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First Dell Adamo XPS Prototypes Had Multitouch TouchPads

12:40AM Danny Allen | Still drooling over yesterday’s Adamo XPS pics? I am. But it could have been a very different machine. Early prototypes had LCD touchpads (similar to notebooks like Fujitsu’s N7010 and Sharp’s Mebius), and even a capacitive-touch keyboard. Take a look. More »
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Dell Adamo XPS Hands-On: Insanely Thin, Plain Insane

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | The Adamo XPS is a daring slice of design and engineering. Quite frankly, it’s batshit insane. More »
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Is The Crunchpad Dead?

5:38AM Sean Fallon | The Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Mike Arrington’s vision of an affordable Crunchpad web tablet is dying due to higher than expected costs. More »
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Microsoft Courier’s Swipes And Snips: The Leaked Interface

3:25AM The Paperboy | We’ve seen slides of Microsoft’s Courier booklet in action, but nothing has quite explained how all of these things actually work. This document explains Courier’s interface, gestures and features more in-depth than ever before. More »
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Steve Jobs’ Original Name For The iMac Was Horrifyingly Bad

2:59AM Matt Buchanan | The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it’s shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would “curdle your blood”. More »
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Litl Webbook Banks On Cute, Overlooks Practical

12:34AM Mark Wilson | 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. More »
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Disposable Laptop Works As A Metaphor, Not As An Actual Product

9:35AM John Herrman | 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! More »
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Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2

7:18AM John Herrman | 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. More »
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Acer’s Big Arse Aspire 8940: 18.4-inch Screen, Core i7 Processor

11:55PM Danny Allen | 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. More »
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Please, Don’t Make A Whiskey PC With A Good Whiskey Bottle

11:17AM Jesus Diaz | Yesterday I spent the evening at Tuthilltown Spirits, New York’s first distillery after the Prohibition and makers of some of the most delicious whiskey I’ve ever had. I would never use their bottles to make a PC. It’d be sacrilege. More »