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Crave’s chief correspondent, Erica Ogg, is currently at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., awaiting the start of the company’s 10 a.m. PDT event focused on laptops. Click on this link to follow her live blog tracking the proceedings as they unfold.
A redesigned MacBook and MacBook Pro are all but assured, [...]

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Acer Aspire 5735: You won't find a larger laptop for less.
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Our resident cheapskate spied the Acer Aspire 5735 earlier this week. I just finished reviewing this 15.6-inch laptop and have only minor quibbles with what amounts to a ridiculous deal. The Aspire 5735 lists for $499 but is currently selling at [...]

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If you are finding your notebook is pulling double duty as productivity machine and audio server in your home, Creative has a new tandem of products that may hold some appeal: the Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook sound card and Wireless Receiver.
The $90 Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook sound card fits into [...]

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Vivienne Tam is truly accessorizing here.
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Hewlett-Packard and world-renowned Asian fashion designer Vivienne Tam have been working together to create the HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition notebook. However, anyone attending Tam’s fashion show during New York’s Fashion Week at Bryant Park Tuesday has probably already seen it.
The special-edition notebook–which looks [...]

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It happens every time. The mainsail cover is off, and it’s freshening nicely. Then the boss calls begging you to get online and placate one of her key accounts. Luckily, she’s seen fit to spring for the fully salt/fog-certified B300 ruggedized notebook.
What distinguishes this rugged, watertight, vibration- and drop-shock resistant PC–besides the sealed [...]

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Dell Vostro 2510 Ad(Source: Engadget)Vostro 2510 is aimed at the business user
Every year when back-to-school time rolls around, hoards of laptops are released and prices drop to try to lure shoppers to purchase. A new business-focused notebook from Dell called the Vostro 2510 has surfaced in an ad inside a Dell Business [...]

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It’s not just fingerprints — the shape, contours and lines of your face are also as unique as you are. Toshiba’s Face Recognition software (which is available as a standard feature on the Satellite Pro U400, M300, A300 and P300 models) attempts to replace tedious passwords and uncertain finger swipes with identification gleaned from images [...]

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OLPC XO Laptop Running Windows XP(Source: Microsoft)XO Windows XP trials to start in June
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation has been pushing its XO notebooks in developing nations for a while now at a price of $188 per notebook. The XO has had some stiff competition in the market from competitors like the Classmate [...]

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OCZ branches out to include notebooks under its growing umbrella.
While most people know OCZ Technology as a memory company, it has recently branched out into many sector of the computing market. OCZ’s portfolio has now expanded to include video cards, power supplies, memory cards and solid-state drives (SSDs).

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Chicago (IL) – If you were to try to squeeze your server into a notebook form factor, how would it look like? You can check Eurocom’s new Phantom D90xC Phantom-X portable computer to find – it comes with a quad-core Xeon processor, two graphics cards and, if you can wait a few more months, up [...]

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