We’re starting to bank on the small business-oriented Vostro for a really compelling blend of features and price. Sure, it’s usually not the sexiest kit on the block (though the Vostro V13 would beg to differ), but it’s hard to argue with the stellar pricetags. Dell’s just thrown down a big 3000 series refresh …

Happy Friday, people! Along with the venerable tradition of Follow Friday , today also marks this week’s edition of the Friday Poll . Last week we wanted to know if location checkin services freak you out in terms of privacy concerns. Reactions were pretty mixed, although many of you felt like services gave you enough …

Well, what do we have here? It’s the Sony Vaio M series netbook, as yet unannounced but sitting here getting detailed all the same. The 10.1-inch netbook, which looks, well, pretty much identical to the Sony Vaio W series , is apparently going to boast a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB…

Hey, if you’re in the market for a beauty of a thin and light, and you mean business, you’re in luck today. Dell’s Latitude 13 laptop marketed for the business type (with a preinstalled Citrix client, simplified virtualization options and so on) is now available on the Dell site. With three customizing options — base, economy…

We’ve seen plenty products both real and imagined that promise to improve on the standard power strip , but few as elegantly designed as this so-called “Multi-Tab” concept from designer Soon Mo Kang. Not only is it modular to accommodate as many plugs as you need, but each module also…

File under: “Extremely Creepy” — BoingBoing reports that a recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose webcams have been used to watch the students and their families at home. It was discovered that …

By now you’ve probably seen photos of that delicious lunch treat, the iSandwich — a sandwich that is basically shaped like an iPhone. But have you ever stopped to think how it came to be? Well, thanks to a video courtesy of the blog iSandwich 4G , you can learn …

Fujitsu ’s stylish little Lifebook MH380 ’s just popped up over on the company’s site for sale. The 10.1-inch, Pine Trail Atom N450-boasting netbook’s specs include 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, built-in Bluetooth, six-cell battery and a 1366×768 resolution screen. It also seems to be available in …

Now that we’ve seen the iPad in the light of day, there’s a lot of chatter about what it can’t do. But Apple is now a massive threat to anything not a PC or smartphone. Here’s why: Generally speaking, the iPad’s goal is not to replace your netbook, assuming you…

Only way to interpret the launch of the iPad? Apple has declared the PC dead. Well-crafted but closed devices are their future of consumer computing. And if no one else can match the iPad experience, they may be right. “In many ways this defines our vision, our sense of what’s next.” – …