<![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Computing - Notebooks and Laptops]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ en 10 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:49:34 +0200 <![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Computing - Notebooks and Laptops]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/logo_rss.png http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ <![CDATA[Commodore Announces Cheap and Cheerful Netbook ]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Commodore-Netbook-UMMD-8010-F,news-2536.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Commodore-Netbook-UMMD-8010-F,news-2536.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:10:00 CEST Commodore International, the company that brought us the Commodore 64 has announced that it too will be jumping on the netbook bandwagon along with the rest of the world.]]> <![CDATA[IFA 2008 - LG intros Lifestyle Netbook]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/X110-LG-Netbook-EeePC,news-2514.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/X110-LG-Netbook-EeePC,news-2514.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:00 CEST A 120 GB hard drive, a 10-inch widescreen display and its stylish design are meant to set LG's X110 netbook apart from the competition. ]]> <![CDATA[IFA 2008 – MSI Shows Off 16-inch Multimedia Notebooks]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MSI-EX620-EX630-Multimedia,news-2493.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MSI-EX620-EX630-Multimedia,news-2493.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:12 CEST MSI will be offering two fully-featured notebooks aimed at mobile entertainment. Special user-selectable profiles are meant to increase battery life.]]> <![CDATA[Niue Becomes First Country to Give One Laptop to Every Child]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/OLPC-Niue,news-2450.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/OLPC-Niue,news-2450.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:20:00 CEST Niue has become the first nation to dish out one of the OLPC’s XO laptops to every school child in the country.]]> <![CDATA[AT&T Launches ConnecTech to Rival Geek Squad]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ConnecTech-Geek-Squad-AT-T,news-2431.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ConnecTech-Geek-Squad-AT-T,news-2431.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:50:00 CEST Telecommunications company, AT&T has launched its own tech support service to rival Best Buy’s famous Geek Squad.]]> <![CDATA[IDF 2008: For Notebooks, 'Thin' is 'In']]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/IDF-notebooks-thin-laptops-OLED,news-2421.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/IDF-notebooks-thin-laptops-OLED,news-2421.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:30:00 CEST Rajiv Mongia of Intel's Mobile Platform Group, who is also a thermal mechanical engineer, has made it his job to cram as much performance as possible into something we consider stylish enough to hopefully turn into a trend.]]> <![CDATA[Dell Studio Laptops Get Mike Ming Treatment]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dell-laptop-studio-mike-ming,news-2404.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dell-laptop-studio-mike-ming,news-2404.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:00 CEST Dell has begun offering its recently introduced Studio laptop series covered with art created by Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ming.]]> <![CDATA[Lenovo Takes Another Shot At The MacBook Air]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-MacBook-Air,news-2387.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-MacBook-Air,news-2387.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:50:00 CEST Research Triangle Park (NC) - Lenovo announced a successor for the ultra-thin X300, promising 20% more performance, more memory, a new 128 GB SDD drive option and DisplayPort support.]]> <![CDATA[Apple Is Worth More Than Google]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Apple-Stocks,news-2363.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Apple-Stocks,news-2363.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:10:00 CEST Apple found itself worth more than Google for the first time ever while trading on Wednesday]]> <![CDATA[First-tier Notebook Makers See On-month Revenue Growth In July]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/notebook-revenues,news-2294.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/notebook-revenues,news-2294.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:00 CEST First-tier notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec all saw on-month revenues growth in July 2008.]]> <![CDATA[TSA Finds "Stolen" Laptop in TSA Office]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/TSA-Stolen-Laptop,news-2253.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/TSA-Stolen-Laptop,news-2253.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:20:01 CEST At the beginning of the week, the TSA announced that a laptop containing the personal information of passengers enrolled in its fast track screening program had been stolen. However, in what appears to be a case of “Where did you have it last?"...]]> <![CDATA[No Linux for U.S. Lenovo Netbook - Only XP]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-Linux-Ideapad,news-2250.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-Linux-Ideapad,news-2250.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:20:00 CEST Everyone’s been harping on about Lenovo’s push into the netbook industry with the announcement of the new IdeaPad. While many of Lenovo’s markets will have the option to choose between Linux and Windows, it seems the U.S. will not be one of them.]]> <![CDATA[Netbooks And Handsets To Drive Up PPT Sales In Q3]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Netbook-PPT-cellphone,news-2240.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Netbook-PPT-cellphone,news-2240.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:40:02 CEST Seeing its July sales sustain an upward trend, Phoenix Precision Technology (PPT) has delivered an optimistic outlook for the third quarter, with flip-chip (FC) and chip-scale packaging (CSP) substrate demand to be spurred by strong sales of low-cost...]]> <![CDATA[$100 Laptop At Least Three Years Away, Gartner Says]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/OLPC-100-laptop,news-2229.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/OLPC-100-laptop,news-2229.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:50:00 CEST The $100 laptop was, well, not really a $100 laptop.In fact, the first OLPC notebook sells for close to $200 and clearly broke its initial promise. The second generation of the notebook, called XO-2, is expected to hit the market in 2010 for about $75]]> <![CDATA[MSI Has New Gaming Notebooks]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MSI-notebook,news-2205.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MSI-notebook,news-2205.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:30:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - MSI Computer launched new notebooks which are targeted towards gamers and are available with features such as a Blu-ray player.]]> <![CDATA[Lenovo Joins the $399 Notebook Party]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-Ideapad-S10-netbook-eee,news-2197.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Lenovo-Ideapad-S10-netbook-eee,news-2197.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:00:00 CEST Research Triangle Park (NC) - IBM's former notebooks division, now part of Lenovo, appears to be moving much faster these days.]]> <![CDATA[DHS Policies Allow Border Officials to Seize Your Laptop]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DHS-Laptop-Confiscate-Border,news-2173.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DHS-Laptop-Confiscate-Border,news-2173.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:40:00 CEST Next time you’re going to pack up your stuff and head south for the winter, or indeed anywhere for the winter, you might want to double check you don’t have any questionable content on your laptop, iPod, cellphone or any other gadget...]]> <![CDATA[Portugal Signs Deal for 500,000 Low-Cost Laptops From Intel]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Classmate-Intel-Portugal-OLPC-XO,news-2155.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Classmate-Intel-Portugal-OLPC-XO,news-2155.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:00:00 CEST It’s bad news for Nicholas Negroponte as news emerges of a deal between Portugal and OLPC competitor Intel.]]> <![CDATA[Asustek Expects To Ship Up To 200,000 Eee Boxes Worldwide In 2008]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Asustek-EeePC,news-2159.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Asustek-EeePC,news-2159.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:50:01 CEST Asustek Computer launched its Eee Box nettop in Taiwan priced $261 on July 30.]]> <![CDATA[Asustek Preps Launch Of Ultimate And Pro Fashion Eee PCs, Prices To Hit $700 Or More]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Asus-EeePC,news-2160.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Asus-EeePC,news-2160.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:50:00 CEST Asustek Computer plans to launch more Eee PCs designed to address different market segments, according to company president Jerry Shen.]]> <![CDATA[Shhh. We Have A Product But It's A Mystery]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-apple-touch-ipod-iphone,news-2068.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-apple-touch-ipod-iphone,news-2068.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:30:00 CEST If you took the time to listen through Apple's hour-long Monday quarterly conference call recording, you were a little bored with life, and you probably overheard finance chief Peter Oppenheimer dropping a hint about "a key product transition"...]]> <![CDATA[Rumors Surface of a MacBook Touch]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/macbook-touch-iphone,news-2035.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/macbook-touch-iphone,news-2035.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:00 CEST Rumor has it that Apple is secretly working on a touch screen version of its notebooks, currently figured to be called the MacBook Touch.]]> <![CDATA[Apple Sells 2.5 Million Macs In Q2]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-Q22008,news-2028.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-Q22008,news-2028.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:40:01 CEST Apple reported $7.46 billion in revenue and $1.07 billion in net earnings for the second quarter (FQ3 2008) of this year.]]> <![CDATA[Netbooks To Help Boost Shipments For Notebook Makers In H2 08]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Netbook-notebook,news-1980.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Netbook-notebook,news-1980.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:00 CEST <![CDATA[Dell Said To Be Planning Launch Of Low-cost Notebook In August]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dell-notebook,news-1956.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dell-notebook,news-1956.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:10:01 CEST Dell is planning to introduce a low-cost notebook in August to join the low-cost notebook market, according to the market sources.]]> <![CDATA[MacBook Pro Prototype Case Leaked, Maybe]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/macbookproprototypetaiwanese,news-1892.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/macbookproprototypetaiwanese,news-1892.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:30:00 CEST Los Angeles (CA) - Although we generally don't believe in most "leaked" product images on the Internet, this one is from a Taiwanese source that has proved somewhat reliable in the past.]]> <![CDATA[Apple Prices Macbook Air Against Lenovo's Thinkpad X300]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-macbook-thinkpad,news-1880.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-macbook-thinkpad,news-1880.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:30:00 CEST Cupertino (CA) - Apple quietly cut a big chunk of the price of the 64 GB SSD-equipped Macbook Air - the price dropped by 16% from about $3098 to ]]> <![CDATA[PC Vendors Pessimistic About MIDs]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MID-Centrino-Atom,news-1877.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MID-Centrino-Atom,news-1877.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:10:04 CEST <![CDATA[Analyst Firms Maintain BUY Recommendations On Nvidia Stock]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/analyst-buy-stock-nvidia-chipset,news-1866.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/analyst-buy-stock-nvidia-chipset,news-1866.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:50:00 CEST Despite Nvidia's admission of faulty notebook chips and the subsequent stock plunge, several semiconductor analysts are maintaining 'BUY' ratings on the stock.]]> <![CDATA[More Than 600,000 Laptops Lost Each Year At US Airports]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/laptop-lost-airport,news-1855.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/laptop-lost-airport,news-1855.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:40:00 CEST Washington DC - Travelers lose nearly 637,000 laptops a year at U.]]>