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Remember that HP Slate prototype video we happened upon just yesterday? The owner, who goes by the name x313xkillax on YouTube, is back with over eight more minutes of footage, including the packaging. According to the back of the box of this self-proclaimed business model, here’s the official specs we’re looking at: a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 with GMA500 and Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Video accelerator, 8.9-inch WSVGA screen, 2GB DDR2 RAM, about 60GB storage capacity, Windows 7 Home Premium, 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, SD card reader, and a 2-Cell 30WHr Lithium-ion Polymer battery. There are two cameras here, one in front and one in rear.

As shown via MS Paint, the screen can detect at least four fingers at a time. The browser is a bit laggy but does do pinch-to-zoom — again, he calls it a prototype, so it may be better in the final production model. Also in the packaging? A handy dock for keeping your Slate comfy and upright — it’s even got kickstand, two USBs, and HDMI out. But hey, we’re wasting your time, and you’re the kind of person who wants to see this enterprise-bound tablet in action. Don’t let us get in your way, it’s just after the break.

[Thanks, Kim L]

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That’s right, folks: you’ve been looking around, dying for a Windows 7 slate to throw down your money on… so here you go. The CTL 2goPad SL10 (which we first spotted at Computex) features a capacitive touchscreen, an Intel Atom N450 CPU, a 250GB hard drive, and 2GB of RAM. Of course the tablet also fully supports both HTML 5 and Flash, and has a 1.3 megapixel webcam to boot. The 2goPad SL10 is available to pre-order now at $499, and orders are expected to begin shipping on October 15th.

CTL 2goPad SL10 Windows 7 tablet available to pre-order for $499 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re anything like us, as soon as you get a new PC there’s a laundry list of things you do: uninstall every piece of crapware, change the desktop wallpaper, and fire up Internet Explorer 8 to download a new browser like Firefox or Chrome. Without fail, we’ve repeated that last step on every Windows laptop we’ve reviewed in the last year. Why is it that we almost instantly replace IE with another option? There are lots of reasons, but to name a few… the browser usually comes plastered with toolbars, which makes it painfully slow to load even just a simple news site. And even when those are uninstalled it feels sluggish in comparison to Firefox and Chrome. Also, it’s just not as attractive or intuitive as the others. Oh, and then there are the smaller items, like the fact that it lacks a download manager or uses more RAM than the competition.

That’s no short list of complaints, but you can’t say Microsoft hasn’t been listening. It’s been saying for months that Internet Explorer 9 — which is now available for download as a public beta — will mend all those issues and then some. A lot of the improvements come in speed — Redmond’s been talking about hardware acceleration since November of last year — but there are some other interesting features such as “Pinned Sites” and “One Box” that Microsoft’s been less vocal about. So, does IE9 live up to the hype and will it finally give us a preloaded browser that’s fast enough to run with the others? Should you run along and download it right now? We’ve spent the last week using it as our primary browser on a number of different laptops to find out. We’ll meet again in our full review after the break.

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever seen a handheld that can run StarCraft II? You have now — this is the Ocosmos OCS-1, a Windows 7 sliding-QWERTY and dual-joystick device from Korea with Intel’s new Oak Trail inside. We’re looking at a 1.5GHz Oak Trail chip to be exact, coupled with Intel GMA600 integrated graphics, up to a 64GB of solid-state storage, 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth underneath a 4.8-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touch screen. Front and rear cameras and a microphone are on hand for your inevitable video chat sessions, and there’s an array of slots and ports just as you’d expect. Get a closer look in our gallery below, while we go find out more.

Ocosmos OCS-1: Oak Trail meets Windows 7 in a 5-inch gaming handheld originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Among the various demos at IDF today, Acer showed off its Revo 2 sporting a special treat — Windows Media Center Embedded. A quick perusal of the menus (video is embedded after the break) showed off the same live TV / internet streaming video integration we’ve come to expect from Media Center, although obviously running on a simpler dedicated box. Acer’s aiming for availability in the first half of 2011, we’ll see if this setup can do any damage in the set-top box / media streamer wars.

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Acer shows off Windows Media Center Embedded at IDF (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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