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Laptop use at fault for Northwest flight gone wrong 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

Apple bows new iMacs with upgraded displays, touch-sensitive 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

MySpace dumps hard drives for flash storage, uses 1% of the power 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

A kinder, gentler Lithium-Ion battery

By Christopher Null - Posted Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:27PM EDT

A kinder, gentler Lithium-Ion battery 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

HP jump-starting Compaq brand with ultra-cheap machines 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

Nokia's Booklet 3G netbook coming to Best Buy for $299, with AT&T contract 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

Two words: Nuclear batteries.

By Christopher Null - Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009 4:10PM EDT

Two words: Nuclear batteries. 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

Bad RAM more common than you'd think

By Christopher Null - Posted Thu Oct 8, 2009 6:55PM EDT

Bad RAM more common than you'd think 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

Asus: Overclock our laptops please

By Christopher Null - Posted Thu Oct 8, 2009 2:24PM EDT

Asus: Overclock our laptops please 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

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