Notebook Hard Drive
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Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Reviews Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Notebook, notebook hard drive, Gist, hard drive, flash memory, desktop
Inveneo Computing Station
Reviews The Inveneo Computing Station delivers reasonably good performance for a low-power PC. It's small, but an untidy assembly means it could be more convenient to handle.
Jadetec MicroPC4
Reviews The MicroPC4 offers compactness over performance, and external expansion capabilities over low cost. For everyday tasks like email and word processing it'll be fine, but gaming will require something beefier.
Apple Mac mini (1.25GHz)
Reviews Apple trimmed some corners to keep the Mac mini's price so low, but its great design and big software bundle make it a winner among budget computers.
Toshiba Portégé R500-10U
Reviews Nothing beats the Toshiba Portégé R500-10U for sheer lightness. It lets itself down slightly due to its flimsy feel, and the battery life could be a bit longer, but it's still an astonishing product.
Lenovo ThinkPad SL500
Reviews The ThinkPad SL500 is attractively priced, solidly built and a good performer. We're particularly impressed with the high-resolution 15.4in. screen. However, there are one or two design quirks, the webcam is basic and battery life could be longer.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Graphics, Notebook, RAM Complement, SL500, Networking Facility, Image Capture Software, ThinkPad SL500, Lenovo Group Ltd.
What's new with notebooks in 2004?
Reviews If you’re planning to buy a notebook this year, here are some of the new and improved features you may see in upcoming models.
Sharp Actius MV1214
Reviews Over four hours’ battery life and decent performance stand the Actius MV 1214 in good stead, as does its build. Enlarge the keyboard a bit and reduce the price, and it would be even better.
Toshiba ups size of PC Card hard drives
News Toshiba continues to pack capacity into its PC Card hard drives. The hardware giant will begin selling its 5GB Type II PC Card HDD hard drive at the end of the month for US$499.
Fujitsu to squeeze more on hard drives
News When it comes to capacity, hard-drive manufacturers can hardly contain themselves.
Fujitsu aims for North American growth
News Japanese tech giant Fujitsu hopes to more than double its North American revenue in the next four years.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Acquisitions, Mergers
Seagate announces new lines of drives
News The company's new products include an array of hard drives for desktops, handhelds and laptops.
Bye bye hard drive, hello flash
News In notebooks, flash memory could soon offer an alternative to bulky, power-hungry disk drives.
Tags: Cellular phones, Notebooks and tablets, Storage
Intel powers up notebook chips
News Four new Pentium III-M chips--running at speeds up to 1.13 GHz--promise to boost notebook performance while reducing power consumption. The Tualatin chips will be manufactured on a 0.13 micron process.
IBM dusts off new laptop hard drives
News New hard drives for notebooks boost capacity to 80GB, thanks to the company's more liberal use of the element ruthenium, dubbed "pixie dust."
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