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Computers
Dell 14z Laptop Reviewed: Pretty Slim, Pretty Light, Pretty Cheap
6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Laptop Mag took a look at Dell’s new optical drive-less, 14-inch thin-and-light 14z laptop and, for the most part, liked what they saw. It’s a very solid performer for its class, the price is right and it’s nice and slim. More »
Peripherals
10 Ways To Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting
12:00AM Matt Buchanan | Your keyboard is probably a SuperFund site waiting to happen—luckily there’s more than one way to skin a biohazard. Inc.com has 10 ways to clean your keyboard, blow dryer being their wiliest, if lightweight, method. [Inc.com via Lifehacker] More »
Computers
New MacBook Pro Revealed?
1:29AM Matt Buchanan | T-Systems (owned by Deutsche Telekom like T-Mobile, but not like Mr. T) is apparently selling a very interesting MacBook Pro. All the specs are exactly the same as the current gen. But does that look like a MacBook Pro you’ve ever seen? The “safe” explanation is that it’s just a mock/mix-up. The other possibility, that’s teeming with, uh, possibilities, is that we’re looking at a bit of the future that’s slipped into the present. Besides the black and aluminium styling that matches Apple’s style du jour, our superzoom technology below appears to show a trackpad that’s much wider relative to the body, like the MacBook Air. Update: Fakeness confirmed (like you didn’t already know it in your heart). More »
Computers
Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1 Laptop First to Have 128GB SSD, Apparently
9:04PM Gizmodo US Edition | Toshiba’s Dynabook SS RX1 now has an optional 128GB solid state drive built in, which Toshiba is claiming as a world first. It certainly beats the MacBook Air’s SSD option, and is similarly slender, plus it squeezes in an optical drive. It has a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, Intel graphics and a 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 pixel screen, and a claimed battery life of 12.5 hours, which seems huge. It’s also configurable without the SSD but with an 80GB hard drive and a CDMA card for mobile internet goodness. Available from April in Japan at first, for around US$4,000. [Ascii] More »
Computers
MSI Wind Laptop to Make Eee PC Cry, “Eeek!”
4:50PM Haroon Malik | Check out the latest entrant in the UMPC race, the MSI Wind, which we missed at CeBIT earlier last week. Toting a 10-inch display, Intel Shelton’08 platform, with variable processor speeds from 1.0GHz – 1.6GHz; 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, 1GB RAM, a reported 7-hour battery life and running either Linux or Windows operating systems, it seems MSI’s offering holds a lot of promise. More »
Phones
Couple-It Handset Takes a More Practical View on Convergence
9:20AM Sean Fallon | When it comes to convergence, the trend these days is to cram all sorts of functionality into a single device—even if those functions seem to be massively impractical given the limitations of current technology. However, a UK based design firm named Alloy has taken a more practical approach with their Couple-IT concept. The unit consists of a handset and a pocket-sized “laptop” that share information over a network. More »
Computers
Everex Cloudbook Unboxed, Fondled, Declared Horrible So Far
5:10AM Jason Chen | Those of you excited about that cheap, small Everex Cloudbook Wal-mart laptop as an alternative to an Eee PC might be slightly disappointed. Laptopmag just unboxed theirs, and found many things wrong with it. The pointing device is above the keyboard on the right, but the left and right mouse keys are on the left side, also above the keyboard. What the? Update: They’ve got a mini-review up. More »
Games
Xbox 360 Elite Laptop
3:08AM Mark Wilson | Benjamin Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) is known to most of the geek world as a console modding god. And his latest accomplishment, squeezing an Xbox 360 Elite into a laptop, is his best revision yet. Because while he’s made 360 laptops before, this is his first based upon the newer 65nm chipset (plus it features the Elite’s larger 120GB hard drive). And we especially appreciate that the 17″ screen Heck installed uses a 1280×720 resolution (as opposed to 1280X768) for true 720p picture. Yes, we really are mega geeks. Hit the jump to watch Heck’s demo video as he loads Halo 3. More »
Computers
A MacBook Air Parody that Goes One Better than Wafer-Thin
10:52PM Addy Dugdale | Gadget Lab’s Rob Beschizza has made himself a little piss-take of the MacBook Air. Curved corners—that’s an Ives-esque attention to detail you’ve got there—and a killer punchline. This one goes out to all the secret Luddites who read the Giz. [YouTube via Wired] More »
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