Acer Packs the Athlon64, More Fire Power Under Its Ferrari 3200 Notebook's Hood. acer packs the athlon64. The comparison between Acer's bright red Ferrari 3200 notebook and the legendary sport's car par excellence is obvious enough. But for a reasonable $2,...

keys, a digital camera, a Leatherman tool, my wallet, a pen, a highlighter, and my cell phone. And that isn't even considering the laptop I find I usually need to drag with me everywhere. The fairer sex can use purses, Europeans can get by with fanny packs...

you can pick looks, features, price - or all three. Mary Branscombe looks at the Sansa e270 and the Creative Zen V. Creative packs a colourful screen and capable features into the tiny Zen V, but SanDisk gives you storage, expansion and a great screen, if you...

us in, we'll gently pry up around the edge of the panel to reveal the cell packs. Toshiba does very nice clean work inside. Nearly ever cubic inch of space inside is packed with NiMH cells. Let's peel away the layers of the onion. As you can see,...

• -The Fun Part: Looking Inside Two Notebook Battery Packs

data before the empty battery shuts off your notebook. Today's state-of-the-art notebook with its battery pack can give you a very precise status of the battery charge status. This is being achieved with the so-called 'smart batteries'. Notebook battery packs...