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There isn’t quite an abundance of info about these up-and-comers from Sony, but it’s better than nothing. Sony is prepping the 15.4-inch FZ series, 13.3-inch SZ5, 11.1-inch TZ11, 13.3-inch CZ and 14-inch CR for a summer launch, and is apparently having a hard time keeping the info under wraps. We’ve got a few […]

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This swollen, bloated MacBook Pro battery comes to us courtesy of Engadget reader Brade, whose ridiculously broken cell continued expanding even days after it was pulled from his system. Silver-lining: Apple was cool about replacing the thing. So let it be known: battery safety comes before productivity, so make sure your unit isn’t […]

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As if the influx of products like the Wiimote, SIXAXIS controller, and DoCoMo D904i series of handsets hadn’t yet convinced you that motion control is the future of PC input (well, either that or knuckle rapping), BT is currently field testing a USB dongle that promises to bring […]

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The day has finally come, Apple users — your Mac SlingPlayer client is officially at v1.0 (and out of beta), and supports all of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. Did we mention the Apple TV support? Yep, does that too. Get it while the gettin’s good — it’s free, but […]

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While actually picking locks is no large task these days, cracking into one’s highly encrypted information in OS X could prove problematic if the culprit had something to hide. SubRosaSoft’s USB key purportedly allows “law enforcement professionals to perform live forensics on Mac OS X systems,” and once the software on […]

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Filed under: Laptops, Storage

Kind of an obvious hack, but if you can live life without your Apple laptop’s internal optical drive on the day to day, Macenstein demonstrates using an MCE OptiBay add-on kit to pull the optical drive out of your machine and swap it out for another hard drive. The hundies invested open […]

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Neither of Everex’s latest StepNote laptops are apt to stop the presses, but they do offer Windows Vista and all the basics for those not interested in flashy extras. Up first is the XT5000J, which chooses the 1.6GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 processor to handle the number crunching, and also packs a 256MB […]

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Yeah, you may have thought those Santa Rosa, er, Centrino Pro-based ThinkPads were hot stuff, but they ain’t got nuthin’ on the future eBay value of the svelte new Olympic-inspired iteration. Shortly after Lenovo unveiled its 2008 Beijing Olympic torch design, the firm has already thrown down snapshots of its Olympic laptop, which […]

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UMPCs have been branching out from the original (and oft frowned upon) design for some time now, as manufacturers look for tweaks that may hook customers that were previously turned off by the idea. Data Evolution’s Cathena CX managed to mix a swiveling LCD into the small frame of a […]

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Yeah, you may have thought those Santa Rosa, er, Centrino Pro-based ThinkPads were hot stuff, but they ain’t got nuthin’ on the future eBay value of the svelte new Olympic-inspired iteration. Shortly after Lenovo unveiled its 2008 Beijing Olympic torch design, the firm has already thrown down snapshots of its Olympic laptop, which […]

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