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The GF73 isn’t much to write home about but it’s a nice little gaming machine. It’s styled after the Stealth Bomber, whatever that means. Specs 17-inch screen ATI 5870 Intel Core i7 4 RAM Slots

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Quick Look: ASUS GF73 laptop

Nokia and AT&T just announced the official availability of the Booklet 3G, Nokia’s Win7 netbook. It will be available on October 22 for $299 with 2-year contract and $60/month data plan.

The netbook, rumored to hit 12 hours of battery life and has and Intel Atom processor, 120GB HDD, 1GB of RAM, WiFi, HDMI, and 3G. The netbook will be sold by AT&T in Best Buy stores.

Here’s one for the “Why would I buy a netbook when I can get a full-fledged notebook for the same price?” crowd. Buy.com has a new-in-box 15.6-inch eMachines notebook for just $299 with free shipping. Specs are decent, if unspectacular but, hey — cheap notebook: AMD Athlon 64 1.6GHz CPU 2GB of RAM 160GB hard drive 15.6-inch WXGA screen 8X DVD burner Vista Home Basic Six-cell battery Weighs six pounds eMachines E625-5776 [Buy.com]

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CrunchDeals: eMachines 15.6-inch notebook for $299 with free shipping

Months after taking over Fabrik (SimpleTech) , Hitachi unveiled today the fruits of their labor: SimpleTough, SimpleDrive Mini and the SimpleNet. The rough and tumble SimpleTough USB drive can sustain a 10-foot drop without skipping a beat. It’s also water- and shock-resistant and comes with a wraparound USB cable

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Hitachi reveals the latest SimpleTech line of USB drives, network adapters

Hot damn, netbooks are about to get a bit more useful. Apparently Intel has backed off on the whole low-resolution netbook screen thing. Previously, computers containing N-series Intel processors (Atom N270, N280, etc.) could only have screen resolutions up to 1024

Augmented reality (AR), also known as mixed reality, is currently a hot topic in the technology world after it has been regarded as too futuristic for the last couple of years. The idea has been around for quite some time now: Combine the real world with computer-generated data, for example graphics

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Canon uses augmented reality HMD system to enhance product design process

Looks like prices are dropping on a handful of older Aspire One netbooks, presumably to make way for newer models coming out soon. Prices range from $239 to $279 now, down from $249 to $299.

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CrunchDeals: Price cuts on Acer netbooks

DDR3 as a premium RAM technology has been around for a good while now, but the price of setting up a DDR3 system has been less than cost-effective. The benefits of DDR3 haven’t been great enough to justify the huge price gap between common DDR2 and the newer standard.

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Is the DDR3 push starting now?

Buy.com has a pretty good deal on a refurbished 10-inch HP Mini netbook at $279.99 with free shipping and a 90-day warranty. This particular model features a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, XP Home, and a three-cell battery.

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CrunchDeals: Refurbished HP Mini 1033 for $279

We kind of knew that MotionPlus was slated for a June release, but we didn’t have official word from Nintendo until now. The Wiimote add-on should be available on June 8th by itself for $19.99. However, you may want to hold off until July 26 when Wii Sports Resorts drops for $50 and includes the add-on.

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Nintendo’s MotionPlus Wiimote add-on priced and dated