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Although the third-generation Classmate PC looked completely unprepared for the real world comin’ out of IFA, Intel has clearly hit the books during the fall term. Now, the convertible Classmate has graduated to the FCC, where we’re shown a user’s manual, label ID and a smattering of pathetic images. If you’re thinking this bugger’s just [...]

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There’s been a serious dearth of Hello Kitty-branded products these days, but the dry-spell is thankfully at an end, with the arrival of the Hello Kitty C1. The crazy cat’s apparently first-ever netbook is (as you can see in the photo) quite a looker, and it’s packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU with 1GB [...]

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Intel’s new Core i7 chip has been showing up in tons of silly-spec’d high-end gaming rigs for about three days now, so it’s obviously time to get bored and move on — and right on cue, TechRadar’s got the first benchmarks we’ve seen of the upcoming dual-processor Nehalem EP platform. The secret test machine featured [...]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) [...]

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Updated throughout at 2:30 p.m. PST.
A crush of warnings are descending on Intel, AMD, and the PC industry this week.
First up, Avian Securities. The brokerage company said that PC makers “are being very conservative with their build plans for Q4.”
Market researcher IDC is equally pessimistic. “…
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The Intel Core i7 processor is being bid up at online retailers–about a week before its official launch.

Though Intel isn’t slated to launch the Core i7 processor until November 17, processors are ready for order at online retailers. The Core i7 represents the vanguard of Intel’s new …
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Looking for signs that netbooks are catching on? And even morphing into notebooks? Here’s a few.
Netbooks were the big end-user gadget on display at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that ended Friday.
And all the Netbooks at a Microsoft booth were running Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation operating …
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Updated at 9:00 p.m. with additional comments on Netbooks at bottom.
In case you missed it, Advanced Micro Devices is passing on Netbooks. At least as Intel and its partners have defined the category.

AMD thinks that ultrathin 13-inch designs such as the MacBook Air address a more …

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This month marks the release of Intel’s new i7 processor. Die-hard PC enthusiasts drooled over the latest and greatest i7 with unparalleled efficiency and performance would have to pay a higher price to get the novelties ahead of everyone. While many are struggling to get hold of the new Intel Core i7 processors, Newegg is [...]

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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

After last year’s CES fiasco and the non-launch of a Snapdragon device in June, this is what it’s come to: the no really, manufacturers love our platform press release. According to Qualcomm, HTC, LG, ASUS, Samsung and other leading device manufacturers have created more than 30 device designs based on Snapdragon chipsets. [...]

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