Acer’s first 8 inch Windows 8 tablet is expected to launch soon for $380. While Acer hasn’t officially announced the launch details, the company has confirmed that it’s working on Windows 8 tablets with screens smaller than 10 inches, and the Acer Iconia W3 already showed up at Amazon and the FCC. Now Acer Finland has posted an official product…
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The Asus 1015E is a tiny notebook computer with a tiny price tag. It features a 10 inch display and sells for under $299. In fact, many stores are selling the little laptop for as little as $249. That’s not a bad price for a 2.8 pound computer with an Intel Celeron dual-core processor, a 1366 x 768 pixel display,…
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Last year Google introduced a media player called the Nexus Q which was designed to let you stream content from your phone or tablet (and from the internet) to your TV. It didn’t last long. But now it looks like Google may be getting ready to launch a new media player. A device called the Google H840 showed up at…
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Dell is getting ready to be the first big name PC maker (in the West) to release a stick-sized device that you can plug into a TV to turn it into an Android computer. It’s called Project Ophelia, and Dell first introduced the concept at CES in January. Now PC World reports that Project Ophelia should be available for purchase…
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Linux Mint is an easy-to-use operating system that’s based on Ubuntu Linux. It comes pre-loaded with support for Flash, Java, and a range of media codecs that you’d have to install yourself with Ubuntu. While Linux Mint supports a range of desktop environments, the default user interface also looks a lot more like the classic Windows desktop than Ubuntu’s Unity,…
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Google’s Native Client software lets developers write web apps that act more like native desktop apps. For instance, Quake, DOOM, and DOSBox have all been ported to run in the Chrome web browser using Native Client (NaCL). Now Google has released a tool called Portable Native Client (PNaCL) which takes things a step further by adding cross-platform support for Chrome…
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Sony is adding another device to its AOSP program. The company already offers Android Open Source Project code for a few of its latest smartphones. Now you can also get software based on Google’s Android source code for the Sony Xperia Z tablet. That makes it the first tablet which Sony is opening up to developers in this way. As…
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The Asus Q200E is a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6 inch touchscreen display, an Intel Core i3 processor, a 500GB hard drive, and a low price. The laptop typically sells for around $400 and up, but today Rakuten is offering a refurbished model for $350. It has a Sandy Bridge processor instead of a newer Ivy Bridge chip, and…
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Dell plans to launch at least two new ultrabooks under its business-friendly Latitude line this year. That’s according to a leaked product roadmap which appears to show the company’s plan for Latitude laptops through the end of the year. The ultrabooks will reportedly be notebooks with 12.5 inch displays and branded as part of the Dell Latitude E700 series. Dell Latitude E7240…
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Ramos is updating its W30HD tablet with a new “pro” model sporting a faster processor. The Ramos W30HDPro features a 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, a Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core CPU, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. It’s available for pre-order from Geekbuying for $299.99. ChinaGrabber says it’s already in stock for $298. The tablet features 2GB…
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NVIDIA’s SHIELD handheld game console is a portable gaming system which looks like a 5 inch display tacked onto an Xbox-style controller. It’s powered by a Tegra 4 processor, runs Google Android, and has a 720p display. While NVIDIA had planned to open general pre-orders for the SHIELD next week, the company’s moved the date up by a few days,…
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Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It’s due out by the end of the month. Now it looks like Samsung might have a slightly larger, slightly more powerful model in the works as well. SamMobile reports that a Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is…
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The Google I/O opening keynote came and went without the announcement of any new hardware (unless you count the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android). But that doesn’t mean we won’t see some new devices from Google soon. A sharp-eyed reddit user noticed that the Nexus 7 tablet in a promo video from Google Hangouts had an unusual feature. Here…
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Laptops with 1080p displays are so last year. A handful of notebooks including the MacBook Pro with Retina, Google Chromebook Pixel and Toshiba Kirabook already have higher-than-full-HD screens. Now Sharp wants to step things up a notch with its new IGZO displays for notebooks. IGZO screens use less power than traditional LCD displays, but because of the technology used to…
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Most major PC makers may have left the netbook market for dead. But Chinese vendors have continued cranking out cheap mini-laptops with 10 inch or smaller displays. Some models run Windows, but many of the cheapest feature inexpensive ARM chips and run Android or Windows CE. But it looks like some slightly more powerful models could be on the way….
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