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ASUS dabbles in HDTV arena with 1080p TV Monitor T1 series
It’s not that ASUS hasn’t dipped its toes in HDTV waters before (by the way, whatever happened to that altogether enticing Eee TV?), but we dare say that the TV Monitor T1 is a fresh, if not unsurprising new direction for the company. Arriving in 22- (22T1E), 24- (24T1E) and 27-inch (27T1E) sizes, this trio [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Log: The Finish and a New Record [Sun Powered Fun]
The Finish: The Pegasus Open 50 sailboat just set the Transpac record of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds for a double handed monohull ship. Previous Record: 10 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes.
Over the Last Night:
Philippe [...]
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Re-Rumor: Apple Tablet Coming in October, Priced at $800 [Apple]
The China Times is now reporting that the endlessly-rumored, Apple tablet isn’t just coming someday—a fair bet—it’s coming soon. It’ll land in October, to be exact, when we should expect to pay around $800 for it.
The story of the Apple tablet has been one of hearsay and gossip from the start, and this report, despite [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Log: Day 6, Power is Back [Sun Powered Fun]
July 12, 5:15 AM PST Sailing along fast. Found faulty regulator and alternator. Good start.
July 12, 6:17 AM PST Update: We expect/hope to be fully recovered by Noon. Then we’ll jibe for a lay-line to the tip of Molokai and have our final jibe there. Trying to minimize jibes. Big relief.
July 12, 7:15 AM PST [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Log: Rainbows…and We’ve Lost Power [Sun Powered Fun]
July 11, 9:20 PM PST Lost all ways to recharge batteries, down to emergency battery. Just like an airplane.
July 11, 9:42 PM PST
July 11, 10:15 PM PST
Just enough power to send emails. We have not regained anything yet. Lost some more. Dark and squalls with no electrical [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Log: Day 6/7, The Wind is Picking Up [Sun Powered Fun]
The wind is picking up, and at the same time, the boat has to Jibe to port to adjust its path towards Hawaii.
Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone, and decodes human motion. He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz. [...]
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ASUS U50VG announced, naming scheme remains impenetrable
Coming in today with no less than five new laptops — the U50VG, K50AB, K70AB, K50IJ and F52Q — the king of market segmentation is clearly still in good form. Announced in Italy today, the main attraction for Intel fans is the U50VG, which sports a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T6500 chip alongside 4GB of [...]
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F88 netbook stands out with HD playback, VIA Nano
What do we have here then? An OEM netbook, looking remarkably like a recent ASUS iteration, has come to our attention with some bold claims in tow. Spec’d with a 1.6GHz VIA Nano processor and S3 Chrome 9 graphics, this promises to be one of the most potent netbooks yet and backs up that claim [...]
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Android, Chrome OS Relationship Confusing Everyone, Including Google [Google]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Just as companies were starting to get serious about installing Android, a mobile Linux OS, on netbooks, Google announces Chrome, a netbook Linux OS. The relationship between the two OSes is already getting tense, or at the very least, awkward.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is [...]
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How The Fuck Did We Get Here? [Image Cache]
I’m sure that Philippe Kahn—who has been telling us the adventures of his Pegasus Raceboat—will have a precise and logical answer. The rest of us are allowed to say any stupid thing we want.
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Asus Eee PC T101H launching this fall to a world in crisis
As all you hardcore ASUS-heads undoubtedly recall, we got our first fleeting images of the Eee PC T101H way back in January. Now here we are six months later and man, how the world has changed: Jacko’s in a better place, there’s been a coup in Honduras, civil unrest in Iran, and Lindsay Lohan has [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Log: Finally, Through the Fog, a Sunset [Sun Powered Fun]
July 8, 9:00 PM PST This is what a sunset looks like in the middle of the ocean, from a sailboat racing from California to Hawaii.
Course 265° T, Speed 13.5 Knots, Lat 26° 03′ N, Lon 135° 00′ W
July 9, 2:15 AM PST Windy tonight. On edge and don’t trust [...]
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ASUS T91 Eee Tablet Hits Online Stores for $500 [Asus]
Ahh, that’s more like it. Early reports of lofty British pricing had us worried that the ASUS T91 convertible tablet would sell for nearly $700; now, online retailers are listing the 8.9-inch touchscreen Eee at a much more reasonable $500.
Now bear in mind this is the single-touch, XP-based model that was shown back at CES, [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Tour, Part 6: How Fast? [Sun Powered Fun]
A short break in the shakey cam tour of the boat’s tech; here’s a clip of the Pegasus Open 50 Sailboat going 16 knots and throwing up the spinnaker (a large, kite like front sail) outside of Santa Cruz, CA, on a pre race trial run.
It looks slightly faster than the race videos posted the [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Tour, Part 6: The Kitchen Sink [Sun Powered Fun]
All food on the sailboat is heated on a pivoting stove that self rights to true down, no matter how much it’s rocking. It’s also the sink, which spits fresh or salt water. All food is vacuum bag sealed.
Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone, and decodes human motion. He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting [...]
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Pegasus Open 50 Log: Day 4, Following the Low Pressure [Sun Powered Fun]
July 8, 3:30 PM PST Pegasus has been chewing up the miles and we are very lucky for that. Our last two days were 305 and 295 nautical miles respectfully.
We like our heading with a lot of West and a bit of South in it, averaging about 255 true. Tactically and strategically we’re able to [...]
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Google names Chrome OS compatriots, Dell noticeably absent
Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments — according to the latest Chrome OS update from Google, you’re looking at the company’s initial ragtag team of co-conspirators for its entry into the operating system business. With Adobe’s involvement, we can assume Flash support is a given, and the others unsurprisingly run the [...]
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Google Chrome OS Partners: PC and Chip-Makers, but Not Dell, Sony, or Toshiba [Google]
Google released a partial list of their Chrome OS partners, and it includes most of the big boys you’d expect, from all sectors of the computing world, from full-featured PCs to netbooks to handhelds, plus Adobe for some Flash support.
The full list: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments. Google is quick to [...]
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Eee Lights Up Like Christmas Whenever a Message Comes In [Mods]
With all the lights that adorn modern notebooks, it’s truly a shame that most of them aren’t at all useful. One modder, sharing this philosophy, added a 3-color LED to an Asus Eee 901 to track incoming messages.
Combined with an extra microprocessor and some custom scripts, the RGB LED illuminates with a different color depending [...]
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