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  • Frameless laptop screens expected soon

    Frameless laptop screens expected soon

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The infinity pools of the computing industry, frameless laptop screens are expected in the second or third quarter of this year, according to DigiTimes.

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  • Origin’s Eon18 gaming laptop is not entirely origin-al

    Origin’s Eon18 gaming laptop is not entirely origin-al

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    After Dell bought out Alienware, some of the executives jumped ship and formed a new company. That company, called Origin PC, makes high end computers. Origin PC just announced a new product, the Eon18 laptop. There's only one problem. It looks suspiciously like another computer we looked at a few months ago.

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  • Vpad Tablet uses netbook hardware, lacks power

    Vpad Tablet uses netbook hardware, lacks power

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    iiView recently announced their answer to tablet computing, the Vpad. The issue is, I'm not sure they understood exactly what people are looking for in a tablet PC. I like tablet PC's. I like the concept, the idea of a computer that's portable, uses a touch screen, and plays media. Unfortunately, the specs on the Vpad don't look very promising.

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  • eSATA is faster than USB 3.0 — at least right now

    eSATA is faster than USB 3.0 — at least right now

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Most hardware manufacturers are finally rolling out USB 3.0 devices. We've seen motherboards, hubs, hard drives, and notebooks all rocking the new and improved USB standard. It's clearly the future of USB with backwards compatibility, dramatically faster speeds and full-duplex data transfers. That's great, but it's still not faster than eSATA right now.

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  • HP widens the lead between number two computer maker, Acer

    HP widens the lead between number two computer maker, Acer

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Uh-oh, Acer. You better get your stuff together. HP is embarrassing you. Maybe you shouldn't have gone all, "We's gonna be number 1 soon and 4ever!" Because now that HP shipped nearly 1.1 million more notebooks than you in the third quarter of 2009, you look kind of silly.

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  • More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    LED-backlit panels are becoming more and more mainstream, with nearly every 16:9 laptop coming out lately boasting that feature. Apple said as early as 2008 they would start using LED backlights for every one of their notebooks (and the iPad has those, too). LED-backlit LCD TVs are catching on, too, providing greater dynamic contrast compared with CCFL-backlit LCDs and making it possible to design slimmer bodies. Today, Sharp in Japan announced [JP] another four models (LC-52SE1/pictured, LC-46SE1, LC-40SE1 and LC-32SC1) from their LED AQUOS series, and all have (white) LED backlights.

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  • HP shows off its slate computer while revealing a key disappointing detail (Windows)

    HP shows off its slate computer while revealing a key disappointing detail (Windows)

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple isn't the only company with tablets. HP and Dell showed off its slate concepts at CES '10, but their demo's left us with so many questions. HP's CTO Phil McKinney at least reveals a bit more about his company's offering. But hopefully he's out of the loop a bit and HP actually has more planned for the device. Otherwise, the HP Slate will be about as successful as the HP TouchSmart iMac clones. Phil gives the background about the Slate's development at HP. He explains that the company has been working on the unit for about five years and it started out as an ereadering device. But then as many things do, it evolved into what he's showing off in the video. But this slate is plagued by the same fundamental flaw as the vast majority of the current tablets: Windows. Phil states that the device will run plain-jane Windows 7. That's a problem because even Windows 7 with its added touchscreen capabilities is not suited for extended tablet use without a stylus and Apple/Palm/RIM/HTC has proven to the world that we don't need styluses. (stylii?)

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  • Review: Seagate’s USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 portable hard drive kit

    Review: Seagate’s USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 portable hard drive kit

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    The future is here, everyone. Let’s check out the just-announced Seagate BlackArmor PS110 Performance kit. It’s Seagate’s first USB 3.0 product and it’s noice — where noice is slang for nice, and for the sole fact that it’s the first USB 3.0 drive I’ve tested. I’m a little excited. Features: USB 3.0 interface Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 7,200 [...]

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  • Eight boring HP computers leak out before CES

    Eight boring HP computers leak out before CES

    Posted on January 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Whoops, it looks like most, if not all, of HP's CES computer lineup has leaked a few days early. So far detailed spec sheets are missing for the four notebooks and four deskstops, but none of them really seem to be all that exciting. The most noteworthy one out of the bunch is the Mini 210 HD  netbook that comes sporting a Pine Trail CPU and Broadcom's Crystal HD video playback chip for $329. Besides that, the rest are just your standard Best Buy-bound computers.

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  • January 26th Apple Event confirmed by FoxNews, focus on “Mobility Space”

    January 26th Apple Event confirmed by FoxNews, focus on “Mobility Space”

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems that Clayton Morris, from FoxNews, has confirmed from a "source inside Apple" that there will be a "big" event in January 26th. This source also stated that the event will focus on the mobility space, which could actually mean a lot of different things. That is if there is if this event even is real.

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  • Quick Look: Sony VAIO X Series notebook

    Quick Look: Sony VAIO X Series notebook

    Posted on December 28, 2009 | No Comments
    The 1.5-pound, half-inch thick Sony VAIO X Series notebook is easily one of the most impressive portable computers I’ve seen in quite some time. I can’t convey how light it is. It seems to defy logic. My brain doesn’t understand that it’s seeing my hand hold up an 11.1-inch notebook that weighs less than half [...]

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  • TDK develops method to tint touchscreens

    TDK develops method to tint touchscreens

    Posted on December 24, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm not really sure if that's something a lot of gadget freaks were waiting for, but here we go: TDK has found a cost-effective way to tint touchscreens. The company claims it can add color to transparent electrode sheets that serve as the basis of those screens. In the future, electrode sheets will be available in 13 colors, including red, green, blue, aquamarine, purple and black hues. The main selling point here is to match the body of a given device with its touch screen.

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  • ASUS and Toshiba winners of reliability survey, don’t ask about HP

    ASUS and Toshiba winners of reliability survey, don’t ask about HP

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    SquareTrade, proprietors of extended warranties, just released a 3-year study that sheds some light on the reliability of laptops and netbooks. The main conclusion that 1 in 3 notebooks fail within three year should come as no surprise. After all, they are portable computers that get banged around. It's the nature of the beast. However, the study does reveal some other interesting tid-bits, including a handy graph the shows the malfunction rate of the top nine laptop manufacturers.

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  • Sony VAIO P gets a Windows 7 makeover

    Sony VAIO P gets a Windows 7 makeover

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember when the first VAIO P came out and everyone was like, “I can’t believe it has Vista! That angers me! I am currently outraged!” – something along those lines? Well now it has Windows 7 and comes in four different models ranging in price from $850 to $1900.

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  • Core i7/i5-powered MacBook Pros on tap?

    Core i7/i5-powered MacBook Pros on tap?

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Okay, so Apple just updated the Mac Mini, iMac, and totally redesigned the white MacBook. But what about the MacBook Pros? PC manufacturers are already stuffing Intel Core i7 and i5 CPUs into their flagship notebooks, but the MacBook Pros are still rocking Core 2 Duos. That might change soon according to the OS X 10.6.2 update.

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