Research in Motion has put out the first 30 second TV spot for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and it does a pretty good job of showing the appeal of a 7 inch tablet with multitasking support. The commercial shows off the app-switching gesture support, which is probably one of the tablet’s key strengths. The tablet has a high enough resolution…

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Well here’s something you don’t see every day. Fujitsu has put together a series of videos to promote the company’s new Stylistic Q550 Windows tablet. The overall theme? It’s designed for professionals. But I’m not entirely convinced that’s the message these videos send. In at least two we see office pranks but no sign of the tablet at all. In…

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is expected to hit store shelves in Taiwan this week, and it’s due out in the US in April. So it’s not surprising that Asus is starting to promote the 10 inch Android tablet with the optional detachable keyboard which transforms the device into a laptop. What is surprising is the form that promotion is…

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I spotted an eye-catching press release today with a headline proclaiming that a “Three-in-One Product, Android Mini Laptop Netbook eBook” is now available for purchase from DinoDirect. I was intrigued… until I figured out that the $99.99 device isn’t a laptop at all. The so-called “7 inch Android 3G Mini Laptop Netbook E-Book” is actually a cheap Android tablet… in…

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The Neofonie WeTab is an 11.6 inch tablet with a custom Linux interface and a home screen filled with a series of widgets to give you access to your most important information at a glance. Apparently along with updates from your email, instant messenger, news feeds, and social networking sites, that includes advertising. Tblt.de reports that the WeTab ships with…

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The Gigabyte Booktop M1305 is a 13 inch notebook that comes with a docking station that lets you effectively use the laptop as if it were a desktop by quickly and easily plugging in a mouse, keyboard, monitor, and other peripherals. It’s basically the larger version of the 10 inch Booktop M1022. The idea is that the notebook is more…

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The day Google demoed Chrome OS for the first time, Brad and I had an interesting back-and-forth discussion about it. One of the things I was curious about was whether or not Google might offer Chrome OS hardware at heavily subsidized prices – or even free. Over at Linux Journal, Glyn Moody wonders the same thing. Moody points out that…

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I’m not entirely sure how an ad comparing a notebook to a sword is supposed to sell laptops, but I guess Sony wants you to know that the upcoming Sony Vaio X is thin. Really thin. Like 0.55 inches thin. We also already knew that it would weigh about 1.5 pounds, thanks to a light weight carbon fiber chassis, but…

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Kristin Shoemaker blogs at OStatic and Linux Librarian. She likes to take things apart and see if she can put them back together again in new and better ways. And she’s not impressed with Dell’s latest attempts to market netbooks toward women. Dell seems to have gotten itself in a gender bender. Fine, that’s a bad play on words, but…

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The MSI Wind U100 netbook ships with either a 3 cell or 6 cell battery. And that means you can generally get from 2.5 to 5 hours of battery life out of this netbook. But somehow Canadian retailer NCIX thinks that a 9 cell battery will provide up to 12 hours of run time. At least that’s what the company…

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It’s starting to look like we will be seeing netbooks running Google’s Android operating system pretty soon. While Google initially pushed the operating system for cellphones, it can run at least as well on low power computers like netbooks and offers many of the features you’d expect from a desktop operating system including a built in web browser and support…

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… the ads have almost nothing to do with the product. HP has launched a new TV ad for the HP Mini 1000 that could almost be an ad for a clothing store. Because the commercial shows more than half a dozen outfit changes, but only shows the netbook being advertised for a few seconds. The gist is that you…

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