Notebook Computer
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Sony opens US$106M battery plant in S'pore
News Japanese electronics giant opens its first Southeast Asian plant, located in Singapore, to manufacture lithium ion polymer batteries.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Battery, Electronics, Cell Phone, Notebook, phone, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, notebook computer
Netbook demand to rise in Singapore
News Cloud computing and prevalence of wireless broadband in country will drive sales of portable and ultraportable PCs, says AMI-Partners.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Pocket PC, Cloud computing, Wireless LANs, Mobile/Wireless, Desktops, Mobile, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Singapore
Ultra-mobile devices to reach 200M by 2013
News Shipments of machines such as Netbooks and mobile Internet devices, will jump 20-fold over five years to generate US$27 billion in revenues, new report shows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Mobile, Market, ABI Research, Notebook, research analyst, handset, principal analyst, notebook computer
Chip sales bounce back in August
News Global semiconductor sales showed a small jump on July figures thanks to energy-efficiency programs and the rise of netbooks.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Computer, netbook computer, chip sale, Semiconductor Industry Association, Chip, Sales, notebook computer, incentive program
Intel doubles notebook fan speed
News Chipmaker hopes the prototype being displayed at the company's developer forum ultimately will find its way into notebook PC designs.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Components, Intel Corp., Notebook, Computer, San Francisco, power consumption, computer company, News.com, blog
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
News The manufacturer claims its 2.5-inch, quarter-terabyte solid-state drives offer the "highest overall performance" of any SSDs being used in the PC industry today.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Storage, Notebook, Computer, performance, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., marketing, industry, disk
Intel profits jump 25 percent
News Shrugging off signs of weakness in the economy, the company issues a third-quarter forecast for better margins, higher sales.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Intel Corp., Mobile, earnings per share, Notebook, microprocessor, revenue, blog, desktop
Apple will repair faulty MacBooks
News Computer maker says it has determined some MacBook Pros may be affected by Nvidia graphics chip glitch, and offers to repair those notebooks at no charge.
Tags: Mac OS, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, Graphics, Apple Macintosh
Samsung unveils 'world's smallest' 256GB SSD drive
News Company has created one of the largest-capacity and fastest solid-state drives to date.
Tags: Storage, Apple MacBook, Storage, Notebook, Lenovo Group Ltd., performance, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., notebook computer, agency
Windows Starter gets new market: Netbooks
News Microsoft's entry-level Windows, previously limited to emerging markets, will now also be offered on low-cost PCs in developed countries.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Personal Computers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Notebook, Computer, Windows Starter, processor, computer company, Microsoft Windows
Chip market shows signs of life
News Analyst firm Future Horizons suggests chip market could be about to break a key psychological barrier, after last year's "severe overreaction" to financial uncertainty.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Chip, Europe, Sales, Notebook, financial, job, notebook computer, Netbook
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory creates new hurdle for adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Intel Corp., iSuppli Corp., Price, Chip Company, NAND Flash, NAND, Notebook, Pricing
Low-cost sub-notebooks to hit 18M in 2009
News Global Netbook shipments next year will register a 128-percent growth over the estimated 8 million units in 2008, says Taiwan-based research body.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Positioning and segmentation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Market, Acer Inc., Notebook, ASUS, mini-notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Taiwan
Fritz!Box 7270
Reviews The Fritz!Box 7270 is well designed and packed with features. DECT and 802.11n are major additions, but the real value lies in the detailed features built around those functions. The 7270 should prove extremely useful as a small office or home gateway.
Tags: Storage, USB, IEEE 802.11n, Notebook, Fritz!Box 7270, DECT, AVM, phone, Wi-Fi, VoIP
AMD, Transmeta develop low-power notebook processors
News Advanced Micro Devices Inc, the world's No 2 processor maker, is cooperating with Transmeta Corp to design chips with low power consumption for the notebook computer market.
