Nowadays, all leading laptop manufacturers are offering laptops with a hybrid HDD-SSD primary memory and high-end, high-performance laptops with complete SSD memory.
Apple has withdrawn all its laptop and desktop computers from the EPEAT environmental rating system, including older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models.
All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control.
The all-Google laptop is aimed at those who live in the cloud, but want a little more from their machine.
Thus while all-SSD laptop computers are increasing in popularity, it appears that approaches that combine flash memory with HDDs may play an even bigger role, at least in the near term.
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While they're pretty light on details, Toshiba has also announced that its updating its Satellite P205 and A205 to the Centrino Duo platform, and it's teasing us with its do-it-all Qosmio G45 laptop, which we expect won't be too different from already-announced Q40.
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Lenovo's ThinkPad X131e Chromebook, provides students, educators, and IT administrators with an intuitive, easy-to-manage, and rugged laptop for all their computing needs right out of the box.
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It's a compelling proposition: all the power and application compatibility of a laptop running a proper desktop operating system, all the portability and convenience of a tablet, all mixed together in one package.
But an all-in-one laptop alternative, dubbed the Ultra Mobile PC, has been available to consumers since mid-2006.
Mitt Romney wants to give laptop computers to all Massachusetts's high-schoolers and middle-schoolers.
All you need is your laptop or computer with an inbuilt microphone.
Here's one lingering question in all of this: If you spend a grand on a laptop, why would you risk getting carrot juice all over the thing?
By the time you've waded through all of the accoutrement, the laptop itself almost feels like a pleasant extra.
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But it sits by my laptop, which does all the really hard work.
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Once a phone or laptop can jump among all available standards, it can easily hop to whichever network is fastest and cheapest.
When asked how he feels about the possibility that other companies might profit from all this hard work developing the laptop of tomorrow?
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He does it all from the classroom via a laptop, an interactive whiteboard, and projector, bringing concepts such as "metaphor" and "simile" alive.
Another goal: to make Songdo the largest so-called ubiquitous city, where wireless networks and radio-frequency identification will link all information systems--every laptop, stoplight, cell phone, TV and toaster.
Looks like all that heat generated by your laptop may finally be useful for something other than frying eggs -- a group of grad students led by professor Orest Symko at the University of Utah has unveiled an array of "thermoacoustic" engines that turn heat into sound, which can be directed at a piezoelectric mechanism to produce electricity.
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Lenovo also recognizes one laptop doesn't fit all, especially when it comes to schools.
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If all else fails, fire up the laptop or tablet to let your kids watch different shows.
All told, almost a third of laptop users around the world will use social websites while at work.
All told, the result is a laptop that's at once durable and lightweight.
But for the web browser on my laptop, which already has all the breadth and connectivity I need, why apps?
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Perfect for slipping into a laptop bag or pocket, all of Iomega's 2.5-inch portable hard drives are host powered, requiring no external power supply beyond the power provided through the USB bus on a personal computer, laptop or netbook.
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Recognizing that one laptop doesn't fit all, especially when it comes to schools, the ThinkPad X131e offers a number of customization options including custom colors, asset tagging services to help keep track of devices left on the school bus or in the classroom, and school logo etching to make every device unique to each educational institution2.
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Be certain that all security patches have been implemented on your laptop or tablet.
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Through much of this drama, Mr Mehta, it seems, is just sitting there, tapping it all straight on to the keyboard of his laptop.
Tablet, laptop, DSLR and smartphone options all make the list of frugal links this time around, so there's sure to be something to investigate just past the break.
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