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- Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server
Black Friday isn't here quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't find any good bargains around—you might just need to look a little harder than usual. For instance, Newegg is currently selling a 13.3" Aspire Timeline 3810 consumer...
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Last by UberGerbil at 4:52 PM on 11/21/09 - Fixed TRIM firmware for 34-nm X25-Ms due this month
If you have one of Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives and are waiting on TRIM firmware that doesn't brick your drive, good news. Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group has posted an update on the Intel Support Community forums, promising a fixed firmware update will be...
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Last by Lazier_Said at 2:20 PM on 11/20/09 - Lenovo plans another cheap ThinkPad ultraportable
So, rumor has it Lenovo is cooking up a $449, 11.6" ThinkPad ultraportable based on AMD hardware. That's not the whole story, though: apparently, the firm also intends to grace us with a $549 ThinkPad ultraportable outfitted with a 13.3" display and a choice of Intel and AMD dual-core...
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Last by mattthemuppet at 1:31 PM on 11/20/09 - Report: Elusive Apple tablet delayed until late 2010
The Taiwanese rumor mill has more news about Apple's mysterious yet eagerly anticipated tablet product. This time, DigiTimes has heard from its sources at component makers that Apple will delay the tablet's launch from next March to the second half of 2010. Why the delay? Word is that the Mac...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:04 PM on 11/19/09 - ThinkPad 'netbook' seems to be real, AMD-based
Remember those dubious-looking spy photos of a strange ThinkPad netbook we saw earlier this month? They weren't fake. Well, either that, or a prankster has masterfully crafted a whole batch of very authentic-looking PR photos and sent them to the folks at Netbooknews.de. The evidence definitely seems overwhelming,...
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Last by neon at 11:10 AM on 11/21/09 - Funny-looking Adamo XPS laptop goes up for sale
Ever felt like spending almost two large on a really thin laptop with a weird hinge design? Well, now you can. After revealing the Adamo XPS to bemused onlookers last month, Dell has begun taking orders for the premium notebook. The 0.39-inch-thin Adamo XPS costs $1,799 in its default...
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Last by d0g_p00p at 2:02 PM on 11/19/09 - OCZ lets loose the Colossus
After five months in limbo, the Colossus has finally made it out into the wild. We speak, of course, of OCZ's new 3.5" solid-state drive family, which combines impressive performance with even more impressive capacities thanks to a...
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Last by LoneWolf15 at 1:40 PM on 11/19/09 - 13.3'' Asus UL30Vt laptop has discrete graphics
Fresh from launching the first wave of UL (a.k.a. UnLimited) family of ultraportable notebooks, Asus has struck again, this time with a 13.3" model that couples switchable discrete graphics with typical CULV hardware and portability. The Asus UL30Vt has a 13.3" 1366x768 display, a choice of dual- or single-core...
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Last by KikassAssassin at 12:30 AM on 11/19/09 - Upcoming Lenovo netbook has Pine Trail, buttonless touchpad
Pine Trail approaches. We first saw netbooks based on the system-on-a-chip successor to Intel's Atom processor at Computex in June, and today, the folks at SlashGear have dug up some FCC documents that reveal an upcoming Pine Trail system from Lenovo. One of the labels photographed details the system's...
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Last by UberGerbil at 12:56 PM on 11/17/09 - Could Asus purchase Toshiba's laptop business?
In a recent report about the laptop market, market research firm DisplaySearch noted that Asus was "steadily losing share" to first-tier vendors like Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba. Could Asus eat up one of the top five to increase its footprint? Asus is certainly considering it, according...
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Last by potatochobit at 6:46 PM on 11/16/09 - iBuypower unwraps Clevo-based Core i7 gaming laptop
We had our first brush with Intel's new mobile Core i7 processors in the Clevo W870CU, a behemoth of a notebook with a 17.3" display, a two-inch-thick enclosure, and a GeForce GTX 280M graphics module—a semi-portable gaming rig, in other words. Well, mobile gamers can now buy this contraption from...
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Last by Beomagi at 10:23 AM on 11/14/09 - AMD reveals 2010 notebook platform plans
As notebook popularity continues to grow, AMD is readying two new mobile platforms for next year. For ultraportables, the "Nile" platform will bring a dual-core "Geneva" CPU manufactured with 45-nm process technology. This processor will be offered on a BGA package rather than as a socketed chip, which...
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Last by asdsa at 10:48 AM on 11/13/09 - TR's 10th: The dawn of solid-state storage, yet more winners revealed
These days, mechanical storage has gotten so dense and so cheap that only $30-40 separates 500GB 3.5" hard drives from their 1TB brethren. Yet strangely, that's not what everybody is getting excited about. Solid-state drives have become the new...
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Last by indeego at 11:40 AM on 11/12/09 - Lenovo IdeaPad U150 has dual-core CPU, is 0.75'' thick
Are we seeing the beginning of a schism between similar consumer ultraportables? Some, like Acer's Aspire AS1410, seem to prioritize bang for buck. Others, like Lenovo's new IdeaPad U150, trade the rock-bottom pricing for a little more oomph and a sleeker design. The IdeaPad U150 packs an 11.6" 1366x768...
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Last by Chrispy_ at 4:29 PM on 11/14/09 - New OCZ SSDs to include SandForce controllers
OCZ will soon start treading new ground in the solid-state drive world. The company has teased a brand new line of drives based on controllers from little-known startup SandForce. While OCZ is keeping specs under lid for now—more details will follow in the weeks leading up to the Consumer Electronics...
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Last by gone at 6:06 AM on 11/11/09 - Corsair adds 32GB, 64GB Survivor GT thumb drives
Ever taken a USB thumb drive scuba diving and run out of storage capacity? Well, you can now avoid that conundrum: Corsair has added 32GB and 64GB models to its Survivor line of durable flash drives. The new Survivor GT drives feature the same "super-strong, CNC-milled, aircraft-grade aluminum casing" as their...
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Last by gone at 5:57 AM on 11/11/09 - Win7-powered Eee PC T91MT is now out for $532
Three weeks ago, we heard whispers that Asus was putting the finishing touches on a new Eee PC tablet packing Windows 7 and a multi-touch display. Well, a system that corresponds pretty much exactly to that description has found its way onto Amazon, and it's now available for...
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Last by bdwilcox at 3:08 PM on 11/09/09 - Intel working on fix for latest SSD firmware issue
Well, all those user reports weren't flukes. Intel has posted a note on the Support Community forum saying it managed to reproduce a bricking problem induced by its latest solid-state-drive firmware update, and that the company is working on a fix. Here's the meaty part from the message by Alan...
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Last by VaultDweller at 10:03 AM on 11/10/09
