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Amazon Kindle beta for PC available to download

By Paul Lester

14:20 November 16, 2009 PST

Download and read eBooks from Amazon's store on your PC

Amazon is perhaps the best placed to really push the eBook reader as a global solution and with recent announcements confirming that local libraries will be offering eBook rentals there seems to be plenty going on in this area to warrant further support. To this end, Amazon has officially released its Kindle software for the PC, allowing users to purchase, download and read hundreds of thousands of books from the official store. Read More

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Dell Adamo XPS combines slender profile with smart design

By Gizmag Team

18:18 November 5, 2009 PST

Dell Adamo XPS - World's thinnest laptop (for now)

Dell has bettered its wafer-thin Adamo laptop launched in March with the announcement of the 0.4-inch (9.99mm) thin Adamo XPS. Apart from the attention that the label of World's thinnest laptop brings, the XPS has some very appealing design qualities that are nothing to do with its slender profile or 3.2 pound weight. Rather than the conventional hinge, the full-size keyboard folds into the display in such a way that it's raised at the top when it's opened to provide enhanced cooling and there's also a capacitive touch latch mechanism which allows you to pop the unit open with the swipe of a finger. Read More

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Dell SX2210T - multi-touch, Windows 7 ready, full HD monitor

By Jude Garvey

17:55 November 2, 2009 PST

Dell's SX22102 monitor offers multi-touch functionality

Spurred on by the release of Windows 7, the number of screens on the market offering the benefits of multi-touch functionality has jumped significantly in recent times. Acer, HP and Toshiba have released multi-touch notebooks and we've also seen multi-touch creep into the desktop and all-in-one PC arenas. Dell has had multi-touch PCs in its sights for a while and recently released the rugged Latitude multi-touch tablet. Now there's the Dell SX2210T – a 21.5 inch, 16:9 widescreen multi-touch monitor with full HD and integrated webcam. Read More

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eviGroup enters touchscreen tablet market with 'the Pad'

By Paul Ridden

05:27 November 2, 2009 PST

eviGroup's new tablet PC, the Pad - shown with the company's Wallet MID

It's only been a short while since eviGroup's Wallet MID was released and the French tech company has already unleashed its bigger sister - the Pad. With an Atom processor at its heart, a 160GB hard drive, WiFi, 3G and Windows 7 Home Premium, is this touchscreen tablet PC an Archos killer? Read More

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Acer Aspire Z5610 offers multi-touch support for Windows 7

By Paul Lester

17:15 October 27, 2009 PDT

The Acer Aspire Z5610-U9072 is stylish and powerful offering much heralded multi-touch sup...

The response to the release of Windows 7 has been generally very positive, bringing Microsoft some much needed respite from the issues that plagued Vista over the last few years. One of the more interesting facets of the new OS is the inclusion of touchscreen support, which seems to have been of particular interest to Acer, which recently released its first touchscreen notebook and has followed up with a touchscreen All-in-one PC - the Aspire Z5610-U9072. Read More

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Acer releases 3D laptop

By Dario Borghino

05:22 October 24, 2009 PDT

The Acer AS5738 comes with a 3D screen, 3D glasses and software to project your media and ...

Acer's latest laptop aims to offer something new to videogame and movie enthusiasts: equipped with a 3D screen and glasses, the AS5738 is specifically designed to deliver 3D multimedia and it's also capable of translating standard 2D media content into the third dimension. Read More

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Microsoft launches long awaited Windows 7

By Mick Webb

20:13 October 22, 2009 PDT

Microsoft launches Windows 7 worldwide

After much anticipation and speculation, Microsoft has finally released its long awaited Windows 7 operating system. Aiming to make it easier for users to “do the things they want to do on a PC”, Microsoft’s successor to the largely ill-conceived Vista brings a host of new features to the table. Read More

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Acer delivers its first touchscreen notebook and updates the Timeline series

By Dario Borghino

07:39 October 18, 2009 PDT

Acer's Aspire 5738PG is the company's first touchscreen notebook and combines high-end spe...

Up until now, touchscreen laptops have been one of two things — either low-resolution and lacking the horsepower to perform heavy tasks, or just too expensive. With the upcoming Aspire 5738PG, a multi-touch screen notebook sporting Windows 7 and some respectable specs priced at less than US$800, Acer is looking to bring a quality touchscreen experience within the budget of a wider range of users. On the same day, the PC giant also announced an update to its Timeline series with the addition of a 11.6-inch notebook and the transition to Intel dual-core processors on all existing models. Read More

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Toshiba joins the multi-touch party with new Satellite laptops

By Mick Webb

03:32 October 16, 2009 PDT

The Toshiba M505 incorporates mutil-touch capabilities

Toshiba has announced its latest line of laptops, with two of the new Satellite models representing the company's first foray into multi-touch notebooks. While all models in the new range will ship with Windows 7 Home Premium, only the M505 and U505 Touch models will offer the touch-screen capabilities available via the new operating system. Read More

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Gateway introduce One ZX Series all-in-one PCs with multi-touch

By Mick Webb

21:13 October 13, 2009 PDT

The Gateway One ZX Series

With the official release of Windows 7 just around the corner, Gateway has introduced a new line of all-in-one desktop PC’s that take advantage of the multi–touch capabilities of the highly anticipated operating system. The competitively priced One ZX Series combines stylish design with impressive features aimed at both the serious and more casual user. Read More

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Belkin’s Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 makes upgrading smoother

By Dario Borghino

05:11 October 10, 2009 PDT

Belkin's Easy Transfer Cable makes upgrading to Windows 7 easier by transferring your data...

Upgrading to a new operating system is a notorious mess — you need to find all of your data and user settings (often spending hours doing so), burn them to a DVD or other support and then copy them all to the new OS. Belkin's "Easy Transfer Cable" for Windows 7, a USB 2.0 cable with accompanying software aims to make the whole process much easier by guiding you through the transfer process, automatically finding your data and settings and streamlining the transition from XP or Vista to the upcoming Windows 7. Read More

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Getac's resistive-type multi-touch technology works with or without gloves

By Darren Quick

02:34 October 9, 2009 PDT

Getac's resistive multi-touch technology brings multi-touch to the gloved and ungloved ali...

Anyone who has tried to use a multi-touch touchscreen with anything other than their bare skin will know that it’s just not possible, no matter how hard you press. That’s because the capacitance technology used for the bulk of multi-touch devices doesn’t detect pressure, but measures the changes in electrical resistance caused by contact with a conductor – in this case, the human body. That might be annoying in cold climates, but is an even bigger problem in situations that require the wearing of protective gloves. Getac’s line of rugged Tablet PCs will be the first commercially-available rugged computers to solve this problem by offering a multi-touch screen that works with or without gloves. Read More

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First look: Nokia's Booklet 3G

By Dave Weinstein

05:10 October 6, 2009 PDT

Nokia Booklet 3G - 'Key feel and pitch is good for a unit of it's size'

Recently at Nokia's NokiaWorld 09 event, the company unveiled what appears to be the first in a line of netbook devices, the Booklet 3G. Dave Weinstein was there to get a first hand look at the device. Read More

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Toshiba's Satellite T100 Series laptops charge while they sleep

By Gizmag Team

10:01 October 1, 2009 PDT

Toshiba's new T100 Series laptops will hit shelves on October 22, coinciding with the rele...

Toshiba's new middleweight T100 Series laptops will hit shelves on October 22, coinciding with the release of Windows 7. Both the 11.6 inch and 13.3-inch models come in at under 4 pounds and feature a LED backlit widescreen display, built-in webcam with face recognition, HDMI port, up to 9 hours of battery life and the company's very useful "Sleep-and-Charge" technology, which lets you power up portable devices when the laptop is turned off. Read More

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Up to six screens from one AMD Eyefinity graphics card

By Paul Ridden

04:39 September 28, 2009 PDT

Eyefinity increases available desktop real estate

Forget high definition, AMD claims its ATI Eyefinity multi-screen technology has up to 12 times 1080p resolution, breaking into almost true eye-definition video quality. It's able to power up to six monitors from one card, is Windows 7 ready and positively champing at the bit to unleash the power of Direct X 11. Users can look forward to a much improved immersion gaming experience, or to taking advantage of one huge desktop workspace for better multi-task management, or to being able to keep an eye on breaking Internet news while also playing a game or watching a DVD. Read More

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Acer Aspire Z5610 is a serious all-in-one desktop

By Darren Quick

00:20 September 7, 2009 PDT

The Acer Aspire Z5610 all-in-one desktop PC

Acer unveiled a big brother to its recently-released Veriton Z280G all-in-one desktop at IFA 2009 in the form of the Aspire Z5610. The new all-in-one unit features a larger 23-inch multi-touch display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 5ms response time and 1000:1 contrast ratio. While the Veriton Z280G is more suited to basic home and office use, the Aspire Z5610 is aimed at more demanding multimedia users. Read More

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ASUS EeeTop PC ET20/22 confirmed at last

By Paul Ridden

19:03 September 3, 2009 PDT

The new ET20 and ET22 series of EeeTop all-in-one PC's from ASUS

If you need computing power but space is at a premium and you don't want to opt for a laptop or netbook, then an all-in-one PC might just be the answer you are looking for. After months of eager anticipation, Taiwan's ASUS has finally confirmed the technical specifications for its solution for the space-conscious non-mobile computer user - the EeeTop 20/22 series. They'll be super fast full HD graphics on a touchscreen 20in or 22in screen, a built-in webcam, wireless keyboard and mouse and the option of a Blu-ray player and even more squeezed into one classy chassis. Read More

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Windows 7 Release Candidate available to the public

By Tim Hanlon

06:02 May 5, 2009 PDT

Windows 7

If you missed out on the limited public beta release (Build 7000) of Windows 7 back in January, here's your chance to score the first release candidate (Build 7100) of Microsoft's big redeemer. This time around, there'll be no limit on the number of downloads or the number of serial numbers given out - until the end of July, that is. Read More

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Field Tested: Lenovo's dual screen Thinkpad W700ds

By Dave Weinstein

00:32 February 16, 2009 PST

ThinkPad W700ds with secondary screen enabled.

Lenovo's W700ds has an ingeniously concealed second screen built into the lid that "pops out" via a spring loaded mechanism. There's also a laundry list of features including a built in webcam, fingerprint scanner, 5 USB ports, a FireWire port, a DisplayLink port, both VGA and DVI graphics, big bright 17" 1920x1200 display, 2 ExpressCard slots, an SD card reader, and couple of features that are rather specific to high end photography and graphics design. Gizmag's Dave Weinstein has been putting the W700ds to the test, read on for his full report. Read More

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Last chance to download the Windows 7 beta

By Tim Hanlon

18:50 February 8, 2009 PST

Windows 7

If you're interested in downloading the Windows 7 beta, but haven't found the time to do so yet, we recommend you do so right now, as Microsoft will be closing the beta program within a few days. Read More

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How to install Windows 7 on an IdeaPad S10 (or other netbook) without a DVD drive

By Tim Hanlon

18:35 February 8, 2009 PST

Windows 7

So you want to install the Windows 7 beta on your IdeaPad S10, or another netbook without an optical drive. A Google search will turn up hundreds of guides, but we've read nearly all of them, and they either assume you have access to a Windows Vista machine, are needlessly complicated, or just plain don't work. This guide might not have pretty pictures guiding you along the way, and you'll need to deal with a command prompt, but hey - it works. Read More

 
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