Notebooks

MSI Wind U100 Valentine Edition

msi-wind-valentine-edition_09MSI is giving you the chane to say 'I love you' with the Valentine Edition Wind U100. To set the mood, MSI is giving away 15 of them in a drawing. All you need to do is enter is upload a picture of yourself with your loved one.
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HP, AMD & MTV Notebook Design Contest Winners (CES 2009)

Art-inspired notebook designs are becoming more popular as consumers view their gadgets as truly personal. AMD, HP, and MTV reached out to the community and asked them for their art-inspired designs and received almost 17,000 entries. I grabbed on video the top designs from 4 different continents. I wish I were this creative.

HP Pavilion dv6t Specs, Pricing and Details

hp_dv6t_pavilionHP's new Pavilion dv6t is a 16-inch entertainment notebook that's relatively affordable. Launched at CES 2009, the dv6t offers a bigger display than you'll find in the dv5 and adds a number pad. The dv6t is available now from $679.99.
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Black Friday: dv5 1150us for $849 at Staples

Staples will sell a version of the HP Pavilion dv5 for $849 on Black Friday. The dv5 1150us is discounted $200, which is not a substantial discount for what is one of HP's most popular notebooks.
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Black Friday: 15 Tips for Buying a Black Friday Notebook (or Not Buying One)

It's that time of year again, when notebook buyers across the country start plotting how they're going to score a cheap notebook on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that kicks off the holiday shopping season. We're going to start tracking the deals on our Black Friday Notebooks page, but before you commit to neglecting your family on Thanksgiving or camping out your local notebook dealer's parking lot I wanted to offer a few words of caution.
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Sony Style VIPs to Get Early Black Friday Shopping Appointments

I just got an invite to Sony's VIP holiday event, which is taking place on November 21 from 7pm-9pm. The company is holding this event so select customers can get Black Friday pricing a week before black Friday to get the holiday ball rolling early.
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Dell Studio Notebooks Get New (Product) Red Artwork

Dell's offering three new designs on its Studio 15 and Studio 17 notebooks. The New World, Shine Within and Healing Patterns designs will benefit the Global Fund, which works to save lives and eliminate AIDS in Africa.
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Dr. TabletPC: My High-Tech Doc (video)

I went to my new doctor's office for the first time on Friday, but instead of worrying too much about my health I ended up interviewing him about how he uses a Tablet PC all day long to better serve his patients. I shot a video of him explaining how he uses his tablet and why more doctors don't use tablets and Electronic Health Records.
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Dell Latitude XT Stress Tested on Video

Dell Latitude XT Tablets are tough little computers despite their small stature. PeliasMobile, a company that helps businesses go paperless put together this video demonstration to show how durable and reliable this tablet is. The XT Tablet gets dropped repeatedly, water spilled on it and run over by a car.
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HP Mini 1000 Netbook (video demos, specs and details)

HP is finally getting into the consumer netbook game with the Pavilion Mini 1000, an Atom-powered computer that runs Windows XP or Ubuntu with an HP customized user interface. I got a chance to sit down with HP's Kevin Wentzel last week and shot a bunch of video and photos.
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Samsung Notebooks Coming to America

Samsung's announced it will enter the U.S. notebook market with a full line of notebooks including a lightweight netbook, a 16-inch entertainment notebook and just about every size in between the two. Until now, Samsung's sold notebooks overseas, but only sold the Q1 UMPC stateside.
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"Blue Label Laptops" at Best Buy

. Best Buy's kicked off its Blue Label Laptops program to offer premium consumer notebooks in-store and online. To qualify for the Blue Label Laptops program, models must be thin and light, be optimized for long battery life and have a 13.3-inch to 14.1-inch display. The first two Blue Label Laptops are the Toshiba Satellite E105 and the HP dv3510nr.
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HP Pavilion dv3500t: HP's First 13.3-inch Notebook

HP's introduced the Pavilion dv3500t, the company's first 13.3-inch notebook. HP was nice enough to give me an early preview of the dv3500t about a month ago and I liked what I saw. The Pavilion dv3500t is very similar to its bigger brothers, the dv4 and dv5, but it has a couple of features that I really like.