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India says it can make a laptop for $10

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an amazing project that aims to give every child in the world a laptop with a cost of just $100 a laptop and they also are windup so in countries where there is no or little electricity you can wind the OLPC up to get it working.

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Gateway MT6711 Laptop: with Intel Pentium Dual-Core

This is the Gateway MT6711 laptop that features an Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile Processor and a full-size keyboard that pretty much functions like a desktop computer keyboard.

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Birthday of IBM ThinkPad: July 1992 IBM 2521 (700T)

In July of 1992 we saw the first of its kind to ship and that was the IBM 2521 Thinkpad laptop computer, which later became known as the 700T.

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New Laptop Desk Futura Combines Fashion & Function for Notebook Computer Users

The Laptop Desk Futura – initially available in gun-metal gray – is the first portable desk to come optionally in bright fashion colors in the coming months. Dual-purpose design creates an ergonomically-sound workstation when used either flat across a lap, or folded into a wedge for use on a desk. To cool notebook computers, open and elongated ventilation slots allow cool air to more easily flow under the Futura and provide a better pathway for hot air to escape. Available for $29.95.

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Fujitsu Siemens FMV-U8240 Laptop - 5.6 inch UMPC

Today I have been looking around my local computer stores and found a few 11 inch and 12 inch portable computers, the reason I have been looking is because I need a second laptop that is a UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC).

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New Apple MacBook Pro Laptops: thermal grease still causing overheating

It has been over a year since the first rumor of the MacBook Pro overheating because of misapplied thermal grease and from the comments in recent threads (see links below this post) things have not changed at all.

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BlueStar will Distribute Rugged Notebook And Tablet Computers from General Dynamics Itronix

BlueStar Announces Notebook and Tablet PC Distribution Agreement with General Dynamics Itronix.

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Fujitsu's 'U Series' of Tablet-Convertible Notebook PCs, the World's Smallest in its Class

Weighing only 580g, with a 5.6" wide screen LCD in a small, light body, new ultra-mobile PCs offer advanced mobility and style for business users.

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Dell Ushers In Better Mobile Storage Reliability With Solid State Drives on Select Notebooks

Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB1 solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks. The company is one the first to offer a flash-based drive as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDD) on corporate notebooks .

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California School District to Distribute Dell Computers in its Program

Hacienda La Puente Unified School District near Los Angeles will issue Dell notebook computers to middle and high school students to boost student achievement and narrow the community's digital divide. The district announced the program at a board meeting Thursday evening.

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Lenovo Completes Second Massive Hardware Delivery

Lenovo announced today it has completed the second of three massive hardware deliveries for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with the shipment of nearly 700 pieces of hardware, including notebooks, desktops, desktop monitors and servers, to the Integration Test Center of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).

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Vishay Expands IHLP Family of Low-Profile, High-Current Inductors

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced the release of the new IHLP-4040DZ-01 and IHLP-4040DZ-11 low-profile, high-current inductors, which feature high maximum frequencies and low inductance values

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