I’ve committed to using new technology at Demo next week to open a new topic on my blog called the “netbook notebook.� The word “notebook� in this title doesn’t refer to the device, but rather a collection of thoughts as I put new technology through it’s paces under what I consider to ...

There is a minor renaissance in portable computing and design at veteran PC supplier Gateway Inc. that’s responsible for new iterations of extremely capable entertainment and general purpose notebooks. Gateway’s new MD 7826u portable is a result of this revival. The design of this new portable d...

We’ve seen a surge of portable projectors, getting smaller and smaller, over recent months. Most of those projectors don’t include a portable computer in the package, or stereo speakers for that matter. Designed by Jinwoo Han, the Microsoft Portable PC Theater includes everything that y...

Intel is beginning their push into the smartphone market with a partner announcement out of Mobile World Congress today. LG Electronics plans have a MID with voice capability available in 2010; The device will run on Intel’s next Atom platform called Moorestown and offer 3G and other wireless ...

Over the last two weeks I’ve looked at a lot of netbooks, but left stores and websites with unanswered questions, not products. I have yet to have a manufacturer or salesman satisfactorily answer what fundamentally is the most important question gating netbook acceptance: “Why do I need to give ...

    Toshiba's Satellite 305 is a rock solid portable with a very good widescreen 14.1-display and an excellent standard configuration. (photo\: Toshiba America Information Systems)               There are s...

I’ve used all-in-one PCs for desktop computing for more the last six-months and am quite pleased with the latest iterations of an old computing form factor.       The two machines I’ve been pounding on are a Gateway One and Hewlett Packard’s TouchSmart...

  Like many other parents, I am Vice President of Operations and Academic Funding for the First national Bank of Dad as well as voluntary IT Purchasing Director.  All of this leads me to the tale of how I’ve recently come to eat some tasty crow as well as buy a new portable...

       I’m not immune from the excitement surrounding Apple’s new Macbook. So, I trekked 8 miles down to the Apple store at the local Westfield Mall and waited my turn to touch and look at Apple’s beautiful new portable.      &#...

Apple’s MacBook laptop, the company’s low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn’t just any old product. It’s the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sa...