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First Dell Adamo XPS Prototypes Had Multitouch TouchPads
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4:00AM Matt Buchanan | The Adamo XPS is a daring slice of design and engineering. Quite frankly, it’s batshit insane. More »
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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Nvidia Confirms Intel’s Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011
3:19AM Mark Wilson | Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel’s stance on USB 3.0 — no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won’t hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope? More »
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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 »
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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Hey Dell: A “Hard Drive For Laptops” Program Doesn’t Work
7:40AM Sean Fallon | So, this guy sends his laptop to Dell for repair and Dell sends him back a hard drive…just a hard drive in a box. So what’s the problem here? More »
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Is Apple Trying To Kill The Hackintosh Netbook?
11:37PM Danny Allen | Coders have confirmed that the developer build of OS X 10.6.2 kills support for netbook Atom processors. Nothing’s final yet, of course, but given Apple’s lame fight with Palm over iTunes compatibility, are hackintosh netbooks next in the firing line? More »
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