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Who knew a “p” packed so much punch? Just weeks after Lenovo cut loose with a boatload of new machines , the outfit has quietly slipped out an even newer model tailored for gamers
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Lenovo’s 14-inch IdeaPad Y470p launches with Radeon HD 7690M GPU
If there’s one thing we took away from our jaunt at CES, it’s this: consumers’ appetites for mainstream laptops haven’t waned all that much. Even in the Ultrabook category, Intel expects half of the models to go on sale this year will have 14- and 15-inch screens — as strong an indicator as any that lots of folks aren’t yet ready to give up their slightly larger screens, their discrete graphics, their (gasp!) optical drives.
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It remains to be seen when or if they’ll turn into actual products, but The Daily reports that Microsoft is at least working on getting its Kinect technology shoved into laptops. While details are light, the iPad-based publication says that it’s seen a pair of prototypes that “appear to be Asus netbooks running Windows 8,” but which have had their webcams replaced with an array of sensors that run along the top of the screen (a set of LEDs are said to be at the bottom). The Daily also says that it’s confirmed with a source at Microsoft that the devices are indeed official prototypes of a Kinect-enabled laptop, and it unsurprisingly suggests that Microsoft would likely license the technology to laptop manufacturers rather than build its own hardware.
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Microsoft reportedly working on Kinect-enabled laptops
The last time we heard about the inexpensive and student-friendly ThinkPad X130e, it was being snatched up by the eager school districts . That move ultimately pushed back the rig’s planned ship date, but fortunately Lenovo seems to have caught up with the demand for its rugged miniature. In case you need a mind refresh, the X130e is sporting an 11.6-inch HD LED display, 250GB for all your storage needs, four gigs of RAM and your choice of an AMD Fusion or i3 processor at its Core (see what we did there?), just to mention a few goodies.
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Student-friendly Lenovo ThinkPad X130e available now for $429
Sony Ericsson is looking to start a bromance with the McTwist-loving, Double-Cork-landing, A-Frame-riding masses jonesing for a new Android device. The handset maker has announced a “global strategic alliance” with Billabong to launch the Xperia Active Billabong Edition smartphone in select markets. The handset will come preloaded with exclusive content, including Billabong screen savers, and bundle several Billabong-branded games and applications
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) What do you desire most right now? A drink?
Normally updates are meant to better your OS, delivering necessary tweaks and performance improvements. But this latest batch out of Cupertino’s managed to do just the opposite for users running the Lion 10.7.3 package , as it’s caused many applications to force crash and bewildered users to restore Time Machine backups.
Ok, so chances are you probably haven’t thought about Dashwire much in the last couple of years.
