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HP 8730w 8530w 2More laptops, netbooks and mobile workstations than you could shake the proverbial stick at this week, with fresh offerings (and more than a few rumors) from many of the big companies.  HP took the wraps off of three mobile workstations, complete with an amazing 17-inch DreamColor option, while Dell and Lenovo both had a version of their own.  Dell went for pure specs, with a maximum 16GB of RAM in their Precision, while Lenovo took a more offbeat view and added a digitizer panel in their W700’s palmrest.

A little more compact, Dell launched their fourth generation Latitude E-series models, and SlashGear was in San Francisco to bring you live images.  Dell’s attempt for the headlines included 19hr battery life (on one particular model) and Instant On functionality.  All well and good, but Gateway perhaps just eases ahead in the bargain stakes with their new P-7811FX Centrino 2 gaming notebook.

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Controversy about the iPhone 3G’s unpredictable reception continues, with a discrete denial from Infineon, the latest party to be fingered for blame making.  A recent analyst’s report suggested that Infineon – who supply the 3G chipsets for the iPhone – had released hardware with “an immature chipset and radio protocol stack”.  However Infineon spokesman Guenther Gaugler is quoted in Business Week today as claiming “our 3G chips are, for example, used in Samsung handsets and we are not aware of such problems there.”

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