Best notebooks from $300 to $3000

The company we know best for its flat-screen TVs, Vizio, is moving into a whole new space, personal computers, with the launch of the Vizio family of notebooks and desktops, available through Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) online store. With design cues reminiscent of Apple’s sleek MacBook notebooks and all-in-one (AIO) desktop computers, the Vizio line includes three notebooks and two AIO desktops, w

I am using ASUS Eee PC 901 with Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix. I am a rookie of Ubuntu and Linux. I used Ubuntu since last November, I found it very cool and fast and stable. But lately I am facing a problem of my Eee PC 901 internal webcam, it goes black and white once day and the color never come back.

There’s nothing like some new hardware to round out the week, and Toshiba has dutifully come to bat with a new line of Tecra business-class notebooks aimed at SMBs and boasting some serious structural reinforcement for a bruising life on the road. Available to partners exclusively through Toshiba Direct, the Tecra R940 and Tecra R950 notebooks are built using a fiberglass-reinforced casing with a

BURIED in the news was this interesting nugget of information which suggests that Microsoft’s UMPC partner could be in its deathbed. The emergence of low-cost sub-notebooks which run GNU/Linux could not have done OQO any good.

Audio in notebooks is usually more of an afterthought than a selling feature. Today, ASUS changed that with its new SoundMaster notebooks.

Hi, What laptops & notebooks work best with linux? I have a DV6000T hp notebook & everything I've read says it's pretty hard get it to work w/ linux. But does anyone have recommendations for notebooks that are easy to get to work with linux so I could see about buying on of them next time?

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Notebooks use NVIDIA Optimus tech in some models

Ever since Sundar Pichai took over the Android team, rumors started to swirl that Chrome and Android would merge since Sundar is also in charge of Google Chrome at Google. Shortly after, Eric Schmidt put a kibosh to that by saying they will remain separate, but to expect more overlap.

Notebooks without compromises don't normally come this cheap. With an ultra-powerful graphics card this is a great all-rounder able to play the latest games.