Acer planning to release a 1.9cm-thick ultrathin notebook this year
Acer overcame Dell for the second place in World PC shipments and is eyeing for top spot by winning over HP, the currently number one global PC brand, as early as possible. The company is successful with its Timeline lightweight notebooks and the Taiwan based firm is looking forward to release a new ultrathin notebook [...]
HP announces Compaq Airlife 100 smartbook integrated with 3G
HP Spain announces a new smartbook loaded up with their own 10.1-inch touchscreen called Compaq Airlife 100 with integrated 3G. Though HP officially did not specify the details about the chipset, it is expected to include Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon. The Compaq Airlife 100 is featured with a 16GB SSD, WiFi supported with 3G connection and [...]
HP G62t copies ENVY 15 styling and is available with multiple Core processors
HP has added a new laptop named G62t to the line of G-series and it seems followed ENVY styling. The device is bundled with multiple options to choose from Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors is included with a 4GB of DDR3 memory, 500GB storage coupled with integrated Intel graphics. The price of the [...]
HP is the first major PC maker to ship USB 3.0 spec Envy 15 notebooks
A new major feature that is included in the USB 3.0 is the SuperSpeed bus, which provides a fourth transfer mode at 4.8 Gbit/s and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 3.2 Gbit/s after protocol overhead. Almost 17 devices with USB 3.0 support have been announced at the CES 2010 last week which include [...]
HP Mini 110 Netbook Added to AT&T’s Offering
AT&T too has joined in the row with Verizon after subsidizing HP Mini 110 netbook and both run their independent networks. The 10.1-inch display Mini 110 netbook weighs 2.57 pounds runs on the Microsoft newly released Windows 7 OS. The device is featured with an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, a hard drive with 160GB of [...]
ASUS plans to acquire Toshiba to be in top three notebook manufacturers by 2011
ASUS has set their goals and would like to reserve a spot in the top three notebook manufacturers by 2011. The move to buy the Toshiba’s notebook division is a part of their plans to make their dream come true. ASUS chairman Jonney Shih says that, they are in talks with the Toshiba and it [...]
HP acquires networking firm 3com for $2.7 billion
HP is aiming to make its entry into the networking market, because of this economic downturn the sales of their PCs and printer ink have shown some declination. After its big success of acquiring Electronic Data Systems last year, HP now taking the advantage of recession times and aims networking cloud by acquiring 3com popularly [...]
Is HP Envy 14 coming soon with ideal Core i5 processor?
Is HP going to release Envy 14 before it releases 15-inch Envy 15? But, according to a support page published in the company’s web site, they are in a move to produce Envy 14 notebook which by name we can guess that it would be of 14-inch display. There is no clue about its specs, [...]
Wistron lands 3D notebook orders from HP and Dell
Watching a 3D movie or playing 3D games on your notebook is not so far as reports from DigiTimes says that HP and Dell have placed orders for 3D notebooks from a leading ODM Wistron. News is that Wistron is also in talks with Acer, Lenovo and Sony to bring 3D experience on notebooks. Looking [...]
Google names Chrome OS partners; leaves Dell, Sony and Toshiba
Google has come out with its initial list of partners who will be supporting them in the development of their Chrome OS for PCs and notebooks. The list includes all the major players from the computing world like Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductors, Qualcomm, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Acer and Asus.
The surprising thing in the list is it [...]
