Sure, the week’s tech news has been dominated by a trade show in Taiwan, but let’s face it… most of the cool gadgets unveiled at Computex this week won’t hit the streets for months. If you can’t hold off that long, here’s a roundup of deals on tablets, netbooks, and other gadgets available today. Netbooks, Notebooks, and Tablets BlackBerry PlayBook…

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Viewsonic, a company best known for making LCD displays, has also dipped its toe into the netbook space. And now the company is introducing its first nettops, or low power desktop computers. The Viewsonic VOT 130 is a pretty typical nettop with an Atom N270 CPU, GMA950 graphics, up to 2GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. But there’s…

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Aside from the HP Pavilion dv2, there aren’t any big name laptops powered by AMD’s Neo platform right now. The AMD Neo platform was meant to provide a relatively cheap and low power processor and GPU setup that would offer noticeably better performance than Intel’s Atom platform. And when it comes to some high-performance video tasks, it does. But for…

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One of the selling points for netbooks and low power nettop-style desktop computers is that they’re generally cheaper than more powerful computers. But while cheap may technically mean the same thing as “affordable,” Intel would prefer that companies selling Atom-based nettops refer to them as affordable, rather than cheap. Because let’s face it, “cheap” carries certain connotations. If someone tried…

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