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Toshiba Satellite T215D reviewed: AMD-powered mini-laptop

While AMD was largely absent from the netbook and thin-and-light laptop space for the past few years, the company is making pretty big inroads this summer. Dell, Acer, HP, Samsung, and other major PC makers have introduced models with AMD’s new Nile-based chips. And the folks at Laptop Magazine have published one of the first […]

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Tablets of the future may have physical keyboards — on the back

The Apple iPad keyboard offers a reasonably good touch-typing experience — if the tablet is resting on your lap or on a tablet at a 45 degree angle. But try entering text while you’re holding the tablet and you’ll be stuck trying to stretch your thumbs across the screen as if it were an enormous […]

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Dell Streak Android Tablet to sell for $550 starting August 13

Dell and AT&T have finally gotten around to announcing launch details for the Dell Streak 5 inch Android Tablet. And as expected, it’s going to run $549.99 without a contract or $299.99 if you sign up for a 2 year 3G service plan with AT&T. Honestly, the unsubsidized $550 price isn’t all that unusual for […]

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HP could launch a WebOS tablet in early 2011

If you’ve been holding out hope that HP would launch a tablet running Palm’s WebOS software before the end of the year, Engadget has some dream-crushing news. HP officials are reportedly telling employees that the upcoming WebOS tablet — which may or may not be called the PalmPad — will be out in the first […]

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Will smartphones of the future eliminate the need for tablets?

OK, you could probably make the case that we don’t need tablets right now, with smartphones, netbooks and other laptops filling most of our computing needs. But there’s no mistaking that the Apple iPad is selling like hotcakes, and virtually every PC maker is preparing to launch its own tablet soon. But in a few […]

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Pioneer DreamBook ePad L11 tablet to to hit Australia next month

The Pioneer DreamBook ePad L11 is an 11.6 inch tablet with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and Windows 7. What really makes this tablet exciting is that while it has netbook-like internals, it comes with some top of the line netbook options including NVIDIA ION graphics, a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display, […]