Apple MacBook Pro

Computers that are the best of the big, small and sleek

If there's a phrase that characterizes the latest crop of desktops and laptops, it's "going to extremes." Consumer Reports recently tested the thinnest, smallest and largest laptops it has ever tested, along with laptops and desktops of unprecedented processing speed. According to CR's editors, even component integration is getting extreme, as more manufacturers stuff computer circuitry ...

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Mar 2006 16:44 UTC

PCMag reviews the MacBook Pro , and concludes: "For typical users running the iLife '06 suite, iTunes, and even nonuniversal applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe products, the Apple MacBook Pro is a solid notebook.

Nvidia's chips win gamers and investors

Nvidia graphics chips are so good at rendering computer images that Ricky Musci, the 25-year-old managing editor of Web site GameCyte.

DXG intros ultra-budget 720p camcorder

Entry-level camera maker DXG today introduced one of the least-expensive HD-capable camcorders on the market. The DXG-569V is capable of recording a full-speed, 720p (1280x720) picture and uses a similar H.264 encoding technique, letting users edit videos directly in newer video editing tools or upload videos to YouTube without having to first cha...

Apple chosen for Underground Railroad pack

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is launching the "Digital Backpack," which will allow visitors at the Freedom Center to utilize social networking technology, digital media production, and wireless computing in ways that empower them to create, "distribute and access a shared vision for freedom." The company has chosen Apple product...

New Samsung LCDs bring 20,000:1 contrast

Applying the same visual effect to its computer displays that it has to its 6 series HDTVs, Samsung on Wednesday rolled out its Touch of Color LCDs for the desktop. All have the same blown glass effect with red accents at top and bottom but garner the most attention for their unprecedented contrast ratios: dynamic lighting lets every display outpu...