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You’ve seen the sneak peek, you’ve dug into the review, and now you’re more ready than ever before to part with $249.99 in order to get your grubby mitts around one of the world’s smallest Ion 2-based small form factor PCs. You’ve already dreamed up the perfect application for this pint-sized rig, and now it looks as if Newegg is shipping out the orders that it receives right now. Go on and head down to the source link if your mind’s made up, but remember, we can’t be held responsible for buyer’s remorse effective March 13, 2004.

Zotac’s ZBOX HD-ID11 starts shipping for $250 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 May 2010 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MSI‘s just outed a new 17.5-inch (1600×900 resolution) laptop, the beautifully named CX705MX. This one’s got an Intel Core 2 Duo under the hood, an up to 500GB hard drive, a 4-in-1 card reader, HDMI and VGA output, three USB ports and an Ethernet port and Windows 7 Home Premium. Most notably, of course, is that it’s packing ATI’s brand new Radeon HD 545V discrete graphics chipset, giving this bad boy HD video capabilities. We don’t have specific information about availability or pricing yet, but we’ll let you know when we do.

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MSI launches Radeon HD 545V-boasting CX705MX laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 04:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While we were fretting about what special tech Nintendo’s 3DS would use to generate autostereoscopic imagery on its comparatively puny screen, Toshiba Mobile Display (and others) have been working on bringing that same headgear-free 3D to TV-sized panels. Employing a “multi-parallax” technique, the latest from the Toshiba spinoff firm promises “significant reduction in eye fatigue” as well as approximately a 30 degree horizontal viewing angle. The latter might be peanuts compared to a quality 2D display, but let’s not begrudge being offered at least some positional flexibility. Other specs include a 1280 x 800 effective resolution and 480 nits of brightness, which are notable achievements when you consider that the 9-parallax implementation requires the generation of 9 separate images and therefore could be achieved with only an “ultra-high definition LCD module.” We’ve sadly no info about this panel’s potential for retail availability, but judging by the bezel-free picture we’ve been given, that might be a good way off from now.

Toshiba Mobile Display touts 21-inch glasses-free 3D HDTV, raises a few eyebrows originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Proving that there’s not a huge difference between sports geeks and comic nerds, Roundtable Concepts of Lake Mary, Florida has adapted its line of instant-image HDTVs for the Florida college football fan. The novelty about these TVs is that during the 8 seconds that the set is warming up, they display the college football logo of your choice. That logo is also printed on the set’s casing. The company previously partnered with Marvel Comics to create a similar line showing the comic publisher’s greatest heroes.

The officially licensed college LCD sets come in 32-, 42-, and 55-inch sizes, while the LED sets are available at 40- and 46-inches. Models are currently available for the Florida Gators, Miami Hurricanes, Florida State Seminoles, and University of Central Florida Knights. The company is offering the same buy-one-get-one deal that it offers with the comic-themed TVs. 

Oh sure, it’s not that we’ve never seen a 4K x 2K display before, but few are both a) this small and b) this connected. Introduced over at NAB 2010, the LUM-560W is quite a different beast from the two OLED sets already shown by TVLogic. Boasting a 56-inch 10-bit panel, a native 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, 1,500:1 contrast ratio and support for the company’s own color calibrator utility, the only major bummer is the totally corporate bezel that we’re forced to deal with. There’s also too many ports to count, but we’ll try: four HDMI inputs, four DVI-D inputs, four 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs and four 3G/HD/SD-SDI outputs. There’s nary a mention of price of availability, but you’ll probably need a nice archive of raw RED footage before you genuinely care about either.

TVLogic debuts 56-inch LUM-560W 4K x 2K LCD a few years ahead of time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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