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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 manged to perk at least a little interest in jaded netbook observers with its inclusion of a ExpressCard slot and use of Western Digital’s 5,400-rpm 160GB Scorpio Blue hard drive. Laptop Mag have put the freshly-released S10 through its paces, coming away impressed by performance and style, but with a little [...]
Sling Media’s Slingbox PRO-HD begins shipping today, offering high-definition 1080i place-shifted content. The $300 box has multiple inputs for a variety of sources, together with integrated ATSC and clear QAM tuners, and also supports standard-definition content. As for how well it works, the first reviews are already out and the consensus is glowing.
With power consumption at 34W, Dell’s M109S DLP Micro Projector is never going to end up squashed inside a cellphone, but for the mobile presenter the 0.8lb device could be a godsend. Capable of throwing a 858 x 600 SVGA image from either composite or VGA, Popular Mechanics have been putting a prototype of the [...]
Lenovo’s X200t has only been official since Thursday last week, but the reviews are already beginning to wade in. Laptop Mag have put the $2,300 convertible notebook through its paces, and like just about every ThinkPad review in existence, the keyboard and general durability are both praised. Meanwhile, over at GottaBeMobile, they’ve lined up the X200t [...]
These curvaceous and futuristic Micropod speakers from Scandyna look oddly familiar; in some way, the Kevlar drives and tube enclosure tweeter reminded me of the legendary B&W Nautilus 800 series speakers. I kid you not, the original pod speakers were in fact developed by the team behind the World-renowned Nautilus, but it was later licensed [...]
I know a lot of SlashGear readers, like me, have been following the developing story of the Everun Note, the souped-up subnotebook from Raon Digital. Since the first prototypes were spotted in June, and Raon Digital themselves leaked some impressive performance stats, interest in the AMD Turion 64×2 Dual Core 1.2GHz UMPC has been high. [...]
It’s a difficult time to be a PC case manufacturer. As more mainstream users choose notebooks over desktops, and the choice of high-powered gaming laptops gets broader and cheaper, there are fewer customers to go around. In the end, all you can do is innovate or price your product hard: with their new Conquerer WSL, [...]
Intel’s new consumer SSDs - the X18-M and X25-M - have been officially announced, with pricing confirmed for the 80GB model. Based on MLC NAND flash chips, the two drives differ in form factor (1.8-inch and 2.5-inch), with pricing from $595 (for system builders). The 2.5-inch SSD is at the heart of HP’s EliteBook 6930p battery-busting 24hr [...]
Sony’s PlayTV started off as a great idea - who wouldn’t want their PS3, as well as letting them play games and Blu-ray discs, to record and pause live TV? - that was let down with delays and an attack of DRM. ComputerAndVideoGames.com have been testing out the PVR peripheral, however, and the biggest surprise [...]
The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 launched in the early hours of this morning, and Laptop Mag already have their review of the netbook up, together with a guide to upgrading the RAM. With the specifications of netbooks being generally similar - the Mini 9 uses an Atom 1.6GHz N270 CPU with 512MB or 1GB of [...]
