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  • Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC

    We think this is the first serious review of the Sony Vaio P, it’s not a just a couple of quick paragraphs, but a more in depth examination for what it’s like to use. We hope you enjoy it.

    Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PCsWe’d already dribbled and drooled all over the first press photos of Sony’s gorgeous new Vaio P Series netbook, so couldn’t miss the opportunity to check it out at the UK launch event at the famous champagne bar at St Pancras station.

    Our first impressions – once we got over the disappointment of the promised free champagne being replaced by a warm cup of coffee (! :) ) – was overwhelmingly positive.

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  • Plasma TV Screens Set To Get The Push In Europe

    Plasma TV Screens Set To Get The Push In EuropeThe pen-pushing Eurocrats in Brussels are ready to ban large screen plasma TVs if a new EU standard goes through this spring.

    The EU is displeased with the vast energy needs of plasma screens, which are thought to hog four times as much power than regular screens, and produce four times as many carbon emissions.

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  • Palm Pre: Hitting Back With Stunning New Phone And WebOS

    Palm Hits back With Stunning New Pre Phone And WebOSWe must admit that our expectations were running low for Palm’s do-or-die press launch yesterday, but we’ve been left blown away by their hugely impressive new Palm Pre handset and WebOS operating system.

    Palm Pre handset
    Featuring a 3.1-inch accelerometer-sensed 320 x 480 multi touch display with full QWERTY keyboard in portrait orientation, the phone packs in all the features conspicuously absent from previous Palm OS handsets, including 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS with turn by turn mapping, Bluetooth with stereo A2DP and EV-DO Rev. A 3G.

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  • Sony Vaio P Subnotebook Sparks Salivating Storm

    Sony Vaio P Subnotebook Sparks Salivating StormWhen we first clapped eyes on Sony’s delightfully slick Sony Vaio P subnotebook, we almost cried with desire and want.

    The shiny slimline device measures up at a pocket palpitating 9.6 x 4.7 x .78 inches and packs a positively ludicrously lush 1600 x 768 pixel resolution, 8.9 inch display, crammed into a featherweight 1.4 pounds device.

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  • Asus Eee 901 8.9″ Netbook Review (Part Two – 90%)

    Asus Eee 901 8.9In part one of our Asus Eee 901 review we gave you some background on the little beauty and what you get inside. Read on for more details and the conclusions and scores.

    In all of the excitement of the holiday season, it looks like we forgot to bring you this part two. If you’ve been sitting on the edge of your seats in anticipation, you’ve probably got a pretty numb bottom!

    Connectivity
    The Eee should have enough ports and connectivity options to suit most needs, sporting 3xUSB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g and 802.11n Wi-Fi, Ethernet port, SD card slot and D-Sub video output.

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  • Logitech Unleashes Its G-series Peripherals For PC Gaming

    Looking fabulously over the top with their quasi-military-lines, mass of glowing buttons and proliferation of function keys is the new G Series range of PC gaming peripherals from Logitech.

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  • HP Mini 2140 Mini-Laptop: Third Generation Netbook

    HP Mini 2140 Mini-Laptop: Third Generation NetbookAfter the first bout of Celeron-powered 7 inch screen mini-laptops, we’ve seen the platform develop with a second wave of 9 and 10 inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, and now the third wave bolts on more consumer-friendly features while keeping the price low (ish).

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  • Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-In Desktop Adds Gaming Controller

    Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-In Desktop Adds Gaming ControllerAhead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) trade show in Las Vegas, Lenova has been dishing out info on their forthcoming OPC ranges.

    Looking smoother than Jean Luc Picard’s pate, their new IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop PC packs a ton of functionality into a very stylish package.

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  • Lenovo W700ds Dual Screen Lappie Gets Official Release

    Lenovo W700ds Dual Screen Lappie Gets Official ReleaseIt’s crazy looking creation for sure, but Lenovo’s new dual screen ThinkPad W700ds has the features to set some designers heartbeats into double-quick techno time.

    Based on the clever-clogs ThinkPad W700 we took a look at back in August last year, the W700ds, the beefy laptop serves up workstation performance with not one, but two screens.

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  • Asus Eee 901 8.9″ Netbook Review (Part One)

    Asus Eee 901 8.9After a near-Olympian bout of advanced pondering and spec-sniffing – as witnessed in our recent Looking For The Ultimate Netbook feature, we finally plumped for the Asus Eee 901.

    The netbook is available in both Windows XP and Linux versions, and we plumped for the XP version on account of our familiarity with the OS and the fact that it promised a slightly longer battery life (albeit at the price of reduced flash memory).

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