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Samsung 9 Series 11″ Notebook Hits U.S. with Core i3 and High Pricetag

Samsung 9 Series 11″ Notebook Hits U.S. with Core i3 and High Pricetag

| May 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

The Samsung 9 Series captivated us at CES 2011, earning a Best of CES award, and now it has arrived for sale in the U.S. in a smaller 11.6″ version which comes with a smaller price tag, but not a cheap one. The 11.6″ notebook is available at retailers like Amazon for $1,159 which, like [...]

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Samsung’s 9 Series Ultra-Thin Priced and Ready to Buy, But Is It Too Expensive?

Samsung’s 9 Series Ultra-Thin Priced and Ready to Buy, But Is It Too Expensive?

| March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments

The Samsung 9 Series laptop, which we previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year and awarded a Notebooks.com Best of CES 2011 award to, is now priced by Samsung and will go on sale today, March 17th. What’s dubbed as a MacBook Air-killer, the thing that may kill the 13-inch 9 Series may [...]

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Samsung 9 Series 11-Inch Model Gets Priced

Samsung 9 Series 11-Inch Model Gets Priced

| February 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

It looks like an online retailer did put up some preliminary specs for an 11.6-inch Samsung 9 Series ultra-portable laptop that would rival the similarly-sized Apple MacBook Air. While Engadget isn’t sure about an 11.6-inch model, at the Consumer Electronics Show where we did manage to speak with Samsung representatives and were told that there [...]

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FooBar2000 v1.0 Beta released – Lightweight Audio Player for Your Netbook

FooBar2000 v1.0 Beta released – Lightweight Audio Player for Your Netbook

| November 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Foobar2000 has long been one of my favorite freeware audio players for Windows. Not only is it free; it’s also lightweight, customizable, able to rip CDs and supports numerous audio formats. These abilities have made it my go to audio program for use on a netbook, an audio player Swiss Army knife if you will that [...]

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