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Dell Studio 1555 with ATI 4570 available now

February 24th, 2009 Adam No comments

Well, at least if you live in Singapore it is available now. But it is a good sign that it will be coming to other locations soon. This is a surprsingly powerful update from the ATI 3450 all the way to the ATI 512MB 4570. On top of that it comes with the new Edge-to-Edge HD  LED screen with 1366 x 768 resolution. The basic model comes with the previously mentioned card and 2.4GHz P8600 Core 2 Duo, 3GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive  for around $1050 USD. Well done Dell! I am glad to see a very respectable card used in one of your affordable notebooks.

Link: Dell

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Dell Mini 10 gets spec’d

February 5th, 2009 Adam No comments

Dell Mini 10

Here are the specs of the upcoming Dell Mini 10. Finally it looks like they are getting some decent specs into netbooks with a respectable hard drive size and screen resolution. The optional colors are a nice touch too.

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Dell Adamo revealed

January 9th, 2009 Adam No comments

Adamo Black
Adamo White

Dell has finally unvealed the Adamo and boy, it looks awesome. It will come in two colors as you can see above and is very thin. There are two USB ports, a combo eSATA/USB port, DisplayPort, Ethernet and power connectors on the back, a lot more than either of its competitors the Macbook Air and Voodoo Envy 133. The additional images show that there isn’t an optical drive; it is just a little too slim to include one. While there are now a lot of images of it out there, there are no specs to behold. So until Dell decides to release the specs, or better yet start selling these bad boys, we will have to just look at the pictures.

Adamo Gallery: Engadget

White Adamo: Engadget

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Dell Studio XPS finally out

January 8th, 2009 Adam No comments

Studio XPS 1640

They are finally here! After many months of speculation both by myself and many others, the Dell Studio XPS are here and boy do they look great. Both the Studio XPS 13 and 16 start at $1199 and come fairly loaded with the entry level configuration boasting 4GB of DDR3 RAM and dedicated GPUs. The 1640 comes with the ATI M86XT and the 1340 comes with the Nvidia 9400M with the option of the 9500M. Dell has a very nice notebook going for them now, it is just too bad they had to release it so many months after their competitors released their Montevina notebooks.

Official Link: Dell.com

Full Article: Engadget

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Asus S121 – first notebook with 512GB SSD

January 6th, 2009 Adam No comments

Well if the Eee PC isn’t your think Asus has another nice notebook that might be more your fitting, the S121 at 12.1 inches and less than 3 pounds with up to eight hours of battery life. If that weren’t enough it is also going to be the first to offer a 512GB SSD. No other details have been released such as price or date to be released, but with the 512GB SSD it sure won’t be cheap.

Asus S121

Full Article: Engadget

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More Adamo news

December 26th, 2008 Adam No comments

Well, we have some more news about the upcoming Dell Adamo, the Macbook Air competitor I posted about the other day. Still nothing specific regarding the specs, but a few things on Dell’s website have shed a few more clues. For one a 2x Blu-Ray peripheral placeholder was put up for the Adamo and there were also a few external hard drives of 250 and 500GB posted. We have also learned that it will use DisplayPort to handle the video output. The price should start at around $1500 and not the $3000 as reported by a few other sites. The processor will be the low-voltage Core 2 Duo and there is a possibility of an included external DVD burner. More information and the debut of the Adamo should come at CES which is between January 8th and 11th. And it seems like they are still on schedule to start shipping in February. I can’t wait to get a glimpse to see what this notebook looks like.

Full Article: Electronista

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