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Samsung offer laptop friendly monitors

Samsung offer laptop friendly monitors

The new LD series of monitors from Samsung these monitors have been designed with a laptop in mind as these will sit at the same level as the laptop monitor, which helps when moving documents around etc.

 

 

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Laptops outsell PC’s

Laptops outsell PC’s

This day had to come and it is a surprise that it has not come sooner, but finally laptops are out selling desk top PC’s during the third quarter of 2008 around the world. Since the same time last year the sales of laptops has grown by more than forty per cent.

 

 

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LG come up with new display

LG come up with new display

Anyone who uses a laptop all of the time will know that they are ok but when the light changes, especially with direct sunlight the screen is sometimes virtually impossible to see. This means that for someone who is working, they need to move it around.

 

 

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Laptop Hack – How to turn your trackpad into a tablet

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Okay, this isn’t the best solution, but it’s a neat hack that cost almost nothing.

The graphic designer in my office loves how drawing tablet, and I always wondered if you could make a trackpad into one. It turns out, it’s pretty simple.

Like I said, it’s sort of rough, but it works.

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Netbook Hack – How to Make your Acer Aspire or Eee PC into a Touchscreen Device!

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Well, it looks like you can now easily turn your Acer Aspire or Eee PC 900/901 into a touchscreen device simply buying this DIY touchscreen kit on eBay and stuff it into your netbook.

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Eee PC Hack – How to Install Eee PC on your Car Dashboard!

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Some Russian modder has installed his Eee PC on his dashboard, replacing the car navigation/stereo system altogether.

You can take a look at the pics here and also some instructions here.

Russian Eee PC 701 owner decided that his netbook would look better in his car’s dashboard than on h

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Toshiba Intros 1.8-inch 250GB SATA Harddrives for laptops and mini-notes!

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Toshiba intros 1.8-inch 250GB SATA harddrives which will allow even slimmer laptops.  Of course, there’s SSDs in the works but this will be great for people who want netbooks with big storage.

IRVINE, Calif., Sept 24, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced expansion of its market-leading 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series, which introduces three high-capacity, high-performance Serial ATA HDDs for mobile PC applicatio

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Intel 80GB Solid State Drives Super Fast and Coming Soon!

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Just in case you were wondering, the new Intel 80GB Solid State Drives are super fast and are coming very soon to your new mini-notebook.

Here’s the Press Release:

Intel Introduces Solid-State Drives for Notebook and Desktop Computers

New Intel(R) High-Performance SATA Solid-State Drive Offers Users Responsive, Rugged, Reliable and Low-Power Storage Solution to Replace Hard Disk Drive SANTA CLARA, Calif. —(Business Wire)— Sep. 8, 2008 Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel(R) X18-M and X25-M Mainstream

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HP EliteBook 6930p sets world record for Laptop Battery Life @ 24 Hours!

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HP Elitebook 6930p sets the world record for the longest laptop battery life at 24 hours.  This new Elitebook 6930p might be the best laptop for on-the-go beach computing.

As measured by an industry-standard benchmark, the new HP EliteBook 6930p configured with an optional ultra-capacity battery delivered up to 24 hours of battery runtime.(1)

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Samsung Solid State Drives samples now available for Low-Priced PC/Mini-notebook Market!

Samsung Solid State Drives samples now available for Low-Priced PC/Mini-notebook Market!

Samsung Solid State Drives samples now available for Low-Priced PC/Mini-notebook Market!

After months of announcement, Samsung is finally giving out these FlashSSDs to manufacturers for designing new low-priced laptops/PCs such as the mini-laptops.

SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that it has begun sampling low-density, higher-performance solid state drives (SSDs) that are only 30 percent of the size of 2.5-inch SSDs a

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