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Samsung may have priced its slinky new laptop at a buck under $1,200, but you know Amazon likes to dance to its own tune. The online retailer is now listing the 11.6-inch Series 9 at $1,149, saving you a nice bit of change, though it hasn’t yet been willing to disclose a release date. The specs should be familiar by now, an Intel Core i3-380UM takes center stage, surrounded by 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, 802.11b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth 3.0, a 5680mAh battery, and a 1366 x 768 display with 400 nits of brightness. Amazon’s just the latest of a growing batch of online stores now offering this laptop for pre-order, so check out Samsung’s retailer listing below if you’re looking for alternatives.

[Thanks, Imtiaz]

Samsung’s 11.6-inch Series 9 lands an Amazon pre-order at $1,149 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dual 14-inch touchscreens not big enough? 21-inches of touch sensitivity still failing to sate your fingers’ need to roam wild and free? Maybe the 23-inch behemoth of a tablet that Lenovo is planning on unleashing this year will make those digits dance with delight. The plan is, apparently, to take one of the company’s Windows-powered all-in-one machines, delete the stand, put it on a crash diet, slap a big ‘ol battery on there, and then watch the eyes of pixel junkies around the world light up with glee. William Cai from Lenovo said “It’s obviously not for full mobility use, but it could be moved from room to room in the house… you could lay it on a table top and use it for family games.” Never mind that — with the addition of just a few legs this 23-inch slab could be a table.

Update: Lenovo just pinged us back when reaching out for a comment, and unfortunately for those with big (big!) aspirations, it seems that something was taken out of context. “We have no plans to introduce a 23-inch tablet,” says the PC maker. Bummer.

Lenovo hoping to launch 23-inch tablet this year (update: debunked) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever wished you could have a Microsoft main course with a side of Symbian? We haven’t either, but if the rumors are true, Fujitsu and DoCoMo are teaming up to unleash a dual-boot device this year that can go from Windows 7 (the desktop OS, not WP7) to Symbian at the flip of a switch. According to the always untrusworthy interwebs, the LOOX F-07C will come with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a four-inch 1024 x 600 display, an Intel Atom CPU, and a 32GB SSD. We don’t know if this latest handset with multiple personality disorder is real or not, but we do know its odd couple OS pairing has piqued our somewhat morbid curiosity.

Fujitsu and DoCoMo’s new dual-boot handset: Windows 7 and Symbian together at last? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer already announced UK pricing for the Windows 7 and Android Honeycomb versions of its Iconia Tab, and now it’s ready to take both stateside. Days after Best Buy started taking pre-orders for the Android 3.0-powered Iconia Tab A500, the Windows-based W500 has shown up on B&H’s site for $549. Like its cousin, the W500 has a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800) display, HDMI-out and dual cameras, though it steps up to 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics, and a 1GHz Ontario (C-50) AMD Fusion APU. It also comes with a keyboard dock, putting it in the same price range as ASUS’s Android-based Eee Transformer, which costs less but doesn’t include its similar-looking keyboard. Acer rates the W500’s three-cell battery at up to six hours — a far cry from the iPad’s promised 10-hours and, perhaps, a good reason to wait for slates featuring that lower-power Fusion APU AMD’s been shopping around to tablet makers. B&H says it’ll ship starting April 15th, but head on over to its website if you’re psyched enough to place an order now. Or you can keep saving your pennies for Acer’s other Iconia.

Acer’s Windows-powered Iconia W500 up for pre-order for $549, ships April 15th originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell’s Rosemount tablet is similar to the HP Slate in that it’s a 10-inch, business-centric Windows 7 tablet whose launch has been bumped back further than originally expected. To be clear, this isn’t an explicit delay, since Dell has never given official indication for when in 2011 it’ll launch the slate device, but a leaked tablet roadmap back in February suggested it would be with us in the warm and breezy days of June. Now, Forbes is reporting insider info that states the Rosemount won’t be hitting shops until fall, September at the earliest, meaning it’ll miss the back-to-school sales period but arrive with plenty of time for the holiday shopping rush. Let’s hope all this time taken leads to a finger-friendly software overlay for Windows 7 — we love the OS’ multivariate functionality but it was never designed for control with the imprecision of fleshy digits.

Dell’s 10-inch Windows 7 tablet staying hidden until fall originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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