Laptops
Acer Aspire 8943G hits US retailers, less glorious laptops in tow
Hoping to get your hot little hands on those brushed metal keys and gorgeous LED touchpad?
Toshiba Portégé R700 slides in with a thin design, Core power and an affordable pricetag
Toshiba ‘s announced more than enough laptops for us in the past week , but the 13.3-inch Port?g? R700 is ranking pretty high up there on our favorite list. The ultraportable has gotten a complete redesign at its core — there’s a new magnesium chassis that’s been re-engineered with an internal honeycomb metal that aims to dissipate heat, as well as a new chiclet style keyboard.
Dell debuts Inspiron R line with glosstastic new looks, Intel Wireless Display
Dell’s given its Inspiron lineup a new back-to-school paint job, dubbed as the new R series, with a heavy emphasis on gloss and Dell’s forward-positioned hinge designed (thrilling, we know). The lineup has mainly the same internals as the existing Inspirons, with Core i3 and Core i5 processors, but the optional Intel Wireless Display is a nice addition
Blio finally launching e-reading software soon, Walmart excited for some reason or another
So yeah, we sort of forgot all about Blio and its e-reading software for laptops and smartphones, but it turns out the company has kept on truckin’. While it seems to have missed the February release of its software, famed inventor and founder of the company Ray Kurzweil told the New York Times that it will be more widely available over the next two months
Acer expects to overtake HP as world’s biggest laptop vendor by year’s end
Ah, the inexorable rise of a once-small Taiwanese company. Acer chairman JT Wang has told investors in a conference call this week that his company is on track to overtake HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the year is through
Packard Bell Dot S4 netbook spied in Italy
Packard Bell ‘s launched a refresh of its Dot line — at least internationally — with the 10.1-inch S4. The company’s thinned it down considerably here, and stuffed an Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail CPU, GMA 3150 graphics, up to 2GB of RAM, and an up to 250GB hard drive
