SAMSUNG SERIES 5 CHROMEBOOK TOPS AMAZON'S BEST SELLING LIST

The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is the first Chrome OS notebook to hit the market. With its 12.1 inch display this machine doesn't look all that different from other thin and light laptops. But unlike other ultraportables which take about one minute to boot this laptop boots in under 10 seconds.
The biggest strength and the biggest weakness of a Chrome OS laptop is its OS. While the light-weight

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HP PAVILION DV6Z QUAD EDITION WITH AMD LLANO CHIPS NOW AVAILABLE

HP has just launched a new Pavilion notebook. The HP Pavilion dv6z quad edition notebook has a starting price of $649.99. It features AMD's newest Fusion based Llano APUs (accelerated processing units).

The base configuration has an AMD Quad-core A6-3400M APU, AMD Radeon discrete-class graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit operating system, 6GB of DDR3 RAM and a 640GB, 5400 rpm hard drive. The

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8 INCH VIZIO TABLET UP FOR PRE-ORDER FOR $380

Vizio has started taking pre-orders for its new 8 inch Android tablet. For $379.99, you can order the tablet. If you are willing to spend an extra $20, you will get a 16GB SD card and a case which doubles up as a tablet stand.

Vizio has announced that they will start shipping the tablet on July 18th. A week later the device will be available in retail stores.


The Vizio tablet has an 8 inch,

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INTEL ATOM CHIPS TO GET SMALLER AND SMALLER; 14NM ATOM CHIPS COMING IN 2014

Intel is stepping up the pace of development for its low power Atom processors. Right now, most Atom chips are based on the 45nm technology, but we will soon see 32nm and smaller chips.

We have already heard that Intel will launch its Medfield and Clover Trail processors in 2012. While the Medfield chips are designed for tablets, phones and other low power devices, the Clover Trail chips are

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HP TOUCHPAD WEBOS TABLET NOW SHIPPING FOR $499 AND UP

The HP TouchPad webOS tablet is now available for purchase. The 9.7 inch machine is now in stock at Amazon, Office Depot, B&H, J&R and Best Buy. The 16GB model is priced at $499. The model with 32GB of storage runs $599.99.


The HP TouchPad has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixels display. It is powered by a 1.2Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. The TouchPad is the first tablet to run the

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NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580M LAPTOP GPU INTRODUCED

NVIDIA has finally launched the much-awaited GeForce 580M high end graphics card for laptops.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M is a DirectX 11 capable GPU with 384 CUDA cores and a 1240MHz processor clock speed. It has a texture fill rate of 39.7 billion/sec. Other specifications include 256-bit memory interface, 1.5GHz GDDR5 VRAM and a memory bandwidth of 96GB/s. The 580M also supports the NVIDIA

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SONY S1 AND S2 TABLETS SPOTTED IN GERMANY

The upcoming Sony S1 and S2 tablets have started making their appearances felt. Sony has already released some promotional videos of its tablets and now the folks at a German tech blog have managed to spend some time with the machines.

The Sony S1 has a 9.4 inch display. The S2 has twin 5.5 inch displays. Each display has a resolution of 1024 x 480 pixels. The S2 tablet can be folded up into a

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