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Intel decided to compete with the not-for-profit OLPC (one laptop per child) program with its Classmate project. Their laptop will be more expensive and definitely for profit. Is it fair to view children from the poorest nations as a MARKET?
Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista. "It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard's notebook engineering department, referring to the work HP needed to do on making Windows Vista more suitable for notebooks.
Computers with wireless internet should not be placed on children's laps, says the head of the government's committee on mobile phone safety research.
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Here at PC Magazine, we've been prying open notebooks ever since notebooks existed. We can't help it-we're just curious. But this kind of curiosity is hard on the computers themselves. (To the many manufacturers whose fine products we've destroyed over the years: We're sorry. Really.)
Over the past few years, the Internal Revenue Service has lost several hundred laptops according to a new report from the IRS Inspector General J. Russell George. Between 2003 and Feb 2006, the IRS lost nearly 500 laptops mostly from agents' homes and cars. In addition, 111 of those laptops were either lost or stolen right from IRS offices.
We've seen plenty of expensive gizmos in our days, most of which are not due to advanced electronics, but this is one of the very few times we've had to get into seven figures.
Losing a laptop to a spilt glass of wine can be a very frustrating experience, particularly when said wine is of the cheap RosÃ;Æ;Ã;© variant, as was the embarrasing case with this writer's late laptop.
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Take the road less traveled with these over-the-top laptop bags, including wool bags, a sushi-friendly bag, and one that keeps your hands warm.
A man who authorities say appeared to be driving while using his laptop computer died Monday when his vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a Hummer. After the crash, California Highway Patrol officers found the victim's computer still running and plugged into the cigarette lighter of his 1991 Honda Accord.
The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.
It's the Wii laptop! We spent the last few weeks (including much time spent over the holidays evading relatives) slaving over this bad boy and finally it's complete. Check out the features:
Asus has just revealed the world 's first external video card for laptop computers at CES Unveiled in Las Vegas. The XG Station is connected via USB 2.0 and also has a Dolby digital headphone jack for an added audio experience.
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