Cars and displays: two of my favorite topics! For SEMA, the folks over at RIDES have revamped the Hyundai Genesis. RIDES has built a really cool mobile office in the back seats of the Genesis. The mobile office is built out of two Mac Minis and one MacBook Air. There are two 8.4″ 800 x [...]
Apple’s “Special Deals” section can get you some really great deals. I personally thingk refurbished models are better than new. My reason is simple: anything that was going to break, broke, and Apple fixed it for you. For instance, the MacBook Air with a 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM and 64GB SSD [...]
Update 2008.10.13 8:05PM PST Somebody snuck in a real picture it seems. Of the new MacBook Pro, of course! It looks like the 15.4″ version. There seems to be a plastic/glass cover over the LCD. The cover design looks very similar to what we see in current iMacs. Some won’t like it because of the [...]
Rahul Sood is the founder of VOODOOPC. And after HP gobbled it up, Rahul is CTO of HP’s Global Gaming Business. He wrote a blog article about how Audi (actually VW) acquired problematic (business as well as quality wise) Lamborghini and has invested in the brand toward growth and profitability. The new Gallardo and Murcielago [...]
I was just over at Gizmodo browsing through interesting posts and came up to this video. Lenovo has done a very good job of showing a couple of limitations on the MacBook Air and then making sure that viewers see clearly how the X300 is just as thin but superior in some ways. There is [...]
AU Optronics (AUO) recently announced the formation of an LED Project Office, which will be led by Senior Vice President Dr. David Su. It is rumored that AUO has purchased metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, which is required to manufacture LEDs. The exact number of MOCVD equipment is unknown but speculation ranges from five [...]
According to iFixit’s teardown of the MacBook Air, some juicy information has been revealed regarding the LCD:
Display assembly weight: 465g (34% less than on the MacBook)
LCD panel thickness: 3mm, thanks to the LED lightsource.
Inverter board: None needed due to the use of DC-powered LEDs.
Cable: Just one that provides both data and power to the display.
Apple [...]
Lenovo X300
LCD Size: 13.3″
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
Pixel Format: 1440 x 900
Backlight: LED
CPU: Intel Merom Santa Rosa Dual Core Hybrid LV CPU at 2.0GHz
HDD: 64GB
SSDRAM: Up to 4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
Ports: USB 2.0 (3), Firewire, DisplayPort, ExpressCard, Ethernet (Gigabit), etc.
Wireless: WiMax or HSDPA
Battery Life: 4 hours
Weight: 2.5lbs
Other: GPS
Updated 2008.06.23 6:24AM PST
Lenovo has cut the price of its ThinkPad [...]