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Computing

PC Laptop Makers Need More Ambition

Intel dumped $US300 million into the laptop industry to buy it something it’s never had before: attention. Ultrabooks sound cool, and could look beautiful while running like little thin crust pizzas of awesome. Instead, we’re seeing designs that are continually MacBook Air inspired.

October 9, 2009

Light Peak May Arrive In Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?

According to a major Light Peak provider’s plans, products with the ultrafast connectivity standard may arrive as soon as early 2010. Apple helped in its development. Apple is rumoured to adopt it first. Yes, you know where this is going.

September 29, 2009
Computing

Hanvon Slate Packs Windows 7 Multitouch Into Aluminium Shell

It may not be the Microsoft Courier or Apple Tablet, but GottaBeMobile’s Xavier reckons the Hanvon is a pretty slick-looking device. The 8.9-inch multitouch screen supports gestures, and would be great to watch movies or fool about online.

September 25, 2009

Man, That’s A Huge Hackintosh

Check out the machine Intel used to demo their insanely fast 10Gbps Light Peak optical data transfer tech at IDF: Yep, a hulking freak of a Hackintosh—the only thing that’s more awesome than a super teeny tiny Hackintosh.

And hey, if Intel does it, that means it’s totally cool for everybody else, right? [Engadget]

Intel Atom CE4100 Is A Beast Of A Media Chip

Here at IDF, Intel introduced the Atom CE4100 media chip, which is likely coming to set-top boxes and Blu-Ray players. It’s got some serious power: We’re talking simultaneous decoding of two 1080p streams, 3D rendering and more.

September 24, 2009
Computing

Viliv’s S10 “Blade” Netbook Tablet Boasts 10 Hours Of Battery Life

Viliv, who’s previously made the S5 and S7, seems to always have a bigger gadget on the horizon, and here at IDF they showed off the S10, a 10-inch convertible tablet running Windows 7. It’s super-thin and looks really promising.

Computing

IDF’s Affordable Thin-And-Lights Are Decidedly Not Netbooks

Want the tiny size of a netbook, but the power of a full-size? Intel showed off a crop of ultraportable laptops, all aimed at around an $US800 MSRP, using Core 2 Duo processors, not Atom. Check out our gallery below.

Intel Light Peak Optical Tech Achieves Insane 10Gb/s Speeds

Today at IDF, Intel unveiled Light Peak technology, a plan for an extremely high-speed optical cable they hope will land on consumer products in 2010. Imagine transferring an entire Blu-ray disk in 30 seconds. And that’s just the beginning.

Software

Intel’s Moblin OS Shows Up On Dell Mini 10v

Netbooks’ smaller size can make using a normal OS a little tricky, and though Windows XP is still on most netbooks, there’s definitely room for an upstart OS. Enter Intel’s speedy and slick Moblin, demonstrated on Dell’s Mini 10v.

Computing

Asus G60J Republic Of Gamers Laptop: The Budget Alienware

Asus’s new G60J laptop, in their Republic of Gamers line, is the company’s first Core i7 laptop. It’s packing the 1GB GeForce GTS 250M graphics card, dual-SATA HDD support, and a fancypants light-up keyboard like the pricier Alienware M15x.

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