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DIY Laptop Etch-A-Sketch Is Almost Worth Destroying A Hard Drive
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I think my hard drive flinched in fear when I pulled up these instructions for turning a laptop into an Etch-A-Sketch. How could it not when the project is a freakin’ awesome Arduino-powered Hack-A-Sketch that you actually shake to erase. More »
Computers
Dell Studio 17 Touch: Dell’s First Touchscreen Laptop From $US800
7:19AM Mark Wilson | While Dell has made tablets for years, their quietly announced Studio 17 Touch is their first touchscreen laptop, and it’s one big machine. More »
Computers
2:33AM Mark Wilson | On one hand, the Asus Eee 1201N, the first Ion-packing Eee, will arrive in December for $US500. That includes Win 7, a dual core Atom processor, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD and 12-inch (1366×768) display. But on the other… More »
Asus Eee PC 1201N: A Great Deal, But Have We Been Had?
2:33AM Mark Wilson | On one hand, the Asus Eee 1201N, the first Ion-packing Eee, will arrive in December for $US500. That includes Win 7, a dual core Atom processor, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD and 12-inch (1366×768) display. But on the other… More »
Computers
Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks
12:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Lenovo’s new X100E ultrathin laptop just leaked out, and it’s looking pretty sweet: 11.6-inch screen, redesigned chiclet keyboard, a supposed starting price of less than $US500 and colours. Colours, you guys. On a ThinkPad. More »
Computers
The Asus G51J 3D Laptop Is ‘3D Done Right’
1:42AM Mark Wilson | We reviewed Acer’s 3D laptop not so long ago. We found it fun, but reeking of gen 1 quirks. Now Laptop Mag has played with a new 3D laptop by Asus and found it to be pretty fantastic. More »
Computers
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo Smartbook Coming
8:22AM Rosa Golijan | Qualcomm has announced its newest smartbook concept. It’s a Snapdragon-powered, 10-incher for which they’ve already secured AT&T backing. More »
Hardware
Intel’s 32nm Arrandale Core i5 And i7 Chips For Anorexic Notebooks
8:04AM Matt Buchanan | We know, the Core i7-i5-i3 stuff is confusing. Not to make it worse, but Digitimes outs some of Intel’s notebooks plans for next year: a triplet of processors of Core i7 and i5 processors, codenamed Arrandale, for skinny laptops. More »
Hardware
Windows 7 Netbook Battery Life Sucks Worse Than Windows XP
11:33AM Matt Buchanan | Yeah, netbooks feel so much nicer running Windows 7 than Windows XP, but you’re paying a secret price: your battery. On average, Windows 7 seems to suck all the life out of it 47 minutes faster than Windows XP. More »
Computers
Nokia Booklet 3G Review
6:00AM Mark Wilson | The Nokia Booklet 3G is one of the nicest netbooks you can buy, and it aspires to be a 10-inch MacBook Pro. But it’s still just a netbook and therein lies the problem. More »
Deals
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More »
Zazz Selling Samsung R519 Laptop For $677.85
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More » 
