Lenovo is usually known for it’s rugged laptops, but today the manufacturer announced a laptop for education that’s even more rugged than usual. That laptop is the Lenovo ThinkPad X130e, a notebook designed for K-12 kids and schools. The ThinkPad X130e is an 11.6-inch ultraportable with reinforced cover, keyboard, and hinges so it can be more »

LG is trying it’s best to eliminate bezel around screens with it’s newest ultraportable. The Xnote P210 is a 12.5-inch ultraportable with what looks like on the smallest bezels on a laptop ever. While the bezel is small, the rest of the laptop isn’t exactly the most exciting. It packs an Intel Core i3 or more »

The PC world is now waking up to this tablet craze called iPad. And the only thing that could make the industry wake up: sales. The iPad is beginning it’s disruption. According to All Things D writer John Paczkowski, UBS analyst Maynard Um says the iPad is having a negative impact on the entire PC more »

Acer won’t play that. According to DigiTimes, Acer Taiwan President Scott Lin says he won’t follow Apple down the rabbit hole to tablet computer land. Instead, he says the company will focus on ultra-thin notebooks. Lin reportedly explained the while creating a tablet is child’s play for Acer, creating the ecosystem around it is Apple’s more »

Finding a new way to store power in our mobile devices has been a problem for quite some time. We’ve been stuck with Lithium-Ion batteries for a while now, and unless a device is using ULV or is a netbook, chances are the battery life could be a lot better. There’s been promises of several more »

HP is looking to give IT employees powerful laptops, yet portable and easy to bring around. To do so, they have launched two new notebooks within their ProBook lineup each powerful enough to act like a desktop machine, yet are compact enough to bring around the office or to travel with. No information on pricing or availability have been released at this time for either the 6445b or 6545b.

Compaq’s got a new Windows 7 laptop called the CQ61-310US. It’s got a big 15.6-inch screen with a 1366 x 768 resolution, 2GB of RAM, 802.11b/g, an AMD Sempron Processor, ATI Radeon HD 4200 Graphics card, and, of course, Windows 7 in the Home Premium 64-bit flavor. While a major new trend in notebooks has more »

Intel’s study of notebook security has revealed that lost and stolen laptops cost companies an average of nearly $50,000. This is because the value of the computer includes the data it held as well as the device itself. A senior executive’s notebook is valued at $28,449 while a director or manager’s is worth around $60,000. more »

It happens eventually to all laptops, the battery starts to last for a shorter period of time to the point where you can’t bring it anywhere without also bringing the power supply as well. Normally this point comes about 18 months into the life of the laptop, and is the point at which you need a new battery, Now, HP has licensed technology from Boston-Power that will not make is buy new laptop batteries so often. Continued after the break.

Black Friday, the day when consumers can generally expect to find some good deals, is thankfully just about upon us. With a few weeks before Thanksgiving here in the US, it seems now is about the right time for the deals to begin making their way into the public eye. Sadly, although Dell has plenty of deals listed for Black Friday, it seems that some are not as exciting as one would hope for.

To begin with, Dell is planning to offer the Inspiron Mini 9 for $299, which offers a $50 savings from the regular $349. The specs for that model include a 1.6GHz Atom processor, a 4GB SSD, 512MB RAM an 8.9-inch display and running Ubuntu 8.04.

Other notebooks that are on sale (and some that will offer a much greater savings) will be the Inspiron 13 for $699 (a $329 savings), the Studio 15 for $699 (a $245 savings), the Studio 17 for $799 (a $349 savings), the XPS M1330 for $1,029 (a $319 savings) and the XPS M1530 also for $1,029 (a $319 savings). More deals after the break.