SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2008 – Intel Corporation unveiled its Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology products for laptops today, powered by five new Intel® Core™2 Duo processors. Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs are on the way, including those equipped with the right combination of powerful processors, graphics and battery life to enjoy viewing stunning high definition videos and myriad other computer and Internet activities.

Acer’s latest consumer PC is seriously anorexic. But don’t let this fool you into thinking that it’s skinny on perfomance. Under its hood, the Aspire L3600 has an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 processor running at 2.2GHz. This 3-liter Ultra Small Form Factor PC is endowed with nearly everything that a typical full sized desktop PC has, and then some.
Standard specs include an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a large320GB hard disk drive and slot loading DVD writer. As you can probably imagine, there’s no space …

Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
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A company called Psystar has started advertising a $399 computer called “OpenMac” which claims to be a fully Leopard compatible Mac built from standard PC-parts. For $399, you get a tower computer with the following specs:
- 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2GB of DDR2 667 memory
- Integrated Intel …
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, April 15, 2008 – BenQ today expands its Joybook R series lineup with the launch of Joybook R45. Powered by a 2.10 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the Joybook R45 features an extra-bright 14.1” widescreen display enhanced by the BenQ’s patented UltraVivid technology, an integrated 2-megapixel webcam for video calls and a luxurious leather-like finish with special soft-touch coating. The Joybook R45 also comes equipped with the best-of-class nVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M G discrete graphics and supports major WiFi standards, keeping you connected at much faster speed.
Meticulously designed …

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN (March 13, 2008) — Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market (Source: Gartner data, 2007), today presented the Aspire 6920 line, a brand new notebook PC series designed to bring the enjoyment of High Definition (HD) anywhere you go.
 
In the wake of the great success achieved by the first Aspire Gemstone range, launched in May 2007, Acer has developed a brand new notebook concept that fuses elements of the original Gemstone series - exclusive design, innovative textures (surfaces) and materials, Dolby audio enhancements - …

- Support Intel® next generation 45nm Multi-core CPU
- Intel® Quad-core CPU Ready
- Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
- Intel® P35/ICH9R
- Dual-channel Native DDR2 1066 Support
- Crosslinx Technology
- Fusion Block System
- Extreme Tweaker
- SupremeFX II 8-CH Audio
- LCD Poster
- Voltiminder LED
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We benchmarked the MacBook Air against the MacBook and MacBook Pro to see how it held up comparatively. Predictably, the MacBook Pro outperformed its counterparts in the majority of our tests. But the MacBook Air (1.6 GHz Intel, 2 GB RAM) went toe-to-toe with the MacBook (2 GHz Intel, 1 GB RAM) in many of our tests, falling just short in most.
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About MacBook Air
The MacBook Air is a Macintosh notebook computer by Apple Inc., part of the MacBook family and the company’s first to feature a …

Features:

Includes Memory Stick PRO Duo adapter for universal compatibility with M2 slots and Memory Stick PRO Duo slots
Dual voltage operation; 1.8v for new Sony Ericsson mobile phones, 3.3v for Memory Stick PRO Duo compatible devices
Controlled ejection design allows for easier removal
Sony MagicGate™ encryption technology support

Product Specifications:

Capacity: 8GB
Read/write: 10MB/sec read, 3MB/sec write
Card dimensions: 0.59” x 0.49” x 0.05” (L x W x H)
Voltage: 1.8v, 3.3v

Note: 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other …