New HP Notebook Is Hearty Helping of Fast and Cheap

Product: Pavilion dm3 Manufacturer: HP Wired Rating: 7 There’s so much to like in HP’s new Pavilion dm3 that it’s hard to know where to start. Perhaps with the looks: The aluminum and magnesium case looks cool, totally modern, and though it’s got some plastic components (most notably the underside), it feels quite durable. The [...]

Gaming Laptop Blows Away Benchmarks, Wastes Wallets

Product: Deimos X-10 Manufacturer: BFG Tech Wired Rating: 6 Geeks might know BFG Tech as a veteran graphics-card maker. Now the hardware manufacturer is moving into high-end laptops. Its first effort at portable computer is nothing if not record-breaking. At 13 pounds, the Deimos X-10 is the heaviest laptop we’ve tested, and its 18.4-inch LCD [...]

iRiver’s N20 loses five, becomes N15, still pretty much the same

iRiver N20 , you tempted us from afar but never came to our shores, so we were never able to caress your simple shapes and gaze into your PMOLED screen. Now you’re sending over pictures of your child, the N15, which we’re guessing you’ll keep from us as well.

Aliph Jawbone Icon ‘The Ace’ Bluetooth headset review

While Aliph was announcing its luxurious Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headsets earlier today, we’ve been playing with one of its six designs — The Ace — at our cozy London pad. Being the smallest and lightest Jawbone ever, the Icon’s obviously challenging the likes of Jabra Stone with attempts to outperform in noise elimination, battery life, ergonomics and ease of operation

ASUS DR-570 e-reader to sport 6-inch OLED color screen, 122 hours of battery life

Well, isn’t this a doozy. ASUS was a bit of a no-show in the e-reader arena at CES, but has dropped some knowledge on the Times Online’s InGear : it’s building a 6-inch color OLED e-reader, which flies in the face of previous rumors about an ASUS e-reader entry. The device, currently dubbed the DR-570 and pictured to the left, will play back Flash video, includes WiFi and 3G, and supposedly can last for 122 hours on one charge under “real world conditions.” It’s supposed to be released by the end of the year, and while from anybody else we’d assume this would cost an arm and a leg, the ASUS brand gives us some hope that we might actually be able to afford one when it hits

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