Geek With Laptop

Hewlett Packard and South Korean chip manufacturers Hynix are getting ready to commercialize a new kind of computer memory – memristors, a technology that up until now has only been available for experimental academic, industrial, and military applications.

While there are still loads of large and powerful laptops being produced and purchased, netbooks continue to be manufactured by the bucket load.  If you are in the market for a netbook but are confused by all the options on offer, look no further – GWL takes a look at four of the very best in 2010.

With the market seemingly rushing as one to attempt to out-do Apple’s popular iPad slate, it’s easy to forget that the technology for the device grew out of the company’s smaller iPod Touch device – but Philips is definitely aware of that, and is choosing to compete on a different level with the GoGear Connect.

If you’re a true child of the Internet, you’ll find leaving your home comforts behind something of a challenge – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re not afflicted with wanderlust.
Thankfully, designer Cornelius Comanns has come up with the perfect transportation for you: the Bufalino.

You know what it’s like when you fire up your laptop and check your inbox only to find that you have heaps of new emails, perhaps even hundreds, most of which you are probably not going to read.

Netbooks occupy a difficult market sector: not powerful enough for gaming or high-performance business tasks, but bulkier than a smartphone, it can be difficult to find software that’s a good fit. Intel has what it hopes is a solution: the AppUp Center.

Although Intel is the most common chip used in computers today, they haven’t exactly been great on graphics performance and to get any sort of quality viewing users have to buy a decent graphics card.

Google has re-vamped its Google Voice voice-over-IP offering to feature integration with its Gmail webmail service and free calls to the US and Canada – and has hit upon an interesting way of publicizing its offering: old-fashioned phone booths.

Display: TFT resistive touchscreen – 256K colors, 240 x 320 pixels, QWERTY keyboard, Accelerometer sensor, Turn-to-mute, Processor: 184 MHz processor, Memory: Phonebook: Photocall, Call records: 90 Received / 90 Dialed / 90 Missed calls, Internal: 50 MB, Card slot: microSD – up to 16GB, Network: 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G: HSDPA 1700 / 2100, GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps, EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps