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Plastic MacBooks

I've been assuming for a while now that Apple was close to giving up on the aging polycarbonate MacBooks, but apparently not: AppleInsider's got a source saying that, pending a "industrial design overhaul," they're here to stay. Lately, the plastic MacBook has felt like an unwanted orphan. It's a tired generation-old design that looks stodgy next to the slick new unibodies, but without it, Apple's cheapest laptop would cost $1200 a little too high for a lot of prospective Mac users, and most...

ASUS EeeTop PC Ready for a Touch of Windows 7

We've been anticipating these ION-infused EeeTops since CeBIT and, after a few leaks along the way, ASUS has finally made things official. The 20-inch ET2002 and ET2002T (guess which one comes with the touchscreen) get an Atom 330 riding that ION chipset with integrated graphics, 2GB of DDR2, 320GB storage, WiFi, a DVD rewriter and stereo speakers. The 22-inch ET2203T matches the connectivity options, but doubles the memory, adds Blu-ray and larger HDD options, ATI Radeon HD4570 graphics, and...

Steve Jobs Pay Attention’ a lot into an Apple tablet

There isn't a lot to go by here, but if the Wall Street Journal's sources are to believed, recently-returned Apple CEO Steve Jobs is currently focusing the vast majority of his attention on the oft rumored tablet device, micromanaging every detail much in the way he did with the iPhone. The report also says that the tablet project has been twice killed by Jobs in recent years first time because of bad battery life, which we get, and second because of insufficient memory, which seems a little...

Nokia introduces Booklet 3G

Nokia rocked the world this morning by introducing its spin on the laptop, called the Booklet 3G. If you're the rude sort (like us) you could call it a fancy netbook, what with its Atom processor and 10.1-inch display, but that screen is higher res than your average Eee, and it also sports integrated 3G wireless and a hot-swappable SIM card, so it's definitely trying to define its own niche. It looks to be running Windows 7, which isn't particularly netbooky, and also has integrated A-GPS...

Snow Leopard shipping August 28th

Well, it's not September, but we're not going to hold an early launch of its performance-focused Snow Leopard OS against Apple. The Apple store has come back online bearing an order page for OS X version 10.6 in Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Pro... oh wait, it's just $29, as an upgrade from 10.5. August 28th, that's when, now go 'n get it. While you wait for that order to ship, Apple wants you to know that Snow Leopard's Finder is more responsive, Mail loads messages twice as fast, Time...