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    Dell Latitude Z Gets Leaked, Tentatively Held For Photo Shoot

    Dell Joins the Sorta Thin, Sorta Cheap Laptop Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z

    HP to Release Budget Ultrathin Laptops Later This Year

    Lenovo U350 Is Pretty Thin, Pretty Light, and Pretty Cheap

    Sexiest Plasma (Still) Alive: Panasonic Z1 Priced at $6000

    Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops

    AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/16/09

    In reply to Dell Latitude Z Gets Leaked, Tentatively Held For Photo Shoot
    Man that thing is thin. I had to do a double-take with that shadow there. I'd like to see what the specs are (especially the graphics card) but I'm definitely putting it on the short list for my next PC purchase.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Dell Joins the Sorta Thin, Sorta Cheap Laptop Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z
    I really like the Studio designs. Dell's really got the best looking PCs out there, and is challenging Apple for both design and performance, at a much lower price. I've been considering getting one of those Studio XPS machines, but this might be just as good for my needs. 4.2 lbs isn't bad for a 14" machine, and I don't really need an optical drive with me most of the time anyway.


    The one thing that's stopping me from getting a Dell Studio (either the XPS or this one) is the lack of a 512mb video card option. HP's got a seemingly decent machine that has a 512mb vid card, though it's not the Nvidia GeForce 9600M that I would prefer. Hopefully Dell will get it together and come up with 9600M option by July 1st, which is when I've decided I'm buying my next PC.

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    05/28/09

    @weatherman:

    What about a studio xps 16? That has a 512MB ATI graphics graphics card, and by all accounts it isnt bad. On top of that the rest of the laptop is fantastic. Its just too bad a well specced one costs nearly as much as a macbook pro. At least you get a 1080p full RGB LED screen with the dell though.
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    05/28/09

    @knyghtryda: does it? I didn't realize. I'd been looking at the Studio XPS 13. The 16 inch screen just seems overly large, and comes in at 6.5lbs. I suppose it's a competitor to the Macbook Pro, but I need to be a little more portable than that.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Dell Joins the Sorta Thin, Sorta Cheap Laptop Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z
    Waqit a sec... They are selling this really nice laptop which can be spec'd out nicely, for 3 to 4 times less than the low spec'd Adamo? Dell is being stoopid again.
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    05/28/09

    @TampaShooters: leave it to Dell to create the Adamo Killer!
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    Image of Pritesh Patel Pritesh Patel
    03/05/09

    In reply to Sexiest Plasma (Still) Alive: Panasonic Z1 Priced at $6000
    Don't you mean 240Hz instead of 24Hz? would really suck if it was 24Hz lol.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    03/05/09

    @Pritesh Patel: No, I really do mean 24Hz. As in, 24 frames per second for movie watching. Why would a plasma need 240Hz (or even 120Hz)? That's for motion blur correction, which is a problem specific to LCDs.
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    01/12/09

    In reply to Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops
    The only way I would find this interesting is if they include discreet graphics by nVidia or ATI.
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    01/12/09

    @ripfire: Well this says the HP DV2 will have discreet graphics, though no mention of by whom: [www.shopping.hp.com]
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    01/12/09

    In reply to Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops
    How is a price of over $700 low-cost?


    Has Gizmodo lost complete feeling for the cost of things?


    Just cause Apple is gauging their customers, does that make it ok for Intel to do the same kind of overpricing? And then just cause Intel is slightly cheaper, you call that low-cost?


    Everything is low-cost next to Apple.

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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    01/12/09

    @Charbax2: That would be budget-class for a notebook and hobo-class for an ultraportable. The HP DV2 is clearly not a netbook -- if anything, it's like an ultraportable from a few years ago.
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    Image of regnez regnez
    01/12/09

    @Charbax2:

    "Low-cost" is a relative term. Compare a $700 price tag with what a MBA ($1800 base) or Voodoo Envy (I don't even know, like $3000?) costs and it will look very affordable, indeed.


    The market for this processor/these notebooks is not going to be huge, but there are people who need an extremely thin, portable, and reasonably powerful machine and they are not afraid to pay for the privilege.

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    01/12/09

    @regnez: or Toshiba Portege line, or Lenovo Thinkpad x300.....
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    01/12/09

    In reply to Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops
    "Does anyone need this, or want this?" - Yes and yes.


    My desktop in all its easily moddable glory is my workhorse. I don't need a top of the line laptop. At the same time I couldn't cope with a gimped netbook. And I can't afford a premium-priced ultraportable. The HP DV2 and whatever comes out like it are the solution. I need a laptop to be super-light, have long battery life, be capable of the occassionally taxing task, and be inexpensive. An optical drive, until physical media finally dies, is also nice.

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    Image of Troy A. Scott Troy A. Scott
    01/12/09

    Exactly. Couldn't agree with you more, Zlevee.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    01/12/09

    @Troy A. Scott: yeah. I failed to clarify that while a "thin and light" currently fills the void, it just ain't light enough to take everywhere. Which is why these things win.
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    Image of Windhawk Windhawk
    01/12/09

    In reply to Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops
    Intel frightened itself by creating a product at the low end that had such thin margins. It needs to re-position the modified Atom for mid-market so it (and the laptop vendors) can get some margin back.
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    01/12/09

    @Windhawk: Intel never had a problem with their Atom products. They don't make the laptops; only the chips. It's a win-all situation for Intel.


    AMD is just a crybaby cuz they're late at the market.

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    01/12/09

    In reply to Intel Also Designing Processor for Low-Cost, Ultrathin Laptops
    The new "Intel Molecule!" Two or more Atoms stuck together to make a fair processor.
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    01/12/09

    @alexmg2420: Funny as that sound they COULD leverage the Periodic Table for their naming scheme if they wanted to. Plenty of numbers there, and some cool elements besides!
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    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    Make it available for miniITX, then I'll consider it.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    Can I just ask what the heck you mean by "....1080p video, something that even nicely-screened netbooks simply don't need."?


    Even if you can tell 1080p at this screen size, there are HDMI out ports on a lot of netbooks. And even if the majority of netbooks don't have optical drives, streaming HD will eventually get to true 1080p, and one could always rip a blu-ray disc or download a 1080p movie.


    so...um...WTF is up with that statement?

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    01/06/09

    @Zlevee: should say "Even if you can't tell...."
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    01/06/09

    @Zlevee: Just what it says. It's arguable that doing anything at all on an external monitor is beyond the scope of netbooks. Netbooks are supposed to be cheap, small, and low-powered in both wattage and horsepower. For $300 it is not going to do a lot of things that the big boys can do, and it is entirely reasonable that 1080p is on the list of things it can't do.
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    01/07/09

    @WB: um, ok, but you seem to miss the point that several of them can indeed output via HDMI.
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    Image of TonyTriple TonyTriple
    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    I'm in need of a laptop and was wondering if there have been any improvements in energy efficiency. AMD rigs have a reputation for supposedly running hotter that similar Intel rigs and I've been wondering if this reputation is unjustly deserved...
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    Image of EqualOpportunityCrasher EqualOpportunityCrasher
    01/06/09

    @TonyTriple: I've always heard the opposite, that Intel runs hotter than AMD, but maybe that's changed recently. Everyone was building Opteron machines cause they could OC them well and they ran cooler than anything Intel could throw at them.
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    01/06/09

    @EqualOpportunityCrasher: Intel ran hot with P4 (Northwood or Prescott) or any of their CPU using Netburst. Tides turned when they switched to Core.
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    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    Hey that's super.


    Too bad I already bought a machine with Intel inside.


    Maybe on the next go round?

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    Image of Stacky Botrus Stacky Botrus
    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    At the end of the day, all of these things are laptops - at different physical sizes.


    E.O.S.

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    Image of CyrusOpeth CyrusOpeth
    01/06/09

    @Stacky Botrus: Apparently the auto marketing people are now working for the chip companies. Station wagons because SUVs became crossovers--but they're all station wagons.
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    01/06/09

    @CyrusOpeth: I wish they were station wagons. I miss station wagons.
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    01/06/09

    In reply to AMD's Neo Processor Ignores the Atom, Gives Netbooks the Tiny Cold Shoulder
    Intel is the future...
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    01/06/09

    @Chariot:

    Chariot is not....
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    01/06/09

    @Fourthletter: Unless Chariot is a child, because children are...
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