Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M75e destop range introduced, complete with business socks
October 21, 2010 No Comment
They ain’t much to gawk at, and they certainly won’t satisfy your craving for tomorrow’s best first-person shooter, but Lenovo’s newest ThinkCentre machines will undoubtedly tear through an Excel spreadsheet and block your access to any website deemed remotely entertaining. The M75e will be arriving in two versions: a small form factor mini-tower starting at $504, and a standard tower starting at $524. Both units ship with a baseline configuration that includes a 2.8GHz AMD Sempron 145 AM3 processor, Windows 7 Professional, 2GB of DDR3 memory, an integrated AMD GPU (capable of driving two displays by its lonesome), a 250GB hard drive and a three-year warranty. Big spenders can upgrade to an Athlon II or Phenom II CPU, up to 16GB of memory and a Haspel tuxedo. Or so we’re led to believe. Bonus video is after the break. Continue reading Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M75e destop range introduced, complete with business socks Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M75e destop range introduced, complete with business socks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Two American hikers who have been held in a Tehran prison for more than a year will face trial at the Revolutionary Court early next month charged with espionage and illegally entering the country, their lawyer in Iran confirmed yesterday. The two men – Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who are both 28 – have remained behind bars in Iran despite the release on health grounds last month of the third member of their trekking group, Sarah Shourd, on $500,000 (£315,000) bail….
Continue reading …Apple quietly updates MacBook Pro with optional 2.8GHz Core i7 processor
October 21, 2010 No Comment
Sure, Apple’s ” Back to the Mac ” press conference was all about software and a manila envelope or two , but Cupertino also sent out a silent love letter to its MacBook Pro lineup. Specifically, the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptops can now be configured with a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 processor, up from the 2.66GHz model they were limited to before, for the primo price of $200 more. That’s a pretty penny to pay for a simple 140MHz boost, but base clockspeed is only part of the story — this is almost certainly the Core i7-640M that Intel owned up to just last month, which can turbo to a lap-scorching 3.4GHz under load. If you feel like buying one, do be a dear and let us know for sure? [Thanks, Steven H.] Apple quietly updates MacBook Pro with optional 2.8GHz Core i7 processor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has stopped carrying out many of his foreclosure evictions. He says unless Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and GMAC/Ally Financial provide affidavits verifying their eviction orders, he won’t enforce them. (Oct. 20)
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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has stopped carrying out many of his foreclosure evictions. He says unless Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and GMAC/Ally Financial provide affidavits verifying their eviction orders, he won’t enforce them. (Oct. 20)
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Here are excerpts of a 12-minute video posted online at www.itgetsbetter.com, in which members of NY’s theater community rally against anti-gay bullying. (Oct. 20)
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Have you been looking for the definitive review of Windows Phone 7 ? Well look no further. Microsoft’s next (and perhaps final) opportunity to break back into the smartphone race has officially begun, and Engadget has been cranking on a variety of launch devices across several continents to see if the platform holds water. Back in July we took a deep dive on Windows Phone 7 using a developer device that Microsoft handed out to journalists, and now we’re back for the full review. What we realized going into this process was that really very little had changed between the summertime preview and the new OS’ fall launch. Even though there have been tweaks and fixes in Microsoft’s mobile experience, there hasn’t been any addition so large that we felt the software required a completely fresh look. Instead, what we needed to do was go back to the observations made during our initial experience with the OS, compare it to the final product, and figure out where the company improved (or diminished) specific facets of the operating system. And of course, we finally had a real chance to use Xbox Live and third party applications — two of the crucial elements of this OS. So, below is our re-edited, refreshed take on Windows Phone 7, complete with real answers to nagging questions, and our definitive score of Microsoft’s great smartphone hope at version 1.0. Read on for the full story! Gallery: Windows Phone 7 interface Continue reading Windows Phone 7 review Windows Phone 7 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We knew Samsung’s been in the Windows Phone 7 game pretty much since day one, but the Korean giant’s managed to keep its Europe-bound Omnia 7 under tight wraps until mid-summer this year. Two months onwards, we find ourselves cradling this macho-looking device, and giggly flicking through the various tiles in its newborn OS. Just to freshen up your memory, we’re looking at a 4-inch Super AMOLED-donning slate, garnished with a dash of Tyrian purple aluminum on the back, and capped with some dark gray polycarbonate at the top and bottom. Well, you know the drill — join us after the break to find out how the rest of this phone fares. Gallery: Samsung Omnia 7 with Windows Phone 7 review Continue reading Samsung Omnia 7 review Samsung Omnia 7 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Of all the Windows Phone 7 launch devices, AT&T’s HTC Surround is likely the most curious. It’s a landscape slider built on the same basic internals as the rest of its platform siblings, but there’s no keyboard under that screen — the quarter-inch slide reveals an aluminum speaker bar and integrated kickstand, which combine to create a tiny little stereo system of sorts. Mix in Windows Phone 7′s heavy Zune integration, add in a dash of Dolby Mobile and SRS Wow “virtual surround” audio processing, and top it all off with 16GB of internal memory, and you have what might be the ultimate phone for on-the-go media consumption. But does the Surround live up to all that promise? Read on to find out! Continue reading HTC Surround review HTC Surround review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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