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    Apple has unveiled its much-anticipated consumer portable, an eye-catching, colorful, curved computer that interim CEO Steve Jobs dubbed "an iMac to go."

  • Laptops cool off with smart heat pipes

    A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than today's cooling systems.

  • Intel prototype transforms notebook

    Intel will unveil later this year a new double-jointed prototype portable computer, designed to get people thinking about what's next for notebook PCs.

  • Intel gives notebook chips a boost

    Intel on Tuesday added to its fleet of mobile Pentium 4 processors for consumer-oriented notebook PCs.

  • Will iBook sink or swim?

    Between the dust kicked up by the splashy announcement of Apple's iBook at July's Macworld Expo/New York and the amount of smoke being blown by some media commentators, it's been more than a little difficult to get a clear picture of how the new consumer portable fits into Apple's hardware roadmap.

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  • Intel gives notebook chips a boost

    Intel on Tuesday added to its fleet of mobile Pentium 4 processors for consumer-oriented notebook PCs.

  • Intel revs up notebook chips

    For the first time, all of the chipmaker's mobile processors for mainstream notebook PCs operate at speeds of 2GHz or more.

  • Intrusion detection systems reviewed

    Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.

  • Brainstorming next year's PC

    A year and a half from now, desktops and notebooks should be noticeably different as Intel pushes design standards that, ideally, would result in greater style, versatility.

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    The HP Pavilion TX1219 is great as a normal day to day business notebook, and not so great at being a tablet. Still the price is hard to ignore and it is an attractive machine -- so you could do worse than getting one of these.

  • HP Compaq Presario B1801TU

    The HP Compaq Presario B1801TU, with its lightweight 1.6kg chassis and pleasing battery life would be a great companion for the road warrior, if not for its dismal performance when compared to competing offerings.

  • HP Compaq Tablet PC tc4200

    This latest tablet PC from HP Compaq is a decent improvement over its predecessors, though unresolved legacy flaws may dampen user enthusiasm.

  • Porsche of portables

    Housing all the power and functionality of larger laptops in a sleek chassis just 20 mm thick and weighing just under 1.6kgs, the Toshiba Portege is an example of why its becoming harder to draw demarcation lines between notebooks and sub-notebooks. That's also the reason why we loved it.

  • Compaq cuts the wire between laptop and desktop

    Compaq gave journalists attending the launch of the company's new Evo product range a glimpse of what might be the world's first hybrid laptop-desktop PC. Code named Dual Worlds, the ambitious project is yet to settle on a final design for the device but demonstrated the ergonomic concept of the hybrid-device with one of the R&D team's most promising candidates.

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