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Dell sending out TV tuners with antennas

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laptop Pimp
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There cannot be many people around who have not heard of the problems that Dell customers are having with the Dell TV Tuner. This would have been ordered when they purchased a Dell Mini 10. However, when they arrived with the antennas missing. Well finally, one of the first complainers has finally received their TV Tuner from Dell.

That must be a great thing to experience, watching digital TV on you Dell Mini 10, in the car, at work and even in the garden. Unfortunately, for this Dell customer there will be no TV as he must have failed to check the

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LG and Levi’s partner up

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laptop Pimp
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Sometimes a company comes up with a great idea, on this occasion that means a combination between two top brands LG and Levi, both these firms are top players in their markets and therefore is would seem to be only natural that they work together. So how is that going to work? LG supply the new X120 mini with Levi jean style graphic on the lid, while Levi’s supply the brand logo and a nifty Levi denim pouch for the computer.

Features:

Intel Atom N270 processor

1 GB of RAM

160 GB hard-drive

Windows XP

R

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Pink and Blue joins the colours of Toshiba

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Laptop Pimp
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Now it is quite easy to show off your gender through your laptop as Toshiba introduce pink and blue colour choices to the NB200 range of mini laptops. These colours are actually quite nice shades, sometimes they turn out to be pretty awful, but in this case, they have done well.

Features:

Intel Atom N270 CPU with a clock speed of 1.60 GHz

Intel GM945GSE Chipset

1GB of DDR2 SDRAM

160GB hard drive

3D Motion Sensor / HDD Protection

Windows XP Home SP3 Edition

10.1″ screen (resolution 1024×600) WSVGA L

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The Samsung N310 on sale at Newegg before Samsung

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

t is an unusual thing that a retailer gets to sell a newly released laptop before the manufacturer does, but this seems to have occurred with Newegg getting the Samsung N310 up before Samsung did. But now it is widely available throughout the sites.

Specs:

CPU 1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270

RAM Included 1GB

RAM Upgradable 2GB

Hard Drive Size 160GB

Hard Drive Speed 5,400rpm

Hard Drive Type SATA Hard Drive

Optical Drive Type

Optical Drive Speed

Display Size 10.1

Native Resolution 1024×600

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Laptop DIY – How to Make a Cup-Holder Laptop Stand!

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

Here’s a rather interesting laptop DIY where Mike has built a laptop stand that will fit perfectly snug in his car’s cup-holder using PVC pipes. This might beat the socks off many in-car laptop stands out there that cost big dollars. Heck, I am gonna go make one this week! Great DIY Mike!

The commercially made units also bolt to the floor and take time and tools to install and remove. I always thought there had to be a better way. One day I had a brainstorm. I figured out a quick and easy way to bui

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New computer from Bandai Namco

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

There are a lot of kid’s laptops around; you can understand the idea behind it because they are a lot of kids using computers at an early age. That is the market but there is still the issue as to why these computers look like kids toys, but have a strangely expensive price tag of $858!

Specs:

Atom N270 processor

One GB RAM

160 GB HDD

1024 x 600 8.9″ Display

TV Tuner

Windows XP Home.

USB ports

Express Card 34 slot

multi-card reader

802.11g

Wi-Fi

Weighs 1.08kg

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Microsoft to giveaway HP netbooks

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

Australians get all of the luck, nice weather, vast open spaces and Microsoft giving away 2,300 HP mini netbook that has been preloaded with Windows 7 for free, does it get any better than that? This is all to do with the Microsoft TechEd Australia Conference due to take place on the 8th to the 11th September 2009 where all attendees will be given one of these machines!

Specs:

CPU

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How to Overclock the Eee PC 1101HA!

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

It is not the normal thing to worry about, but according to Netbook Italia who recently got their hands on a brand new Asus Eee PC 1101HA and while they were messing around with the machine, they found out something very interesting. It can be overclocked by up to 32%, this makes the processor work faster, and in fact, they believe that it feels like an Intel Atom N270, which is great news.

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Dell to introduce GPS in the Mini 10

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Laptop Pimp

As from next week, the Dell Mini 10 will have the option for GPS, this helps in two ways. The first is that if the computer is stolen and the thieves do not disable the device, it can be tracked. The second and a bit more like big brother is that companies who issue these computers to travelling staff will be able to see where they are.

The hardware consists of a Broadcom A GPS card with built in Skyhook Wi-Fi loca

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The Panasonic wireless network camera

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Laptop Pimp
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This is the ultimate in home or office surveillance once this is connected to a laptop, the user can control the camera by remote. It is ideal for keeping an eye on pets and kids, or if installed in the business premises it would be like you are always there keeping an eye on things.

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