Nokia introduces its Booklet 3G

Oooh well would you look at that, stylish aint it. This is Nokis first real push into the netbook market, even if they don't call it a netbook. It is though, its rocking a Atom proccesor, a HD display with HDMI out, 3G, hot swappable sim cards, assisted GPS, WIFI, Bluetooth, and an SD card. So a bit beefier than your average netbook. Not to mention the (in my opinion) brilliant styling.

But with no mention of price we shall have to wait and see as to how good this laptop is for the cash.

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Snow leopard up for order, ships 28th August.

Yeah so im not a very big Mac fan, but this is important their latest revision of their OS.

The main improvements being, getting 7GB of disk space back, as the install is smaller, and

• 64-bit support, the next big step for the Mac. All key system applications are now 64-bit so they can take advantage of all the memory in your Mac.
• Grand Central Dispatch, a revolutionary new way for software to get the most from multicore processors.
• OpenCL, a new technology that unleashes the power of graphics processors to accelerate application performance.

Although the major criticism it is drawing is that it requires a intel based mac, so any Power PC users are out of luck.

Although for everyone else the £25 price tag will make it quite appealing, unless you think its a service pack;)

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Windows 7 verdict.

Well as you all should know windows 7 is on the brink of being released, it RTM'd a while ago so naturally it has been cracked all ready. And me being me, i've tried it out.

Do i like it? yes.

Is it better than any other OS out there? Yes

Should you install it? Yes

Ok so its only an OS but its good, the first thing you will notice is how snappy and responsive it is, very fast.
It also looks good, has the right amount of eye candy, and friendlyness.
Also there are some very handy features that make working with it much well more pleasant. For example aero snap where you can drag a window to the side of the screen and it will resize it to half the screen, leaving you free to do that to another window on the other half of the screen. Plus things like shaking a window to minimize everthing apart from the one your shaking, just handy, not game changing, but handy.

Search is better too, leaps and bounds above XP, and an improvement on vista search.

There are plently of little things that are improved, but i will let you find them when you install it, and you are going to install it right?

It also seems to detect things well, it found my wireless card and seems to be working, so thumbs up there.

I may write some more on it after i have used it for longer, but so far, so good.

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PS3 Slim announced finally.

Yes sony has just unveiled its new PS3 slim, which is now traditional of the company with all its game consoles.
It will retail for $300 or about £250 in the UK according to amazon.
It will come with a 120GB HDD (up from the current 80GB).
The original PS3 will also get a price cut to bring it in line with the new slim, although if you are going to buy one, get a slimmer one for the same price with a bigger drive.
Also of intrest is the new firmware update, a 34% power use-age drop and the inability to install linux onto the slim PS3.

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Abusing my blog for advertising.

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ZuneHD to be released on the 15th of september

That is according to a leaked display stand courtesy of a anonymous Best Buy employee. Pre orders require a $25 deposit and the price is still around the $220 / $280 estimate.

Shame the zune line up is still not available outside the US eh?

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TDK to bring us all 2.5TB hard drives in early 2010?

Whoa now, here that? 2.5TB.
And your sat there all smug with your 2TB drive, well it would seem not for long.
As a recently revealed road map indicating that the company currently has some 640GB drive that would be used in a 3.5inch drive, and are currently being tested. Nothing is official yet but it wants to start mass production in November of this year to release them in February next year. So you will now being able to store even more 'family movies' in one place, just don't forget to back up, its one hell of allot of data to lose.

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Microsoft has released its Windows 7 upgrade chart

Yeah check that out for upgrade options. I'll help break it down, if your still rocking XP you need to do a fresh install, no upgrades for you, sorry.
Vista you can upgrade to the same or similar version, but cannont go down a version, plus you may need to faf around with windows anytime upgrade, fun stuff. I would not like to be on the other end of tech support.

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So you thinking about becoming a mercenary? You need this phone.

Yeah i made the pic nice and large to highlight its manlyness. This phone is Mil Spec 810F rated, so its water, dust proof, drop proof, bomb proof...well maybe not the latter. Its just been made available on Sprint in the USA for a cool $2000. So i assume if you get one of these you mean bussiness eh?

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Just testing the new RSS links to peoples Facebook accounts:)

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Updates on Windows 7

Well whilst I was on holiday possibly the second most important milestone surrounding Windows 7 was reached. Yes Windows 7 has been RTM (release to manufacturing) which basically means that Windows 7 is pretty much finished and has been given to all major computer manufacturers to install on their branded pc's etc. Which is a very big step and means that it is just around the corner from being released, well it’s not, not yet I’m 99% sure that’s its going to be released in 2010, but that’s just life.

More importantly for all you budding pirates out there, it’s out on the interwebs already and a crack has been released, obviously I cannot tell you where to find them but it’s been tested and works, hoorah!
For a bit of 'light reading' from MS check the read link.
And for those reading on Facebook be sure to click through to my blog either on the blog link or 'view original post' link on Facebook:)

Edit: Sam has told me this:

Plus its available to customers on the 22nd of october,
but you can pre order it now.

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