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Buffalo announces world’s first USB 3.0 12x Blu-ray burner

November 28, 2009
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Japanese computer hardware company Buffalo has announced the world’s first 12x Blu-ray burner, which supports USB 3.0 on top of that. The BR-X1216U3 is backward compatible with USB 2.0 but will burn your Blu-rays with “just” 7x speed in that case.
You can only use it with a Windows machine XP/Vista/7. But actually there are no [...]

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10+ Outstanding USB Flash Drive Concepts & Designs

November 16, 2009
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USB Flash Drives killed the Floppy Disk. Why? Well they are smaller, faster, have thousands of times more capacity, and are more durable and reliable due to their lack of moving parts. But the best part of the whole USB Flash Drive phenomenon is the fact that unlike Floppies, they [USB FD] come in so [...]

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Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

November 13, 2009
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K. T. Bradford over at Laptop Mag reports :
Back in August when we started testing the final version of Windows 7, we noticed that several netbooks didn’t last as long on a charge with the new OS installed as with Windows XP. Microsoft claimed that Win 7 notebooks would see longer battery life than Vista, [...]

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$80 Android netbook gets video demo

November 13, 2009
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Chris Davies over at Slash Gear writes:
What does $80 buy you these days? If Menq have their way, and sort out their supply chain, it could get you an Android based netbook; the company’s EasyPC E790 has a 7-inch 800 x 480 display and a Samsung ARM926EJ-S3C2450 processor, and while right now it runs [...]

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