A group of industry heavyweights is putting its support behind Mini PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), a proposed standard for connecting small form factor products such as notebook PCs, docking stations and printers.
He said Compaq offers users the choice of whether or not to have wireless LAN technology added to their notebook. To make all notebook customers have it is to burden them with costs they don't want. The capacity is pre-installed into IBM machines...
In the past, laptops have connected to the web using docking stations or LAN cards - clumsy in the office and useless on the road. Wireless LANs using the popular 802.11b standard are increasingly ousting the docking station in offices and public...
Hewlett Packard plans to discontinue a mini-notebook from its Compaq Evo line in favour of the company's upcoming tablet PC design for businesses. The company will replace its lightweight Evo Notebook N200 with its upcoming Evo tablet PC, a...
But all this could be undermined at a stroke by two factors entirely outside my control: theft or malfunction - making my notebook a single point of failure. Having lugged a notebook to the other side of the planet there was then the problem of...
For years the police have been auctioning off goods recovered from thefts and other organisations - such as the aforementioned airports and train stations - have been doing likewise. But should laptops that are recovered or passed on post-theft be...