Apple finishes off its update day with a couple of new accessories: the 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a new input peripheral called the Magic Trackpad. Despite the mystical name, it’s simply an oversized touchpad that connects via Bluetooth. It acts and feels the same as a MacBook’s pad, but it’s 80% larger, giving your Mac desktop multitouch support. As an accessory for a MacBook, well, you get a larger area to do all your swiping with.
Okay, Samsung didn’t really come up with the first 1TB 2.5-inch drive for notebooks (Western Digital first reached 1TB limit with the Scorpio Blue almost exactly a year ago), but the Spinpoint MT2 is Samsung’s first 2.5-inch drive to hit the 1TB limit. Not that it’s information that consumers like you and me would care about, mind you – we don’t really care who came first now, do we? But we do care about which 1TB drive is better.
To that end, Samsung is claiming that the Spinpoint MT2 is 20% faster and uses 4% less power than WD’s Scorpio Blue, although in a non-standard shell (it’s a bit thicker than the usual 2.5-incher) that limits it to certain notebook models and devices with a SATA or SATA II interface.
Looking to buy a colorful new VAIO? Check out Sony’s new VAIO E Color Combo site to find out just how colorful you can get with it. Specifically, the new site will let you pick out different color combinations, starting with the main notebook color, then the mouse, keyboard skin and sleeve. Basically, this lets you check out how your chosen colors look together before you hit the checkout button.
If you’re looking at these new wooden skins from KARVT, it’s just funny to think that you might have been one of those people who bought a MacBook because you were impressed by the minimalist all-aluminum design. But now that almost everyone in the coffeeshop has a cold aluminum-ized laptop, it doesn’t look so awesome anymore. Here’s something that’ll let your MacBook stand out from the crowd… or blend with the furniture.
Computer peripheral maker Zemno has introduced the DeskBook Pro Docking Station, a portable notebook platform that features ModBay technology—the company’s proprietary tech that allows users to plug in modules that can either add more storage.
