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You’re probably already fairly familiar with Acer’s foray into speedy netbooks with the the
Ferrari One — the 11.6-incher we found to be slightly underwhelming when we got our
hands on it back in September. Still, the famous branding and the red hot lid is sure to be a draw for some, and other than that, this laptop boasts an 1.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU, an AMD M780G chipset, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 graphics, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, optional WWAN and a 6-cell battery. It’ll run you about $600 to grab one up and it’s available now. Full press release is after the break.
Continue reading Acer’s Ferrari One netbook now available — might not help you get a date
Acer’s Ferrari One netbook now available — might not help you get a date originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ah, the blessings of market fragmentation. If you thought that, in its
efforts to differentiate the Starter Edition from its beefier Windows 7 offerings, Microsoft chopped off the ability to share wireless connections between compatible devices, we've got good news: it didn't. Turns out that ad-hoc networking is very much a part of Windows 7 Cheap Edition, and the only thing missing from it is the dialog you see above. Thrifty Edition owners will have to find the application themselves -- through the shockingly difficult process of a Start Menu search -- but once they do it'll behave exactly as if they'd bought the Extra Awesome variety. Great job, Microsoft -- you keep hiding features and we'll keep installing
Chrome OS on our netbooks, deal?
Windows 7 Starter comes with hidden wireless connection sharing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ASUS's good-looking, switchable-graphics boasting
UL30Vt-X1 is one those Windows 7 laptops you really need to check out for yourself. The thin and light, 13.3-incher will get super strength battery life with the discrete graphics on. This one packs DDR3 memory, and a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor (which can be overclocked). It's up for pre-order at Amazon now for $799 with Windows 7 Home Premium, so if you've been waiting around for this one... well now's your time.
ASUS UL30Vt available for pre-order at Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft's CEO
Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Washington, and news of
Windows 7 sales came up right away. While delivering the opening remarks, Ballmer said that Microsoft has sold twice as many copies of Win 7 as any previous OS in a comparable time frame. Though no actual numbers were mentioned, the good news is not completely unexpected giving the pre-order figures were
through the roof.
Microsoft CEO Ballmer says Windows 7 sales are double its predecessors' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Archos has already made it
abundantly clear that its Windows 7-based
Archos 9 media player is US-bound, but just in case you were worried over legalities, this FCC filing should crank your stress level down a notch. Best of all, this particular entry includes external
and internal photographs, meaning that the camera-toting employees within the deep, dark FCC labs are actually credited with handling the (admittedly messy) dissection. Shocking pixels await you in the read link, so make sure you go in fully prepared.
[Via
jkkmobile]
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Archos 9 PMP sneaks into the FCC, gets dissected when caught originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The venerable 2001 classic of an OS, Windows XP, strikes again. The scribes over at Laptop have put together a rather damning battery life comparison between old greybeard and the fresh Windows 7, which finds that on average netbooks get 47 minutes less battery life with the upgraded software. In the case of the ASUS 1008HA, that deficit was a meaty 57 minutes, or 16.7%. Liliputing and jkOnTheRun have run their own tests which invariably reached the same conclusion. Adding these data to an earlier comparison with Snow Leopard, where Windows 7 was again markedly worse than its competitor, leads us to the conclusion that perhaps Microsoft’s 7th heaven hasn’t quite been optimized for the mobile mavens out there… yet.
Read – Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks
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Read – Netbook Battery Tests: Windows XP vs Windows 7
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Windows 7 bested by XP in netbook battery life tests originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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While Dell and HP were busy holding a competition to see who could do
a worse job of
announcing their new optical multitouch displays,
Albatron was crafting away a 42-inch monstrosity to completely steal their thunder. The optical part refers to a pair of CMOS sensors embedded in the bezel which are responsible for touch detection, a cheaper alternative to your typical
capacitive and
resistive tech, which requires an extra USB connection between the monitor and computer. Although some issues were found with Windows 7's multitouch implementation, the promise of recognizing more than two fingers with the proper software support and the general responsiveness of the unit whet our appetite for more. Alas, nobody dares speak of a price, but a 1080p
22-inch model is already available for $450, in case you wanted to add to your touchy-feely shortlist. The video after the break contains the hands-on and a little mystery -- why is there Bulgarian handwriting on the whiteboard in the background?
Continue reading Albatron's 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video
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Albatron's 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If 7,000 dominoes fall in a forest of cheering
Microsoft employees, do they make enough noise for us to care? We don't usually tell Microsoft how to run its promotions, but a domino installation that takes a full three minutes to topple is pretty much an open invitation for "slow boot-up" jokes, and a climactic finale that revolves around a hot air balloon version of your logo crashing against a glass ceiling might also create
the wrong impression. Ah well, these guys are engineers and not choreographers, after all -- you can see the fruit of their labor after the break.
[Thanks, Colin]
Continue reading Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video)
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Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Our curious British fingers managed to stumble upon a
European HP Pavilion dv3 blessed with
Windows 7 and multitouch on both the screen and the trackpad. The keyboard was great to type on with negligible flex, but the trackpad suffers from the same glossy issues on other recent
HPs -- although it responded to our multitouch gestures better than the capacitive screen did. Our major annoyance came from the attempts to rotate pictures on the screen: we learned the hard way that the laptop (or Windows 7 itself) seemed to prefer more exaggerated rotation gestures than the
MacBooks -- perhaps one would get used to it over time. The hinge is fairly solid, but we still preferred holding the screen while touching it. On a brighter note we totally dig the inclusion of an HDMI port and an eSATA port, plus you'll get up to seven hours of sweet battery juice from this 2.24kg (4.94 pounds) machine. Read on for our hands-on video and photo gallery.
Continue reading HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on
HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Time to freshen up the old netbook market with a dash of
Windows 7, a pinch of
touchscreen functionality, and a generous helping of... Seline10? eviGroup, the crew responsible for the attractive 5-inch
Wallet MID, has announced the 10.2-inch Pad, whose
pièce de résistance is the Seline10 artificial intelligence software that's been in development for a decade, if you can believe it. Its purpose is to act as your secretary / assistant, and while the novelty's good, we all know how well
Clippy worked out. Fret not though, it's just an optional extra and shouldn't detract from the appeal of a device that offers 3G and a/b/g WiFi connectivity, one VGA and three USB ports, multicard reader, webcam, microphone, and the old faithful 1.6GHz of Atom power. A price of under €500 is being touted, with further details set to emerge over the coming days.
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eviGroup's Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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