You know how you're supposed to close your tray table and stow your electronics products 10 minutes before your plane lands? Well apparently those rules don't apply in the cockpit: Laptop computers have been Read More

On the heels of announcing blockbuster earnings for the past quarter, Apple unveils a slew of new products, including a pair of iMacs with razor-sharp, 16:9 displays, a redesigned plastic MacBook, and a new mouse that you can swipe with your fingertip, à Read More

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Solid-state hard drives are rapidly moving from luxury splurge item that CEOs drop into their $3,500 laptops to gear suitable for the mainstream. ... Read More

What do laptops, cell phones, and iPods have in common?They all have a tendency to explode when you least expect it.Years after its rise to power, lithium-ion battery technology remains the state of the art, with no credible successor on the immediate hor Read More

Remember Compaq? Hewlett-Packard acquired the venerable computer company way back in 2002, but it's kept the name alive as a secondary brand ever since, mainly relegating Compaq to overseas markets (Compaq is particularly popular in Asia) and as second-ti Read More

The first notebook PC from the worlds biggest phone maker is coming to the U.S. this month, and it's a lot cheaper than many expected: just $299 at Best Buy, although you'll have to sign two years of your life away to AT&T. Read More

When I wrote this expose on nuclear-powered laptops [PDF link] in 2005, it was nothing but a juvenile April Fool's joke. ... Read More

Why'd your computer crash on you? It's easy to blame Microsoft or a bum device driver (I know, I do it all the time, myself), but any number of issues may really be at fault when the blue screen of death comes a-callin'. ... Read More

Need more performance out of your $400 netbook? Fine, says Asus. We'll not only let you do it, will give you the tools to make it happen.Overclocking is an old-school technique that hard-core hackers have long used to get better performance from existing Read More