At CES Intel touted a new platform that they call Ultrabook. I asked what was made them ultra since we already have notebooks and netbooks. I was told that Ultrabooks have the following features: Extremely thin – 21 mm or less Instant on capability. Increased battery life due to solid state drives. The Ultrabook display [...]

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Apple TV seems like the new hotness.  However, I want storage and additional features that an actual computer can give instead of a device created for the specific purpose of streaming TV shows from the internet. That includes using iTunes and the ability to view content from video sites not supported by Apple TV.  I [...]

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The BF and I both ordered Dell Inspiron Mini 9s with Ubuntu, 2GB RAM. 8GB HD and Bluetooth. He was pretty excited when they arrived two days ago. They came with Ubuntu 8.04 preinstalled with included a Dell interface and a lot of Yahoo branding.  I attempted to connect my Bluetooth keyboard (a ThinkOutside keyboard [...]

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Woot! I built this PC three – no, four – years ago and the internal video card does not support wide format resolutions. *Gasp* The funny thing is that I added this new video card, not for gaming or any other video intensive application but, to be able to watch online video in wide format [...]

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Really?

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