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Comment Panasonic "business" Toughbooks (Score 1) 479

by mattis_f on Thursday February 07, 2008 @03:07PM (#22337778) Attached to: Best Laptop for Going Around the World?

The business models, as the grand-parent suggest, are not heavy at all. Kinda expensive, yes, but tougher than most and freakishly light.

The CF-T series has a 12" screen, core 2 duo processor, no optical drive, and clocks in around 1.2kg. The W series is very similar but adds an optical drive, at less than 1.5kg. (that's about 3 lbs).

All of those laptops have water proof keyboards, should be able to survive a drop from 1 meter and take 100kg of pressure. There are videos on Youtube of people testing these claims (seems to be true).

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/products.asp

How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? 319

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 22, 2007 @05:28PM from the i-heard-it-on-npr dept.

burgundysizzle writes "Given the general reaction to the RIAA in comments, I assume that there are a number of users that try not to buy from RIAA sources. What alternatives do you use - or more importantly - what methods do you use to discover alternative sources of music? I use Sellaband.com (some free legal music available) and Amiestreet.com (new music is free and most music really cheap) to find new music, but I'm always on the lookout for interesting sites to discover new music. Tell me about your experiences and any other interesting places you get new music from. I'm looking for inexpensive, and legal."

Submission + - DIY Laptop literally from scratch!

Submitted by Brietech on Monday March 05, 2007 @04:17AM

Brietech writes: Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!

Feed Where Artists and Inventors Plot to Save the World (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:12AM

More than 1,000 people will gather in Monterey, Calif. for the annual TED conference, named for the convergence of technology, entertainment and design.

Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag 410

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @05:22PM from the slave-to-the-ping-number dept.

Cujo writes "The folks at GDHardare have an interview with Bigfoot Networks discussing the pending release of their Killer Network Card which is said to greatly reduce in-game latency. According to the Interview, this card uses a Linux-based subsystem to do its magic."

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