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Thieves In San Francisco Going After Laptops And Cell Phones (KTVU 2 San Francisco) SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police say thieves are now targeting people with laptops and other small electronics in many neighborhoods throughout the city. The thefts have involved laptops, cell phones, I-pods and I-phones stolen in very public places, such as cafes, buses and bus stops. us.rd.yahoo.com
CW: SSDs in Laptops Won't Make Real Sense until 2010 (The Mac Observer) Despite their appeal, Solid State Drives (SSD) won't make real sense for laptops for several more years, according to Computerworld . The curent technology is still too expensive, slower on I/O and has a more limited lifespan us.rd.yahoo.com
Mike Ming masterpieces laptops (Arab News) Dell has launched five Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops, exclusively created by Brooklyn-based urban artist Mike Ming (www.mikeming.com). us.rd.yahoo.com
Where the Linux laptops live (ZDNet) Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux. by Dana Blankenhorn us.rd.yahoo.com
Solid-State Disk Lackluster for Laptops, PCs (PC World) Laptops, desktops won't see a cost/benefit advantage in SSD for about two years. us.rd.yahoo.com
SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years (Slashdot) kgagne writes "While solid state disk drives can vastly improve random read performance and are perfectly suited to most mobile devices, many operations are sequential in laptops and desktops and involve writes where SSDs most often lose to magnetic hard disk drives in performance. While introducing multi-channel flash memory controllers and interleaving the NAND flash chips increases ... us.rd.yahoo.com
NSW on the hunt for cheap laptops (Ararat Advertiser) IS IT possible to buy a durable, sophisticated laptop for $500? The NSW Government is about to find out; it's looking for a company prepared to provide 200,000 of them at the same bargain price. us.rd.yahoo.com
28 laptops at (The New Straits Times) KUALA LUMPUR: Paying double the price for a laptop. Twenty-eight laptops for RM178,000 for 24 councillors. And Gary Chong, the special assistant to Seputeh Member of Parliament Teresa Kok, is not going to let the issue sit on his lap. us.rd.yahoo.com
Efficient processors give students far more options (Seattle Times) Cheap, lightweight laptops have quietly gotten better over the past year. This end of the home-use market is no longer owned by heavy, hot... us.rd.yahoo.com
Video: Private Tuscaloosa School Trades Textbooks For Laptops (NBC 13 Birmingham) These students get head start on future us.rd.yahoo.com
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