Market research firm Gartner is forecasting a much better year in 2010 for PC shipments worldwide than last year, expecting a 20 percent increase year-over-year. However, mobile computing will be the main impetus behind that growth.
Mobile PCs...
Apple Still Needs a Sub-$700 Conventional Notebook
Writing in the Huffington Post, Larry Magid raises the point that PC netbooks are hot sellers for very good reasons — namely that these small laptops, which typically cost between $300 and $400, can do most things a large portion of users want to do with a laptop computer, and do them much more cheaply,...
Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox bring child-like wonder
Filed under: Software, Open Source, Friday Favorite
The phrase "game changer" is no doubt cliché and overused, but every now and again it just fits.
I had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. It...
Apple Tops U.S. Retail Sales Rankings in October
NPD Group has released its latest numbers for U.S. computer sales in October, and Macs are occupying many spots at or near the top of the list in all categories. Sales of both Mac desktop and notebook computers were very impressive for the month, but a good amount of that success can be attributed to...
Rumor Has It: Apple Says “No” to Mobile Intel Core i5 and i7 Chips
Apple uses the desktop version of Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 processors in its current iMac lineup, and despite some DOA machines and some odd display problems being reported, people seem generally pleased with the results. It makes sense then that Apple would be interested in using the mobile version of those processors, codenamed...
This just in: MacBooks are more reliable than netbooks
Filed under: Portables, Odds and ends
Apple Ranks a Lackluster Fourth in Notebook Reliability Study
According to a new study by research firm SquareTrade, Apple is fairly reliable, but not the most reliable company of all, when it comes to notebooks. The top honor goes to Asus, which surprised me, but I suppose shouldn’t have when I consider the build quality of my fairly inexpensive Eee PC. Toshiba and Sony...
Pear Note: note taking for the best of us
Filed under: Software, Productivity, Education
Though I graduated from college (Go Bears!) not so long ago, in computer years it seems like ages: notebook computers have almost completely replaced spiral-bound notebooks, and PowerPoint and Keynote are increasingly supplanting the chalkboard....
Unlaunched Atom-smasher shows up in Samsung X series laptops
Samsung announced...
A sketchbook for iPhone apps
Filed under: Accessories, Developer, iPhone
Want to sketch out your iPhone apps? There's a notebook for that.App Sketchbook is a pretty nifty notebook for iPhone developers who want to sketch out their products out on paper as part of the...
New MacBooks and MacBook Pros Just Around the Corner?