The VAIO P Series is a fascinating notebook. And Sony is going to tremendous pains to make it clear that it’s no netbook - even though I heard a couple of its employees making the Freudian slip of calling it a netbook, before quickly correcting themselves.
What immediately sets it apart is its size. The P Series can literally slip into a jacket pocket - I know because I’ve done it. It’s also incredibly light, just 638g. Even the lightest netbooks tend to tip the scales over 1kg. Read the rest of this entry »
But the one big shock to come out of the detailed research is that the peak rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm, as we can see from the graph below.Â
If you think the £1,950 price tag on the new 17in MacBook Pro is a touch on the steep side in the credit-crunched netbook era, take a look at how much it costs to upgrade the laptop’s RAM.
According to the Apple website, an upgrade from 4GB to 8GB of RAM will cost no less than £839.99. That’s over £200 a gigabyte (my mother always said the A-Level maths would come in handy).
For that money you could buy five of the original Eee PC 701s from Technoworld.com and still have over £50 to spare.Â
We’ve talked about DisplayLink quite a bit recently at PC Pro, whether as a boxout in a recent TFTs Labs or in product reviews like the Village Tronic ViBook. Late 2008 saw a few tentative moves by major manufacturers like Samsung, LG and InFocus to incorporate DisplayLink natively into monitors and projectors, but 2009 looks set to be the year when the technology really explodes into life.
Early reports from CES in Las Vegas have most of the major monitor brands launching DisplayLink versions of products, and mainly on previously successful, high-quality monitor lines. Several companies are also launching adapters that will convert any exisiting monitor to DisplayLink, which takes care of backwards compatibility.
DisplayLink - sending the video signal via USB rather than standard graphics outputs, for those who haven’t been keeping up - won’t revolutionise your use of your main monitor, let’s be honest. But I’m pretty certain it’ll grow in popularity among those with multi-monitor setups, those who regularly hook up TFTs to a laptop with limited outputs, and those who simply don’t want or need graphics cards cluttering up their compact PCs.
Lenovo may have already announced its latest laptop workstation, the hulking W700, but we only just recently caught a high-resolution glimpse of its more esoteric cousin, the W700DS.
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Take a look at the pictures above and you can play a thrilling game of spot the difference. Is it the integrated Wacom graphics tablet lurking to the right of the trackpad? No, sorry, they both have one of those, try again. Is it the integrated X-Rite Pantone colour calibration sensor for discerning design professionals? No, you’re getting a teeny bit warmer though.
It may not be the file sharing or copyright infringement capital of the globe, but New Zealand is still taking the issue seriously by introducing a new law to stop people downloading movies and albums and robbing artists of honestly earned cash.
Except that the new law is such a ridiculous piece of legislation that we can’t quite believe it’s going to come into force. Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act will be introduced at the end of February 2009, and says that any individual who is even alleged to have shared files illegally can be disconnected from the internet.
This is the first photo of Lenovo’s glamorous looking all-in-one, the IdeaCentre A600. The 21.5in frameless screen offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080, helping to take full advantage of the optional Blu-ray player.Â
Intriguingly, The IdeaCentre has a Wii-like remote control that allows you to move the cursor around the screen simply by waving the remote around like a wand.
The PC packs an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, dedicated ATI Radeon graphics and up to 1TB of hard disk space.
There’s no word on a UK release yet, but the A600 will be released in the US in April, starting at $999. We’ll bring you more news on the IdeaCentre if it ever graces our shores. Â
I treated myself to a new 16GB iPod Nano over Christmas and have to say I’m overjoyed with the little blighter, except for one standout irritation: no dedicated charger.
The device truly is magnificent. It’s so light you genuinely don’t notice it’s in your pocket, and the tiny 5.5in screen packs such a high resolution that I’ve found myself downloading free videos (Lily Allen for Christ’s Sake) for the sheer novelty factor. Not to mention the fact that my 4-year-old daughter is ridiculously amused by the video automatically flipping its orientation depending on which way up you hold the device, thanks to the built in accelerometer.
But the lack of a dedicated charger is really quite irksome. I’ve perfected an overnight charging regime over the years: laptop gets charged once a night, iPod every other night, mobile phone every three days. Using the Collins Formula, I can’t remember the last time I ran out of juice.
We all have our favourite news sites, but it can be difficult to know where else to look for good quality information and opinion. Thankfully, with the internet being a pretty sociable place there are millions of people in the same situation as you – and social news sites are helping to bring them all together.
A hybrid mashup of social networking and user review sites, some (e.g. Digg, Reddit) are purely user-driven while others (Slashdot, Fark) rely on moderators to pick and choose the best articles. This post looks at how a few of the biggest sites work, along with some tips on how to get the most from them.
So you’ve just unwrapped that sexy new HD camcorder the other half bought you for Christmas. You’ve annoyed everyone by recording them getting drunk and embarrassing themselves over the festive dinner. So what next?
You could go out and spend loads of money on a decent editing suite, but you don’t have to - there are plenty of ways of editing, playing back and sharing your video that you don’t have to spend any money on at all.
The VAIO P Series is a fascinating notebook. And Sony is going to tremendous pains to make it clear that it’s no netbook - even though I heard a couple of its employees making the Freudian slip of calling it a netbook, before quickly correcting themselves.
