http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/lenovos.amd.based.thinkpads.in.spec.leaks/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/lenovothinkpadedge-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Two of Lenovo's first notebooks to use AMD processors have been given hard specs in a German leak. True to form, the ThinkPad X100e is now known to be Lenovo's first portable in between netbooks and notebooks and should use a 1.6GHz Athlon Neo, an 11.6-inch 1366x768 display and a multi-touch trackpad. Configurations will vary but should hold up to 4GB of RAM, a 3- or 6-cell battery, and between ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/lenovos.amd.based.thinkpads.in.spec.leaks/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/hp.touchsmart.tx2.and.9100.made.for.win.7/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/hptouchsmarttx22009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HP in gearing up for Windows 7 added two newer touchscreen PCs to its mix. The TouchSmart tx2 convertible tablet now makes better use of its multi-touch display both in the OS as well as in the new apps specific to HP's TouchSmart front end; users can watch Hulu or Netflix from the touch interface as well as update Twitter or stream Pandora and Rhapsody music. Unlike most such screens, the tx2's... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/13/hp.touchsmart.tx2.and.9100.made.for.win.7/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/amd.congo.platform/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/hpdv2z.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD this morning kicked off the launch of an updated notebook offering and headlined it with Congo, the nickname for its next-generation Ultrathin Platform. The new architecture includes AMD's faster 1.6GHz Turion Neo X2, found in the HP dv2z, but focuses on graphics performance and battery life. It uses a Radeon HD 3200 much like AMD's fuller-size notebooks and as a result can decode 1080p vide... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/10/amd.congo.platform/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/10/asus.notebooks.in.italy/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/ASUSK70intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Four new notebook PCs from ASUS have appeared in Italy, including the 15.6-inch K50AB and K50IJ, the 17.3-inch K70AB and ultrathin 15.6-inch U50VG, some of which were shown at CeBIT in Germany a few months back. The official release of the notebooks for Italy also revealed some further specs, including the K50AB's AMD Turion 2.3GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. Graphics are handled by ATI Mobility Radeon HD... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/10/asus.notebooks.in.italy/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/6th.laptop.hunters.ad/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/microsoftlaptophunters6.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft has returned to its ad campaign with the first ad in its "Laptop Hunters" campaign in weeks. The TV spot sees couple Matt and Olivia tasked with finding a system at Best Buy with a large screen, long battery life and good support for pictures at $700. They dismiss a 13-inch plastic MacBook as "too small" and too expensive at $1,000, eventually settling on an HP Pavilion dv7 exactly mat... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/6th.laptop.hunters.ad/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/10/hp.dv2z.and.mini.110.ready/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/hpdv2z-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HP today acted on two of its planned system updates by launching them through its online store, including an unannounced processor. The new dv2z costs slightly more than promised at $625 but now has a white color trim option and starts with a single-core 1.6GHz Athlon Neo, 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive with Radeon X1250 integrated video. Adding a dual-core 1.6GHz processor costs $25; in a su... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/10/hp.dv2z.and.mini.110.ready/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/09/hp.dv2.dv3.dv6.updates/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/hpdv6zartistedition2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HP this morning rolled out a trio of notebook refreshes it's gearing towards students, particularly in price but also in design. The Pavilion dv6 is being given a headlining dv6z Artist Edition 2; the 16-inch notebook has special lid artwork that won a recent MTV design contest and also comes with relatively high specifications for an AMD-based system, including a 2.3GHz Turion X2 Ultra, 4GB of R... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/09/hp.dv2.dv3.dv6.updates/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/04/msi.intros.two.notebooks/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0905/msigx633intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />PC builder MSI on Monday announced the upcoming release of a pair of gaming-oriented notebook PCs, the 15.4-inch GX623 and GX633. The GX623 uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and ATI's Radeon HD 4670 3D graphics processor with 512MB of video RAM, while the GX633 runs on AMD's Turion X2 dual-core CPU paired with NVIDIA's GeForce GT 130M with its own 512MB of video RAM. Either uses MSI's power manag... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/04/msi.intros.two.notebooks/ Mon, 04 May 2009 14:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/29/acer.ferrari.1200/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/acerferrari1000.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer Thursday updated its Ferrari notebooks with the Ferrari 1200. The 12-inch portable is the third generation of the notebook and keeps the carbon fiber, F1-themed shell but updates to a newer AMD Turion X2 Ultra processor and gets a newer mainboard platform that includes faster Mobility Radeon video. It continues to sport an LED-backlit display and holds as much as 4GB of DDR2 memory in highe... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/29/acer.ferrari.1200/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/19/asus.f50.f70.and.rt.g32/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/asusf70.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />ASUS is claiming a pair of firsts for notebooks with two new models and pairs the systems with a new network router. The F70 is the first notebook to have a 17.3-inch display and gives the desktop replacement-sized system a 16:9 ratio, 1600x900 display better-suited to movies. It accordingly gets a Blu-ray combo drive as an option which is unusually made external rather than built-in. ASUS give... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/19/asus.f50.f70.and.rt.g32/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:15:00 GMT