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  • Review: Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook with VIA Nano CPU

    Review: Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook with VIA Nano CPU

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Quick Version: The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 represents one of the first netbooks to feature VIA’s Nano platform as a configuration option. You’ll gain some extra horsepower over Intel’s Atom setup while saving about $70 off the total system price, making the Nano a good option for those of you who want to watch 720p video. [...]

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  • Woot: 8GB iPod Touch clone for $45

    Woot: 8GB iPod Touch clone for $45

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Woot’s description of this obvious knock-off is hilarious as it usually is. If you’re in the market for a clone with decent features then the the V-Touch might be worth a look. You even get a free pair of craptastic earbuds! Check it out: the color touchscreen controls the MP3 player, picture viewer, e-book reader, and [...]

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  • Sony officially announces the Reader Touch Edition, Reader Pocket Edition

    Sony officially announces the Reader Touch Edition, Reader Pocket Edition

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    As expected, Sony officially unveiled their latest eBook readers. So, here we have the PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition and the PRS-300 Pocket Edition. The latter rocks a five-inch electronic paper screen display that fits in your pocket and lasts up to two weeks off a single charge. The $199 reader will store up to 350 standard eBooks.

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  • Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Friggin’ nuts. If you wish to live a long life, you should never drive a car over 100 miles per hour. But remotely controlling a vehicle at blazingly fast speeds sounds pretty rad. That’s the idea behind Nic Case’s Schumacher Mi3, who holds the world record for fastest R/C car with a max speed of [...]

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  • Getac announces the lightest and smallest rugged notebook, 9213

    Getac announces the lightest and smallest rugged notebook, 9213

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Are rugged notebooks becoming a trend? Can anyone stand up to Panasonic and their Toughbook line? Getac thinks it can. Well, they've been doing this 'rugged' thing since 1989, so there's that. Announced earlier today is the 9213, which Getac claim is the smallest and lightest business-rugged notebook. Encased in a full magnesium alloy chassis and case, the 9213 comes with a shock mounted HDD and LCD. Other ‘rugged’ essentials include a spill-resistant keyboard, touchpad and “surrounding surface.” Under the hood, a 45nm Intel C2D Penryn runs the show and 9213 boasts up to eight hours of battery life. Up to 12 hours without the optical drive, says Getac.

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  • Psystar emerges from bankruptcy ready to sell a Core i7 Mac Pro clone

    Psystar emerges from bankruptcy ready to sell a Core i7 Mac Pro clone

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    And you thought that Apple finally drove the front running clone maker off of a cliff. Nope. Psystar successfully navigated the bankruptcy courts and is back at its old game of annoying Apple. The ongoing lawsuit is still in play, but bankruptcy no doubt allowed the company to shed some debt and reorganize under Chapter 11 guidelines. Now the company is back and just released a new Core i7 clone.

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  • Wired’s Smart Guide: Know Your Smartphones

    Wired’s Smart Guide: Know Your Smartphones

    Posted on June 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Not long ago the best smartphone you could buy was the iPhone. No contest. The uncanny combo of beautiful chassis, intelligent OS, super responsive touchscreen, and app store was unparalleled. There was no device on the market that came remotely close to touching the Jesus phone’s near mythical marriage of hardware and software. Them days is [...]

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  • Contest: Win a bunch of NZXT gaming gear

    Contest: Win a bunch of NZXT gaming gear

    Posted on June 26, 2009 | No Comments
    We’ve got some NZXT gaming gear to giveaway, but we want to ensure that it goes to a gamer and not some chump that will flip the stuff on Ebay. So we’re actually asking you to do something this time around rather than just leaving something in the comments. It should be easy for a [...]

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  • Review: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s

    Review: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Usually business notebooks are snore-fests with dull chassis design and humdrum interior components. Not the ThinkPad T400s. The latest lightweight (under 4 pounds!) to come from Lenovo, the  computer also sports a Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM and a solid-state drive. Here’s a snippet from reviewer Christopher Null: Clad in that familiar black [...]

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  • Toshiba NB205 Reviewed: Great keyboard and trackpad, 8.5+ hour battery

    Toshiba NB205 Reviewed: Great keyboard and trackpad, 8.5+ hour battery

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    toshibaAh, the standard 10-inch netbook. It's everywhere. With restrictions imposed by Intel and Microsoft on just how powerful these little machines can get, manufacturers have to focus more on aestethics, good keyboards, and battery life to differentiate themselves inside the overly crowded arena that is the 10-inch netbook.

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  • Video: Ears-on with Electro-Harmonix’s POG2 effects pedal

    Video: Ears-on with Electro-Harmonix’s POG2 effects pedal

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Sorry for the clipping but this sucker was loud. This is Electro-Harmonix's local tester running the POG2 pedal through its paces. The pedal makes a standard guitar sound like a harpsichord and an organ.
    The POG2 will take you even higher. Use the new attack control to fade in lush, smooth swells. Tune in the new second sub-octave to reach deeper than ever before. The 2-pole resonant low-pass filter now includes two additional Q modes. Slide in the newly enhanced detune to further refine your sound. The POG2 delivers unrivaled tonal variations -- and now you can save your favorite settings, and recall them with a click. The POG2 just plain sounds better, thanks to an enhanced algorithm that delivers a more focused and in-the-pocket harmonic performance. And all this is now packed into our rugged and pedalboard-friendly diecast chassis.

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  • Alienware’s Allpowerful laptop teases with riddles

    Alienware’s Allpowerful laptop teases with riddles

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Five days before launch and out pops another teaser for the Alienware Allpowerful gaming laptop. The image above again comes courtesy of the cats and kittens over at the NotebookReview forums. Noted symbolist, Larven, went so far as to translate the gibberish on the picture setting the forum into a tizzy of code cracking. It reads line-by-line as follows:
    The sum of the first four primes (Answer: 17 hinting at a 17-inch display or Core i7 maybe?)
    Denotes a state of two parts (Core 2 Extreme or dual-GPUs perhaps?)
    Known as the gentleman's muscle car of 1967 (Plymouth GTX pointing to NVIDIA graphics?)
    When pure, it will carry a yield strength of 7-11 mpa (Aluminum chassis?)
    Is always empty in zero sum games (Core?)
    Of course, with a name like Allpowerful, we're expecting something big here. We've seen Core i7 laptops before, but dual GTX 260M / 280M GPUs might be a little much? We'll turn the sleuth-work over to you now dear readers. Best guess gets a HTTP cookie.

    [Thanks, MAG]

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