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Samsung’s First Hybrid Notebook Makes its Debut

Hyrbid laptops have officially arrived, and Samsung’s R55 is the company’s first to feature both an 80GB 5,400rpm drive alongside an additional 256MB flash drive. Samsung claims the hybrid hard drive consumes 32% less power, offers a 26% increase in data reading and boosts data-writing speed by 71%. That kinda talk makes the 15.4-inch notebook…

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Guide to Replacing Your MacBook Pro’s Hard Drive

Aside from the obvious storage bump, there are plenty of reasons why you’d wanna upgrade your MacBook Pro‘s hard drive. The guys at ExtremeTech have come up with a hand-holding guide for replacing your MBP’s 5,400rpm HDD for a new 7,200rpm drive, which will give you a noticeably faster MBP. There’s a lot of unscrewing…

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JVC HD-58S998: The Slimmest Rear Projection TV on the Planet Proves it Can Run with the Big Dogs

Measuring in at 10 inches deep, JVC’s 58-inch HD-58S998 is the thinnest rear projection TV around, challenging its skinnier plasma and LCD counterparts on both screen size and price (the JVC goes for about $2,400). But does its sexy thin waist line come at the price of performance? According to the folks at C|NET, not…

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Rumor: First DirectX 10 Laptop to Cost $1,200

Nvidia has yet to officially introduce a mobile GPU that can handle DirectX 10, but the folks at Laptopical claim that Zepto’s forthcoming ZNote 6625WD will be one of the first lappies to carry the GeForce Go 8600 with DirectX 10 support. The 15.4-inch machine will also have an HD DVD RW drive, HDMI and…

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Paradigm Soundbar Covers All of Your Front Channels

I’m all for surround sound, but for the sake of saving space I gravitate to speakers like Paradigm’s Millenia 20 Trio, which combines all of your front channels (left, center, and right) into one skinny soundbar. Paradigm doesn’t claim it delivers virtual surround surround sound (for that check out these or my personal favorites) so…

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New, Less Fugly G-Zone Phone Heading to Verizon

Verizon’s first G-Zone phone was rugged as hell, but lacking in the looks department. Its new G-Zone phone, the Type-S, packs the same military-style features as its predecessor, but in a package that’s a little more appealing. It’s not that big of an upgrade, but the glossy shell, internal antenna, and touch of blue definitely…

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Wal-Mart Makes the Push for $299 HD DVD Machines

Rumor on the interwebs has it that Wal-Mart is about to bring HD DVD to the masses. The retail giant we all love to hate just bought 2 million HD DVD units from Taiwanese electronics corp Fuh Yuan, who along with TDK recently built a massive factory to handle HD DVD cores. What does Wal-Mart…

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Xbox 360 Elite Sliced and Gutted for the First Time

It’s barely had any time to sit on store shelves and yet Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Elite has already been sliced open for the world to see. Unfortunately, the delicate surgeons who gutted the system couldn’t confirm if the new 360 is packing an updated 65nm core or not. A 65nm core would mean the…

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Rumor: Palm to Launch a UMPC Next Month?

All those Palm buyout rumors may have come to an end, but new rumblings on the Web predict that Palm is about to shock the world with a UMPC of their own. The wireless handheld will follow in the footsteps of the OQOs, Sonys, and Flipstarts of the world. A UMPC-like device from Palm doesn’t…

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Force Field for Spaceships

A group of British scientists are teaming up to create the first ever Star Trek-style force field. The shield would be used to protect astronauts from cancer-causing radiation coming from the sun in the form of solar wind. Astronauts will be able to turn the shield on or off, and they’ll even be able to…

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Digital Locket Stores and Takes Your Pictures

It may look like a piece of jewelry your grandmother would wear, but this high-tech locket is anything but outdated. Designed by Lindsey Picket, the 1881 features a built-in camera lens that sits on the exterior of the locket. Open the locket up and the twin LCDs will display your favorite snapshots (that are stored…

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Obvious Bias: Microsoft Says iPhone Should Support Office Docs

Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific chief, Chris Sorenson, threw some poo at the almighty iPhone today, saying business users are better off buying a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone over Apple’s forthcoming prodigy. “You cannot install applications…and there’s no support for Office documents. Even using it as a heavy messaging device will be a challenge.” Obvious bias aside, he…

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No Blu-ray for iMacs till 2008

Anyone who was hoping for a built-in Blu-ray drive in their next-gen iMac is gonna have to wait till mid 2008. That’s when Intel will replace their current Bearlake chipset with their Eaglelake chipset, which will officially support Blu-ray. Apple is infamous for waiting before they adopt new technologies, so in a sense this comes…

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Samsung Expanding Their MP3 Line with GPS?

Looks like the boys at Samsung are the latest to jump into the GPS market with this little number that was recently discovered via the FCC. The device will come with Bluetooth (nothing out of the ordinary), but what we find interesting is the “YP” prefix given to the device’s model numbers (which range from…

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Zune Phone Interface Revealed?

There’s no way of telling whether this is the rumored Zune phone’s interface, but the guys at Mad4Mobiles recently dug up this MS patent that shows what looks like a smartphone interface. The interface has icons for TV, music, weather and shopping. Personally I think it looks a little too cluttered, but if this is…

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Next-Gen Penryn CPU Benchmarks Show Intel Still Toasting AMD

Intel has given the world a quick glimpse at what their next-gen Penryn processors are capable of. The dual- and quad-core chips (which clock in at speeds of over 3GHz and carry up to a 12MB L2 cache) showed as much as a 22% performance boost when pitted against Intel’s current king, the quad-core QX6800.…

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Wall Mirror Doubles as TV and All-in-One PC

Mirror TVs are nothing new, but this is the first I’ve seen that does triple duty, playing the role of mirror, TV and PC all in one. DND Casa calls their concept mirror the ARCO, and from the looks of it, it’d make for a pretty sweet Media Center, letting lazy couch potatoes watch TV…

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Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma Reviewed: Grandstanding Performance

We’re not sure how they got their hands on it, but the guys at Trusted Reviews were lucky enough to test out Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma TV. The monster TV, which weighs in at 771 pounds with the massive stand, took about 3 hours to install (and that’s with the help of professional installers). So how’d…

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Intel Preps Quad-Core CPU for Lappies

2008 is gonna be an interesting year if Intel keeps its promises. You see, on their 2008 roadmap sits a quad-core Penryn mobile processor designed for intense gaming and hardcore power users. Quad-core to go? You better believe it. Intel’s not saying how they plan on achieving this or what kinda battery life these lappies…

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First Shots of the Sony Ericsson P700i Smartphone

Thanks to a mysterious user by the name of deuxani, we now have a better look at Sony Ericsson‘s forthcoming P700i smartphone. The phone will come with a 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 3.2-megapixel camera with duplex LED light. It’ll have three flavors of wireless including 3G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. As you can tell by the…

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Samsung’s First Hybrid Notebook Makes its Debut

Guide to Replacing Your MacBook Pro’s Hard Drive

JVC HD-58S998: The Slimmest Rear Projection TV on the Planet Proves it Can Run with the Big Dogs

Rumor: First DirectX 10 Laptop to Cost $1,200

Paradigm Soundbar Covers All of Your Front Channels

New, Less Fugly G-Zone Phone Heading to Verizon

Wal-Mart Makes the Push for $299 HD DVD Machines

Xbox 360 Elite Sliced and Gutted for the First Time

Rumor: Palm to Launch a UMPC Next Month?

Force Field for Spaceships

Digital Locket Stores and Takes Your Pictures

Obvious Bias: Microsoft Says iPhone Should Support Office Docs

No Blu-ray for iMacs till 2008

Samsung Expanding Their MP3 Line with GPS?

Zune Phone Interface Revealed?

Next-Gen Penryn CPU Benchmarks Show Intel Still Toasting AMD

Wall Mirror Doubles as TV and All-in-One PC

Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma Reviewed: Grandstanding Performance

Intel Preps Quad-Core CPU for Lappies

First Shots of the Sony Ericsson P700i Smartphone

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