I took my family down to Atlanta for a few days to check out the new Coca Cola Museum and the Georgia Aquarium and spotted a Lenovo flat panel monitor in the Quality Assurance Lab in the Bottle Works display.

Check out the new MoGo Mouse X54 Pro.  It’s a combination mouse and presenter that that has Bluetooth connectivity. And it fits snugly in your ExpressCard slot.

If you’re having trouble finding a battery or other accessories for your old ThinkPad 600 or T23, look no further. IT Xchange has new and refurbished parts for older IBM/Lenovo systems, including ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre & NetVista desktops.

Technology has become such a part of everyday life, whether it’s your cell phone, laptop or gameboy.

 Check out CNN’s survey where you can rank your favorite tech toys and see how you compare with other people.

I know everyone is getting excited about the college football season starting soon, but have you noticed that it’s only 65 days until Late Night with Roy?

 In the meantime, I’m looking forward to the beginning of the Butch Davis era for Carolina football. Also, I just saw that after 20 years, they’ve resurfaced and repainted the floor at the Smith Center.

This is pretty cool. I stumbled across this posting where this guy was standing on top of his T60p, all 220 pounds of him!

With the magnesium roll cage, active protection system for the hard drive, and spill-resistant keyboard, the ThinkPad really is the best-engineered notebook on the planet.

The past few days was the back-to-school tax-free weekend in North Carolina, so I thought I’d give my take on the top 5 notebook accessories for back-to-school for college.

1. Carrying case. Make sure that the case is large enough to carry your notebook computer plus your books, notebooks and other essential items. Backpacks are easier to carry when riding a bike but some people may prefer a messenger bag.

2. Cable lock. The call of nature can interrupt even the most focused student but it’s not the most convenient thing to carry your notebook with you. Lock down your notebook to make sure it doesn’t walk away from you.

3. High capacity battery. An additional 9-cell battery (I think most schools that use ThinkPad notebooks are using mostly T60’s or R60’s) can give you hours of additional computing time when you’re far from an electrical outlet.

4. Flash memory key. The easiest way to share file with friends is with a flash memory key. They’re really small and you just simply plug them into your USB port. When memory keys first came out, they could only hold about 4-8MB of data but now I’ve seen them as large as 8GB.

5. Travel mouse. Some people just prefer a mouse to a trackpoint or touchpad.

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As the price of notebooks continues to fall, more and more people are buying notebooks instead of desktops. And after a while, you’ll get used to using that notebook keyboard with the trackpoint (or touchpad) and wish that someone made an external keyboard that was just like it.

Your days of wishing and searching are over! Lenovo has a ThinkPad Travel Keyboard that looks like they lifted the keyboard right off of a ThinkPad.

It has 87 keys, along with both the trackpoint and touchpad pointing devices so you can use the one that you like best. It also has 2 USB ports for connecting any USB peripherals.

It helps to save space on your desk, since you don’t need to have a mouse.

I haven’t seen any studies on this but I gotta think that it’s ergonomically better for you since you don’t have to keep taking your hand off the keyboard to use the mouse. And if you’re using the trackpoint, you don’t even need to take your hands off the keyboard. Just shift your hand to use the trackpoint.

Unlike many of my friends, I actually don’t own an iPod. At work, it seems easier just to listen to XM radio via AOL Radio. Nothing like XM ’80s and XM ’90s!

But what really makes it sound great is the Lenovo USB Multimedia Headset.

I’ve gone through a lot of headhones from tape, CD and MiniDisc players and these are the best sounding headphones I’ve ever used. The sound clarity is outstanding and they can really crank! Usually I have to adjust the notebook volume settings and then the volume control on the headphones, but for these all I have to do is turn up the volume on the headphones.

You can plug the headphones into the USB port or the headphone jack, but it sounds best via the USB port.

If there’s one thing that I didn’t like was that sometimes I like to rest the headphones on my temples so I can hear what else is going around me and they fit a bit too snug for my comfort.

The headphones do come with a microphone so it should be perfect for Skype. I haven’t gotten into VOIP but if you’re using these headphones for VOIP, let me know how they work for you.