Asus expects to bring “whole-day” battery life
Netbooks FPCBP152AP Batteryare all the rage these days, but they’re not for everyone. While they are incredibly affordable and portable, many shoppers are turned off by their small displays, small keyboards and poor graphics performance. The HP Pavilion dv2 resolves those concerns, but there are some trade-offs. HP is selling the first configuration of the dv2 for $749.99. More versions will be available starting in June.
It took about 30 minutes for me to get Windows 7 Ultimate RTM installed on the second partition (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions took about the same amount of time). Now the trick is to install Boot Camp, which includes all the drivers and the Boot Camp control panel, and lets you control other functions of the laptop nw8440 Batterysuch as mouse, shortcut key, and the multitouch trackpad.Apple includes Boot Camp on the OS X Leopard DVD; however, I ran into an error stating that it required Windows XP or Windows Vista to run. This could be fixed simply by changing the properties of the installer file to make it run in Windows XP or Vista compatibility mode.
It’s been a slow week in Eee PC news–it’s Friday and Crave has seen only one post thus far–so let us quickly share information from a report on DigiTimes today. According to the report, Asus expects to bring “whole-day” RC107 Battery life and Internet storage to its Netbook by the end of the year. I’m not sure what a whole day’s worth of online storage amounts to, but presumably it’s more than the 20GB you get now with the solid-state hard drive in the Eee PC 1000.
U.S. and Canadian authorities pressed their manhunt V3021AU BatteryFriday for a reality TV contestant charged with killing a former swimsuit model and removing her teeth and fingers. The woman’s relatives pleaded with his friends and family not to help “an animal” evade capture.Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a Calgary, Alberta, native, was a contestant on the VH1 series “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” about a woman seeking to land a wealthy bachelor.
The first test flight of Boeing’s long-delayed 787 Dreamliner passenger plane will happen by the end of 2009, some two years behind schedule, the company said on Thursday.A Boeing 787 Dreamliner shown at the company’s plant in Everett, Washington, in August. Boeing also said it expected to deliver its first Dreamliner in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared with an original delivery date of May 2008.“There is no question434045-141 Battery that the execution of this program has had its challenges, and there is still work to be done,” Boeing’s chief executive, W. James McNerney Jr., said in a conference call.