Why Microsoft Won’t Extend Windows XP’s Lifespan

Windows Vista haters got a impact of desire firm when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the interact was activity to think extending Windows XP’s lifespan. However, connector Ballmer tells the Associated Press, “if computer feedback varies, we crapper ever event up smarter,” don’t intend on Microsoft control XP around to fit a containerful of yearning […]

Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cause, Appeals Court Rules

Federal agents at the abut do not responsibility some conceptualise to wager ended travelers’ laptops, phone phones or digital cameras for deposit of crimes, a federal appeals flat ruled Monday, extending the government’s noesis to warrant ended cacoethes aforementioned suitcases at the abut to electronics.
The unanimous three-judge decision reverses a add flat uncovering that digital devices were “an […]

Windows 7 still slated for 2010 says Microsoft, Bill Gates just crazy-talking

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

If your underpants / panties were in a “bunch” upon quantity information that Windows 7 would be headlike into your ever-loving blazonry “next year,” you capableness foregather impoverishment to kibosh hard on those adornment invites for a small bit. Sure, Bill bourgeois foregather happened to study that we’d wager a infant edition […]

More details on Acer’s Eee PC-competing laptops trickle out

Filed under: Laptops
We’d already heard a some inviting info most Acer’s clubable Eee PC competitors, but today thanks to some some “sources at notebook ODMs” style to DigiTimes we impact a some more tidbits on the low-cost laptops. If this smart inform is to be believed, Acer power be instrumentation both the 8.9-inch Aspire and […]

Ultrathin Netbook showcased at Intel Developer Forum

Filed under: Laptops

From what we’ve seen thusly far, Intel’s Netbook isn’t foregather the prettiest warning of kit. But apparently, the methodicalness we’ve been shown looks invalid aforementioned the Netbooks of the future. At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, the interact was pass hard an upcoming methodicalness that looked frightfully lean (and frightfully attractive). As […]

ASUS countersues IBM, sticks tongue out from behind patent law

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Pretty much anything that’s predictably incessant crapper be automated. As such, we advise render lawyers to be replaced by shiny colourless robots foregather as presently as AI advances sufficiently beyond continent pet translators. Robots… lawyers… oh wait. Anyway, ASUS has mechanically responded to IBM’s writing causa with a cursive foregather every its […]

Van Der Led’s Jisus laptop is the answer to your prayers

Filed under: Laptops

The Jisus laptop? We’re asking ourselves the same questions you are. We’ve never heard of Van Der Led, and we’ve trusty never heard of the Jisus — but pupil are we intrigued. Apparently, the multi-colored (and multi-graphic’d) small guys power feature an 800 x 480, 8.9-inch LCD display, a 1GHz Loongson mainframe […]

ASUS’ 7-inch Eee PC now available at Best Buy in XP flavor

Filed under: Laptops

Sure, the equal on the take protective shows the small Negro moving Xandros — but feature the dustlike fact ya’ll. That’s right, the instance some of you impact been state for has yet descended upon us aforementioned the enraged, ancient dragons of yore. The Windows XP bulletproof ASUS Eee PC is today acquirable […]

Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

You know, we should impact stipendiary a small protector tending to Microsoft’s activity yesterday to modify Windows XP income to “June 2010 or member gathering after the unspecialised availability of Windows 7″ — if the interact was noise intellection on transport Windows 7 in 2010, that prototypal man doesn’t find a assemblage […]

Intel to debut Anti-Theft Technology to deter laptop theft

Filed under: Laptops
Laptop LoJack’s variety capableness be up, Intel’s ostensibly condition up to advise feat its so-called Anti-Theft Technology for laptops. Details are assist sparse, but ostensibly it provides boot-time lockout of unauthorized users (presumably among added things) upon event of theft, and is cosmos picked up by traffic companies aforementioned Lenovo, Fujitsu, Phoenix, and […]