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Gateway EC14, EC54 & EC58 Win7 thin-&-lights debut
Source: slashgear.com

Gateway have announced a bevy of new thin-and-light notebooks, the EC14, EC54 and EC58, each packing Intel CULV processors, WiFi b/g/n and up to 8hrs battery life. The Gateway EC14 is the baby of the bunch, with an 11.6-inch display, up to 500GB storage and up to 8GB of RAM.

Qosmio G60: Toshiba unleashes new super-laptop
Source: CrunchGear

Toshiba Japan has announced a slew of new and updated notebooks today, and one of them [JP] is a monster of a notebook. The Qosmio G60/97J is basically a high-end computer, digital TV and Blu-ray player rolled into one.

ASUS UL30, UL50AG and UL50VG notebooks: up to 12hrs runtime
Source: slashgear.com

ASUS UK have announced three new laptops in their so-called UnLimited (UL) series, offering up to 12hrs battery life and processors from Intel's CULV platform.

Two unpublished Poirot short stories found in Agatha Christie's holiday home
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Fan taught himself to read author's 'bloody awful handwriting' to unlock mystery contained within 73 notebooks at Devon house

Are netbooks the next hit cell phones? - Jan. 28, 2009
Source: CNN

AT&T looks to sell mini-laptops, bundled with wireless data contracts, for prices like $99 or less. Is the gambit brilliant or foolhardy?

$200 laptops break a business model - International Herald Tribune
Source: International Herald Tribune

The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech.

RAW VIDEO: Vacuums, Papers, Boxes And Bags Removed From Anthony Home
Source: WFTV.com

Investigators removed three vacuum cleaners, notebooks and papers from the Anthony home on Hopespring Drive. (Dec. 12, 2008) ------------------- "Search Of Anthony House Ends, Evidence Removed"

Asus readying bamboo notebook
Source: fudzilla.com

The Asus bamboo notebook has been coming for quite some time and we've managed to dig up a few new pictures of it. We'd expect that Asus is now finally very close to launching it, at least if these pictures are anything to go by.

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Source: Telegraph

Roger Deakin, who died two years ago, was one of those rare writers who have a profound influence on the lives of their readers. His best known work, Waterlog, was an account of his attempt to swim through the lakes, rivers and steams of Britain.

BestBuy Black Friday Ads for 2008 Released
Source: blackfriday.info

LG Internal Blu-ray DVD+/-RW Drive - $99.99 Toshiba AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Notebook Computer w/3GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive - $379.99 * Insignia Blu-Ray Disc Player - $249.99 Samsung Blu-Ray Player - $199.99 Sony Blu-ray Disc Player - $249.99 Western Digital 1TB My B …

Apple, ASUS slash notebook production
Source: Electronista

Both Apple and ASUS have dramtically cut their notebook production going into the fourth quarter of the year, says the Commercial Times.

A Quick Guide to Netbooks
Source: GigaOM

What a difference a year makes. It was only 10 months ago when the first true netbook, the original Asus Eee PC 701, hit the market. The Eee was a ground-breaking little computer but had a few flaws, the biggest being the limited 800×480 display.

Computers With Ubuntu Linux Coming to All Major Retailers
Source: thevarguy.com

Essentially, all major computer retail stores will carry computers with Ubuntu pre-installed by the end of 2008 or early 2009, predicted a Canonical manager who met with The VAR Guy at OSCON. But this isn't another Linux desktop PC story.

Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Source: adeona.cs.washington.edu

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party.

The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft can't refuse
Source: linuxworld.com.au

"Low-cost laptops don't pack enough power to run Windows Vista, so Microsoft must either revamp its OS strategy or concede that growing market segment to Linux.

NPD: Apple enjoys huge Mac growth in February
Source: CNET News.com

Mac shipments were up dramatically in the fourth quarter of last year, and if recent NPD data is any indication, Apple's doing pretty well again this quarter.

Five Secrets to Faster Vista Starts
Source: ZDNet.com

The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. They're wrong.

Apple's notebook market share climbs to 17.6 percent
Source: Macworld

According to NPD, Apple's U.S. retail notebook market share for June 2007 was 17.6 percent, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over the same period last year when Apple posted a 15.4 percent market share.

Dell Expands Retail Presence to Japan
Source: The New York Times

DALLAS (AP) -- Dell Inc. is expanding its retail presence to Japan, where it will sell a variety of computers at Bic Camera stores.

Prepare for Quad-Core Laptops in '08
Source: Engadget

Confirming something that we had already seen hints of, Intel has announced that it is looking forward to quad core laptops hitting the scene throughout 2008.

Apple updates MacBooks with faster chips, more memory
Source: Apple Insider

Apple today updated its MacBook consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model.

Uruguay youngsters receive batch of OLPC XOs
Source: Engadget

Yeah, we've caught glimpses of the OLPC in action, but we've yet to see a group of school children get so hyped about receiving an educational tool like the 160 youngsters in Villa Cardal recently did.

NVIDIA's New DX10 Mobile GPU - GeForce 8M Unveiled
Source: HotHardware.com

The GeForce 8M GPUs differ from their desktop-bound 8800 series brethren in one significant way, the per-clock shader performance has been tweaked and greatly improved.

A look at Ten Windows Vista Tweaks and Shortcuts (Plus Two to Travel on)

This seeded article at laptop magazine gives a few good pointers on taking advantage of some of the productivity enhancing features available in Vista for mobile users; but seemed a bit incomplete in leaving out some improvements that were specifically targeted towards laptop com …

Apple may use flash memory for notebooks: analyst
Source: Reuters

Apple Inc. may sell zippy notebook computers later this year that use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard-disk drives, an analyst said on Thursday.

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