News tagged with optical drive

Meet the Ultrabook: The next big thing in notebooks aims to compete with the iPad

At January's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there was a lot of chatter around Ultrabooks - thin, lightweight laptop notebooks designed to be more portable than the usual laptop and more powerful than ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

New Fujitsu Lifebooks: no optical drive but a projector instead

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the way that the world of mobile devices has opened up in the past few years, as dozens of netbooks and tablet PCs make their way into the market, the optical drive is no longer really ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens

(AP) -- Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

USB stick makes easy automatic backups to discs

There's really no excuse for not backing up your computer these days. Used to be that making a backup was a fairly complex task. But today's backup offerings make it pretty much a no-brainer. In the recent months, I've written ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1