(Credit: CNET)Swedish company Koenigsegg, with its CCX supercar, was in contention for fastest production car in the world before it was bested by the Bugatti Veyron. But at the Geneva auto show, the company showed off a different side by launching the Koenigsegg Quant concept, a four seater electric …
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Without much ado, Apple has just rather silently upgraded its networking products, including the Time Capsule and the Airport Extreme, with two significant features: dual-band wireless-N and guest networking.
The new Airport Extreme Base Station
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At its Web site, Apple states that its new simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi allows …
Asus on Tuesday launched its ultra-thin netbook at the CeBIT computer expo.
Dubbed the Eee PC 1008HA, the netbook measures 1-inch thick, weighs 2.4 pounds and sports a 10-inch screen.
No word on price yet, but we’re going to guesstimate somewhere around $650. Asus also has not yet announced specification details or a release date.
From what we can see, however, it looks nice. As the owner of an MSI Wind, I find the most unattractive part of a netbook is its thickness — about 1.5 inches closed. Shaving off that half an inch should make a nice difference.
Asus launches Eee PC 1008HA ultra-thin netbook [Liliputing]
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Looking to add some allure to its portable lineup — as if a model named Lamborghini wasn’t enough — ASUS has announced the U and UX series of ultra-thin laptops, expected to launch sometime in Q2. Both feature an illuminated chiclet keyboard and auto-adjusting LED backlit display. The U series also features a 15.6-inch glossy LCD and a touchpad that uses progressively fading lights to follow your fingertips. Under the hood, there’s an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce G105M, up to 500GB HDD, and Altec Lansing speakers with SRS true surround sound. We don’t have nearly as much information on the UX, unfortunately, but we do know it’s sporting a slot-in optical disc drive. Full press release after the break.
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Olympus' concept model of a svelte compact camera using the Micro Four Thirds standard.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)
LAS VEGAS–Olympus has set a ship date, albeit one with a lot of wiggle room, for its first high-end compact camera using the Micro Four Thirds technology.
The camera maker first showed a nonworking “concept model” of the camera at the Photokina show last September, and the same model is on display here at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show. Now, though it sports a label, “launching this summer.”
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This monster AIO
sure has talent, but forget
scanning and faxing.
—Nicole Price Fasig
For the full-length, free-verse Xerox Phaser 6180MFP/N review check out PCMag.com.
Apple let loose a flurry of minor product revisions this AM, bumping internals on the Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro — even the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule networking products got spruced up, while the Apple Keyboard got its numpad lopped off. It was one crazy morning. Check it all out below.
 | Apple debuts new iMacs, including cheaper 24-incher Apple just announced new 24-inch and 20-inch iMacs, with some friendlier pricing and Mini DisplayPort video out. |  | Apple announces Nehalem-based Mac Pro Apple has announced a new Nehalem based Mac Pro with a starting price of $2,499. |
 | Apple refreshes Mac mini lineup with GeForce 9400M graphics We suppose the expected five USB ports will be a boon for homebuilt RAID enthusiasts, and the Mini DisplayPort and DVI plugs make for some nice dual monitor support. |  | Apple axes the numeric keypad on iMac’s standard wired keyboard Apple has swapped out the standard wired Apple Keyboard for a new model lacking a numeric keypad. |
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The launch of the latest Mac Mini dispels long-held rumors that the diminutive desktop was about to be discontinued. But Apple’s shabby treatment of the device still
leaves plenty of questions unanswered.
Namely, why did it take so long for Apple to make a relatively minor, incremental upgrade? Why are
there no changes in the case’s overall appearance? Ultimately, why did Apple do
the least it could’ve possibly done with this device?
"It’s almost like a stepchild," said Charlie Wolf, a Needham &
Company analyst. "Apple hasn’t done much in the way of marketing it,
advertising it or doing anything. It’s just sort of there."
Apple traditionally refreshes its computers every six or seven months,
and Mac products typically receive form-factor upgrades after no longer
than four years. That’s why the Mac Mini is the weirdest in the family:
Apple waited about 600 days before it pushed out Tuesday’s minor update, and
it still looks exactly the same (aside from an extra USB port and a new
display port). The previous Mac Mini’s lifespan was so long, in fact, that many
predicted Apple was abandoning the product for good.
And the Mac Mini just gets weirder. There is no clear sense of who the
target market is for the device, how the product is performing in
sales, or why it still even exists.
Wolf provided his very rough estimate that Apple sells about 50,000 Mac
Minis per quarter. He based this guess on Apple’s quarterly sales of
desktops overall, as well as the iMac’s higher popularity. That’s not a
very big number relative to 728,000 desktops Apple said it sold overall in its first quarter of 2009 earnings report.
And though that small number is unsubstantiated, it would make sense
given the responses ZDNet is receiving from Mac Mini owners regarding
what they do with their puny desktops. The examples include cheap
server setups, digital music servers for audiophiles and replacements
for Windows PCs. But, as ZDNet also notes, those are all niche markets.
That’s enough head-scratching. We’re curious, too. Do you have a Mac Mini? If so, why did you buy one and what do you use it for? Feel free to
reply in the comments below.
Update 3/4/2009: We’ve tabulated the first 150 responses below and reported the results in How Do You Love the Mac Mini? Let Us Count the Ways.
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It looks like Amazon and the Authors Guild have reached a compromise regarding text-to-speech — for now, at least. One person who’s been ironically silent during all of this is the voice of the e-reader itself, Tom Glynn. We’ve just had a little chat with the musician, broadcaster, hardcore Kindle fan, and voice of Nuance’s text-to-speech technology, which we’d like to share with you — and while you’re at it, be sure to check out some of his tunes on MySpace or at tomglynn.com.
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It’s probably a little cynical to suggest that Sony introduced new swiveling HDMI cables for the sole purpose of using the phrase “a new spin on cables” in today’s press release. After all, swiveling does have advantages beyond mere punnage: The feature makes it easier to install audio and video components against walls, without putting too much stress on the cords.
The new DLC-HD10H, DLC-HD10V, and DLC-HD10H HDMI cables have connectors that swivel up to 90 degrees without compromising the 1080p resolution and 10.2-Gbps data output. The connectors click into place at 45 and 90 degrees.
The cords come in “vertical” and “horizontal” configurations, at 3 and 6 foot lengths, for $50 and $60, respectively.
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