Tight living quarters? Are your cables a conundrum of craziness? Or, do you simply wonder if your pooches or pesky cat might chew through a few precious items while you’re away? We’ve featured a number of cable and phone charger organizers, but this one is perfect for your computer and a few of its precious parts.
While I won’t recommend a lot of things from Ikea (for some reason nearly everything I’ve purchased combusted early on – likely a personal problem) I do recommend Ikea’s PS Laptop Workstation.
The sorkstation allows you easy access to your modem, router, and cables, while providing you with a small workspace and a place to lock up your laptop (up to 17”) as it charges. Couple of things to keep in mind:
1. Workstation is about as secure as your high school diary ever was.
2. Don’t put too much pressure on the sorkstation, because it’s not so much a workstation as it is a charging/changing station.
Price: $39.99 at Ikea (I recommend making it a day and having meatballs and lingenberry juice while you’re there).
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This isn’t going to end well for Asus. Early adopters of the Eee PC 900 in Hong Kong are in a spat with Asus over batteries. Seems the Eee PC 900 ships with a standard 4-cell, 4400mAh battery whereas the battery shipped to the Hong Kong media (and presumably others) was a 4-cell, 5800mAh; the latter Asus is calling a mistake. That would certainly account for the wide ranging Eee PC 900’s battery life reviews which have varied from a very disappointing 1.5 hours to a decent 2.5-hours. Of course testing methods will also contribute to lifespan. Regardless, ASUS is now considering giving 900 buyers a free upgrade. Our suggestion? Just do it Asus, and pronto. Else the Eee PC brand you’ve become so dependent upon is going to take a serious beating.
Lenovo’s the latest laptop vendor to go to a mostly-widescreen lineup today, as it retires the 4:3 14.1-inch ThinkPad T61. All that’s left in the standard ratio are the 12.1-inch X-series laptops, and even those are something of a novelty in today’s 13.3-inch dominated market. It’s not a formal move and there’s no announcement, but it’s clearly a growing trend — Apple, Sony, and HP don’t offer any 4:3 laptops either — and it’s got us wondering what people prefer. Just amongst Engadget editors there’s no clear agreement: some of us prize vertical real estate, while others say tiling windows horizontally provides maximum multitasking power, and one ed rocks both 16:9 and 4:3 displays side-by-side — but that’s probably crazy. What’s your aspect ratio of choice? Hit us up in comments!
