Lenovo has just launched three new models of its IdeaPad S Series laptops, which cuts the price of the thin-and-light style of Windows PC notebooks down to as low as $499. More...

Dell has confirmed that Windows 8 notebooks with touch screen features will cost more than their non-touch screen counterparts when they are launched. Dell plans to offer a range of Windows 8 products More...

Quanta, the world's biggest contract manufacturer of notebook PCs, had filed a lawsuit against AMD, alleging that the company delivered defective processors to Quanta. 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 rumor claims that Microsoft is letting ARM-based processor makers pick two hardware partners to make notebooks that will run the upcoming ARM version of Windows 8. More...

A new rumor claims that the ARM version of Windows 8 could officially launch by the end of 2012 and that ARM-based Windows 8 notebooks could launch in June 2013. More...

A Qualcomm executive states that the smartphone and tablet processor company could make the big leap to providing chips for PC desktops and notebooks at some point in the future. More...

The market share of notebook PCs with Blu-ray drives is expected to increase from 1% this year to 10% in 2008 due to notebook makers more willing to adopt cheaper Blu-ray combo optical disc drives... More...

Intel plans to launch five 45nm notebook processors (Penryn) to go along with its Santa Rosa Refresh platform in the first quarter of 2008. These will be followed by another six for Montevina in the... More...

Micro-Star International (MSI) is expected to ship over 800,000 OEM notebooks this year plus a substantial amount of its own Megabook-branded notebooks, according to company sources. To boost the sales of its own-brand notebooks, the... More...

iSuppli Corporation has concluded that the use of NAND flash memory in notebooks is expected to increase sharply in the next few years: nearly 60% percent of the 40.1 million notebooks that will be shipped... More...

Fujitsu has lost no time and has released three new Santa Rosa-based notebook models for the Japanese market. The company launched two 15.4" Santa Rosa notebooks: the FMV-BIBLO NX and FMV-BIBLO NF. The NX features... More...

The Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration has released a report on the Internal Revenue Service and found that 490 laptops had been reported stolen between January 2, 2003 and June 13, 2006. Unfortunately,... More...

The world's top supplier of x86 microprocessors for notebooks, Intel, and the leading producer of mobile phones, Nokia, have both decided to scrap the plans to jointly develop HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) module for... More...

Dell Canada Inc. faces a lawsuit filed by an Ontario man on behalf of Canadians who own certain models of Inspiron notebook computers with purported defects that cause complete system failure, the plaintiff's lawyer announced... More...

Apple and HP are both poised to introduce notebooks in 2007 that use LED-backlit LCDs, according to new rumors. Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes reports that the two computer makers are expected to launch these notebooks in... More...

Dell is preparing to launch a new range of notebooks costing under $500 according to reports. The new range is said to be powered by processors from AMD. Taiwanese news site Digitimes quotes notebook... More...

The unit price of AMD Turion 64 X2-based notebooks is about US$150 less than an Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom)-based notebook, according to product portfolios that notebook vendors have offered. AMD still has an edge... More...

Notebook PCs are rapidly moving toward a future filled with more pixels and more screen real estate, thanks to the unexpectedly rapid proliferation of widescreen displays. Once fairly rare beasts, widescreen notebooks—notebooks with screens... More...

Forthcoming Dell's AMD-based notebooks, which are expected to be available in late October or early November, will be equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chips, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers. Although it will... More...

Following its recent partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to put the latter's chip in its server product line, Dell Computer confirmed this week that it will launch AMD-based laptops as early as October. The move... More...

Dell is expected to unveil new business notebooks with built-insupport for wide-area network connection options, wide-screen displays, and a dual-core processor optionTuesday evening. Included in the unveiling are the Latitude D620... More...

Dell on Tuesday filled out its notebook lineup with two new dual-core processor machines that emphasize entertainment options in a smaller package. The Inspiron e1505 and Inspiron 6400 are the same machine,... More...

Hewlett-Packard and Dell plan early next year to start selling laptops with embedded radios that allow users to access the Internet via the Verizon Wireless data network, the two manufacturers have said separately. ... More...

Though a number of companies have shown off fuel cells for cell phones and MP3 players, a company out of New Jersey says it has come up with one that can power a notebook. ... More...

NVIDIA Corp. started shipments of its top-performing mobile graphics processing unit dubbed GeForce Go 6800 Ultra aiming desktop replacement (DTR) notebooks. The chip was originally announced in November, 2004, but is only now adopted in... More...

VIA Technologies, a developer of silicon-chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the VIA K8N800A, a low-power core-logic chipset with an integrated graphics processor (IGP) incorporated with the northbridge. The chipset is optimized for... More...

Not long ago, notebook computers were expensive accessories for traveling executives. Now, it's not a surprise to find many choices priced under $1000. A recent check of Web stores found major vendors offering notebooks on... More...

Dell and Asustek Computer plan to launch 17-inch AV (audio video) notebooks to compete with Toshiba's recently launched Qosmio notebook, according to market sources. The new AV notebooks are intended to give a jolt to... More...

Friday HP discovered a memory flaw that could have affected as many as 900,000 notebooks. Already HP announced that they will be offering free memory replacements. According to News.com "The memory modules in... More...

AMD today officially confirmed two new additional SKUs in the company's 64-bit lineup – a couple of new Mobile Athlon 64 chips that will fight with higher-end Pentium 4 Min terms of performance. Today's Mobile... More...

Toshiba on Thursday unveiled a supersize hard drive for notebooks. The 100GB storage vault, the MK1031GAS, will pack 20GB more capacity than Toshiba's current biggest drives for notebooks. While most notebooks... More...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) now expects to sell 11 million notebooks in 2004, a 10% jump from its earlier target of 10 million and an increase of close to 70% from the 6.5 million it shipped in... More...

Intel is likely to give up its current practice of launching processors for desktops and notebooks respectively. Instead the chipmaker is expected to launch a brand new processor, dubbed Merom, for all PCs starting 2007,... More...

Manufacturers are going to start selling notebooks with integrated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) this year and later come out with notebooks with built-in cell phone capabilities, Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of... More...

Thanks xStainDx. PC makers are gearing up to market notebooks more aggressively to PC gaming enthusiasts. Although PC manufacturers have been selling game-oriented desktops for years, they're now bent on expanding their horizons... More...

AMD yesterday released its new Mobile Athlon 64 processors designed specifically for notebook systems that work on battery power. The new products compliment existing line of AMD64 CPUs for desktop replacement portable computers unveiled in... More...

Micro-Star International (MSI) aims to ship 150,000 to 200,000 notebooks in 2004 – the first year for volume shipments after it began notebook manufacturing at the end of 2003, company sources said. MSI makes notebooks... More...

Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition is aimed fairly and squarely at desktops for gamers, but that hasn't stopped a US PC maker from attempting to bung one into its high-end portables. Liebermann offers three notebook... More...

Wal-Mart Stores is developing a plan to launch its own brand of PCs. The retail giant plans to begin offering notebooks under its own brand name during the first quarter of 2004,... More...

SOURCES DISCLOSED that when Intel succeeds in creating Prescott processors aimed at the notebook market, they are likely to scale to 4GHz before that particular avenue reaches a dead end. The Intel plans for notebook... More...

Intel Corporation today introduced the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology* for portable notebook PCs, commonly referred to as desktop replacement notebooks. These systems offer consumers such desktop-like features as large screens,... More...

Today at WPC Expo 2003 in Tokyo, Microsoft Corp. and Toshiba Corp. announced an agreement to deliver Microsoft® Office OneNote (TM) 2003 preinstalled on all new Toshiba laptops and Tablet PCs worldwide. OneNote 2003, the... More...

With experience and technology acquired from its partner LG Electronics (LGE), Micro-Star International (MSI) is planning to introduce own-brand notebooks at the end of 2003, company chairman and president Joseph Hsu said at a May... More...

Nvidia today followed up last week's desktop GeForce FX 5600 and 5200 launch with the introduction of two mobile versions. The GeForce FX Go 5600 and GeForce FX Go 5200 both mirror their desktop equivalents.... More...

Notebook computer makers are revving up for battle. Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Sony are readying their holiday 2002 models. Toshiba is preparing faster, more multimedia-savvy models for consumers to compete with expected new... More...

Intel will once again increase the performance of notebooks when it releases a new 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M chip on Monday, according to sources familiar with its plans. The new Pentium 4-M, with "M" as in... More...

With its new line of Compaq Computer Presario notebooks, Hewlett-Packard is looking for road warriors who enjoy the freedom of movement, but prefer to stay plugged in at home. The Presario 1500... More...

On Monday, Apple upgraded it's like of iBook, with larger hard drives, faster processors and more powerful graphics, which is being provided by an all improved ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processors as well as a... More...

Thanks SlashDot14 for this one! Water-cooled processors, currently the domain of supercomputers, high-end servers, and garage hobbyists, may be about to enter the mainstream. Hitachi has developed a prototype notebook PC... More...