Looking for an ultraportable mobile machine to hit the road with? Check out the upcoming Samsung N510 netbook computer. Like recently released Ion-based netbooks, the N510 is a 11.6incher machine relying on Ion chipset for improved graphics. The Samsung N510 also features an Intel Atom N280 processor (1.66GHz), 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk drive, 11.6" widescreen display (1366 x 768 resolution), card reader, 802.11 b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth, and Windows XP. Expect official announcement later this week.

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Gateway is on a roll. The firm today not only came out with two back-to-school desktops and two FHD Series monitors, but also a brand new affordable notebook computer. The Gateway NV Series starts at just $499, and offers option of either Intel or AMD processor and graphics. Flagship features include LED backlit display, Dolby Sound Room, and HDMI. What's more, the notebook also features MyBackup and PowerSave keys to help consumers backup valuable data and save power.

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For Mac lovers, this is a good gift. If you own one, gift yourself if you don’t gift that friend who does. It is the carbon fiber leather cushion for a MacBook 13″ or a MacBook 15″ Pro. The case is triple layer carbon wrapped and features a removable plexiglass window to display the Apple logo. It comes in two pieces and clips onto the bottom and top of the laptop, it takes about 5 seconds to install. The design is lightweight so that it doesn’t add much bulk or weight to your laptop and features cutouts that give you access to all of your ports and buttons.

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It's safe to say we've hit the third generation of netbooks. They're nice now. The HP Mini 5105 strikes at Asus Eee Seashell's fancily contoured plastic with aluminum and magnesium. Oh yeah, and 95-percent chiclet keyboard that feels fantastic. The weird, chewy line between netbook and notebook gets blurrier with a standard 7200RPM hard drive that has an accelerometer in it for sudden motion protection, like on real laptops. Though that faster hard drive means you'll need the fatter six-cell battery to get their claimed eight hours of battery life, not the standard four-cell pack.

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Cranston, R.I., residents stole laptop and desktop computers from area schools and then sold them to school employees and others, police allege. Police allege Kevin Legacy, 20, and his 52-year-old father, Robert, conducted a scheme in which Kevin stole 21 school district computers so his father, the district's director of information technology, could sell the goods to unsuspecting victims, The Providence (R.I.) Journal said Monday.

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Lenovo's new T400s laptop aims for the sweet spot between portability and performance, offering up a whole bevy of options in a device with a 14.1-inch screen that weighs under four pounds. The T400s is essentially a cross between the bulkier T400 and the super-slim X300. It's got business-dude-friendly features like a dock connector on the bottom, a fingerprint scanner that can boot into your login with a single swipe and components that are easy to upgrade. It's also rugged as hell, as you can see in this video.

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In the childish but careful scrawl of a first-grader, Samantha Rincon writes a long, one-paragraph essay explaining why a college education is important to her. Other essays submitted to a local scholarship program were more structured, but Samantha's was one of the ones chosen to receive a free laptop computer. "One day I will be Doctor Samantha," she wrote. "It will take a long time, but my teachers and my parents will help me."
Dr. Guillermo Valenzuela created the Technology Encouraging College Hopes Scholarship Program last year.

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Thieves broke into a primary school Sunday night and stole the four laptops used to teach the children computer literacy. It was the fifth such school burglary where thieves targeted expensive computers. The latest happened at the Reform Presbyterian Primary School, near Williamsville. School principal Kenneth Arjoonsingh said the school was secured last Sunday evening. On Monday morning, security guards found a door leading to the computer room broken down. Over the past two months, more than $160,000 in computers have been stolen.

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These days everyone has a laptop or a notebook or a netbook or a palmtop, etc. even children do, so much that there are cases where just at 5 they request one for their birthday. Now, when they (if they
are between 6 and 12) do, you can give this one as a gift. Disney has tied up with ASUS to launch their series of branded netbooks. It is supposed to be like a "Baby's First Laptop". They are kid-proof and kid-friendly, and pack plenty of power to boot.

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Looks good, no? The Latitude Z-Series is the latest entrant in Dell's Latitude series. The Z-Series notebook sports a thin profile and is based on Intel's Centrino 2 technology. No word on specification but rumor has it that it features Core 2 Duo processor, 15" display, fingerprint reader, DisplayPort and a webcam with facial recognition technology.

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In addition of Zepto Znote G15a, Zepto today unveiled two other notebook computers. The Znote 7000 and Znote M15a (pictured above) are nice looking mobile machines with nice specification. Both of them are based on Intel Core 2 Duo processor and boast of dedicated NVIDIA graphics card. The M15a sports Geforce G105M while the Znote 7000 offers Geforce 9600M GT.

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If you use a webcam on a regular basis, you’ve probably discovered that at times, the lighting adds odd effects on the image that shows up. Sometimes overhead lighting can create dark circles when you’re plenty rested and wrinkles you’d rather not be seen. It becomes tempting to find an adjustable desk lamp to position it as a spotlight. At least for those that mind how their cam is making them look. Well instead of doing that, you could pick up this web camera that has a little built-in lighting.

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A new generation of cheap, lightweight machines is about to upset the world of mobile computing. The first of the “smartbooks” range is set to go on sale in Britain in September and, according to the makers, will cost as little as £50 while offering many of the features usually associated with laptops that cost 10 times as much. The new computers look like netbooks, the cheap “pocket” PCs that took the high street by storm last year.

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Laptops using Intel's low-power chips for machines bigger than a netbook checkered PC displays at Computex Taipei on Tuesday, revealing growing popularity for the chips and the class of laptop. Intel displayed laptops powered by the CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) chips from a half dozen PC makers on the same day it announced the Pentium SU2700, a new addition to the chip line. The Intel microprocessors are meant for a new class of ultra-thin laptops that are as light as a netbook but pack bigger screens and stronger computing power.

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Acer has finally made an honest product of its Aspire Timeline, so to speak, and Intel's brand-new ULV processors, designed for precisely these kinds of laptops, make a surprise appearance, pulling the base price down to $599, from $699. The rest of the info is largely unchanged from our first look at this early entrant into the recently burgeoning field of semi-thin, semi-light laptops: the 8-hour battery life claim still holds; LED backlighting keep power usage down, brightness up on the 1366 x 768, 16:9 screens.

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