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July 21st, 2008

The Ultraportable War

Susanne Choney at MSNC wrote a piece about how in the US the ultraportables are fast becoming a favorite as an individual’s secondary computer. Here is the article and the link:
The market for skinny laptops gets fat: In United States, ultramobile PCs find favor as a secondary computer
By Suzanne Choney
MSNBC
And I guess this is as […]

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July 21st, 2008

Fujitsu’s Asus Killer?

Chris Davies post, Fujitsu 8.9-inch netbook photos leak: €400 and due this Fall, features the first (?) photo of an Asus Killer from Fujitsu. Check the post.
A lot of deductions and theories can be made from pictures and the post. One thing important is how much will it cost. According to the post, it might […]

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July 20th, 2008

MSI Wind finally arrived

The MSI Wind U100 has finally arrived in the United States. Read and view one of the first encounters with the Last (?) and much awaited ultraportable for 2008 here at Adam’s blog
Initial reaction at least from Adam’s viewpoint seems to be positive. His wife was satisfied with keyboard and the ten (10) inch […]

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July 13th, 2008

A promise of slimmer and flexible notebooks and ultraportables

Based on Robert Jaques post,Boffins promise flexible laptops, at IT News scientists predict that there maybe new forms of billboards, television and laptops that are flexible and only 1 cm in thickness.
Researchers Marianna Khorzov, David Andelman and Rafi Shikler made these predictions. Khorzov and Andelman are rearchers at the School of Physics and Astronomy at […]

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July 9th, 2008

Would you? Could you? Will you buy?

MobileComputer has posted a review of the MSI wind against its other Atom powered competitor in the Acer Aspire One and the Asus Eee PC 901.
Will the contest be between these three Atom-powered ultraportable? Or will it be something else.
You know its nearly halfway through the year and we have wannabes and would […]

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July 7th, 2008

An E-Book Reader

Researchers at the US-based Maryland Aand Berkeley Universities have developed an E-Book reader that simulate the turning of pages, It uses dual screens. [Source]
Initial reactions to the device were positive. The only criticism against it was that it was too heavy. It is like a book except it runs on batteries and is heavier - […]

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July 6th, 2008

Nintendo DS as an educational tool

I saw this bit of news in the Associated Press. Anyway in Japan, They have been using the Nintendo DS as a teaching tool. This will come as no surprise to the average garden variety DS punter because on gets familiar with the different games on the console. A lot of the games played in […]

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June 15th, 2008

How much memory do you use?

As I type this post, I am reminded of one precious commodity when we use the computer - memory. A constant reminder of this is when we get the message warning us that we have used up more memory and it is now at the critical point - ie when the computer hangs. This happens […]

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June 8th, 2008

Achilles heel of HP’s 2133 Mini-Note subnotebook

I was reading a lot of reviews of the HP 2133 Mini-Notebook and came across this very good and in-depth review by Geoff Gasior at the Tech Report, I strongly recommend you read the post, HP’s 2133 Mini-Note subnotebook: An Eee PC killer, or perhaps something more?.
What I got after reading the review were a […]

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June 8th, 2008

Shipment of processors slows in Q1 but …

Market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets provider IDC (whew that is a long title!) reported that the shipment of processors for personal desktop computers have slowed down during the first quarter of 2008. On the other hand processors for mobilecomputers - laptops and ultraportable - on […]

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