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Dell Adamo Now $500 Cheaper

Dell Adamo Now $500 Cheaper

| July 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

Dell dropped the price on the Adamo luxury notebook by $500, bringing the starting price down to $1,499. The $1,499 Adamo coes with a 2GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, 1.2GHz Intel processor and integrated graphics. The $2,299 Adamo comes with 4GB of memory, a 1.4GHz processor and mobile broadband.

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AT&T Selling Netbooks in Stores Nationwide This Week

AT&T Selling Netbooks in Stores Nationwide This Week

| July 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

AT&T will begin selling a range of netbooks at its 2,200 retail stores in the coming days. The netbooks are subsidized for those who sign up for a two-year DataConnect 3G plan. The company will also begin offering tech support plans ranging from $99 to $199.

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BenQ  Joybook Lite 121 Eco Hands On

BenQ Joybook Lite 121 Eco Hands On

| July 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

Our friends over a Netbooknews.com got their hands on the BenQ Joybook Lite 121 Eco. The ‘Eco’ part of the name refers to the fact that it’s partially built of recycled materials and sips electricity. It can run for up to 9.5 hours on its six-cell battery. One thing that really jumps out at me [...]

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Real World Tablet Users: Raymond James

Real World Tablet Users: Raymond James

| July 17, 2009 | 0 Comments

Karen Chappel works in Systems Engineering at Raymond James and was kind enough to answer some questions about how her company uses Tablet PCs.

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HP Power to Change Reminds Business Users to Shut Down

HP Power to Change Reminds Business Users to Shut Down

| July 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

HP’s in the midst of a campaign to remind office workers to turn off their computers overnight. A little energy here and there might not sound like a lot, but always-on computers can have a serious environmental impact when you consider the millions of office workers that either forget to turn of their machines when [...]

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Apple to Bring Back Antiglare Matte Displays on 15″ MacBook Pros?

Apple to Bring Back Antiglare Matte Displays on 15″ MacBook Pros?

| July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

There are rumors circulating today that Apple may be close to re-introducing anti-glare display options on its smaller MacBook Pros.

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MoGo Talk: World’s First Bluetooth Headset That Fits Inside Notebooks

MoGo Talk: World’s First Bluetooth Headset That Fits Inside Notebooks

| July 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

Newton Peripherals introduced MoGo Talk, a Bluetooth headset that you can stow inside of your notebook’s ExpressCard slot. The MoGo Talk headset charges automatically when you put it inside of your notebook so it will always be ready to go when you need to make a voice call.

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ASUS Eee PC T91 Tablet on Video

ASUS Eee PC T91 Tablet on Video

| July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

Warner Crocker spent a lot of time with theAsus Eee PC T91 over the past week and put together a very thorough video review of it. The Eee PC T91 has the pretty standard internal specifications, but what sets it apart is a swiveling touchscreen display and Touchsuite, a touchscreen user interface.

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HP Pavilion dv2z Playing Blu-ray + Streaming Hulu Content

HP Pavilion dv2z Playing Blu-ray + Streaming Hulu Content

| July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

The HP Pavilion dv2z is a relatively low-cost 12″ device that comes with a dedicated graphics card. The base configuration of the dv2z comes with a single-core AMD Neo processor and ATI Radeon x1250 graphics with 64MB of memory, but the review unit HP sent over is highly configured with a dual-core AMD Turion 1.6GHz [...]

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Rock Xtreme Gaming Notebooks Rock Some Serious Specs

Rock Xtreme Gaming Notebooks Rock Some Serious Specs

| July 14, 2009 | 0 Comments

Rock, a gaming notebook manufacturer based in the UK, announced two notebook that have incredible specs and should satisfy die-hard gamers. The Xtreme 790 and Xtreme 840 come with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPU, Blu-ray and 6GB of memory. The Xtreme 790 is the smaller of the two, with a 17-inch display, while the [...]

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