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Of interest is the new Dell Inspiron Zino HD which ZDNet calls " Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini ." "The Zino HD is an interesting machine because Dell has managed to cram a lot of power into the Mac mini-esque 7.8 inch by 7.8 inch footprint
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Over swim lessons today, I read Rob Pegoraro 's article "Tips to boot up your laptop hunt" (which was picked up in today's local paper) for users looking for new laptops (as I Tweeted today )… "… many users — college students among them — still need laptops
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John Swenson has an interesting article covering Device Stage in Windows 7, as he describes as "a home page for select compatible devices and printers. It’s a simpler and faster way of finding and using your devices with Windows." "You
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OK, geek moment before the start of the long weekend here in the States. I'm very excited as the new Acer Aspire AH340-UA230N Windows Home Server is outfitted with 2GB of memory and a 1 TB Hard Drive, leaving 3 open slots for additional hard drives to
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There's a new Laptop Hunters "You find it, you keep it" Microsoft PC television commercial out with Lauren (a new law school student) and Sue (her mom) … Video: Laptop Hunters $1700 – Lauren and Sue get a Dell XPS 13 Tags: articles ,
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Lots of news today (as noted in the news today ) on the availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) . Remember, only download the Windows 7 RC from a trusted source – via Microsoft – to save yourself the security risk . As noted on MSDN and TechNet,
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Sitting through lunch today between meetings and mail, I thought about what every self-respecting geek waiting for the release of Windows 7 : what should I do in order to prep one of my older computers for this new OS? Today, I thought I'd start with
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This week the Windows 7 team posted on delivering a quality upgrade experience for Windows 7, noting that many people are running the Windows 7 Beta full time just as many of us do daily at Microsoft. And the team is encouraging users to revert to an
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The new "I'm a PC" commercial, with Giampaolo… As noted on Engadget … "Armed with a $1,500 budget, he walks out of Fry's with an HP HDX 16 that features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive
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First it was questions about whether or not we'd have to worry about the coming Leap Second , then today after our power came back on, customer questions about the Zune 30. As we have a couple of Zune 30s in our home going strong, I was surprised to see
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(See an update to this article in " It's nearly back to school time: here's info on buying a new PC ", Aug 14, 2009) As per my previous Tweet , I recently updated my answer to a popular question around this time of year: " What kind of a computer should
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Generally the lack of posts in October is directly related to the (growing) amount of work on my plate at the office. It's been very busy, as we increase efforts in advance of PDC and WinHEC, and the efforts we have currently on track. It was with
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I wanted to share a very frustrating story with you that happened to me last weekend, one that I shared with Dell's customer advocate folks. You may've read my post on the poor customer experience at my neighbouhood Best Buy (the good, the bad... you
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(Note 030609: A thanks to Rob Pegoraro's Tweet today . You should also read my follow up to this post, "Best Buy Revisited: Buying a PC at retail isn't as bad as I first found" . In this economy retail needs to shine. See more in my Apple Store experience
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A quick post to provide some pricing perspective on Windows vs. Mac PCs, as we look to the upcoming back to school sales. Last week, Joe Wilcox posted a piece on Microsoft Watch noting that the regarding pricing on Vista PCs "These Prices Are Insane!"...
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