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Whaddyareckon?: Unusual uses for tech

Whaddyareckon?: Unusual uses for tech  Video

From tales of makeshift furniture to a troubling anecdote about a toilet, we're not afraid to dive into the S-bend of public consciousness to ask "What unusual uses do you have for your technology?".

09/05/2008 12:05 PM

Dell gears up to reveal Aussie retail union

Dell is set to reveal its Australian retail partner tomorrow, with observers expecting a considerable market shake-up in wake of the announcement.

30/04/2008 03:30 PM

Windows XP SP3: A quick, painless upgrade

Windows XP SP3: A quick, painless upgrade

Windows XP SP3 is a breeze to install compared to SP2.

29/04/2008 01:53 PM

Aussie scientists put faster laptops, iPods in a spin

A new class of materials invented by researchers at the University of Wollongong will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.

22/04/2008 02:42 PM

Apple to fix flickering MacBook video flaw

Apple has acknowledged it has problems with the video software used in the latest shipment of MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

15/04/2008 09:59 AM

Intel launches Atom power, devices due in June

The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core 2 Duo-compatible but with a tenth of the power requirements, will first reach the market in a fleet of partner mobile Internet devices (MIDs) in late May or early June.

03/04/2008 09:57 AM

Dell denies 30 percent SSD return rate

Dell has crunched its numbers and says there isn't a problem with solid-state drives — but it's still early days for the costly technology.

20/03/2008 09:29 AM

One in four SSD-based laptops fail

Notebooks with solid state drives (flash-based) cost more than traditional hard drives, are "an order of magnitude" less reliable and do not perform as well when using Microsoft Outlook.

19/03/2008 09:50 AM

Toshiba notebook unveils 128GB solid state laptops

Toshiba has announced a model of its Dynabook SS RX notebook including a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), making it twice the size of the SSD offered on latest notebooks from its competitors: the MacBook Air and the Lenovo X300.

18/03/2008 09:50 AM

Lenovo, Fujitsu planning to use Intel's MacBook Air chip

Lenovo, Fujitsu planning to use Intel's MacBook Air chip

Both Lenovo and Fujitsu have designs coming soon that will use the same chip Apple asked Intel to build for the MacBook Air, according to sources familiar with their plans.

01/02/2008 11:07 AM

Windows Vista: One year on

Craig Simms wades through the mess that is still Windows Vista.

30/01/2008 06:30 PM

MacBook Air: Apple drops another product

MacBook Air: Apple drops another product

Is the lack of an optical drive in the MacBook Air a smart or stupid move from Apple?

17/01/2008 10:59 AM

Apple unveils MacBook Air:

Apple unveils MacBook Air: "world's thinnest notebook"

Apple unveiled its ultraportable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday in San Francisco.

16/01/2008 07:20 AM

Breakthrough promises 40-hour laptop batteries

Stanford researchers have made a discovery that could signal the arrival of laptop batteries that last more than a day on a single charge.

15/01/2008 04:56 PM

Microsoft dismisses dual boot OLPC

Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.

14/01/2008 11:57 AM

Toshiba's Qosmio G45 multimedia darling

Toshiba's Qosmio G45 multimedia darling

We've just spent an afternoon playing with a Toshiba Qosmio G45 entertainment laptop, and to cut a long story short, we think it's pretty sweet.

11/01/2008 05:51 PM

Early Macworld bets: notebooks, Blu-ray and iPhones?

Early Macworld bets: notebooks, Blu-ray and iPhones?

With Apple's lovefest due to start next week, it's time to take stock of the latest Macworld Expo rumours. The early predictions have mobility in mind.

11/01/2008 12:44 PM

Lenovo takes brave step back into consumer PCs

Lenovo takes brave step back into consumer PCs

Lenovo is set to launch its Idea consumer range in Australia in 2008.

10/01/2008 01:24 PM

ASUS boasts terabyte laptops

ASUS boasts terabyte laptops

Asus has been showing off what it claims are the world's first laptops with hard-drive capacities of 1TB.

10/01/2008 11:45 AM

ASUS R50A -- yet another UMPC

ASUS R50A -- yet another UMPC

ASUS unleashes the R50A on CES 2008.

10/01/2008 11:31 AM

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