The NSW Government has commenced an expressions of interest process for its planned $1,000 per student roll-out of 200,000 notebooks, and the wireless networks to support them.
Computer manufacturer Dell announced yesterday that it would pre-install Linux on select desktop and notebook systems.
MacBook Pro owners are apparently having trouble supplying power to their computers both from the battery and from the wall.
The traditional desktop PC is not yet doomed, but is going through a transformation, according to HP.
Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux operating system and the OpenOffice application suite.
Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week. Here's what we can look forward to with the new technology.
Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.
An Apple iBook owner suspected his cat had hacked into his password-protected notebook. It turned out he was right -- his cat, which liked sleeping on his keyboard, managed to automatically bypass the computer's security.
My recent rant about the horrors of Adobe Acrobat's update process attracted a fair degree of sympathy, but also managed to royally annoy at least one Big Deal reader, who questioned what it had to do with the column's stated intention of illuminating issues central to IT managers.
In light of Intel's latest celebrity-infused Centrino Duo ads, here is a look back at five great tech ad campaigns.
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ZDNet Australia reviews seven of the most outstanding, high-end notebooks.
Is your laptop cranky, sluggish, or out of sorts?
The Inspiron 9100 is probably one of the best notebooks around that can truly replace the desktop PC, offering speed and excellent 3D graphics performance.
The Extensa is a business laptop with no particular frills. That's not a bad thing per se, but it's tough to get too excited about it, either.
The netbook market is so tight, you need some sort of competitive advantage to stand above the crowd. ViewSonic brings a standard netbook with two negatives instead poor battery life and a bad touchpad.
The Latitude 2100 is an interesting answer to customising for the needs of schools. As a by-product, Dell has created a robust little netbook that can just as easily be tossed around by any techie who likes to work roughly.
The Mini 1210's upgraded processor and shift to Windows XP does remove some of the original model's biggest issues, but it's still not a netbook that we'd buy.
If you're after a flashy ultraportable to show off to your friends, you can't do much better than the HP EliteBook 2530p.
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