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Amtek iTablet T221 UMPC isn’t a UMPC at all
By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Dec 18th 2007 No CommentsGenius Traveler 350 trackball mouse for those on the go
By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Dec 18th 2007 No CommentsI don’t know about the rest of you normal mouse using folk, but if it weren’t for my Logitech TrackMan Wheel mouse featuring a shiny red trackball, there is no way I could get my job done as quick as I do. I mean, do you know how hard it is to get my mouse from one corner of my screen to the other in a timely manner? Just kidding, but I seriously couldn’t survive without it, however whenever I have to travel with my laptop, I have two choices, deal with the touch pad, or try and cram my TrackMan in somewhere and hope I don’t lose the trackball.
Xbox 360 DivX/XviD playback, Does it work?
By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 5th 2007 4 CommentsWell, the fall dashboard update landed yesterday at 2AM, and we’ve already covered most of the other features of the update, but one little thing that was almost snuck in is DivX/XviD support. For those not in the know, they are both video encoding formats, if you have ever downloaded a movie from a peer to peer network; chances are good it came in one of these formats.
Windows Vista SP1 could hit public beta by middle of next month
By James Allan Brady on Friday, Nov 30th 2007 No CommentsPlans are to have a private public beta for the first week of December and then to release a public beta the week after that. Meaning the plans for a public release by January should still hold.
Happy Thanksgiving
By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Nov 21st 2007 1 CommentWell folk’s it’s that time of year again, Thanksgiving is upon us. I am sure many of you have a lot to give thanks for, and even more so, I hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the time you spend with those near and dear to you.
I, and the rest of the staff would like to start by thanking all of you, our readers, tipsters, friendly PR people, and all the companies we work with on a regular basis, and we all also wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. All of us writers are taking the day off tomorrow, and we will reconvene and begin writing again first thing Monday, so, no news from us today.
Gigabyte M704 UMPC yet another addition to what seemed to be a stale market
By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 19th 2007 No CommentsFirst we get hit with the new Asus offering, and now Gigabyte has a new UMPC too, looks like things are popping in the UMPC market again. Sadly it looks like this will, for now, only be available in Taiwan.
But if you are still interested, it has a 1.2GHz VIA Esther ULV C7-M processor, a 7” LED backlit LCD with a 1024×600 resolution, and a 40 or 60GB HDD with Windows Vista. It weighs a mere 780 grams.
Black Friday Notebook Sale
By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 19th 2007 No CommentsSo, Black Friday (this Friday for those not in the know) is fast approaching and that means that millions of people in the retail industry will seriously consider suicide as a possible alternative to finishing their shift. It also means that there will be tons of stuff on sale for dirt cheap.
A large portion of that stuff will be electronics, computers, home theater equipment, you name it, the US is probably one of, if not the largest markets for consumer electronics and Black Friday is a great excuse to move a few units out the door. One such product that many cost savvy consumers will be looking for is the coveted uber cheap notebook.
Sony VAIO UX490
By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Nov 4th 2007 No CommentsSony will be releasing their latest addition to their VAIO UX line here in the US soon. The updates include Vista Business and a new Intel Core 2 Solo processor.
Other than that you will be hit with 48GB of SSD storage, which is probably where most of the $2500 price tag comes from, but should make the battery life better than HDD based models. The new processor operates at 1.2GHz which if I recollect right means you also get a bit of a speed boost.
HTC X9500 Shift available for preorder in Europe
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 25th 2007 No CommentsHTC’s headline-grabbing Shift ultra-portable – which dual-boots into both Vista and Windows Mobile 6 – has appeared for pre-order on a variety of websites in Europe. So far the UK and Germany have the bulk of the information, with Expansys.de claiming delivery on 29th November for German customers while Portix.com quote the 20th November for those in the UK.
Hands-on with HTC Shift reveals oddly unpolished Windows Mobile
By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 19th 2007 1 CommentThe lucky lovelies over at pcdebolso.com managed to acquire (let’s ask no questions) a pre-production HTC Shift for five days, and proceeded to examine it both from the perspective as a compact, Vista-running UMPC and as a large, Windows Mobile-running PDA. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the Shift although impressive doesn’t manage to succeed 100% in both categories; what is surprising, though, is that it appears HTC have made some bizarre concessions which in certain cases render the Shift less useful than a far cheaper device.
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