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Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:08 PM
Laptop makers seem to enjoy making our lives difficult by sneaking "buy
now" labels onto their latest products and Lenovo has kept up that
tradition by making its 12.5-inch ThinkPad X220
available without telling anyone. It's now ready to purchase at the
company's online store, starting at $849 with a Core i3-2310M processor,
and its convertible tablet sibling, the X220T,
is also eager to be snatched up, though its starting price is $1,249
with the same CPU on board. Eight business days will be required for
delivery to reach you, but we'd wait a whole lot longer than that for
the gorgeous IPS display and extreme battery life on offer. Sadly, you
can't upgrade beyond the 1366 x 768 resolution nor away from the Intel
HD Graphics 3000 "option," but then we hear that PowerPoint
presentations should be blindingly fast on these machines anyhow. Hit
the source links to see just how high you can raise the price by maxing
out the rest of the specs.
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Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 9:40 AM
When Apple released its redesigned MacBook Airin October 2010, much was made of the switch to flash storage using a custom-builtMini PCI Express form factor SSD drive. It took a few weeks but these
SSDs would ultimately be released as the commercially available Toshiba Blade X-gale SSDmodule, model TS128C. Now we're seeing user reports showing MacBook
Airs equipped with a second, even faster SSD with a SM128C part number
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Posted on Friday, September 03, 2010 1:04 PM
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday issued a recall of 41,000 Toshiba laptops after reports of some overheating and even melting. Toshiba posted its own recall of several models of its Satellite T130 laptops on its product support forums last week. The CPSC said129 instances of "overheating and deforming the plastic casing area around the AC adapter plug" had been reported. Two of those reports resulted in "minor burn injuries that did not require medical attention" and two in minor property damage. |
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