Filed under: Laptops
It’s been forever and a day since we heard from Dospara, but as it typically does, it’s just hanging around and waiting to see what catches on before it dives in. Case in point: here we have the Prime Note Cartina UM, an 8.9-inch netbook that’s hitting alongside the second and third iteration of everyone else’s. You could likely guess the specifications in your sleep, but we’ll humor you anyway; we’ve got a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 120GB hard drive, a 1,024 x 600 panel, 802.11b/g WiFi, a battery good for two hours and a mysterious Linux build pre-installed. You won’t find an optical drive bundled in, but you will find a ¥39,980 ($413) price tag should you venture over to Japan.
[Via Liliputing]
Dospara doles out Atom-powered Prime Note Cartina UM netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
While HP mistakenly claims that its sparkly new TouchSmart tx2 is the world’s first multi-touch consumer notebook, we’re still decidedly stoked about this here convertible tablet. Boasting a 12.1-inch swivel display (LED-backlit) that’s just dying to have your prints all over it, the tx2 will come loaded with Windows Vista, a bezel-mounted fingerprint reader, integrated webcam with microphone, Bluetooth / WiFi, stereo speakers, a 5-in-1 multicard reader and a LightScribe SuperMulti DVD burner. HP’s also delivering the oh-so-stylish Reaction Imprint exterior, an AMD Turion X2 dual-core processor, the firm’s own MediaSmart 2.0 software, a VGA output, Ethernet and at least one USB port from the looks of things. You’re supposed to be able to add one of these to your digital shopping cart right now via HP’s own webstore or Amazon.com, but both links currently lead to sections of the intarwebz you don’t ever, ever want to see. Hold tight — we’ve a feeling HP will be getting really official with this one momentarily.
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Read - Hands-on with TouchSmart tx2
HP reveals multi-touch TouchSmart tx2 convertible tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
We just got the official announcement of Celio’s REDFLY C8N a few hours ago, and Laptop magazine’s already had a chance to touch it and make a video! Their initial impressions? That $20 REDFLY Media Cable you have to buy to hook the C8N up to your phone is a tangled mess! This is exciting stuff, folks — that is if you are just dying to shell out $299 for a buddy for your Windows Mobile device. Check out the terrifically brief video of the terminal after the break.
Continue reading Celio’s REDFLY C8N hands-on and video not terribly exciting
Celio’s REDFLY C8N hands-on and video not terribly exciting originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) 915 chipset? Yeah, that was awesome. Connoisseurs of corporate drama should appreciate the latest development — the judge has made public a second batch of emails revealing that MS execs were at odds about that decision. Senior VP Will Poole apparently made the call to appease Intel, but co-President of Platform & Services Jim Allchin (along with many others who had been fighting for the other side for months) was “beyond being upset,” saying “this was totally mismanaged by Intel and Microsoft. What a mess.” The mess he was referring to: an unhappy partner in HP, which had spent millions to meet the old standards… and presciently, the lawsuit we’re watching now. Alright, maybe not so awesome for everyone.
More “Vista Capable” emails unsealed, revealing sassy civil war originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Laptops
Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, which isn’t all that unexpected in and of itself; the problem comes in when you realize that the new unibody machines don’t offer a VGA / VGA-to-component output, meaning that you have to connect it to an HDCP-compliant display if you want to see anything. We know, one word in particular keeps coming to mind to describe this fiasco: awesome.
Apple iTunes content throwing HDCP flags on new MacBook / MacBook Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Laptops
The Eee PC 901 has always been the sweet spot model in ASUS’s alphabet soup of a netbook line, and the 901GO launched today in France makes it even more desirable with a larger 8700mAh battery and a faster 16GB SSD capable of 50MB/s writes and 87MB/s reads. Of course, you can get the same 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 8.9-inch screen in the 900A for $280, so the new 901GO’s €399 ($505) pricetag seems perhaps a bit much, but the cutting edge ain’t a cheap place to live, kids.
[Via Electronista]
Eee PC 901GO with faster SSD and a bigger battery surfaces in France originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Laptops
Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, which isn’t all that unexpected in and of itself; the problem comes in when you realize that the new unibody machines don’t offer a VGA / VGA-to-component output, meaning that you have to connect it to an HDCP-compliant display if you want to see anything. We know, one word in particular keeps coming to mind to describe this fiasco: awesome.
Apple iTunes content throwing HDCP flags on new MacBook / MacBook Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Laptops
The Eee PC 901 has always been the sweet spot model in ASUS’s alphabet soup of a netbook line, and the 901GO launched today in France makes it even more desirable with a larger 8700mAh battery and a faster 16GB SSD capable of 50MB/s writes and 87MB/s reads. Of course, you can get the same 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 8.9-inch screen in the 900A for $280, so the new 901GO’s €399 ($505) pricetag seems perhaps a bit much, but the cutting edge ain’t a cheap place to live, kids.
[Via Electronista]
Eee PC 901GO with faster SSD and a bigger battery surfaces in France originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Can Dell’s Art-Inspired Laptops Save The Day?
Posted by Jo
pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”dell art laptop.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/dell%20art%20laptop.jpg” width=”587″ height=”388″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”" //span/p pIt’s gloomy times indeed in the computer market right now and Dell is not alone in asking workers to take time off unpaid as sales crawl. /p pThinking ahead, the company is still dreaming up of new ways to drive business and much of that is going to come down to letting us consumers have a lot more choice in how the products look. This week it took the wraps of three new Product RED charity laptops with striking new artwork. But this is just the start, according to Ed Boyd, Dell’s new Industrial Design Director./p pHe says that next year - assuming Dell still has budget left for design - the company will let us customise laptops in a “dizzying” number of ways, through mixing scores of colours, patterns, and textures. The claim is that no mainstream rival will offer more cosmetic customisation options than Dell. /p pThe three new additions this week include artwork by Joseph Amedokpo [above], Siobhan Gunning and Bruce Mau. See the other 2 notebooks after the jump./p pDowdy Dell has already gotten a little ‘hip’ this summer with its a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/08/20/dells_studio_laptops_get_tatto.html”striking Studio laptops/a by urban artist Mike Ming. /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2600213/mf.gif’ border=’0′/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0′trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Can Dell’s Art-Inspired Laptops Save The Day?link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/15/can_dells_artinspired_laptops.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Can Dell’s Art-Inspired Laptops Save The Day?link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/15/can_dells_artinspired_laptops.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192500131/u/197/f/9581/c/552/s/39846419/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192500131/u/197/f/9581/c/552/s/39846419/a2.img” border=”0″//a
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Filed under: Laptops
The Aspire One is selling really well, in spite of the fact that it kind of gets lost in the overwhelming wilderness of more exciting (cooler, if you will) netbooks, so it’s not necessarily surprising to see it appearing in new and zany colors… like black. Sure, it’s exactly the same as every other Aspire One 110 we’ve ever seen, but this one is… all black. In fact, it’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black. The special “Black Edition” has touched down in Germany for €400 (or about $500), which is a bit more than we’re used to paying for the old 110, but it seems worth it to express so much with so little effort.
Acer’s Aspire One A110X “Black Edition” hits the streets of Germany originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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