Category: Laptops & PCs

  • Are Gadgets Shipped in the USA Inferior to Those Shipped Elsewhere?

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Fazal Majid asked an important question on Saturday in an entry on his weblog entitled Are Americans becoming second-class consumers? He cites several situations where manufacturers shipped products with the same name in two different markets, but the U.S. version had fewer features or lower quality components than the equivalent…

  • What’s on Brad Choate’s Powerbook G4

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Brad Choate is considered a Movable Type guru. (That’s the weblogging tool that tons of sites use, including Operation Gadget.) He published a list of software that he has installed on his Macintosh since he switched to a 15-inch Powerbook G4 back in October. I’m always interested in the programs…

  • Mobile RSS Tools Discussed by Daily Wireless

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Daily Wireless put together an excellent article about RSS use on mobile devices. The article includes a list of RSS aggregators for platforms from the PC and Macintosh all the way down to the iPod. [ via MobileWhack ] One suggestion that the author, Phillip Torreone, makes is Syndigator, a…

  • Fujitsu LifeBook P5020 is One of the Best Ultralight Notebook Computers

    Reading Time: < 1 minute The Fujitsu LifeBook P5020 is an interesting machine that I discovered while reading the April 2004 edition of Mobile PC Magazine. Weighing in at only 3.9 pounds, the P5020 sports a 10.6-inch letterbox-format TFT display, a 1-Gigahertz Pentium M CPU, 512-Megabytes of RAM, and a full size keyboard. It has…

  • Panasonic Toughbook Laptops Making a Name for Themselves in Iraq

    Reading Time: 2 minutes BusinessWeek published an article about increased reliability of semi-rugged laptops and how the Panasonic Toughbook series is proving itself in Iraq. Toughbooks have been around for a long time, but they rarely get this kind of press in mainstream publications. Usually I read about them in industry automation and manufacturing IT…

  • Doc Searls on Laptops and the Possibility of Mainstream Use of Linux

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Doc Searls’ latest SuitWatch column for LinuxJournal talks about what it will take for Linux to become a viable option for mainstream laptop users. At first glance, pointing to this article might seem a little bit off-topic on Operation Gadget, but Doc makes a number of good points in this article…

  • Sony VAIO GRT260G is a Great Multimedia Laptop

    Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been too long since I did a laptop review, so I’ll begin to remedy the situation with the Sony VAIO GRT260G. It just got an enthusiastic endorsement from Bill Howard in PC Magazine— about all he didn’t like about it was the fact that you need to carry a PC…

  • Apple Launches Repair Program for Faulty iBook Logic Boards

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Apple Computer announced the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program covering “repair or replacement of the logic board in specific iBook models manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003 that are experiencing specific component failures.” The problems that are covered under this repair program include: Scrambled or distorted video Appearance of…

  • 20-inch iMac Now Available from Amazon

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Looks like Apple Computer has filled the channel rather well with the new 20-inch iMac. The computer is now available from Amazon.com at a competitive price. It’s also available from J&R Music and Computer World via Amazon’s web site. I think it’s amazing that Apple has grafted a 20-inch flat…