Gateway MT6724b Laptop Review

This 15in notebook computer is designed to be something that can be used by everyone at home, from parents emailing and working, to children using the internet and playing games. It uses a Pentium Dual Core T2310 processor which runs at 1.47GHz. That’s a reasonable speed, which is fast enough for most of the tasks [...]

Dell Updates XPS Notebook Line

Dell’s XPS M1530 includes a plethora of standard and optional goodies, and can be configured with a Blu-ray drive, integrated WWAN, a jumbo or solid-state hard drive, and up to 4GB of RAM. The Dell XPS M1530 may be thin, but this 15.4-inch widescreen laptop comes with an abundance of cutting-edge features plus options for [...]

SAMSUNG Mass Producing Industry’s First 1.8-inch, 64GB SSD for Laptops

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives at 64GB - the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing applications.
“We see sharply increasing interest in SSDs among OEMs worldwide amid a growing push to launch premium SSD-based notebooks, particularly in [...]

Infected Seagate Hard Drives - Chinese subcontractors blamed for trojan horses

Investigators say the tainted Maxtor portable hard disc, made by Seagate, uploads information saved on the computer automatically to Web sites in Beijing

A shipment of Maxtor external HDDs, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected [...]

Western Digital Announces Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320GB Laptop Hard Drive

Western Digital yesterday announced it is now shipping its new Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 2.5-inch notebook HDD with 320GB of storage capacity (Hard Drive requires a SATA interface).

Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320GB - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by Western Digital Scorpio [...]

Toshiba Launches AMD-Based Laptop

Toshiba is bringing back its Satellite Pro line of notebook computers, which are geared towards small businesses. The latest models are designed to meet the demands of business professionals who want multimedia features but don’t want to pay over $1K. The Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 and Toshiba Satellite Pro A210 will load Intel and AMD [...]

Lenovo Launches G-Series Laptops in India

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced the launch of their G-Series notebooks in the Indian market. These are basically low cost notebook models aimed at budget buyers. These laptops are priced starting at Rs 31,750.
These are now being made available through all authorized stores in the Indian market.
Lenovo claims that these laptop models are provided [...]

Taiwan’s Acer to buy Gateway

Acer already sells computers at retail in the U.S., as done Gateway, both under the company name and as eMachines, which it purchased in 2004. And as part of the deal, Gateway says it will exercise its rights to acquire control to PB (Packard Bell). It’s all fairly complicated, because Lap Shun Hui had owned [...]

Lenovo Setsup Regionalhub in PETALING JAYA

Lenovo is setting up a regional operations hub to deliver and provide support services ranging from financing, channels marketing and customer service to the company’s offices outside of China.
The operations hub, based in Damansara Uptown, is part of Lenovo’s plan to centralise its business functions while maintaining consistent quality and increasing operational efficiency.
At a press [...]

Dell Replaces Displays on Nine Notebook Models

Dell Inc. is offering free replacements of the displays on nine popular laptop PC models, responding to customers who created a Web site to complain that some LCD screens developed a one pixel-wide vertical line.
“Dell shipped faulty LCD screens in 2005 and is giving customers grief about replacing the screens. It’s time to bring attention [...]