IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 23/10/2010

Wings PCIe SSD offers four-port expansion capacity
PCIe-based solid-state disks are all the rage these days, and a new one from a company called Angelbird offers interesting expansion potential. Simply dubbed Wings, the PCI Express x4 card starts at $239 and comes equipped with 16 or 32GB of flash memory. To that card, users...
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Gigabyte preps multiple convertible tablets for US market
While in Taipei, Taiwan earlier this week, I dropped by Gigabyte's offices and had a chance to play with a couple of convertible tablets that are destined to arrive in the US in the next couple of months. The T1005M is slated to become available by the end of...
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Etc.
Yep, I'm a little late but hard at work on my Radeon HD 6800-series review. I'm writing like the, uh, wind, trying to come up with a full slate of text, so you have the usual and fulfilling experience of skipping directly over it to get to the benchmark...
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HP officially intros Windows 7 slate at $799
I guess that settles the question of whether or not HP will scrap its Windows 7 slate plans. Engadget reports that HP officially announced the Slate 500 late last night; the product is aimed at business and enterprise customers, and it will cost $799 with an included digital pen,...
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Caps Lock Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Ars Technica on why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs TechCrunch: Yep, Apple killed the CD Engadget reports hp Slate 500 finally official; C|Net has a hands-on Engadget reports AngelBird's PCIe SSD solution brings breakneck speeds, achievable prices, 'incremental awesomeness' AMD aims to...
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Release roundup: Meaty laptops and new software
This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases, we have news from Dell, Eurocom, Nvidia, and Opera Software: Dell re-imagines high-definition entertainment with new family of XPS laptops. The XPS line is reborn! 14", 15" and 17" models
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Microsoft: 240M Windows 7 licenses sold since launch
Tomorrow, Windows 7 will celebrate its first birthday. Microsoft kicked off the party a little early this morning, posting an announcement filled with hype and endorsements—plus the news that, so far, "more than 240 million" Windows 7 licenses have been sold. Is that a lot? Well, as we told...
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