When choosing the right laptop it all comes down to what you are willing to spend and what you plan to use it for. This guide will help you navigate through the countless options out there. More...

HP has revealed its new range of Ultrabooks as part of its premium Envy line. The five new super-sleek Windows 7 notebooks will all be released before the end of June. More...

A new report claims that Microsoft is working to integrate its Kinect motion gesture technology inside some Asus prototype notebooks that are running on Windows 8. More...

Vizio, best known for their affordable flat screen televisions, will be announced plans to release both Windows-based desktop and notebook PCs in 2012 at what may be very cheap prices. More...

CES is almost here, and Lenovo's showing off their new range of 2012 notebooks. There's quite a few, and the company didn't want to be left out of the Ultrabook fad, bringing the new chassis to light. More...

A new study claims that men who use WiFi-enabled laptops near their reproductive organs could be risking the loss of their sperm due to the electromagnetic radiation generated by the WiFi signal. More...

According to the organizer's of January 2012's CES expo, anywhere up to fifty new Ultrabook models could pour onto the market after the show. More...

Many of us have been here: You are driving down the road and you realize that you left your smartphone or laptop at the last place you were, or someone may have stolen it. What can you do? More...

Jumping around in front of your TV? That's not cool. Alienware is claiming that only real PC gaming is cool, and that they're the only ones that can save you from a depressing life of casual gaming. More...

According to Network World, Samsung has been installing key logging software on its laptop computers. On May 1 Mohamed Hassan, a graduate of the Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) program at Norwich University,... More...

Last week Neowin reported on a shocking case at the Lower Merion High School district in Pennsylvania, U.S. The FBI confirmed later that they will be opening up a criminal investigation over the matter. Students issued... More...

On Thursday Neowin reported on a shocking case at the Lower Merion High School district in Pennsylvania, U.S. An FBI official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, confirmed they will be opening... More...

With 3rd quarter sales, revenue, and earnings posted and evaluated, several surprising facts come into play. iSuppli, a market research firm, has evaluated desktop and laptop sales, and for the first time ever, laptop shipments... More...

Hewlett-Packard early next year will begin offering a new line of "Enviro" batteries for laptop users who want to upgrade to longer-lasting and more sustainably designed batteries. HP and Boston Power have been testing the... More...

Sony is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of wiring faults that could cause overheating. The recall concerns 19 Vaio models in the TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008 -... More...

As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom Processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30,... More...

Notebook PCs coming out this year will likely include more colorful screens thanks to LED (light emitting diode) backlights and Blu-ray Disc optical drives this year, an executive from Micro-Star International (MSI) says, as well... More...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft Corp. are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of... More...

Toshiba’s Digital Product Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Incorporated, has lowered the starting price on its HD DVD notebook line to $899 (starting with the Satellite A205 notebook). In addition to the... More...

Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard appears to have brought with it battery drain and intermittent keyboard freezing issues, which are plaguing some MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. Numerous posts in Apple's support... More...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute affordable laptop computers to children around the world, announced that mass production of the... More...

According to One Laptop Per Child Project's Arjun Sarwal, the group is considering powering its low-cost XO laptops with cows: "We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of... More...

Toshiba Corp. on Monday pushed high-definition technology into new laptops, expanding entertainment options for budget users. The Satellite A205 and Qosmio F45 laptops provide HD DVD drives and entertainment options to more users at an... More...

Dell and Lenovo today announced the first notebooks with embedded Certified Wireless USB chips, which will enable cable-free connections to USB peripherals hooked up to Certified Wireless USB hubs that D-Link and IOGear also announced.... More...

Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market. Starting in September,... More...

Intel has extended its top of the line processing power to the mobile space with the launch of its Core 2 Extreme Mobile processor, the X7800. This 2.6-GHz part marks a 200 MHz increase over... More...

Toshiba may push its HD DVD format by installing appropriate optical drives into its notebooks. Toshiba's senior vice president Hisatsugu Nonaka said that the company would integrate HD DVD optical drives into "all" of its... More...

Two Taiwanese companies are making laptop PCs users can hook up to their high definition (HD) TVs to make more use of the laptops' internal high definition optical drives, either Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD.... More...

Analysts IDC have said that by 2011 laptops will outsell desktop computers as portable machines become quicker and more efficient. The report predicts that laptop sales will grow 16.1% year-on-year until 2011, compared to 3.8%... More...

Throughout the Black Hat conference hall, laptops babbled incessantly about their users. Errata Security's Robert Graham and David Maynor just sat back and sipped from the data firehose. Except, that is, when they jumped to... More...

The good news is that losses are dropping. The bad news is that they're still happening, and the FBI doesn't know if secure information is entering the wild. Completed in 2002, the Office of the... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is zeroing in on notebook computers as the initial target for its Fusion processors, which will merge X86 and graphics cores and will ship in 2009. AMD believes the integration will... More...

SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable. The switch, however, will cost you a few hundred dollars... More...

After much anticipation and hordes of coverage, the first OLPC ($100 laptops) laptops are being shipped. Only 10 units so far have made it out the door, and are going to be evaluated as beta... More...

The first $100 laptop PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program will roll off production lines by the end of this year, and mass production will start in the first quarter of 2007,... More...

Nigeria has officially ordered and paid for one million of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) devices, according to the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper. The deal is the first actual order for the project that aims... More...

Dell and Acer both announced today notebook-oriented add-in cards equipped with a pre-standard version of the 802.11n next-generation Wi-Fi specification. The company's cards provide data transfer rates of up to 270Mbps and 300Mbps, the two... More...

Dell is investigating reports that one of its laptops exploded during a conference in Osaka recently. A series of photographs of the portable pyromaniac's delight appeared online within hours of the incident, a Reuters... More...

Skype's voice over Internet Protocol software that allows people to talk for free over the Internet will ship on Dell's new XPS notebooks. The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell's audio/video communications... More...

Alienware's 19-inch Aurora mALX and 17-inch Aurora m9700 notebooks are equipped with the Airgo's Gen3 True MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), the companies are expected to announce during the E3 Expo, a massive conference in... More...

Today it was announced that Apple Computers won the bid presented in January by the state of Maine to fulfill a new education technology initiative. This initiative includes the purchase of over 36,000 Macs... More...

Bloomberg is the latest of the news outlets to jump on the latest as yet unconfirmed news that Apple will move to the x86 architecture, according to Jean-Louis Gassee who oversaw Apple's products and research-and-development... More...

In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers... More...

Toshiba Corp. has announced a voluntary exchange program for memory modules in some of its notebook PCs after identifying a module problem that could cause the PCs to exhibit blue screens, lock up, or experience... More...

A proposal to expand Maine's laptop computer program from middle schools to high schools showed signs of life Tuesday, a day after several lawmakers declared it dead. State Rep. Glenn Cummings, a Democrat from Portland... More...

Big thanks goes out to one of our very own Neowin members burnsnet for bringing to this to my attention. Yesterday the following Dell Laptops were all issued with new BIOS's all... More...

Sony Corp. on Wednesday said that some of 3,000 laptop computers it shipped to the United States could pose the risk of a small electric shock to users in rare instances. The laptop affected is... More...

Top secret data goes walkabout Two laptops have disappeared from the headquarters of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces in Tampa, Florida, one of which contained top secret information. Russian daily... More...

Compaq Australia may be facing a class action lawsuit from irate customers who feel duped by the hardware manufacturer's accidental Web site promotion of Presario laptop computers costing just one cent. ZDNet... More...