AMD is getting ready to put its 2006 acquisition of graphics company ATI to good use with the 2011 launch of what it’s calling the Fusion APU. The Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) combines both the CPU (central processing unit) and the GPU (graphics processing unit) together onto a single silicon die. The end result [...]
It’s been nearly two and a half years since Willy Yonkers introduced his iPholio concept. It’s a simple idea wherein a touchscreen smartphone—in this case, an iPhone—snaps into a netbook-size chassis right where you’d ordinarily find a trackpad. The phone would act as the computer’s trackpad and would run the phone’s operating system on a [...]
With floppy disk drives long gone, someone on Reddit poses an interesting question: How much longer will the 3.5-inch floppy disk represent the “save” icon in most computer programs?
In less time than we’d probably like to imagine, there will be only a few people left on earth who remember life without the Internet. Those early computing days will be remembered as a novelty, full of 8-bit integers and pin feed paper and – oh, who could forget – the reign of Solitaire.
All these smartbooks that are due to show up this year may very well be what everyone had in mind for netbooks originally. Case in point: the Compaq AirLife 100, which was announced in Spain earlier this year, has now shown up on HP’s US website.
Lenovo will be releasing the C200 all-in-one computer in the not-too-distant future. Like me, the computer is handsome, cheap, and moderately powerful.
Spanish-language site Clipset.net apparently got some hands-on time with the HP Slate and revealed that European pricing will be set at 400 Euro, which is equivalent to just under $550 here in the US.
I took a look at the HP Mini 5102 netbook and recorded the entire process in the above video. I cut out the bad stuff and left in the good stuff.
Look down at your keyboard right now. Like, really closely.
