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If you’re exhausted of waiting for ASUS to offer a touchscreen option for the Eee Computer 900 (or you’re the proud owner of an existing unit), jkkmobile is happy to show you their shortcut to touchy-feely nirvana. As we’ve seen on all those other Eees, installing the touch panel into the 900 doesn’t seem to be extraordinarily difficult for those with a few mods under their belt and a reliable Chinese parts supplier. For those who’d like to simply watch from the sidelines, you can peek the video after the break and lots more pics in the read link.

Continue reading ASUS Eee Computer 900 gets livened up with touchscreen

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Even though the world at huge is waiting on pins and needles for these Wind delays to subside, at least one lucky individual in Italy has received one. Not that you haven’t already seen this netbook from every angle imaginable, but things just look entirely more fluid on video. Three minutes (2:55, to be precise) in heaven await you after the break.

[Thanks, Marcello]

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As you’re no doubt all too well aware, there’s certainly no shortage of netbook options out there these days, but the number of convertible netbooks is considerably more limited — a situation that tiny known Aware Electronics now looks set to somewhat rectify. It’s apparently now set to jump into the game with this 7-inch number, which packs an Aday5G 800MHz X86 processor (all bets are off on that one), 4GB of NAND Flash, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth (with optional 3G and GPS), an integrated webcam, dual USB ports, an SD card slot, and the LINOS Linux distribution for an OS. Nothing particularly standout there, but Aware is promising that this one’ll sell for $300 when it launches in two months, which certainly evens things out — assuming that you can actually get one for that price.

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Being that it is Bill’s special day and all, we figured we’d give you a shot at stepping into his shoes and shaping Microsoft into something even more dominant that the juggernaut it is. Just envision taking a seat in the biggest corner office Redmond has to offer, getting your Outlook set up, fiddling through a mess of old floppy discs and finally conjuring up a business plan. How in the world would you tweak / overhaul / etc. Microsoft if you were suddenly dubbed the large kahuna? We know this one’s wide (and we mean gaping wide) open, so feel free to write a book down there.

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Hey, if Bill can give away tens of billions of dollars, the least we have the ability to do to celebrate his last day is to give away some Microsoft-powered stuff, right? Next up: a full, non-upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate.

• Leave a comment below. Tell us about your favorite Microsoft-powered product. Or your favorite Apple product, too, since Bill completely bailed those guys out back in ‘97.
• You might only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 Says, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you’ve to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. That winner will get a brand new full, non-upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate. Approximate value is $200.
• Entries can be submitted until Sunday, June 29th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Being that it is Bill’s special day and all, we figured we’d give you a shot at stepping into his shoes and shaping Microsoft into something even more dominant that the juggernaut it is. Just imagine taking a seat in the biggest corner office Redmond has to offer, getting your Outlook set up, fiddling through a mess of old floppy discs and finally conjuring up a business plan. How in the world would you tweak / overhaul / etc. Microsoft if you were suddenly dubbed the huge kahuna? We know this one’s wide (and we mean gaping wide) open, so feel free to write a book down there.

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Filed under: Laptops

It’s not each day we get to glimpse a brand new experience from Dell, and while Studio might just be near-XPS laptops in everyman clothing, that certainly seems to be a good thing. The laptops appear to combine the power of XPS and the prices of Inspiron, with some new perks like HDMI out and slot-loading drives to keep things fresh. The laptops tend a little thicker than their XPS counterparts, and the fact that these are hitting just before Centrino 2 might be cause to hesitate, but otherwise we’re getting the feel from these reviews that the Studio line just might be the consumer lineup to beat if you can dig the design quirks and a tiny bit of bulk.

- NotebookReview, Studio 17 (”Hard pressed to find a superior 17-inch notebook in the same price range”)
- CNET Reviews, Studio 15 (7.3 / 10, “We’d be tempted to save up a few extra dollars for a thinner, lighter XPS.”)
- Personal computer Mag, Studio 15 (4.5 / 5, Editor’s Choice, “Retaining many of the XPS’s qualities while selling it for Inspiron prices.”)
- Laptop Mag, Studio 17 (3.5 / 5, “For $1,599, you’ll get plenty of multimedia muscle.”)

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We’d heard that AMD was working on another competitor to Intel’s Atom chips, but yet another set of insanely boring leaked slides indicates that the company is planning on using a version of its next-gen Fusion CPU / GPU hybrid chip to power a new mobile platform codenamed “Shrike.” The new ultra-low-voltage platform is aimed at machines like the Fujitsu U810 and Dell Latitude XT, so it’s not quite a direct competitor for Atom and VIA’s Isaiah — that’s what Puma is for — but there’s bound to be some overlap, and the appeal of a real GPU in a mobile device is pretty obvious. Rumor is that Shrike could beat the planned “Swift” chips off the line as the first Fusion chips — that’s, if any of this stuff actually ever ships, since we’ve been hearing about it since 2006. Let’s see some chips instead of slides next time, alright AMD?

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Filed under: Gaming, Laptops

If you pulled the trigger early on an XPS M1730, you may have gotten “stuck” with “just” a GeForce 8700M GT or similar. If you just can’t be behind the times, Dell is finally offering a solution with the GeForce 8800M GTX upgrade kit. Said package includes dual SLI 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express graphics card designed specifically to boost frame rates and install all sorts of Vista-compatible bragging rights. If you’re comfortable with doing the swap yourself, the upgrade price sits at a penny under $1,100. For those seeking professional help, you’ll be coughing up $1,218.99. For those of you not frozen in place by sticker shock, you can peek the how-to guide for installation after the break.

[Via Laptoping, thanks Danijel]

Continue reading Twin GeForce 8800M GTX upgrade now available for Dell’s XPS M1730

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Daewoo Lucoms is no stranger to building smallish computers, but it seems to have taken a few obvious design cues from Intel’s 2go PC when crafting its own Lukid. According to the firm’s site, this kid-friendly Computer includes a 900MHz Celeron M ULV processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 9-inch display, 30GB hard drive and Windows XP Home Edition. There’s also two USB jacks, audio in / out, WiFi, Ethernet and a rather unsightly (though quite useful, we imagine) carry handle. Anticipate this one to land in South Korea for around ₩549,000 ($531), though we haven’t heard a peep in regard to availability elsewhere in the world.

[Via AVING]

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