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Gateway got official with its 15.6- and 11.6-inch EC laptops back in October, and now it’s time for the netbooks to get their shine on. Hot on the heels of Intel’s Atom N450 release, the aforementioned company is rolling out its LT21 series here in Vegas, complete with 6-cell 5,600mAh battery options (for up to ten hours of usage), 802.11n WiFi, an N450 under the hood and Intel’s GMA 3150 handling the pixel duties. You’ll also get a chassis that weighs just 2.76 pounds along with an integrated webcam, Ethernet, a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display (1,024 x 600), a 93 percent full-size keyboard and a multi-gesture touchpad to boot. The rest is pretty vanilla: 1GB of RAM, a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, three USB 2.0 sockets, VGA and a multicard reader. The LT21 range will arrive in red, black and white hues, with Windows 7 Starter or Windows XP Home runnin’ the show; check ’em later this month starting at $299.99. Or don’t, whatevs.

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Thought you were done with seeing the latest Pine Trail netbooks? How about some more from HP? The world’s number one computer manufacturer has gone a bit netbook crazy with a slew of new models — the HP Mini 2101, 210 and the Compaq 201 — and that doesn’t even include the business and education focused HP Mini 5102. The most exciting of the bunch are the HP Mini 210 and 2101 which share the same new design, rubbery feeling lid, and chicklet-style keyboard. Starting at $329, the 210 is available in the colors of the rainbow and packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7 Starter. The $399 2101 is spec’d the same, but is aimed at a more professional user and is only available in black. Both will be available with Broadcom Crystal HD accelerators. The $229 Compaq 201 totally forgets that Intel has a new Atom chip and uses the older N270 processor, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7 Starter. Hit the break for full PR, some hands-on impressions and video.

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OCZ has a thing for pumping out some pretty swank concepts at trade shows, and sure enough, the company’s storming onto the CES floor with a number of drool-worthy introductions. Up first (and dearest to our hearts) is the ultrathin USB 3.0 external solid state drive, which offers up a 5Gb/sec transfer rate and should ship in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. Someday, for some price. The outfit is also dishing out the Vertex 2 line of MLC-based internal SSDs as well as a second-generation PCI-Express design that’s aimed for the enterprise crowd. Specifics are few and far between, but we’re hoping to get a little hands-on time (with as many details as we can gather) soon. Really soon.

OCZ unveils ultraslim USB 3.0 external SSD, Vertex 2 and new PCI-e SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Shiny, quilt-look phones are an admittedly limited market — but considering that Samsung announces on average 17.2 quadzillion phones a week, it makes perfect sense that they’d devote a whole line to this kind of over-the-top foolishness. We spent a couple minutes with the S5150 flip and S7070 touch phones today — the first two members of the Diva series — marveling at just how truly frilly these trinkets are. The gilded S5150, in particular, dazzles the eyes with a concealed LED display (yes, LED, not LCD) and an amazing sheen that could probably be used as a defensive weapon to blind an attacker in a pinch. In terms of UI and functionality, you’re not going to find anything new here — but then again, that’s not really what a Diva’s about, is it? Follow the break for a quick, totally bedazzled look at the S5150’s flashy dress.

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Iomega’s iConnect turns thumb drives into NAS drives, puts it all online originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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