Friday, February 2, 2007

The long and winding road (USATODAY.com)


The long and winding road (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - Dressed in a hospital gown, PC guy tells Mac guy he's about to upgrade to Windows Vista. The not-so-subtle jibe behind one of Apple's latest TV spots: migrating to Vista might require major surgery. With some trepidation, I put my own not-quite-2-year-old Hewlett-Packard Pavilion zd8000 Media Center notebook under the knife.



India notebook sales up 180 percent (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - PCs sales for India grew 19 percent over the same period in the previous year, mainly on strong buying from a number of market segments including e-governance projects and the outsourcing industry, a hardware vendor group said Wednesday.



Apple Seeks Patents For Bottom-Loading Disk Drive (TechWeb)

TechWeb - Potential benefits include the ability to build a thinner notebook.



Asus Laptop Includes 'Splendid Video Intelligence' (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - On Monday, AsusTek introduced its new Core2 Duo A8Jr, a new notebook series that will feature the first ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 GPU.



Quanta Ships Record 2M Notebooks in Jan.

(AP) -- Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract maker of notebook computers by shipments, shipped a record 2 million notebook computers in...



Gates Brings Vista, Office 2007 to Europe (PC World)

PC World - Launch event at the British Library features rare da Vinci notebook instead of rock band.