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Google Launching a Chrome OS Tablet

rparente — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:50:13 +0000

Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26, according to DownloadSquad.com.

Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet. It’s real, and it’s being built by HTC. No surprise there, since HTC churned out the Nexus One for Google.

Yes, they plan to offer it in conjunction with Verizon — which probably doesn’t come as a shock to anybody at this point. The two recently tag-teamed that Net Neutrality proposal and they’ve had plenty of discussions in the past about cooperating in some capacity.

See the complete article here.

Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo

rparente — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:07:56 +0000

The CLUMEQ supercomputing center in Quebec has worked with Sun Microsystems to transform a huge silo into a data center. The cylindrical silo, which is 65 feet high and 36 feet wide with two-foot thick concrete walls, previously housed a Van de Graaf particle accelerator. When the accelerator was decommissioned, CLUMEQ decided to convert the facility into a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster known as Colossus.

Here is the link for the full article.

Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet

rparente — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:30:18 +0000

Microsoft’s Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet. This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we’ll use Courier.

Here is the link.

Nokia Booklet 3G

rparente — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:49:42 +0000

Looking forward to acquire one of these…

NetBooks – Are They Good?

rparente — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:44:57 +0000

Last week I bought a NetBook for my brother-in-law. I will not tell the brand here because I don’t know if it was my bad luck, and I don’t have statistics to affirm that brand is not good. But since I finished the Windows pre-setup and installed Firefox and other programs he asked me for, the hard-drive started making a loud noise. After several reboots, turning it on and off, it continued to do so, so I gave up and returned it to the vendor.
I’m now analyzing other brands, since the interest for the small laptops still exists. I found this HP model online and thought it would be interesting in sharing with you, and maybe I can get some feedback on it. It is the HP2133, VIA C7-M 1.2GHz ULV processor, 1024MB DDR2 667MHz SDRAM memory, and a 120GB 5400RPM hard drive.
The price I found on a store was $299.99.
Here is a video showing the product:

HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
by ComputerTV