Laptop manufacturers Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell are recalling over 100,000 laptops that have Sony-made batteries in them. This is just the latest setback for Sony, who last month had to recall over 400,000 of its own brand Vaio laptops due to overheating. The latest recalls include batteries that were manufacturing red between October 2004 and [...]
Sony has issued a recall for over 73,000 of its laptops due to a defect that could cause them to overheat and potentially burn there users. There has been a report of one person suffering minor burns as a result of the defect and 15 other complaints about laptops overheating have been lodged with US [...]
Laptops have become very popular over the past few years, due to their price and more importantly their portability. Many people who use laptops prefer to use an external mouse rather than the integrated track pad. Many manufacturers now offer laptop mice and Logitech are no exception announcing their newest laptop mouse, the V550 Nano. [...]
Acer’s stunning Gemstone Blue design has just been upgraded with quality components, and has its sights firmly on the home entertainment and gaming market. The Acer Aspire 8920G is the first laptop to feature an 18.4 inch full HD screen, capable of a resolution of up to 1920 x 1080. Acer has packed the 8920G [...]
The Lenovo x300 might well set the market standard for Windows based ultraportable laptops in the future. The X300 will have 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo that fits into the same bracket as the 1.6GHz/1.8GHz chips that Mac are putting in their Macbook Air. One major bonus of the Lenovo X300 is that it has [...]
You don’t see many white laptops out of the Apple arena, we last reviewed a white laptop back in October last year. The Acer Travelmate 3020 is the first white laptop that Acer has produced and it was not to copy Apple but to portray the sense of pureness, cleanliness and lightness apparently. The Travelmate [...]
We have been following the latest gossip and news on the so called Project Origami for a few weeks now and have been waiting for something to report on it that would be fact rather than just speculation. On Thursday last week it was revealed at the CeBIT show in Hanover that Microsoft’s new product [...]
For those mobile people out there, who just can’t get to grips with the standard laptop touchpad mouse and get annoyed having to delve deep into their laptop bags to retreive their tiny wired mouse, you should opt for a MoGo Bluetooth Mouse. This flat mouse that has a lever system that props up and [...]
You may have bought a wireless signal finder, used it to find a network, unpacked your laptop to get ready to connect to the net then realise its encrypted. If this sounds familiar then you need to look at getting this bad boy for around £50. The ZyXEL AG225H tells you what encryption if any [...]
It’s not often you get a laptop in white unless you get an Apple. Asus are now putting their white W5000 on the market for just under £1200, and it looks great. One of the first things we noticed here at Techlounge is that the keyboard will benefit from regular cleaning at least once a [...]