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Acer Timeline 8000 series arrives at Office Depot

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:07:28 +0000

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a day after Acer announced the new Timeline 8000 series , the 14-inch AS4810T-8480 has popped up on an Office Depot shelf for $699. It’s not bad for the money — you’re getting a 1.4GHz Core Solo SU3500, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB disk, and eight hours of battery life — but we’d wait to buy until next week, when our tipster says it’ll be on sale for $549.

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Gateway’s AMD-packing LT3100 netbook unleashed

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:46:40 +0000

Last time we saw Gateway’s 11.6-inch LT3100 it was buried in a heap of other Acer / eMachines netbook reveals , including the Timeline . Now it’s gone official, and the big surprise here is that the self-proclaimed netbook is sporting a processor from AMD — you know, the company who has largely shunned netbooks while later looking to differentiate with the “ultra-portable” Athlon Neo processor. The 1.2GHz Athlon 64 L110 is what’s packed in here, in addition to integrated ATI Radeon X1270 graphics, WXGA resolution, up to 2GB RAM and 250GB HDD, card reader, 802.11b/g, webcam, three USB 2.0 port, and a 6-cell Li-ion battery. Not sure if it’s because they shied away from Atom or not, but instead of XP we’ve got Windows Vista Basic for the OS.

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App Mapping War Casualties Debuts for Memorial Day Weekend

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:17:49 +0000

Every age brings new wars, and every war brings public expressions of collective grief and respect for the dead. My parents’ generation had the Vietnam Memorial , and their parents’ generation now have the National World War II Memorial . Our generation has fought a very different, very difficult war in the Middle East over the past eight years; as of today, one memorial offers perhaps the most comprehensive and deeply detailed picture of the human cost to date. A new app, Map the Fallen , gathers and aggregates information on war casualties in the Middle East from U.S.

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Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For @Replies, Changes Them Again

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:37:11 +0000

Twitter is officially getting dumbed down. For the second time in less than two months, Twitter has changed its @reply system, this time by removing an option that has existed for many months in an effort to appease confused newcomers. The basic premise behind the @reply system is that it allows you to create a semi-public conversation with another Twitter user. To prevent you from having to listen in to conversations you might not care about, the default setting has long…

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