There are plenty of ways to keep the data on your computer secure. You could add a password to the login screen, encrypt the data on your hard drive, or carry your computer around in a briefcase handcuffed to your wrist and hope that nobody with a hacksaw is coming to get you. Or you could pick up a laptop…
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Manli Technology is a company that’s best known for making graphics cards and motherboards, if it’s known at all. But the company had a new line of netbooks on show at Computex this week. The Manli iii has your typical netbook features plus a few extra goodies. In addition to the 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 10.2 inch, 1024 x…
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File this under things I should have noticed right away but didn’t. But if you take a look at the press shots for the upcoming Eee PC 1004DN, you’ll notice that the DVD drive isn’t the only unusual thing about this netbook. It’s also one of the first netbooks I’ve seen to have a built in fingerprint scanner. It’s hiding…
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Just because you only paid $300 for your netbook doesn’t mean you don’t store sensitive financial or work-related data on it. So while it might seem silly to add to the cost of a mini-laptop by including advanced security features like a biometric fingerprint scanner, I can certainly see some folks opting for a netbook with a bit more security….
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