leader of the One Laptop Per Child project, believes Intel is jeopardising the success of the mission.
Negroponte told American news program 60 Minutes on Sunday night that Intel’s “shameless” business practices had cost the project. He claims that he would have three million orders for the US$100 laptop if not for [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
AMD has released details of its forthcoming mobile processor, code-named Griffin, as well as the platform that will support it, code-named Puma (aka the RS780 chip set). Both are due out in mid-2008, and mark the first time that AMD has designed a platform from the ground up for the mobile market.
The combination will also [...]
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