February 9, 2011
Dell did what it could to keep its Adamo line alive and well — a price cut here, and price cut there — but ultimately decided to pull the plug and discontinue the Adamo series and brand name, CNet reports. The Adamo was Dell’s answer to the MacBook A…
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February 9, 2011
Citing sources from upstream players, DigiTimes says Acer expects 3-4 percent of its total notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2011 will be affected by Intel’s buggy 6-series chipset. Hewlett-Packard expects to be hit a little harder, noting int…
Tags: Acer, AMD, asus, hardware, hewlett-packard, HP (Hewlett Packard), Intel, laptop, mobile, notebook, sandy bridge
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January 31, 2011
Some chameleons can change their skin color, both for social signaling and for camouflage. At least one species — Namaqua Chameleon — also uses this trick for thermoregulation (it changes to black in the cool morning hours to absorb heat and a light …
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January 26, 2011
With a growing number of Alienware M11x notebook owners complaining about faulty hinges on the machine, Dell is now planning to introduce a “hinge fix program” in a bid to placate these worried, and often indignant, M11x-R1/R2 customers.
“We a…
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January 18, 2011
Whether or not the emerging tablet market will ultimately cannibalize notebook and/or netbook sales has become a hot topic, one that we won’t really have an answer to for at least another couple months or so. As it turns out, that isn’t the only concer…
Tags: display, hardware, laptop, lcd, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, notebook, slate, tablet
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January 14, 2011
An Oklahoma couple is offering a ‘No questions asked $1,000 reward’ for the safe return of their 13-inch MacBook, a small price to pay for what’s contained on the hard drive. According to the couple, there’s a possible cure for cancer with years worth …
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January 13, 2011
Filing of claims in the settlement of the class-action lawsuit that was brought against NVIDIA a couple of years ago for shipping defective GPUs inside certain Dell, HP and Apple notebooks is now underway. It was alleged that the faulty NVIDIA parts…
Tags: Apple, class action, class action lawsuit, class action settlement, ClassAction, ClassActionLawsuit, ClassActionSettlement, defective, dell, faulty, GPU, HP (Hewlett Packard), laptop, Laptops, lawsuit, News Worthy, nvida, settlement
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January 11, 2011
Bragging about a 3DMark06 score is like, well, bragging about a 3DMark06 score. But hey, Eurocom didn’t just score high on the dated benchmark suite, it set a new record for mobile performance with its new Panther 2.0 notebook, the company said.
Accord…
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