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Most people — including us — are peeved at the fact that laptop batteries have so short a lifespan, no laptop manufacturer is willing to place a warranty on them longer than 1 year. We have wondered when this would change — well, look no further than the SONATA branded batteries from Boston-Power. According to Continue reading ASUS rolls out B-Series notebook PC’s with Sonata Batteries Remember when Alienware busted out the M11x — a monster in netbook form — that was the envy of mobile gamers all around? We’ll they’re getting a well needed Intel Core processor upgrade, according to Engadget.com: We’ve been hearing about an impending CPU update to Alienware’s M11x for some time now, and now Dell Malaysia has Continue reading Alienware M11x “not-a-netbook” gets Intel Core upgrades Lenovo positions the ThinkPad X100e as an “entry level ultraportable”. Netbook shnetbook. We don’t really see the difference guys. It’s small, its powered by a low-power AMD processor, it’s got an 11-inch display. Who else here agrees with them that it’s NOT a netbook? Sheesh. We found this at Softpedia.com: Earlier this month, we got word Continue reading Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: NOT a netbook
Read more from MacPCWiz. Most people are used to standard DVD playback, and we don’t blame them for it — DVD has been the undisputed movie format champion for the past few years. But for those HD fanatics and early Blu-Ray jumpers, here are some Blu-ray playback requirements for your desktop and laptop PCs. As the resident tech guy for my family and friends, I always get this: “So I bought that Blu-Ray drive I saw on the Internet. I can read Blu-Ray discs, but I still can’t play them expensive Blu-Ray movies. What’s the deal?” Inside, we discuss how you can playback Blu-Ray movie on your Windows PC computer using your Blu-ray drive .
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MSI has just announced its stake into the gaming portable realm. The latest in what’s sure to be a torrent of companies upgrading their premier products to Intel’s finest quad-core battery killer is MSI, with the GT640. Though MSI hasn’t yet specified which of the trifecta of Clarksfield chips it has inside the machine, we do know there’s a 1GB NVIDIA Geforce GTS 250 taking care of graphics, as well as options for up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, half a terabyte of storage and a Blu-ray burner. Other notables include a two megapixel webcam, HDMI, 7.1 channel audio output and an eSATA input. 
Toshiba announced the newest Qosmio model today, the X500 series, and the most notable new feature is the overdue, inevitable inclusion of a Blu-Ray drive or burner–Toshiba’s first. (The one-time proponent of HD-DVD formally announced it was getting into the Blu-Ray game last month.) The X500 also has an Intel Core i7 processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 graphics with a gigabyte of DDR5 memory, HDMI, Harmon/Kardon sound, and room for two hard drives (one of which can be a solid-state disk). Read more from MacPCWiz.