NEW DELL NOTEBOOK

Dell has just introduced another Latitude notebook, if you’re willing to pay extra to get less – less weight, that is. The Latitude D D400 is a full Centrino notebook, with the power-saving Pentium M processor and built-in wireless, with a 12 inch screen and the...

CENTRINO NOTEBOOKS

Make sure you’re up to speed on the Centrino notebooks. Within a year it’s likely that they will completely dominate the notebook market and you’d regret having bought anything else. The Pentium M processor at 1.6GHz is as fast as desktop systems running at 3.06GHz,...

REBUILDING SERVERS

When my server crashed, it looked like an easy problem. Seventy-two hours later, my eyes are bleary, my fingers are bleeding – but everything is up and running. In the end, almost all the data was saved – the only casualty is three days of e-mail that disappeared into...

WIRELESS NOTEBOOKS

Intel, Dell, and a host of others are rolling out notebook computers based on Intel’s Centrino chip set on Wednesday. Intel is also set to launch a massive advertising campaign to promote Centrino and establish it as a brand name. Intel is betting that wireless...

CHEAP DELL LAPTOPS

Tomorrow Dell will put two new laptops on its web site: the Inspiron 1100, starting at $899, and the Inspiron 5100, starting at $1,199. Features and price are comparable to notebooks from HP and Compaq. This article about the Dell announcement points out that it’s...

NEW CHIPS FOR NOTEBOOKS

Intel will release its next mobile CPU chipset family, the Centrino, on March 12. The chipset has built-in support for 802.11b wireless networking and features Pentium 4-level performance with better battery life and power-management than the current Pentium III-M...