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- Acer Blue laptop revealed
- It turns out Acer's Blue is a desktop replacement laptop with a bunch of entertainment-oriented features. It's also not a "concept PC," as the invitation to today's press event suggested, but an actual product that will be available in about a month. The marketing department got...
- Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Acer Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Aspire 6920G, 6920G, Blu-Ray, Notebooks, Processors, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
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- Psystar Open Computer
- Editor's note: Shortly after this review posted we tried out VMware to see if the Open Computer will support running Windows Vista on top of OS X. We can confirm that it does.Psystar says its goal in selling its Open Computer, a non-Apple-made computer with the Leopard operating system as...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Open Computer, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X
- Product reviews 2008-05-01
- What One Laptop Per Child lacks
- An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, One Laptop Per Child Project, Tycho, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- eMachines T5254
- The eMachines T5254 is a little less powerful than its last system in this price range, but it's also a bit less expensive. For $400, we're willing to accept a slightly slower CPU and a slightly smaller hard drive, especially when the alternatives from Dell and HP can't come close...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Processors, Desktops, eMachines Inc., eMachines T5254
- Product reviews 2008-04-21
- Dell Inspiron 530
- Since Dell has stopped selling its AMD-based Inspirons, that leaves the Intel-powered Inspiron 530 and 530s leading its budget desktop charge. The Inspiron 530 is a modest $539 configuration that offers some surprising features for the price. Hewlett-Packard competes very well in this price range too, but Dell's one...
- Tags: Notebooks, Bluetooth Module, Dell Inspiron, Inspiron 530, Dell Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-18
- HP Pavilion a6400z
- The HP Pavilion a6400z desktop is a versatile machine aimed at meeting your basic home, school, or work computing needs. Our review configuration of the a6400z came in at $340, but with a few key upgrades on HP's Web site you can turn this into a much better system for...
- Tags: Desktops, DVD, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Consumer electronics, a6400z, eMachines Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion
- Product reviews 2008-04-10
- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Tags: Industry, Microsoft Corp., Pharaoh Rameses, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- More competition for low-cost laptops
- The Asus Eee PC is about to get a lot more competition in the emerging category of low-cost laptops. This morning HP made its Mini-Note official. Acer is reportedly working on its own 8.9-inch subnotebook. And Intel has big plans for its Classmate PC. The 2.6-pound HP...
- Tags: Memory, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Asus Eee PC, CNET Labs, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Laptops are bringing the Blu-ray
- With HD-DVD dead and buried, computer makers are moving to Blu-ray. Dell is now offering 15.4-inch laptop with a Blu-ray drive for less than $900--impressive since some standalone Blu-ray players still cost nearly as much. HP, Acer and Asus are also offering laptops with Blu-ray drives. The...
- Tags: Intel Core 2 Duo, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Blu-ray Drive, Inspiron 1525, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Acer Aspire M5100
- And the trickle-down continues. At the end of last year, we saw quad-core desktops coming in under $1,000. Fast-forward three months and quad-core has become even less expensive. The $700 Acer Aspire M5100 is an excellent representative of this new breed of affordable quad-core desktops. The question is, considering that...
- Tags: Processors, DVD, Consumer electronics, Video cards, Acer Inc., Aspire M5100, quad-core, eMachines Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-03-25
- iTouchless Pure-Ear active noise-canceling headphones
- Active noise-canceling headphones can be a sanity saver in noisy planes, trains, or offices, but their high price has kept them out of reach for many of us. The iTouchless Pure-Ear active noise-canceling headphones ($129) offer an affordable active noise-canceling headphone option for those seeking sonic refuge on a budget.Cosmetically,...
- Tags: headphone, iTouchless Pure-Ear, iTouchless Pure-Ear headphone
- Product reviews 2008-03-20
- Flaming MacBooks, iPods back in the news
- Flaming MacBooks, iPods back in the newsOne incident ....... of fire outside the case with an injury is enough to get the CPSC involved. Notice of the recall will soon follow.Well...Mr Microsoft OEM guy, you go to much farther lengths to defend the whole Redmond product base. I seem...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, cult, Apple Inc., battery, Flaming MacBooks
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Windows Vista (In)capable
- Windows Vista (In)capableOn 915 graphics.I have a Dell D620 (Not even Vista basic recommended but possible, this via Dell's site) running PCLinuxOS, it flies, including with Beryl turned on.There is no reason why I, and others with even more modest video capabilities can run Beryl smoothly, with 100x for Wow...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista Capable Sticker, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- IncrediPower (30)
- Our basic package starts out as a simple address book. Priced so affordably that no one should be without it. For some people, this is all they may ever want. However, the truly incredible feature of this software is that it can transform from a simple program that your 10...
- Tags: Address Book, Small Business, Ineva USA
- Software downloads 2008-02-26
- Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" alpha 4
- Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" alpha 4Wish they would stop with the silly namesJust name it Ubuntu 8 and drop the cutesy names. I hate looking for software and it the download says "works with Gutsy"...is mine Gutsy?Fastest Torrent client out there: Deluge[url=http://www.deluge-torrent.org]FYI[/url]Bar none.Looking forward to it.Looking forward to it.Might...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04
- Discussion threads 2008-02-03
- Reports: Vista SP1 gold bits on track for next week
- Reports: Vista SP1 gold bits on track for next weekHelpI got a new laptop July 2007 with vista home premium should i get the sp pack? I have been problems with page loading in internet explorer have to refreh page a lot to get the page to load...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), toolbar, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, software, vista
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Don't pay too much for memory upgrades
- Don't pay too much for memory upgradesApple MemoryAlmost every Apple owner has known your discovery for years. Crucial's software for memory upgrades is often wrong. EDGE Tech Corp has manual configuration that is correctRE: Don't pay too much for memory upgradesWell, that is as long as you're purchasing...
- Tags: Notebooks, memory upgrade, matched pair, memory, RAM, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead
- Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead"Technology and its use"I shouldn't be allowed near anything without an edit button :)ahemMy point re: Mogulus was that it didn't do what was advertised on the Scoble tin ergo - dud. Ustream might have been no better. You guys know what I think about...
- Tags: Qik, Mogulus, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is the best-designed notebook computer in the world. It just isn't designed for you. Get over it. Criticism of the OLPC centers on the fact that it isn't like the notebooks adults use. As the ASUS Eee shows a low-cost conventional...
- Tags: Notebook, Connectivity, Expression, Industrial Design, Activity, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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