This piece of news is sure to make some Macbook Air users happy! A lot of them have been complaining about the battery life of this laptop but the good news now is that a company called QuickerTek announced an alternative. You can go for solar power, if you have the needed money. We have three offers available: 18 Watt foldable solar power (will charge your Macbook Air in 14 hours and costs $500), 27 Watt foldable soldar power (will charge your Macbook Air in 14 hours and costs $600) and 44 Watt foldable solar power (will charge the Macbook air in 5 hours and costs $1000).

The official press release stated that the three options available vary in size from 10.5 inches to 60 inches and an Element backpack is included, one that would store both the Macbook Air and the Solar Cell. It is currently marketed as perfect for college students and the image used is a student on a campus lawn never running out of Mac battery. No matter the use, there is no denial that this is a great solution although the Macbook Air is more popular among businessmen than college students.

Recent news in show that Sony is getting ready to release a small laptop (low cost of course) that is based on Via Technologies. A prototype was announced last week and shown by Quanta Computer (contract manufacturer) at WiMax Expo in Taipei. The mini laptop is based on the open source Via OpenBook reference design and will start shipping during the third quarter of this year.

Going into specs we see that the laptop will feature a 1.6 GHz C7-M processor (from Via,of course) and is listed with Sony as manufacturer. What is interesting is that Quanta is currently the largest laptop maker for laptop computers in the world although Sony was listed as manufacturer at the official showing. The truth is that Quanta is currently under contract for many big brands in the industry and they are not allowed to discuss customer facts with anyone. This might be the case with Sony as well and we do expect Sony to be officially listed as manufacturer. We must keep in mind that if Sony is in fact Read more »

It was introduced in the fall of 2006 but it is still one of the most popular laptops today. The Apple 13-inch MacBook laptop appeared as a revolutionary product that combined the company’s own operating system with Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs. We must also add different Apple extras like iLive software, MagSafe, Front Row remote and the iSight camera. We can consider this gadget to be one of the most loved laptops currently available on the market. To make it all even better, ever since the launch Apple continued to issue various hardware upgrades that added to CPU power and kept price acceptable. The newest updated appeared in November 2007 and it upgraded the CPU to a beautiful 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo while also adding the Santa Rosa platform and improved integrated graphics. The result was a small boost in performance but the tip of the cake is not the hardware update. You are most likely to be interested in the new Leopard version of the OS X operating system. It does come installed with new MacBooks and it adds different new features that are quite useful, thus keeping the Apple 13 Inch MacBook a top recommendation although people do want to have a new laptop to play with. Read more »

We just found out the specs of Dell’s new laptop, the XPS M1530. After they recently launched the XPS M1330, here comes the successor with a release date scheduled on the 7th of November. It will feature a 15.4 inch display that can run with CCFL up to a resolution of 1680 X 1050 and in LED with a resolution of up to 1440 X 900. Its processor will be a Core 2 Duo with various options running from 1.5 GHz to 2.6 GHz and we also have the Crestline GM/PM 965 chipset with possibility of adding up to 4 GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. If you want to hear about the video card, the XPS M1530 will boast a GeForce 8400M or 8600M GS with up to 256 MB RAM. Dell’s new laptop seems to feature either a Blu-Ray or something of a mix with a regular DVD-RW. The company also announced that you will have the availability of Bluetooth, WWAN and 802.11a/b/g/n should you want it. The XPS M1530 also comes equipped with HDMI, VGA, ExpressCard, 3 USB 2.0 slots, media reader, fingerprint reader and 1394. In case you need to use it in conferences or with whatever purpose you want, we also have a 2.0 megapixel or 300K camera, based on choosing CCFL or LED. Rumors have it that the device will weigh in at just 4 pounds although it does seem kind of light. Via EnGadget