Amazon Black Friday Countdown Deal Is Acer Laptop With 5 Free Game Downloads

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The Amazon Black Friday Countdown deal for today is featuring the new Acer AS5738Z-4111 Windows 7 Laptop bundled with five free game downloads.
The Acer AS5738Z-4111 features an 15.6 inch screen, 2.1GHz Intel Pentium T4300 Processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 320GB HDD and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

The price of the Acer AS5738Z is $499.99. The 5 download games are priced at $6.99 each. You save $34.95. This Acer laptop is ok, but this is not really a sexy deal, especially since I have a feeling the digital content is not valued as high as getting a package with a disc.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy $249.99 Acer Extensa Laptop Early Black Friday Deal On Sale Now

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Best Buy just now opened the sale on their early Black Friday notebook deal. You can now buy the Acer Extensa EX5230E-2177 Windows 7 laptop on the Best Buy site for $249.99. Quantities are limited. So if you want it you better hurry.

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If you snooze you lose! This early Black Friday deal is sold out online. The only chance now is to get this $249.99 Windows 7 Laptop at your local Best Buy store. There are supposed to be at least 5 available in each store. Best Buy put the deal up for purchase online at soon after midnight PST. It is now 4am and it’s sold out.

Features of the Acer Extensa include 15.4 inch screen, DVD writer drive, Intel Celeron 900 at 2.2Ghz, 160GB HDD, Intel GPU, webcam, Wifi 802.11n, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. See all the specifications below. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:21:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Early Black Friday: $249.99 Acer Laptop Appears On Best Buy Site [Update]

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As reported yesterday, Best Buy will be offering a Windows 7 Acer notebook for $249.99 today online and in-stores. The bargain laptop already appears on the Best Buy homepage, but the link to the product is not working yet.

The 15.4-inch Acer Laptop is only available in limited quantities. It is important to be among the first to order. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:59:35 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T Unveils LaptopConnect Lightning Modem

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AT&T has announced a new LaptopConnect Lightning modem from Sierra Wireless that is set to hit on November 22nd. The modem offers access to HSPA data speeds of up to 7.2Mbps download. That is a considerably faster download speed than is currently available in most areas and is meant to hold us over until LTE debuts in 2010/2011.

The modem is a USB device designed for laptop use and has a swiveling USB connector that allows it to be used in portrait or landscape modes. The device is pre-loaded with AT&T Communications Manager 7.0 software to manage connections. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Save Additional $50 On New HP Windows 7 Laptops On Amazon

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If you are looking for a great deal on a new HP Windows 7 notebook, Amazon is now offering an additional $50 off via mail-in rebate. The offer expires November 14th.
Amazon of course already sells the selected HP Windows 7 notebooks at a discount from the list price. The $50 mail-in rebate brings the price down further, as long as you do not forget to mail the rebate request in.
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Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:52:16 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Verizon To Offer Prepaid Wireless Service For Laptops

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Folks who want the option of having mobile wireless broadband access without the cost or commitment of signing up for a contract now have a new option. CNet reports that Verizon will soon begin to offer prepaid wireless services. These new services will come bundled with a VZW USB760 and will be available for laptops running Windows, Mac, or Linux.

One day of pre-paid access will cost you $15 and get you up to 75 MB of data. That's enough for a fair amount of browsing, but if you need more there'll also be a weekly plan available for $30. That one comes with a 250 MB data allotment. The largest prepaid option is the monthy plan, which costs $50 and gives you 500 MB of data.

Posted on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:33:53 CST | by Robert Evans

OLPC XO Laptop Will Be An eBook Computer By 2012

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There is some information about the OLPC project of Nicholas Negroponte. Apparently the 2nd generation OLPC XO laptop will only be a hardware upgrade of the current model and OLPC focuses on a completely new design for the 3rd generation which is supposed to hit the market in 2012.

Negroponte is quoted in an article on Xconomy as saying that the XO 3.0 is a single sheet, completely plastic and unbreakable, waterproof, 1/4" thick, full color, reflective and transmissive, no bezel, no holes. 1W and a price of $75. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:08:57 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Incomplete Windows 7 Feature Turns Laptops into Hotspots

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A developer from Philly has found an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that allows the computer to be turned into a WiFi hotspot for sharing an Internet connection with other users. The feature is called Virtual WiFi and the developer used the feature to create a free app called Connectify that was released as beta last week.

The app allows several Windows computers to share a single internet connection and it shows up as a real wireless access point. The app also allows the user to join a WiFi hotspot and still run the app to share the connection on the same networking card. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Acer Aspire AS5534-1121 AMD Windows 7 Laptop Available For Pre-order

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The Windows 7 launch is just 4 days away. The new Windows 7 laptops, netbooks and PCs are slowly appearing at retailers. We reported earlier about the new Samsung N130 Windows 7 Netbook and we also found the Acer Aspire AS5534-1121 Windows 7 notebook already available for pre-order on Amazon.

The 15.6 inch Acer Aspire 5534 sells for $499.99.
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Posted on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Emerge 90W Universal Laptop Charger has Dual USB Ports

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A company called Emerge Technologies has debuted a new laptop charger that is universal and ships with tips to fit many of the most popular notebooks on the market. One of the most interesting features of the device is that is has a pair of USB ports built-in to allow you to charge USB devices like mobile phones and cameras.

The charger promises to be up to 60% smaller than competing devices and has cables that are designed to be retractable. When fully extended the cables are 9.5 feet long to allow you to reach hidden plugs. Read more

Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Dell Adds Baseball Laptops to Design Studio

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The Dell Design Studio has been around for a while now and lets users choose colors and finishes for their laptops along with the hardware inside the machines. The thing that has always struck me about the Design Studio is that most of the colors and designs are really more suited to women than men.

Yesterday Dell unveiled a new MLB logo series of designs for the Design Studio that allows you to pick the logo of your favorite team to adorn the lid of your notebook. There are logos and designs for all 30 MLB teams available. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

MSI GT740: 17'' Core i7 Gaming Laptop

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We get more quad-core laptop gaming goodness this week with the MSI GT740, a 17" beast with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M graphics card (with 1 GB DDR3 VRAM), HDMI out, 2.0 megapixel webcam, and Bluetooth. According to Electronista this laptop also packs up to 4 GB of RAM, in addition to a 4-in-1 memory card reader. Its hard drive ranges from 250GB to 500GB.

Posted on Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:18:15 CDT | by Robert Evans

Dell Laptops and Desktops Get Year of Napster

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Dell and Napster announced that select Dell computers would start shipping with a year of free Napster service. The machines will ship with a year of instant access Napster service including 60 MP3s of the consumer's choice and 12 months of music on demand listening from the Napster catalog.

Select Dell desktop and notebook computers shipping in the US, UK, and Germany will offer the free music service. Some Dell PCs purchased at Best Buy in the US will also be sold with a Napster icon on the desktop offering access to the Napster catalog. Read more

Posted on Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

New Intel i7 Laptop Processor Their Fastest Everything

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Today at the IDF show, Intel announced the coming of a new processor built off of the Nehalem architecture and meant for high-end, high-speed laptops like the Qosmio X500. They claim this new i7 mobile processor is their fastest laptop processor ever, bringing four cores of processing power to a portable platform.

Several new features are available with the i7, including Intel's new Turbo Boost technology and Hyper-Threading Technology. Turbo Boost allows your computer to detect when it has excess power and push the processors harder in order to take advantage of the glut. Hyper-Threading technology is supposed to deliver "thread-level parallelism on each processor resulting in more efficient use of processor resources..."

Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

The Laptop Burka: Seriously?

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Some products stand out because they are completely innovative, bringing features previously unimagined to the table and wowing consumers the world over. Other products are stand out because they have an utterly ridiculous name. I think you can all guess which category the Laptop Burka falls into. Ludicrous name aside, the Laptop Burka is a pretty cool product. It keeps the sun's glare off of your laptop at the comparatively small cost of making you look silly.

Today, the Laptop Burka company has announced the launch of an addition to their product line. The Geek Sheet. As far as I can tell, the Geek Sheet is virtually the same as the Laptop Burka, only with a different name. The main difference is the color; the Geek Sheet is white with a dark interior, which was done to reflect sunlight and provide a cooler work environment. The name "Geek Sheet" is also less controversial than "Laptop Burka".

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:01:53 CDT | by Robert Evans

Dell Unveils Z Series Laptops

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Dell has made its new Z series notebooks official with the debut of the Dell Inspiron 15z and 14z notebooks. Both of the machines have the new Intel Core Solo 2 ULV processors as options for power sipping performance and longer battery life.

The new notebooks are about an inch thick according to Dell and have 16:9 displays. The 14z offers a 14-inch screen and the 15z is a traditional 15.6-inch model. The machines can also be optioned with core 2 duo processors and up to 500GB of storage. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung OLED Laptop, Q3 2010?

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Yesterday, after showing off their new X-series of laptops, Samsung got to bragging about their plans for 2010. As it turns out, they've got something in development that will blow their X3 out of the water. According to Gizmodo, a Samsung spokesman confirmed that his company would be releasing an OLED laptop near the end of 2010, perhaps in Q3.

Posted on Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:10:16 CDT | by Robert Evans

Built Offers Full Line of Neoprene Accessories for Laptops and Cameras

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It can be a big challenge to protect your camera and notebook computer when you work on the road or travel. The only safe way to take expensive equipment with you is to use a case of some sort. Built has announced new neoprene accessories for cameras, netbooks, and notebook computers.

The neoprene material help to prevent shocks to the gear and the cases are available in four colors. The Cargo Travel Organizer has four interior compartments with contrasting colors on the inside for chargers, adapters, and other electronic devices. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Sep 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

MSI Viral Video Shows Glorious Laptop Catching With The Butt Crack

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Viral Videos are tough to make as viewers get more and more bored by them. MSI tries to catch eyeballs with a video showing a guy catching the MSI XSeries notebook (MSI X-Slim) with his butt. The somewhat entertaining video shows different setups for Laptop Butt Catching.

This video uses the already over used reverse video manipulation to make it look like the guy is really catching the MSI laptop with his butt. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:42:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Windows 7 will bring new major Netbook and Laptop Designs

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Microsoft will launch Windows 7 in October. A new Microsoft OS introduction is a major milestone for hardware makers. So if you are actually buying a Vista notebook or XP netbook this summer with the free Windows 7 upgrade you will actually be stuck with heavily outdated hardware.
What new netbooks and notebooks will be launched is still murky, but CNET has an interesting report from the Intel Technology Summit in San Francisco that took place last Wednesday with some details on what to expect in the new Windows 7 notebooks and netbooks. Read more

Posted on Mon, 3 Aug 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Are Microsoft 'Laptop Hunter' Ads Phony?

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In recent months, Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunter' ads have gotten a lot of attention. The ads, which feature families shopping for many-featured laptops while on a budget, have been a real pain for Apple. While the 'Laptop Hunter' ads have been undoubtedly successful, they've also been out-of-date for the last couple of months. Apple cut prices on a MacBook that is featured in one of the ads and dismissed as being too pricey.

Apple called Microsoft COO Kevin Turner and asked him to remove or change the ads because the comparison featured in them was no longer accurate. Turner seemed ecstatic to get the request at first, and stated that Microsoft planned to just, “keep running them and running them and running them.”

Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans