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In London, The First Store Opened Google

Google has unveiled in recent days his first 'Google Store', a shop where you can touch and purchase of a new Chromebook, laptop computers running Chrome OS. The store, called 'Chromezone', was set up with the formula of the shop in shop at a shop on Tottenham Court Road, London. Google's intentions to use are those Chromezone for three months, to promote their Chromebook and get valuable feedback from...

Dell Inspiron 11z reviewed

Dell's 11.6-inch Inspiron 11z sure looks promising, with a sub-$500 price tag and an Intel Celeron 723 / non-Atom processor, but if you ask the gang at Notebook Review to describe it, it's unfortunately a pretty big letdown. Some minor issues with the body from the get-go, it's apparently got one of the worst touch pads the site's ever seen, and the 1.2GHz processor ended up underperforming compared to its Atom-based competition (although we gotta wonder how using Windows 7 instead of Vista...

UCube Speakers From UltraLink Run Off USB

At $150 per pair, you can use these USB-powered UltraLink UCube speakers on a bus, on the beach, or on the table at your favorite McDonald's. Each speaker is able to pump out 15 watts of peak power you won't be filling a large room with crisp, distortion-free sound, but they're probably loud enough to play your tunes or flicks for a group of friends, or to annoy strangers in a park. UltraLink claims that the speakers use DSP-controlled power supplies to "store energy during quiet passages,"...

Its Time to Buy a Laptop

Windows 7's launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual core ULV processors when the OS ships. Intel's next generation Centrino platform, codenamed Calpella, will be launched at the end of September, says MSI. That means speedy new notebooks with Nehelam based mobile CPUs and chipsets will be arriving just in time to put Windows 7 on the hard drive. MSI will ship 15.4 and 17-inch...

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...