- Features for the Perfect Notebook
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 19, 2009
- With the launch of both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard this holiday season, we may be getting the biggest single refresh of PCs that has ever happened at one time. At the end of September Apple shoots, at the end of October Microsoft shoots, and then for...
- How to Encrypt and Erase a Hard Drive
- Digital Trends Guides - July 31, 2009
- We discussed the importance of backing up the data stored on your computer’s hard drive in a previous story. But what happens if your computer is lost or stolen? Notebooks are particularly vulnerable. A thoroughly executed back-up plan will all...
- Your Laptop and International Travel
- PC World Articles - July 13, 2009
- Gmartin12 asked the Answer Line forum for advice before talking a notebook overseas
- Hands-On with a Monster: Alienware's M17x
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - June 24, 2009
- I can't tell you how much I look forward to getting a new notebook from Alienware. This is one of the few companies that seem to understand that a gaming notebook needs to look like it eats Apple products for lunch and scares the hell out of small ...
- Blurring the Line Between Netbook and Notebook
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - May 28, 2009
- This week, Lenovo launched its S12 netbook with an Nvidia Ion graphics processor as an option. Though I haven’t had a chance to play with one yet, I've just completed two weeks using the Acer Revo Aspire, which is a similar configuration in a m...
- Dell Adamo vs. MacBook Air
- Digital Trends Features - May 13, 2009
- For those seeking the smallest, sexiest notebooks on the market, there are no closer two choices than Apple’s trend-setting MacBook Air and its late-coming competitor, the Dell Adamo. Though strikingly similar in many ways, they differ enough t...
- Top 10 Fashion Laptops
- Digital Trends Guides - May 6, 2009
- Henry Ford famously joked in 1909 that customers could order their Model Ts in whatever color they wanted – so long as it was black. And about ten years ago, that was pretty much the status of the notebook industry. Buying a laptop meant pickin...
- Picking the Perfect Notebook
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - April 16, 2009
- I received an interesting question this last week from a guy trying to choose between two brand new notebooks in HP’s line: the DV2 and DV3. In answering his question, it occurred to me that people often don’t think about what they want t...
- Laptop Battery Power Tips
- PC World Articles - March 25, 2009
- Learn how to keep your notebook going when you're away from a wall socket and there's no power port in sight.
- Dell Reaches for Luxury with the Adamo
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - March 17, 2009
- There are two things you have to understand about the new Adamo laptop from Dell. The first is that it is an attempt to define a class of relatively exclusive luxury laptops, and the second is that it is the kind of artistic effort that, strangely en...
- Perfecting The Computing Trinity: Desktop, Laptop and Smartphone
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - February 16, 2009
- The usage model for a netbook is to wed it with a desktop computer to get the best of both worlds: a mobile computer that is light, capable and very portable, and a desktop that is powerful, but in which both together are affordable.Traditional noteb...
- Netbook Buyer's Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - January 28, 2009
- Netbooks are a relative newcomer to the world of portable computers. They sit comfortably at the opposite end of the spectrum from the "desktop replacement" notebooks, those laptops with big screens, beefy specs and full-sized keyboards.Net...
- Tips for Laptop Users From Hassle-Free PC
- PC World Articles - November 11, 2008
- PC World blogger Rick Broida tells you how to revive a dead laptop, turn a notebook into a hotspot, and protect sensitive docs from prying eyes.
- The Sprint HTC Touch Diamond
- TechLore - August 21, 2008
- The Sprint HTC Touch Diamond is almost here!!! Here are the facts! - Coming to Sprint in September - SRP $549.99 - Net Cost $299.99 Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phones… the Sprint HTC Touch Diamond signals a giant leap forward...
- Step-by-Step: 5 Laptop Upgrades You Can Do Yourself
- PC World Articles - July 28, 2008
- Your notebook may be old, but that doesn't mean its days are numbered. We'll show you how to breathe new life into your portable by opening the hood and upgrading some basic components.