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It’s here (almost) — the “smooth as butter” multi-touch Latitude XT2 with 12.1-inch LED backlit, capacitive touchscreen is up for grabs on Dell’s retail site. Prices start at $2,399. For that you get a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor, 1GB DDR3 memory, 80GB disk spinning at 5,400RPM, Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, and a 4-cell battery. The price quickly shoots to $3,783 when configured with a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 CPU, 3GB of memory, 128GB SSD, 802.11n WiFi, WWAN data card, Bluetooth, and optional XT2 Slice battery for up to 10 hours of untethered power. Consider it, that’s how we’d roll. Now the catch: while Dell’s teaser page says that the XT2 is available for “free 3-5 Day shipping,” you’re greeted with a “preliminary ship date” of April 9th once you click through. Oh Dell.

[Thanks, Ron M.]

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Dell Latitude XT2 multi-touch tablet now shipping… April 9th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, this was sadly predictable. Following filings by Dell and Intel with the USPTO requesting that Psion’s “netbook” trademark be canceled, Psion has filed a $1.2b countersuit against Intel, claiming that the chipmaker knew Psion owned the netbook mark but used it anyway. That’s interesting because Intel’s efforts to push “netbook” on the industry went basically nowhere from March until June of 2008 — when Atom-powered laptops ran amok at Computex — but we’re guessing Psion doesn’t care. As it has in the past, Psion claims that it’s been selling Netbook-branded machines continuously since 1999, along with some interesting sales figures to back it up — as Ars Technica notes, the numbers seem to add up oddly at all the wrong times, with $2m of Netbook accessories sold in 2006, three years after the product went off the market, and just 4100 total Netbooks sold over 10 years. We’ll see how the court decides to pull all this apart — it’s certainly starting to look like a showdown’s brewing, but we’re still convinced that Intel and Dell have money, time and momentum on their side here.

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Psion countersues Intel over netbook trademark, asks for $1.2b in damages originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Okay, so maybe the newest Inspiron 1410 internals are something to celebrate if you’re really looking for low-end, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a real tech enthusiast that’s jazzed about a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T6400 processor within a 14-inch laptop. At any rate, the aforementioned machine has been juiced (we’re being liberal here) with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 14.1-inch WXGA display, 250GB of hard drive space, a DVD burner, Intel’s GMA X3100 graphics, 802.11b/g WiFi and a sweet, colorful lid. Oddly enough, both the customize and buy links are currently dead, so it looks like you’ll need some patience in order to buy one without talking to an actual human.

[Thanks, jediclinto]

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Dell’s Inspiron 1410 spec bump is too mild to notice originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Congratulations. You made it through yet another week. The economic crisis can be hard, but these bargains may just help you ease the pain. Check out Gearlog’s deals for Friday, February 27:

1. The best part about Fridays is Amazon’s Friday sale. This week brings us a variety of camcorders. Save 53 percent off of the Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder. Now just $69.99, the Flip Ultra comes in white and has 30-minutes of video space. The Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 Digital Camcorder and 8 MP Digital Camera, in blue, is 55 percent off of the original price of $399.99. Get it today for just $179.99. Check out the other deals at the Amazon Friday Sale.

2. Today, save $50 off of a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. The Inspiron Mini 9 has an Intel Atom processor, and a 8.9-inch LED display. Get it today only for $199. [Via Bargainist.com]

3. Need a cheap music player? The Philips GoGear 4GB Media Player is 60 percent off at Buy.com. The refurbished MP3 player is now $39.99, down from $69.99.

After teasing its entries last month and offering up the 24-inch G2410 a couple days ago, Dell’s officially rounding out its eco-game on the desktop panel scene with the 22-inch G2210, a display so energy efficient it can only display pictures of windmills and solar panels (seriously, hit the read link). The 22-incher has an extremely miserly 18 watt power consumption rating, compared to the G2410’s 20 — impressive, but you’re probably more interested in the 1000:1 contrast ratio (dynamically boosted up to 1,000,000:1), 250 nits of brightness, and 5ms response rate over a resolution of 1680 x 1050. At $239, it’s actually a little cheaper than anticipated, which might just give you some extra incentive to pick one up with your tax refund — you environmentalist you.

[Via iTech News Net]

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Dell’s 22-inch LED-backlit G-Series LCD now available in renewable quantities originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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