Scott Ferguson

HP to Launch New Laptops, Mini Notebook, Gaming PC at CES HP to Launch New Laptops, Mini Notebook, Gaming PC at CES Photos courtesy of Hewlett-Packard. No Title The Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv2 laptop is the first laptop to use AMD’s “Yukon” platform for ultraportable, lightweight notebooks. The HP notebook uses the new AMD Athlon Neo […]

At the CES expo, it’s all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks. When this year’s CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard along with companies such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Freescale Semiconductor and Qualcomm are offering […]

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its much anticipated “Yukon” platform for lower-cost, ultraportable laptops at the 2009 CES, and the chip maker has lined up Hewlett-Packard as the first PC vendor to offer a consumer laptop based on the new platform. The AMD Yukon platform, which the company plans to officially announce Jan. […]

Lenovo, which entered the consumer market in 2008 with its IdeaPad line, is previewing three new mainstream laptops at CES in Las Vegas, and the company also plans to refresh its IdeaPad S10 mininotebook. In addition to the new laptops, Lenovo is also planning to launch the IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop at CES, which kicks […]

Freescale Seminconductor is planning to enter the “netbook” market later this year with a system-on-a-chip design that uses the next-generation ARM Cortex-A8 processor, which should lower the cost and reduce the power consumption of these laptops. At the 2009 CES expo, which starts the week of Jan. 5 in Las Vegas, Freescale will show off […]

The processor competition and advances in both low-cost, ultraportable laptops and HPC illustrated that in 2008, the best developments in IT hardware came in two sizes: big and small. On the small side, low-cost netbooks and mini-notebooks came into their own, despite the fact that these types of laptops were initially expected to have the […]

Jack Kuehler, the former president of IBM who helped bring the company into the PC era in the 1980s and who also forged strategic alliances with Intel, Apple and other IT companies at that time, died Dec. 20 at the age of 76, according to several media reports. Kuehler, who also served as vice chairman […]

Intel is now shipping a 160GB version of its solid-state Serial ATA drives for mainstream laptops, and the chip giant is preparing to launch a different version for ultraportable notebooks in January. Intel announced that it had begun shipping a 160GB version of its 2.5-inch X25-M SSD (solid-state drive) for mainstream laptops on Dec. 22. […]

First Look: Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Mobile Workstation Laptop by Scott Ferguson No Title Here’s a view of the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation with the main 17-inch display and the secondary 10.6-inch display on the right side. No Title The 10.6-inch secondary display is about the size of the screens used in “netbooks” and mini-notebooks. […]

Lenovo is unveiling a version of its ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation at the upcoming CES expo that will incorporate a second, 10.6-inch LCD display into the laptop, allowing users to have a workstation notebook with dual-monitor support. The Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds-the “ds” is short for “dual-screen”-will debut at the start of CES, Jan. 5. While […]