Why Laptops Displays Suck (And What Can Be Done)

by Matthew Smith 06.16.2010

Laptop displays suck.
This is no secret. While laptops have made great strides in battery life, processing power and overall size, displays continue to be a sore point which sees very little advancement. The laptop displays which we have today are not much better than the ones we had three or even five years ago. Some [...]

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Apple Macbook 2010 Refresh Video Review

by Matthew Smith 06.16.2010

This is fairly self-explanatory. I did a video review of the Apple Macbook 2010, which is now posted on Youtube. Check it out!

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MacBook 2010 Refresh 13″ Laptop Review

by Matthew Smith 06.09.2010

Yea, that’s right. I’m reviewing a MacBook. Because I bought a MacBook. Bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you?
Why did I cross over to the dark side (or is Apple considered the light side)? Well, the plastic unibody MacBook just received an updating, putting it on par with the MacBook Pro. Inside you’ll [...]

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More Optimus Notebooks On The Way!

by Matthew Smith 06.02.2010

Oh, Optimus. You took your name from a transformer and you promised so much, but you’ve been such a tease! The first Optimus notebooks came to market around the beginning of 2010, and yet here we are in June and still there are only a handful of laptops available which use the technology. Why? Honestly, [...]

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Canoe Lake Platform a Sign of Atoms to Come

by Matthew Smith 06.01.2010

Thin is in. I mean, come on – this is 2010, and if I can’t have my flying cars I at least want to have a computer no thicker than a pack of cards!
Intel knows this, and has been focusing on making Atom based netbooks as thin as possible. The result, shown as Computex, is [...]

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MeeGo Reviewed, Benchmarked

by Matthew Smith 05.28.2010

For those not in the know, MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system being backed by Intel. It is kind of a big deal because Intel intends MeeGo to compliment its new Atom based processors which Intel hopes will find their way into tablets and smartphones as well as netbooks. The problem with putting Atom into [...]

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Laptop Demand May Be Slowing

by Matthew Smith 05.27.2010

Yes, I said laptop demand. As in, not just netbooks – everything.
Laptop demand has been fairly strong in the past year, which was surprising considering the state of the world economy. Laptops are not inexpensive, and I rather expected a plunge. Instead, market research groups showed that laptop shipments were on the rise. Part of [...]

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The Best Cheap Tablet PC: HP Touchsmart tm2t?

by Matthew Smith 05.26.2010

Recently I wrote a post about the three best convertible tablet PCs. In that post I picked out the HP Touchsmart tm2t, the Lenovo X200 tablet and the Panasonic Toughbook C1 as the best tablet PCs.
However, both the Lenovo X200 and the Toughbook C1 are very expensive options. A well equipped version of either will [...]

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Intel’s Ultra-Low Voltage Core i Processors Set for June

by Matthew Smith 05.24.2010

Intel’s ultra-low voltage Core i processors have been greatly anticipated, and have been listed on Intel’s website for several months now. Yet they never did actually appear in products. Well, now we finally have a timeframe for release, and it is only next month – June.
According to a press release from Intel we will see [...]

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ASUS and Amazon Bring Kindle for Netbooks

by Matthew Smith 05.24.2010

Amazon’s Kindle hardware may be under pressure from the iPad, but that doesn’t mean that Amazon is giving up on the idea. In fact, Amazon is quite smartly hedging their bets by putting out Kindle software for various devices, one of which will soon be netbooks – or at least ASUS netbooks.

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