Laptops

Envy 17 pops up on HP.com begging to be officially launched

HP’s clearly been updating its website with new products over the past few days, but our guess is that the Envy 17 that was just added to the domain slipped through a bit early. We wish there were more details thrown up there, but unfortunately the spec and data sheet pages come up blank. One [...]

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MacBook Pros with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M silicon making questionable graphics switching decisions

“With every choice you make, ask yourself: is this a good choice, or is this a bad choice?” That’s the sage advice we were constantly given as tykes — and it’s advice that replays in our feeble brains every day as we write news. Turns out it’s also a piece of wisdom Apple’s latest round [...]

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IE9 demoed on Ion-based Eee PC with full GPU acceleration

Although we were a little more focused on Windows Phone 7 Series when we went to MIX 10, Microsoft’s other big announcement at the conference was Internet Explorer 9, which offers HTML5 support and support for GPU acceleration throughout the browsing experience. We saw a few demos of the system in action at MIX, but [...]

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Battalion Touch CZ-11 multitouch gaming laptop gets Core i7 processor, keeps things classy

iBuyPower’s back with a refresh to its simple, yet understated 15-inch touchscreen gaming notebook. The Battalion Touch CZ-11, newly announced today, features a Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics, a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) multitouch display, 4GB memory, 500GB storage, WiFi b/g/n, and optional Blu-ray — not too shabby, right? [...]

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Dell Precision M4500 now shipping with $1,549 starting price

With specs and prices easily reaching into the stratosphere, we weren’t quite sure where Dell’s new 15-inch Precision M4500 workstation would land — the 17-inch M6500 has a starting price of $1,799, but that’s only after $310 of “instant savings.” Well, it looks like we’re getting off (relatively) easy with the M4500, with a Core [...]

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Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 emerge overseas, Core i5 / i7 and all

We spotted this suit-and-tie wearing pair sneaking through the FCC’s lairs a few weeks ago, and now we know the whens and wheres of buying one… in the UK, anyway. The Dell Latitude E6410 is currently listed with a base price of £749 ($1,128) and features a 14.1-inch display (WXGA and WXGA+ options), a Core [...]

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ASUS Eee PC T101MT headed to US in April for $499

Well beginning of April, you sure do like tablets for $499, don’t ya? While the Eee PC T101MT has been available to suave Europeans since February, ASUS has let out word that the 10-inch, multitouch tablet will start shipping in the US sometime in April for $499. Not a bad deal considering the Pine Trail-powered [...]

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Envy 14, Envy 17, and Pavilion dm4 cited in HP support docs

Hardcore HP-heads have been poring over support docs tirelessly looking for indications that a presumed lineup refresh this spring will include previously leaked Envy 14 and 17-inch models, and what do we have here? “HP Support Assistant CVA documentation, SP47326″ includes references to both, meaning that a release is either in the works or someone [...]

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ASUS cramming USB 3.0 into Eee PC line, N Series laptops, loads more

USB 3.0 is slowly but surely popping up on more and more new machines, but finding a rig with SuperSpeed support is still a chore. ASUS is working hard to make sure that finding the good stuff is easy when looking at its wares, and judging by the support it has already shown for the [...]

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Acer launches Aspire Ethos line with swanky 5943G and 8943G models

Acer’s aspirational laptops have a new Ethos to them now, and it clearly has something to do with entertainment. The newly revealed 18.4-inch 8943G sports a 1920 x 1080 resolution and a true 5.1 surround sound setup, meaning that somewhere within its shell reside five miniature speakers and a sub. Processor options range all the [...]

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