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Rumor has it that Asus is going to add yet another notebook to its VivoBook lineup. This particular model is said to be a 10.1 inch machine powered by Windows 8. The promotional image for this notebook, allegedly called VivoBook X102BA, has also been leaked. The new VivoBook is said to have a touchscreen display with a resolution of 1,366×768 pixels.

Seeing as how its relatively smaller and much more compact than other notebooks, its likely to gain interest from students who’re looking for a small and cost-effective notebook. Price is said to be one of the biggest selling points of this 10.1 inch VivoBook. As far as the internal specifications are concerned, this notebook is said to have a 1GHz dualcore AMD processor with 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 8180 graphics and a 320GB hard disk. RAM and HDD are reportedly upgradable to 4GB and 500 GB respectively. Apart from that, two USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi are said to be on-board. The battery life is believed to be around five hours. The Asus VivoBook X102BA will reportedly go on sale towards the end of September for nearly $450, its said to ship with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 as well as 32GB of free cloud storage.

New Asus 10.1 Inch VivoBook X102BA Rumored original content from Ubergizmo.

As important as it is to purchase a computer that is able to keep up the the sort of tasks you expect to carry out on the machine, it’s nearly equally important to also purchase a monitor that can make you cry with joy each and every time you use it. If you haven’t teared up looking at your monitor, you’re about to as Acer has just announced a number of high-resolution LED display. (more…)

Acer Unveils Three Ultra High-Resolution Monitors original content from Ubergizmo.

They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in the case of a Canadian man who happens to have a Twitter account, his online search for marijuana resulted in him getting fired. Sunith Baheerathan did raise up quite the online stir when he first tweeted his request for some marijuana, better known as pot. In his tweet, he requested prospective pot sellers to deliver their “goods” to Baheerathan’s work place – that is, a Mr. Lube location in a Toronto suburb.

Baheerathan tweet that raised a fair number of eyebrows read as follows, “Any dealers in Vaughan wanna make a 20sac chop? Come to Keele/Langstaff Mr. Lube, need a spliff.” Needless to say, this particular tweet eventually went viral, and with that, it also managed to catch the attention of the local police who retorted using the York Regional Police’s official Twitter feed, “Awesome! Can we come too?” Shortly after that, Baheerathan tweeted that he has just been terminated, although the cause of his termination has not been officially attributed to his online activities.

Baheerathan was obviously not too happy about his situation, tweeting, “I’ve lost complete hope in society man. There’s killers/rapists/people missing and all they care about is a dude asking for weed” and “Gotta watch what you tweet nowadays, even the freedom of speech & the right to an entitled opinion isn’t safe.” I guess plenty of people mix up freedom of speech with the responsibilities that come with it, just like how Baheerathan did.

Online Pot Hunt Results In Man Getting Laid Off original content from Ubergizmo.

At the end of June, there were whispers that Skype could be integrated into Windows 8.1 as Microsoft had already decided to drop Messenger along the way. Well, there is nothing quite like some patience to wait things out and see whether the rumors in question would pan out eventually or not, and here we are with official word from Microsoft themselves that Windows 8.1 will ship with Skype pre-installed, now how about that?

This means folks who have yet to download and install the instant messaging/VoIP client will be able to enjoy it after they perform an operating system upgrade, or alternatively, pick up a machine that runs on Windows 8.1 as the operating system of choice. Existing Skype users would not notice any changes, but with this happening, we could very well see a leap in the overall Skype adoption rate, assuming that sales of new Windows 8.1-powered machines pick up. At the very least, this bit of news would mean you are able to get connected to another person right from the get go (assuming you already have a Skype account in the first place) without having to go through a pesky installation experience whenever you pick up a new Windows 8.1 machine. [Press Release]

Windows 8.1 Ships With Skype Pre-Installed original content from Ubergizmo.

When most people think of Lenovo, they think of their line of popular desktop and notebook computers as we’re sure if you’re in an office right now, you’re probably working on a Lenovo computer. Lenovo’s computers are so popular, the company was named the largest PC vendor in the world this year. That’s a pretty big deal, although we’re sure you’ll be surprised to hear Lenovo actually sold more phones and tablets than it did PCs in its most recent fiscal quarter. (more…)

Lenovo Sells More Smartphones, Tablets Than PCs original content from Ubergizmo.