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Filed under: Laptops  So now that the nine-inch Eee is officially available with Windows XP pre-installed, people are wondering the obvious — why XP and not Vista, since XP is being discontinued in June and Vista can kinda-sorta be made to run on an Eee? The answer, direct from Microsoft, is both obvious and a little surprising: Given the Eee’s “other requirements,” Asus and Microsoft “couldn’t go the Vista route,” presumably because the Eee doesn’t really have the horsepower for it. Sure, but what caught our interest was that Microsoft is “in close discussions with Asus [regarding] how to take that forward… in regards to the Windows 7 Europe timeframe.” Windows 7, you’ll recall, has that lean new kernel, which would presumably make building a stripped-down version specifically for Eee-class machines easier — but the last we heard, Windows 7 wasn’t due until at least mid-2009 (and possibly not until 2011), so either Microsoft is planning to continue shipping XP after June or Windows 7 is coming much earlier than we thought. Our money is on XP continuing to soldier on, but here’s hoping. [Thanks, Omar]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Features, Gaming, Laptops  You may not know who Clevo is but rest assured your brand-named laptop vendors like Alienware, Voodoo, Hypersonic, and Sager surely do. The Taiwanese OEM just unleashed its new 17-inch pixel M570TU (pictured) and 15-inch M860TU rigs offering WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolutions right here at CeBIT. The 17-incher features Intel’s “new generation” processor and chipset, 512MB of nVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics, a 2 megapixel webcam, Blu-ray (or HD DVD drive too for suckers), TV Tuner, TPM, fingerprint reader, and e-SATA and HDMI ports around back. The 15-inch offers pretty much same as its bigger, 17-inch bro only without the TV tuner and Blu-ray disc drive. The M860TU does offer HSDPA connectivity though which is fair trade-off in our opinion. [Thanks, bhattsan and Charles]
Filed under: Laptops  Believe it or not, it wasn’t even two months ago that we laid hands on the up and coming Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 at CES, and shortly after becoming available to the masses, PC Magazine has rounded one up for review. Right out of the box, the unit was praised for feeling oh-so-light (2.8-pounds, for those counting) and including a built-in optical drive. Unfortunately, such a small footprint left little room for a full-fledged keyboard, and besides feeling “cramped,” performance was nothing to write home about either. Granted, it did boast fairly impressive battery life, but given the heightened competition in the ultraportable area of late, these editors were forced to hand out a 3 out of 5 rating and wish that the P8010 came in at a lower price point.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Laptops  CeBIT never fails to produce some fairly zany kit, and just like last year, we’ve got yet another incredibly weird laptop hitting the scene that promises to be your neck’s best friend. The Dreamcom 10 series machine features a vertically adjustable LCD along with a docking station to avoid using that totally cramped integrated keyboard. If you can make it past the outside without gagging (okay, so it’s not that bad… maybe), you’ll find a 2.2GHz T7500 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a couple of USB 2.0 ports, ExpressCard slot, 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, Bluetooth / WiFi and a 160GB hard drive for good measure. Not a peep has been uttered in regard to pricing, but c’mon, your health is worth whatever they charge, right? [Via MobileMag]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments  While it seemed touch and go for a few months there as to whether the the Everex Cloudbook would ever hit store shelves, what’s never been in doubt is the fact that hackers are going to have a field day with the thing. The first major hack is courtesy of Azazel from the Cloudbooker forums. His “Dreambook” mod incorporates an internal four-port USB hub to add all sorts of fun stuff like GPS, Bluetooth and 4GB of flash storage. He removed the webcam for the time being, and is having some trouble getting his replacement WiFi card to work, but it’s certainly a promising hack. Next on the agenda is another small hub to support 802.11n WiFi and some 3G connectivity — we like where this is headed. [Thanks, David]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs  Just in case Dell’s Latitude XFR D630 was too mainstream for you, DRS Tactical Systems has a pair of equally tough rigs for you to chew on. Up first is the ARMOR C12 convertible (shown above), which packs a 12.1-inch outdoor readable touchscreen, 1.2GHz ULV U1400 CPU, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 60GB shock-mounted HDD, full-sized keyboard, integrated WiFi, Ethernet, PCMCIA, a biometric scanner and a die-cast magnesium case built to pass MIL-STD-810F / IP54 standards. As for the ARMOR X10 tablet (pictured after the jump), you’ll find a 1.2GHz U2500 Core Duo processor, an optional 16GB SSD, 10.4-inch sunlight readable display, Bluetooth and many of the same highlights seen on the aforementioned C12. No word on a price for either at the moment, but trust us, you’ll pay a pretty penny for a machine that just begs for pain. [Warning: PDF read link] Continue reading DRS intros rugged ARMOR C12 convertible, X10 tablet PC
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Laptops  While not radically different than the Satellite A300 and P300 we peeked late last month, Toshiba is rolling out yet another pair in the L300 (pictured) and U400. As for the former, you can expect a 15.4-inch 1,280 x 800 resolution panel, a 1.3-megapixel camera, integrated WiFi and the usual complement of ports. Moving onto the U400, you’ll find a smaller 13.3-inch display, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, built-in Harman Kardon speakers, integrated webcam / microphone, Bluetooth and WiFi to boot. Unfortunately, we’re not told whether or not the L300 will be available with a Penryn chip, but word on the street has the April-bound U400 checking in with one of Intel’s prior processors or a CPU from its arch rival AMD. Read - Satellite L300
Filed under: Laptops  Really, it’s ok, you can stop tipping us on the Golden Age / Bling My Thing MacBook Air. We know it’s all 24k gold and has 12,000 Swarovski crystals and crap, but we’ll be honest, this stuff kind of freaks us out. We don’t know, it’s just offensive in that way that only a triggered gag reflex can properly describe. Supposedly only twenty are being produced, and you know the story about price, and these things being out of your league if you even have to ask. [Via Pocket-lint, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Microsoft (finally) releases Singularity, the research oriented operating systemPosted by: in LaptopsFiled under: Desktops, Laptops
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Read - Brush up on your Singularity theory
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It’s been in development for nearly half a decade, but this year at Microsoft’s R&D extravaganza TechFest, the company finally lifted the curtain on its research-oriented Singularity OS. Let’s just be clear from the get-go, though: while it’s is available for immediate use, Singularity is nowhere near anything you’d replace your desktop OS with. The sole intention here is to test out futuristic new concepts in application interaction, microkernel architecture, and so on, so don’t expect to hear that Microsoft is hanging up the Vista apron or anything. But for the turbo-geeks in the crowd, the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 is now available for download for academic non-commercial use. And for the rest of us, well, we’ll just see what