http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog Laptop news and reviews Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:08:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The price of wireless connectivity has been decreasing at the same time that advancements in that field have greatly increased. Every cellular provider offers some tailored service specifically for you to connect your laptop to the internet wirelessly. This isn't referring to WiFi hotspots, but the ability to connect wherever ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/wireless-internet-for-laptops/ Nicholas Negroponte, Co-Founder and director of MIT Media Laboratory, is the brains behind One Laptop Per Child. OLPC's goal was to create the XO Laptop, a low cost device that would advance the education of children world wide. While the initial mission statement was to provide a $100 laptop, increased ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/one-laptop-per-child/ The Chinese company Lenovo, known as the world’s biggest PC producer, has made an agreement with Ericsson, according to which Ericsson will supply Lenovo with HSPA modules. Lenovo, in its turn, will integrate Ericsson HSPA modules into the latest series of ThinkPad laptops, which will increase their mobile capabilities. Thereby, the owners ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/lenovo-laptops-will-become-more-mobile/ Acer is starting to sell the new version of laptop series, based on the open operation system Linux. The new laptops have already been sent to Acer partners and dealers. “This move was made to widen the company’s line of products. As of today, any configuration can be found ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/acer-starts-selling-linux-laptops/ The company Dell is going to present its new development – a series of laptops. Judging by the photo it is a truly magnificent product. Especially its design hit the spot. It has a 14.1-inch display and weighs 1.93 kg. But the 15.4-inch version is a little bit heavier, by 340 ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/new-series-of-dell%e2%80%99s-latitude-e-laptops/ The family of Fujitsu LifeBook laptops has been replenished with one more long-awaited novelty – a 17-inch N6470, which is also based on Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn 45nm modern processor.   Depending on the bundling LifeBook N6470 can be with Core 2 Duo Penryn T8100 2.1GHz or T8300 2.4GHz processor. The ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/fujitsu-lifebook-n6470-is-not-very-portable-but-powerful-enough/ Despite of the fact that Apple managed to surprise the world with the announcement of a super thin laptop MacBook Air, Steve Jobs should be on the alert because company’s rivals are already working on the creation of a worthy alternative to compact and light laptop. For example, Lenovo is ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/lenovo-is-making-macbook-air%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ckiller%e2%80%9d/ A prototype of a new affordable laptop akin to OLPC or Eee PC was created in Vietnam. This cheap laptop, which can be a worthy rival to OLPC, is based on the Intel Classmate PC and is modified for Linux. It has a 7-inch WVGA display with 800x480 resolution, 900MHz ... http://www.notebook-pcs.com/blog/one-more-cheap-intel-classmate-pc-laptop-for-schoolchildren-and-students/