Online latest technology news

Multiple reviewers select the solid Lenovo ThinkPad T61 as the best laptop for business users. Performance is superb in tests, and the laptop runs cool. Rugged construction adds a little to the cost, but ensures that the T61 can stand up to the rigors of the road. Lenovo has the highest reliability and customer support ratings in all large surveys of laptop owners. Unfortunately, the company has cut the ThinkPad T61's warranty from three years to one.

Most reviews for the Lenovo ThinkPad T61 cover the now-discontinued 14.1-inch version. However, most comments apply equally to the current version with its improved 15.4-inch display. NotebookReview.com, a highly regarded reviewer of laptop computers, does look at the larger-screened ThinkPad T61.

Logitech has introduced two new ways to improve your general laptop using experience. If you've ever experienced overheating or had back issues from constantly staring at the screen at a bad height, these could be helpful accessories.
Logitech has introduced two new items - the Cooling Pad N100 and the Notebook Riser N110.

Many laptops both current and old are prone to overheating, especially during heavier use when the fans are forced to kick in. The Cooling Pad N100 is a USB-powered fan which distributes air evenly and quietly underneath the notebook. The fan is ultra low-powered to have minimal impact on battery life. The design features comfortable waves so that it will feel good on your lap too.

If you spend hours of every day peering into a laptop screen, you have probably wished at some point that you had an external monitor so you could raise it up and actually look straight into your display rather than looking down into it. A less costly solution is just to get a notebook riser like the N110. It has three tilt angles (20, 30, 40 degrees) so that you can raise your notebook's display to an ideal viewing level. Sit with your head up, shoulders set back and eyes looking straight ahead. To use it for more than watching movies you will need an external mouse and keyboard though, since the angle is better for viewing than typing.

Both of these accessories are suitable for PCs or Macs up to 15.4" in size, and will cost you $29.99.

We already knew the U115, with its hybrid SSD/HDD magic, would manage to have excellent battery life. But what happens when you match up this battery-stretching beast with a mammoth 9-cell laptop battery? You break records, that's what.
Not all that long ago, the U115 was reported as capable of achieving 12 hours of battery life on a 6-cell battery. This is due to the fact that the netbook has an HDD for mass storage but runs most basic tasks on a power-sipping SSD. But recent reports from Johannes of the German site Eee-PC.de have put the U115 at a mind boggling 25 hours and 4 minutes on a single charge.

Johannes used a batteryeater test on the lowest possible settings to get his results. Conversely, LaptopMag put the U115 under a more rigorous test of constant websurfing - and it still squeezed out 10 hours and 32 minutes. Your real life usage will probably be somewhere in between.

Frankly, if a laptop gets 5-6 hours of charge I'm fairly happy with it, especially if it doesn't require an oversized battery that juts out awkwardly. But I'm not going to complain about a little jutting when it's getting me 20 odd hours of juice. Finally, a single device on which I can continuously watch 10 hours of movies, listen to 10 hours of music, and all the while work on my various business reports while flying nonstop to Australia. Or perhaps even more importantly, I can finally forget to bring my power cord to work for 3 consecutive days without it mattering anymore.