Logitech is branching out beyond PC accessories with the introduction of a new line of products for Android tablets and the Apple iPad — although to be fair, most of the accessories actually make the experience of using one of these consumer tablets a bit more PC-like. First up is a keyboard case for the iPad 2 which protects the…

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When Research in Motion brought the BlackBerry PlayBook to CES last month, the company had a few cases and other accessories on-hand. But it’s a safe bet that third party companies are going to crank out keyboards, cases, screen covers, power adapters, and other goodies for any device getting as much positive buzz as the PlayBook. Now the folks at…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e and ThinkPad Edge 13 have a completely new keyboard design. For the first time, Lenovo is using a chiclet, or island-style keyboard. Lenovo likes to call it an isolation keyboard, since the defining characteristic is that there’s more space between each of the keys.The company has posted a detailed article about the new layout on its…

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Tablets were everywhere at CES this year. NVIDIA had them, Freescale had them, dozens of Asian companies had them, and the Notion Ink Adam tablet was one of the most hyped products of the show. And many of the tablets showed a lot of promise as portable media players and web surfing tools. But call me old fashioned, but I…

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Microsoft, Apple, TechCrunch, Archos, and a fair number of other companies are throwing some weight behind the tablet concept. And I’ve been pretty skeptical for one major reason: text input. The idea of a handheld device without a physical keyboard for surfing the web, reading eBooks, and watching video seems like a good idea, until it comes time to write…

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As I mentioned the other day, I have a whole lot of mini-laptops sitting on my desk at the moment. So I decided that today would be as good a time as any to do a little keyboard face-off. I’d already kind of decided that of the netbooks I’m using this week the Samsung Go (shown in the bottom of…

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We already knew that the Asus Eee PC 1000HE chiclet-style keyboard was compatible with older Eee PC 1000 and 1000H models, thanks to the work of some nebtook hackers. But now it looks like Asus has confirmed things by playing a little mix and match with some netbook parts. Netbook News.de spotted a few older Eee PC models including the…

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When Lenovo unveiled the IdeaPad S10-2 yesterday, some eagle-eyed readers noticed an update that had slipped my mind. Lenovo retooled the keyboard so that it features a nice big shift key on the right side of the keyboard that you won’t mix up with any of the arrow keys. Now the folks at Laptop Magazine have had a chance to…

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The Asus Eee PC 1000H and 1000HE are very similar. But the newer Eee PC 1000HE has a slightly faster processor, a better battery, and a new “chiclet-style” keyboard that many users find easier to type on. But if you already have an Eee PC 1000H and don’t want to buy a new computer just for those features, there’s hope….

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