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The LED Micro Task Light

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have a tendency to need a little extra lighting that can move around with you, you’ll like this tiny light.  It clips onto whatever you need, be it a book, your laptop or a monitor.  It would be especially great for those that travel, because it would be easy to toss into your [...]

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Samsung’s X460 laptop gets fondled on video

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Laptops

The lucky, lucky chaps over at Laptop got an early sit-down with the glossy 14.1-inch Samsung X460 we’ve been hearing so much about. We’ll have to be patient and wait for the full review, but some early impressions are that the outer shell smudges up quite easily (as evidenced by the above photo), [...]

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MSI EX623 laptop "rocks" our (proverbial) "world"

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Laptops

Another day, another awesome laptop announcement. This one, the EX623, a 16-incher from the hallowed depths of MSI’s genius labs packs an Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a max 320GB hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics, with a 16:9 widescreen display. The “Bravo,” as [...]

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Russian Eee PC 901 looks good in skin-tight leather

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Laptops

We were all ready to whip out utilize a series of stereotypical cultural allusions when we saw pictures of a leather-clad Eee PC 901 show up on a German site — only to have our hopes dashed when it turned out to actually be a Russian laptop under there. So, this entry will [...]

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Alienware teases evolutionary product, should unveil today

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Desktops

What is this, the day of the tease or something? We’re already at our wits’ end after what RED did to us earlier, we’re not so sure we can withstand another. In an Alienware Insider e-mail (titled “Countdown to Launch”) sent out to select individuals, the above picture was included — and, that [...]

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Graphics market on fire; AMD gains

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The economy may be under water, but the graphics chip market is on fire.
The market for graphics processing units (GPUs) saw the biggest increase in third-quarter shipments in six years, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), as AMD gained in both the desktop and laptop segments.

Laptop graphics chip …

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Intel to unveil health care line

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Intel plans to unveil a series of health care products aimed at the aging and chronically ill on November 11.
Few details have been released, but it’s likely the new products will tie in with the Intel Health Guide PHS 6000.
Intel was recently granted approval for this touch-screen laptop …
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Asustek Android handset coming in 2009

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s an Android sort of day here on SlashGear. But check this out. Asustek Computer is planning on launching their own Android-based handset sometime during the beginning of 2009. It almost sounds crazy, but this news is coming from company sources and sounds feasible to me.
Apparently, these Android phones would be sold under their brand [...]

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Laptop shipments exceed desktops in US for the not-exactly-first time

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Hope you’re eager to break into that Halloween candy early, because you’ve got some (re)celebrating to do. If you’ll recall, we first heard that laptops accounted for over half of US retail computer sales back in 2003, and in June of 2005, we found that it was somehow worth getting jazzed over [...]

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The USB Notebook Cooling Pad resembling a growling dog

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

One obnoxious aspect of using your laptop for long periods is if placed on your lap, you soon feel as if you’re sitting in a sauna.  All depending on the laptop, some are worse or better than others.  Since laptops do tend to get hot, a cooling pad would be a logical purchase.  Yet, I’m [...]

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