Lenovo has put a year into its research into two design changes that has been debuted on the updated ThinkPad laptop this week. It may seem like a small change. Computers are getting smaller and faster but the keyboard design remains the same. Yup! I noticed that now too! Lenovo is on a more conservative course. In designing the new ThinkPad, it installed keystroke-tracking software on about 30 employees' computers. On average, they used the "Escape" and "Delete" keys...

The latest to join the league of netbooks is the Kohjinsha SK3 which is an upgrade from the existing 7-inch SC3 UMPC. The upgrade has extended to its battery life, Wi-Fi and camera’s as well. The SK3 sports a convertible resistive touchscreen that is slightly smaller than the ASUS Eee PC T91. Other than that, it works on 1.3GHz Menlow-platform processor, which is even capable of supporting Vista. It also includes PCI Express, SD, VGA and ethernet connections, together...

These days everyone has a laptop or a notebook or a netbook or a palmtop, etc. even children do, so much that there are cases where just at 5 they request one for their birthday. Now, when they (if they are between 6 and 12) do, you can give this one as a gift. Disney has tied up with ASUS to launch their series of branded netbooks. It is supposed to be like a "Baby's First Laptop". They are...

Fujitsu Japan has launched the updated version of its popular LOOX M netbook. The latest avatar is powered by an Intel Atom N280 processor at 1.66 Ghz, the 10.1 inch screen's resolution has pepped to 1024 x 600 pixels and the battery has more stamina thus offering 2.7 to 5 hours of usage. Other features include 1GB of RAM, Intel 945GSE Express chip set, 160GB hard drive, webcam, multi card reader and Bluetooth. It is available in Japan in...

The not-yet-announced Dell Latitude Z series laptop pictures reveal that the laptop comes with a biometric fingerprint scanner, an oddly placed Ethernet port at the back of the laptop, Windows/Intel Centrino Stickers. It is also definitely thin. Well guess we will have to just a little more till we get full information on this new addition....

ASUS has launched their VX5 Lamborghini notebook an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 processor and 1TB SSD. They are planning to launch this in the UK in August. No orice has been given yet. The features include a 16-inch 1080p capable LCD display, NVIDIA GeForce GT130M graphics and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Sounds good. As good as the car so lets hope this one makes a hit as well as the car does. [Slashgear]...

The Alienware M17x gaming notebook has been officially launched by Dell. The M17x includes the dual 1GB GTX280M’s. The other notable features are Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core processor, 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, Dual-layer Blu-ray Disc Driver, 9 cell battery (awesome!), nVidia GeForce 9400M G GPU with HybridPower technology and a resolution of 1920 x 1200 resolution edge-to-edge LCD Display. Wow! That is fully loaded for an awesome experience in gaming. Already opening your wallet and thinking how much...

New silicon containing carbon material has been designed by Dow Corning which claims to double the capacity of existing Li-ion batteries. Well, all we have to see is that whether because of this the netbook battery would stand for 16hours or if photographers can take 1000+ photos without opening the back of their camera for replacing the battery or we would be filing this under the heading “Things that could but will never happen”. Well, Dow, take this as...

Oh look at them, all HP and Mini. Yeah, those same small contraptions made to be more portable yet, without compromising on the style and functionalities. Three more! The first is the ‘HP Mini 110 XP Edition’ that has a Gigabyte of main memory and a choice of either a 32 GB solid state drive or a 160 GB drive. It’s also got WWAN and promises a likely treat for HD fans with the help of Crystal HD Enhanced...

Lenovo today came out with two new notebook computers. The U350 (pictured above) is a 13.3incher portable notebook based on the latest Intel CULV platform. The power efficient notebook is powered by an Intel Core 2 Solo processor and features powerful specification which is more than enough for intensive computing on the go. For $649 you get an Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 (1.4GHz) processor, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, max 500GB hard drive, DVD Burner, integrated GMA 4500MHD...

Everyone using a laptop is very familiar with the fan that starts when the processor’s temperature reaches 100 F. Laptops and other electronics are becoming thinner and thinner day by day making researchers develop new and quiet but less bulkier cooling methods. One idea that has come up is to use ions to push air molecules across a hot microprocessor that creates a cooling breeze. These methods have been demonstrated in labs before but now a San Jose based...

The new Latitude 2100 has traditional netbook internals with child-friendly perks like colorful lids and a rugged rubberized design and also has options like a carrying handle, shoulder strap, antimicrobial keyboard, touchscreen LCD and also a Dell Mobile Computing Station docking cart. The netbook is available with options for Vista, XP or Ubuntu 8.10. The base model starts at a price of $ 369 a piece. We still don't know how much the netbook would cost with all the...

Unbelievable, no? Actually never thought a netbook will offer Blu-ray drive so soon. But if report is to be believed then Acer's upcoming Aspire One machine, the One 571, indeed features a mini Blu-ray drive. Though design-wise nothing has changed, on specs front things are very much different. The Aspire One 571 features Atom N280 processor, 10.1" 16:9 widescreen display with increased resolution of 1280x720, Quartics Q1721 Multimedia Coprocessor for encoding and decoding of H.264 content, and Vmedia's optical...

Toshiba Corporation announced the introduction of the top-of-the-range Dynabook SS RX2/WAJ. It is the world's first PC to integrate 512GB SSD (Solid State Drive). The new model is available in two versions on Toshiba's online shop for the Japanese market. It employs a 2-bit-per-cell multi-level NAND flash memory to realize, the world's largest capacity SSD, with four times the density of SSD integrated into currently available products. The data access speeds has been increased approximately by 230% for read...

We all had thought that the netbooks was a cheap little laptop for email. We must even wished that it would looked great if it had a larger screen, bigger keyboard, a better processor and probably and HD video. Looks like Dell had the same thoughts too and hence they brought out the mini 10 which comes with an Intel Atom Z series processor for HD video playback, an optional 720p HD screen and even an HDMI port for...