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Matsushita unveils that it is ready to mass-produce a new kind of lithium-ion battery that does not generate excessive heat even if it short circuits (the main culprit of exploding laptops). The battery uses a nickel-oxide anode instead of a conventional cobalt or nickel-manganese anode to generate more power. It achieves a capacity of 2.9 ampere-hours [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Black, white, and silver Macs, they are all are getting boring. Even colored MacBooks by ColorWare aren’t as cool as this Carbon Fiber MacBook. By pasting Carbon Graphix (an easily attainable $20 vinyl sticker), the black MacBook now looks like it is made of carbon fiber. I really dig this carbon fiber look, which I always [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Buyers of the Dell XPS M1710 notebook now has the option to add a Blu-Ray disc drive, which burns BD, DVD, and CD. It even has double layer BD write capability. A pretty beefy notebook that comes with the following for the default $3,699 setup: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 processor 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX 1GB DDR2 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 24, 2006
We thought the Macbook Pro equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors would be out only next month. Some even predicted as early as next week. Boy, are we wrong. Because Apple has just announced the new Macbook Pro today! Unfortunately, the regular Macbooks are not getting the lovin’ yet. Apart from the upgrade of Core [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 25, 2006
As we know, Dell isn’t the only one using Sony laptop batteries that have potential of exploding in your face. Our favorite Apple iBooks and PowerBooks are just as “hot”. Apple announced today that it’ll be recalling 1.8 million batteries that are identified as potentially hazardous - less than half of Dell’s 4.1 million. 1.1 million [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 23, 2006
According to Malaysia’s Petaling Jaya Deputy Chief Superintendent Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (mouthful), Malaysian thieves are getting smarter. For the past seven months this year, they have used an unknown gadget to track down and break into 255 cars that have laptops hidden in them. “The thieves operate in pairs. They smash car windows and break into [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 18, 2006
A few days ago, we reported on Dell’s history-making laptop battery recall, which affected 4.1 million batteries worldwide. And as we know, Sony makes these batteries. So without doubt, the electronics giant took a very big hit from the recall. But we aren’t talking just a couple million of dollars. We are talking $430 million [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 15, 2006
News of exploding Dell laptops have been popping up every now and then for the past few weeks. What appear to be mere mishaps of a handful of consumers turn out to be defective batteries affecting at least 4.1 million laptops. With today’s announcement for a major recall, it marks what is said to be “the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 14, 2006
How nice of Samsung to make a laptop targeted at the women and the more feminine men. The pink Samsung Q40 features: Intel 1.2GHz Core Solo processor 512MB of memory 60GB hard drive 12.1-inch widescreen display External DVD writer 128MB integrated graphics Bluetooth Firewire Wi-Fi Under an inch thick Weighs 2.5 pounds Available right now from PC World UK at £1,299.99 (~US$2450).
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Latest on Colorware’s list of support gadgets is the Apple MacBook. The original white and black is definitely not enough to let you stand out from the crowd. So Colorware saves the day with a solid collection of 28 different colors to choose from, including both metallic and solid colors. The ladies will like the [...]
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