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Nokia Partners with Best Buy, AT&T for Booklet 3G’s November Launch
Nokia has announced that its upcoming netbook, the Booklet 3G, will make its U.S. debut in November. AT&T and Best Buy will serve as the Finnish mobile phone giant’s launch partners. The netbook will be available for $299 with a two-year AT&T service contract.
New Asus P55 Motherboards are ‘TUF’
Kicking off the TUF series is the Sabertooth 55i. Based on Intel’s P55 chipset and built around Asus’ own ‘Marine Cool’ concept unveiled at CeBIT earlier this year, the Sabertooh comes equipped with the new CeraMIX heatsink. Through the use of ceramics and a microfin surface texture, the CeraMIX heatsink purports to dissipate heat more rapidly than traditional anti-oxidant compounds, Asus says.
Review of Belkin N+ Wireless Router
With 802.11n Draft 2.0 routers becoming as common as Storm Troopers at Comic-Con, manufacturers need a feature that sets their product apart from the crowd. Like many of its competitors, Belkin added a second radio to its N+ Wireless Router—but this one is used for a very different purpose.
Leaked Pics Show AMD’s Beastly ATI HD 5870 X2
In Act I of the modern-day GPU wars, AMD lit up the scene by releasing the ATI Radeon HD 5870, the fastest single-GPU videcoard money can buy. In Act II, AMD will hope to also claim the dual-GPU crown with its upcoming HD 5870 X2.
Gateway to Bring Subsidized LT2016U Netbook to Verizon for $150
You won’t get far by shopping for a netbook with just $150 in hand, even if you’re willing to browse your favorite online vendor’s refurbished section. But for those of you willing to sign up to a 2-year subscription plan through Verizon, $150 suddenly becomes enough to snag a Gateway LT2016u netbook (after $100 mail-in-rebate).
Seagate Announces World’s First 6Gbps SATA Hard Drive
Seagate today announced it has begun shipping what it claims is the “world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive” dubbed the Barracuda XT. While the Barracuda XT isn’t the first 2TB hard drive to sport a 7200RPM spindle speed, it is the first one to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface.
How Thin is too Thin? Dell Adamo XPS to Find Out
So long as there’s demand for desktop replacements, don’t expect chunky notebooks to go by the wayside. But for everyone else, thin is definitely in, or at least that’s what OEMs are pushing into the market place. The latest ultra-thin comes courtesy of Dell, whose upcoming Adamo XPS notebooksuddenly makes Apple’s MacBook Air look like the ‘Big Bertha’ of the bunch.
