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NewsUpset MacBook Air Owner Makes Subtle, Nuanced Pro-PC Argument

Posted 05/01/09 at 09:33:10 AM by Paul Lilly

Sometimes the best way to get your point across is to wield a large kitchen knife and take out your frustration with repeated stabs to the object of your ire, so long as it's an inanimate object. Or at least that's how YouTube user Haurum approached the situation after becoming frustrated with a damaged hinge on his MacBook Air.

Let's just leave it at that and let the video do the rest.

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TAGS: pc, mobile, notebook, laptop, hardware, MacBook Air

NewsDell's Adamo May Arrive Later Than Thought

Posted 01/21/09 at 05:02:06 PM by Andy Salisbury

Thanks to the rumor mill’s constant churning, there’s some new talk of Dell’s Adamo laptop not being released until the second half of this year, as opposed to the originally planned first half.

Reportedly, Dell’s ultra thin offering is only in sample production by Foxconn, and won’t be in volume production until the second half of this year. By that time, they should have already made about 400,000 systems.

Foxconn spokesperson Edmund Ding hasn’t denied the claims, but states that the company has “no knowledge” of the orders. There doesn’t appear to be any statement by Dell either.

It looks like the MacBook Air has the floor for just a bit longer than most had expected.

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TAGS: notebook, apple, dell, laptop, consumer electronics, MacBook Air, ultraportable, delay, Adamo

NewsRumor: Dell to Offer Air-Like "Adamo" Laptop

Posted 12/19/08 at 02:54:56 PM by Andy Salisbury

Thanks to some recent swirling rumors, there’s word on the street that Dell is planning to release an ultra-thin, ultra-portable notebook aimed at rivaling the MacBook Air.

According to the fashion blog (seriously) Uptownlife.net, “Rumor has it that Dell is coming out with a computer called Adamo that will rival the MacBook Air.” Their exact source still hasn’t been cited, but given that the computer has its own website, there’s reason to believe that it’ll be upon us soon.

Thanks to the lack of solid evidence, any speculation we can provide will be about as good as any ol’ fashion blog. Though, with any luck there won’t be much waiting until the announcement, so we can get our grubby hands on whatever Adamo turns out to be and let you know if it really is a MacBook Air rival.

Your move, Dell.

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TAGS: apple, dell, hardware, consumer electronics, MacBook Air, Adamo

NewsGreenpeace Unimpressed by "World's Greenest Family of Notebooks"

Posted 12/03/08 at 05:32:15 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Apple is finding it extremely difficult to avoid being in Greenpeace’s cross hairs. Nearly a year ago, Greenpeace branded the iPhone as “toxic”. Now, the organization has flayed Apple’s pompous claim that its Macbook line of notebooks are the greenest there are.

The Macbook range of notebooks scored a highly disappointing 4.3 out of a possible 10 points on the organization’s green index. Greenpeace did laud Apple, though very frugally, for doing away with bromide flame-retardants and other toxic plastics. But it clearly believes that Apple should take more steps to substantiate its towering claims.

Greenpeace has put the ball in Apple’s court by asking it “to commit to phasing out additional substances with timelines, improve its policy on chemicals and its reporting on chemicals management.”

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TAGS: apple, iphone, OS X, hardware, MacBook Air, macbook, macbook pro, build a rig, Greenpeace

NewsToshiba Updates Lightest Laptop, Launches Other Models

Posted 10/11/08 at 06:58:29 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Toshiba has updated the lightest laptop in the world. Its all new ultra portable Protégé R600 weighs in at only 2.14lbs. Toshiba claims that the Protégé R600 is the thinnest and the lightest notebook in the world. Besides the R600, the company also added the M750 Tablet PC and the A600 to its Protégé series.

The R600 features an Intel Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage processor and up to 5GB memory. Certain models feature a 128GB SSD. The lightest laptop in the world has a 12.1-inch screen and an impressive 9-hour battery life.

Tosh also unveiled the Tecra R10 notebook to woo business users. The R10 Tecra chassis cocoons a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB DDR2 memory, an Nvidia Quadro NVS graphics controller with 128MB video memory and a 200 GB hard drive. The R10 is priced $1999.

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TAGS: hardware, MacBook Air, toshiba r600, r10 tecra, protege, lightest laptop

FeaturesTake That, Jessica Chobot and Olivia Munn! Maximum PC Scores Voodoo Envy Hands-On and First Licking (Size Comparisons Too)

Posted 07/17/08 at 11:00:59 AM by Norman Chan

Just call us licky. We mean, lucky. You've seen the official super-hot photos of the Voodoo PC's Envy laptop, but we got our hands on one and were able to take tons of close-up photos of the as well as try out the highly touted instant-on feature. Our initial impressions: the laptop is really light. HP claims the laptop (it was the SSD version) weighs three and a half pounds, and even though we didn’t have a scale in our messenger bags, it sure felt about the same weight as the Macbook air, power supply notwithstanding. Stacking the Envy against a Macbook Pro and Thinkpad X300, Voodoo’s pricey portable was both smaller and slimmer, though it sports a 13” screen.