Curse you, TwelveSouth! You keep coming up with ways to make me spend my hard-earned money. This time, it’s a wonderfully unique sleeve for the MacBook line, the BookBook. This US$79.99 sleeve looks like an antique leather-bound book, but it wraps around your Apple-made pride and joy to give it a level of class it [...]

Any advancement in commercial storage is big news ’round here so we’re stoked to learn of a new ultra-thin hard disk from Seagate meant to slake our jones for super-slim portable computing. Seems that Seagate’s already sampling a 7-mm high disk as part of its Momentus Thin series of drives scheduled to be launched at [...]

Philips couldn’t decide whether you asked for a Bluetooth mouse, a USB mouse, or a touchpad, so it Frankensteined all three together. What can we say about aptly named “Bluetooth notebook mouse SPM9800/10?” Well, if you need a Bluetooth mouse, you can use it like a Bluetooth mouse. If the juice runs out, plug it [...]

The computer nerd in me really, really wants one of these. Having your browser, iTunes, IM, TweetDeck (), Word, Skype (), Photoshop, video editing tools, folders, and more open at the same time…well, it just takes up a lot of screen real estate. On a 15.4? laptop, you can only fit so much before your [...]

It’s one of the most overlooked product refreshes of the day, but the MacBook Air still deserves some credit. Not only did the Air get a drastic price drop (specifically with the SSD model), but it also gained a few specs. The base MacBook Air now starts at $1499US with a 1.86 Ghz Intel Core [...]

Here in an atypically small press conference in the desert, Dell has just served up its Mini 10 netbook, complete with an “edge-to-edge” 720p 10-inch display, a built-in TV tuner (!), integrated 3G WWAN / GPS, multitouch support and an Atom Z530 CPU. Moreover, you’ll find an “edge-to-edge” keyboard (no wasted space, we guess), a [...]

In all-too-familiar fashion, Dell’s new Studio XPS laptops have snuck onto the company’s store with nary a press release to keep them company. The 1340 is obviously the Dell Studio XPS 13 we saw last month, while the 1640 is naturally the 16-inch version of the leather accented system. Both machines are (oddly) hitting at [...]

Why does Intel have to be so darn stubborn? First it insists on only bundling the Atom processor with their own graphics (simultaneously breaking poor NVIDIA’s heart), and then there’s whole thing where it restricts the CPU to netbooks under 10.2-inches. But like all good things, this too might someday come to an end. According [...]