Xavier Lanier

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Professor Bans Computers in Classroom

The good news is law students are being forced to use wireless, featherweight and silent devices to take notes on a flexible,bright and cheap displays. The bad news is the input devices are also know as “pens,” and the displays ”sheets of paper.”
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World’s Smallest Dual Core

Samsung announced the world’s “smallest dual core notebook.” The specs look great on this, including a 6-cell battery that allows for a 7-hour runtime. This won’t be available in the states, but Asia will snap these up.
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Vista Delayed to 2007

Bill Gates and the Vista developers have been rumored to be taking full advantage of Ghost Recon’s multiplayer missions and that’s eaten away at the dev schedule. I really appreciate that Microsoft worked so hard to get the XBOX out...
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Notebook Vendors Slashing Orders with Intel

Leading notebook vendors, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Asustek Computer, reportedly have slashed their orders for CPUs and chipsets already placed with Intel
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iBook Media Hub

I was getting ready to sell my old iBook G3 on eBay this week, but I decided I might try this very creative mod so I can squeeze a couple more years of life ou...
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The Next Generation of Computers

It's ads like these that remind me of my first computer that my dad bought us when we were kids. I never used that Commodore 64 for much except playing video g...
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Mission Impossible Flash Drive

Kingston DataTraveler This drive encrypts your data and self destructs after 25 failed password attempts. The Kingston DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition is t...
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Notebook sans Hard Drive

PC World Reports on a Samsung prototype notebook that uses 32GB of flash memory in place of a hard drive. Faster boot times, no moving parts, but a $960 price t...
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The Pains of Buying a New Notebook

Walt Mosberg of the Wall Street Journal bought a Sony Vaio SZ series notebook a few weeks ago and was upset about the amount of trial software, demos and ads that came installed on it.He blames these 'craplets' for slowing down his system and making the experience of buying a new Vista notebook unpleasant.