You'll hear a PC labeled as many things, from "an uber-gaming system" to "budget-minded" and more, but this PC is "eco-friendly," or as Dell calls it, its first "conscientious" desktop. It was announced (though unnamed) at Fortune Brainstorm: Green in Los Angeles on (what else) Earth Day, earlier this year, and launched on Tuesday. The idea of this desktop PC was to put laptop components into it, to reduce size and power consumption.
HP hasn't really done all that much with VoodooPC since acquiring it in 2006; it's Blackbird gaming systems have had "VoodooPC DNA," but that's about it. But on Tuesday HP announced a "Voodoo Portfolio," with both a new laptop and a desktop, but it's the laptop that's more interesting, and which deviates from Voodoo's old uber-gaming style.
You'll recall when OCZ unveiled their Do-It-Yourself Gaming Notebook, they left out an important thing: when. But you can buy the bare-bones version of the laptop now (at least, if you hurry), courtesy of Buy.com.
Wait long enough and something new always comes along that's better than what you have. Sure, I have a Dell XPS M1730 with dual 8800M GTX cards in SLI - but along comes another announcement. On Wednesday at Computex in Taipei, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 9M series of GPUs.
Since agencies such as the Veterans Administration can't seem to keep track of their laptops - and that's just one example - a U.K. company has come up with a protection system if the laptop is lost or stolen.
One woman sues Best Buy for losing her laptop... not to get money, but to make a point about lousy customer service...
