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Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com: Sure, your computer Continue reading Buffalo busts out its USB 3.0 12x Blu-Ray Burner So we got our new slot-loading DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB DVD Burner, and we wanted to put it through the paces. We wanted to see if the burn speeds were acceptable enough for us to bring it along, partnering it with our laptops and netbooks. The DIGISTOR Self-Powered DVD Burner – Burn tested TEST BED: ASUS K50IJ Series Continue reading Burn Test Review: DIGISTOR Self-Powered External DVD Burner For the want of getting the newest OS out of Redmond — Windows 7 to you — some people may have resorted to illegal means. But worry not — if you are in the US and you are a college student, you can get Microsoft’s Windows 7 Home Premium as an electronic download for $29.99. Continue reading Windows 7 Professional for less than $50 We have the DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB Blu-Ray burner already, and we really like it. So we decided to get ourselves the DVD burner version of the product — the DIGISTOR Self-Powered external DVD burner. We’re gonna be showing you the unboxing of the said product right now, and we’re excited. The DIGISTOR Self-Powered USB DVD burner Continue reading Unboxing the DIGISTOR Self-Powered External DVD Burner Lenovo positions the ThinkPad X100e as an “entry level ultraportable”. Netbook shnetbook. We don’t really see the difference guys. It’s small, its powered by a low-power AMD processor, it’s got an 11-inch display. Who else here agrees with them that it’s NOT a netbook? Sheesh. We found this at Softpedia.com: Earlier this month, we got word Continue reading Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: NOT a netbook We don’t really understand how outfits like Alienware, VooDooPC, Falcon Northwest, and OverdrivePC survive economic climates like today, what with people overly netbook- cenric (even though netbooks are more likely to break) in today’s “cheapest-is-greatest” environment. But we have another entry into the “money is not an object” models of boutique gaming PCs — ORIGIN. Continue reading ORIGIN ventures into boutique gaming PCs We talked about nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks here, and here great news already for those people who chose an ION-powered netbook over an Intel GMA 950 — Adobe has the new Flash 10.1 update which improves HD-viewing for Flash videos on ION graphics. CNET.com delivers the news: …we’re pleased to see the Flash player Continue reading Flash 10.1 update improves HD-viewing on ION netbooks SquareTrade Research Data This just in, a study by SquareTrade, a warranty provider for laptops and netbooks, says that netbooks have a 20% more chance of having hardware failure within the first 3 years of ownership more than higher-priced laptops. We found this a Liliputing.com: SquareTrade provides warranties for computers. So the company’s in a pretty Continue reading Study: Netbooks fail 20% more than higher-priced laptops I honestly can’t think of what I’d do with such a thing, but since Chinese company MenQ is thinking that there actually might be a market for netbooks at an $80-dollar pricepoint, here it is anyways — the EasyPC E790. Read more from Ecommerce-journal.com: Menq has launched a smartbook/mini-netbook that runs Windows CE 5.0 on an Continue reading EasyPC E790 – A netbook for $80?
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YouTube announced on its blog yesterday that beginning next week it will support full 1080p HD videos, up from its current maximum of 720p. We all know that Google is putting all of its strength behind its “cloud” mechanisms to date. The upgrade is the latest attempt from YouTube, and indeed Google, to increase the quality of its videos and bolster the strength of its network.