MSI revealed their newest gaming Series mobile PC, the GT663 15.6-inch laptop which is based on the Calpella platform, features the TDE+ (Turbo Drive Engine+ technology) for one-touch performance boosts, and makes use of the DirectX 11-ready GeForce GTX 460M graphics card with 1.5GB of memory. It uses NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 460M GPU with
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Remember when Alienware busted out the M11x — a monster in netbook form — that was the envy of mobile gamers all around? We’ll they’re getting a well needed Intel Core processor upgrade, according to Engadget.com:
We’ve been hearing about an impending CPU update to Alienware’s M11x for some time now, and now Dell Malaysia has
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Superspeed USB 3.0 is the “in thing” as far as device interfaces go these days, and netbook giants ASUS want to jump on that bandwagon as well. Found this at Liliputing.com:
Asus is apparently planning to go all out in support of the new USB 3.0 standard. USB 3.0 offers data transfer speeds up to
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It’s just freaking amazing what technology and a little time on your hands can do. Like French tech company ExoPC, for instance, which produced the ExoPC Slate — we figure this is a cross between a netbook and some other small multi-touch tablet with black bezels whose name we just cant place right now. Go
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The freaking thing hasn’t even shipped, and the Apple iPad has already divided the Internet community into believers and haters. We won’t join in that direction — as far as MacPCWiz is concerned, jury’s still out on whether in the Apple tablet is a “gadget to beat” or not.
Steve Jobs' newest baby – the
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As far as netbooks go, and MacPCWiz guarantees this, you will be hard pressed to find a performer better than the ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1201N.
There, we just had to get that out of the way, so you know what to expect out of this article. The the end of the age of netbooks may
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Barely a week into 2010 and techies all over the world are already proclaiming the downfall of 2009′s favorite gadget — the netbook. Black Friday’s hottest item is going RIP, says all my fellow tech nerds while sipping their designer coffee and hunched over their work terminals. A blog at NYTimes.com says it this way:
Stuck
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nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.
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If there are characteristics that should be expected from a netbook — to be lightning FAST is not one of them. A netbook is portable, trendy, affordable, mobile, light, and undeniably cute. So if what we hear about the ASUS Eee PC 1201N is all true, that is not such a bad thing at all.
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To add fuel to a netbook-induced craze that has gripped the computer-buying public these holidays, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has released an ultra-thin 2.5-inch hard disk drive obviously targeted at netbooks and ultra-portables. Found this via NetbookChoice.com:
Seagate has announced a new hard-disk drive that it claims is the world’s thinnest at 7mm. The Seagate Momentus
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