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The Asus presented to the world its latest laptop, the Asus B80A, B50A successor to the Asus. Equipped with an LCD screen with a resolution WXGA + and a diagonal measurement of 14.1 inches, this note presents advantages as an Intel Core 2 Duo processor that may be the T9400, T5850, P8600 and P7350 have. With a maximum of 4Gb of RAM DDR2, the Asus has chosen to enter the B80A traditional hard drives, mounted on SATA, and that may have a capacity between 160GB and 250GB, depending on the model chosen by the user.

In addition, the Asus B80A also includes a DVD recorder, a Webcam to 1.3 megapixels and a battery of 6 cells. But not all: when it comes to wireless communications can count on the usual module WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and in terms of the multimedia Asus B80A provides an HDMI output.

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All paranoid will tell you, emissions from wireless keyboards can be intercepted. But you think should be free with a wired keyboard, or a laptop, is not it? Yes, but in fact not: researchers at the Laboratory of Switzerland Cryptographie Security and Lausanne (part of the EPFL) demonstrated with different keyboards, purchased between 2001 and now it is possible to spy distance analyzing their electromagnetic signature, up to 20 meters, and even through walls.
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Presented during the special event by Apple in conjunction with the new MacBook and MacBook Pro, the new MacBook Air, slightly modified and officially expected for November, is now ready for delivery. Those who order a MacBook Air, therefore, will receive the latest model, which is good for many reasons.

In addition to seize, in terms of hardware, an nVidia chipset (which includes the card GeForce 9400M), the new trackpad glass and the new Display Port, the new users will find the biggest news in terms of software, the greater capacity for processing.

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Toshiba has presented to the world its new notebook for all who want to play Crysis or the FarCry 2! Baptism of Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708, this powerful notebook comes equipped with an LCD screen of 17 inches TruBrite display that allows the result produced by the graphics card chosen by Toshiba and is a GeFroce nVidia 9800M GTS with 1GB of VRAM.

The processor incorporated in this new Qosmio is nothing if not a ago because it is one of the most recent of Intel, Core 2 Extreme Quad Core.

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It was through the CEO of Asus, Jerry Shen that we know that the Asian firm’s plans for the near future and more specifically what you have in mind for the Eee PC range. It was confirmed for him that Asus will launch by mid 2009 a new Eee PC with a touch screen entirely and that run on the future windows 7.

Most probably this will be a kind of miniature TabletPC but even the best is to wait and see what the Asus in reserve, which should happen during next year’s CES.

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I do not know if they got your attention among the other developments, but the MacBook Event Apple did indeed emphasized that the new MacBook had achieved certification EPEAT Gold, which in theory puts them among the most green technological devices on the market. However, it is not enough for Greenpeace. According to Casey Harrell, the department of Greenpeace toxics, “Compared to how it was Apple before Tuesday [Oct. 14], their laptops are definitely better. That in itself is good. But not yet removed all the pieces toxic. ”
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We already knew the Pogo of Polaroid, the Laptop handheld gadgets to print photos taken from a mobile phone. Mac owners, if you are passionate about photography vintage, here’s a free software to give a retro-in pola all your photos. Free and designed by a French secret fan of Polaroid (legend said he would have 1 000 000 photos of polaaaaaa in his attic … digital), “Poladroïd” could be defined as a digital Polaaaaaaa. In short: you take a photo on your hard drive, you drag it into the small device software and wait 3 minutes for it develops (numerically) as a real Polaroid.
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Apple, during a press conference, held this week, announced to the world a remodeled version of its smallest and lightest notebook ever. MacBook Air, when it was presented, has great enthusiasm because of its small size and extreme lightness. But as this has been for some time, it was already time to upgrade from Apple Air range and was what he did.

Despite being an update very light, it is interesting. So the changes for this new Apple MacBook Air are by the processor that goes from 1.80 GHz to 1.86 GHz, the hard disk that goes from 80GB to 120GB and micro-DVI port which is replaced by the new port mini DisplayPort. It should also be noted that for the version with SSD disk, it passes a capacity of 64GB to 128Gb. Incidentally, all the same.

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A 12-inch version of the Inspiron Mini has just appeared on the website of Dell, which can leave the harbinger of date quite imminent. The user manuals, documents and guides troubleshooting techniques for the Inspiron Mini 12 were Laptop hidden in the pages of product support of the company. According to these docuemnts, the laptop will be an Intel Atom Z520 is a Z530 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1.3MP camera, three USB 2.0 ports, and a battery to 3 or 6 cells.

You can also choose between Ubuntu and Windows Vista, probably with a nice price reduction if you choose Linux. But there was still no release date or price for this 12 inches.

It defies the conventions of Apple. Until now, each brand had a very different stylistic identity: MacBook Pro, MacBook Air or PowerBook open aluminum finish, while the iBook and MacBook were shiny white plastic. But all this is now history. With their new manufacturing process “unibody”, the new portable public Apple look like their counterparts for professionals? In a word, yes. The new MacBook looks like the new MacBook Pro, smaller. Literally. If there was no mention MacBook, you could not tell the difference unless you look closely at the ports on the side.
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