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Lion Good To Go – Should Ship On July 14th

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:02 PM PDT

OS X Lion (pictured at right), which was announced back in October, is in “Gold Master” status and is “shipping” to developers. A curious set of terms for an OS that strives so mightily to cut ties with the old disc-based model for software distribution.

9 to 5 Mac also hears that it will be available for you and me come July 14th — coincidentally, the time we expect to see new MacBook Airs come out, which were supposedly delayed to allow time for… you guessed it, Sherlock, Lion. It all makes sense! But how deep does the rabbit hole go?!

Samsung Offers Trimmed-Down Series 9 To Better Combat MacBook Air

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT

If the $1649 Samsung Series 9 is too rich for your blood, but you still want a Windows-based ultraportable (or ultrabook, whatever they’re calling them these days), consider… the Samsung Series 9. The 11-inch X1A version of Samsung’s Air-killer is now out, and it’s lighter by half a pound and a few hundred bucks.

So for $1199, you lose the i5 and get an i3, lose 2 gigs of RAM for 2 total, lose 64GB of SSD for 64GB total, but other than that it’s more or less the same machine. I mean, those are significant changes, but you still get the sexy form factor, and all the same ports and such. The battery is a bit smaller, too, but you’ll probably end up with equal or better uptime due to the smaller screen and less intense CPU.

Check out the two Series 9s here. But I’d hold off until Apple makes its big MacBook Air announcement — you never know.

P.S. I notice that the big one is X3A and the small one is X1A. Where’s the X2A?

CrunchDeals: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 For $5 (Again!)

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:43 AM PDT


Last time I posted this deal, BC2 was on Impulse, and my colleagues were earnestly recommending it to me. Now, I’m earnestly recommending it to you. There’s lots of good stuff being sold at the Steam Summer Camp Sale, but this one’s at Amazon and totally worth every penny.

Solid single-player, awesome multiplayer, just a fantastic game. Add to cart.

Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV with natural, passive 3D display, choose TriVector 2D to 3D Conversion, 3D Resolution+, 3D Cross Talk Cancellers and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and Toshiba's first Natural 3D LED TV as it creates stunning 3D images using affordable polarized glasses. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and Wi-Fi and Net TV with Yahoo! Widgets.

Choose life.

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Thanks to Toshiba for the gear and thanks to you for reading. Choose life.

It’s A Pretty Big Ship: HP Isn’t After Apple, It’s After The Enterprise

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:41 AM PDT

Loopinsight has an interview with HP’s developer relations guy, Richard Kerris, where he basically says that WebOS is HP’s enterprise strategy, not their consumer play. He says:

"We think there's a better opportunity for us to go after the enterprise space and those consumers that use PCs," said Kerris. "This market is in it's infancy and there is plenty of room for both of us to grow."

"We think the world of Apple and have the utmost respect for their products," said Kerris. "It would be ignorant for us to say that we are going to take it [the market] away from Apple."

Beneath this scraping and bowing is an important consideration: there is no viable tablet for the enterprise and all signs point to Blackberry fumbling things with their absurd Playbook. Knowledge workers will need (read “want”) tablets and HP is putting itself in place to give them to them.

As flawed as the TouchPad is, it’s not as bad as people let on. It works, it will have a stronger support base than Android on the aggregate, and HP will put its might behind WebOS, bringing it to various desktops and devices as an alternative to Google and Apple. It will end up on devices like printers and probably office “desktop tablets” and other boring stuff, a market that Cisco, also, is trying to grab with their offerings.

It never hurts to be boring in the IT space, and if HP knows anything it’s how to be boring.

Samsung To Apple: You Say “Copyist,” We Say “Competition”

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:32 AM PDT

The saga continues, but at least this time we get to giggle at the tech giants' use of sarcasm.

Entangled in a patent battle with Apple, Samsung has switched up its approach to the copycat case, dropping two patents and adding another four. The South Korea-based company is also snarkily redefining the meaning of the word "copying," opting for the less leechy term, "competing." According to the freshly filed paperwork, "the Samsung Defendants admit that they have not ceased competing with Apple, notwithstanding Apple's efforts to avoid such competition."

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Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 25K Apps

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Clearly the Android Market is growing rapidly, and there's no reason to even mention the Apple App Store, which just breezed by the 100,000 iPad app marker. But we can't leave the little guys out, especially when their growth is also relatively impressive. Specifically, Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace is reported to have passed 25,000 applications by a site that tracks the app store's activity.

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Homeless Man Arrested For Using Private Outlet To Charge Phone

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:01 AM PDT

Clearly, theft is wrong. But what about that ethical grey area? You've heard the example before: the man with no job steals bread for his family to survive. Wrong or right? I'd have to lean toward the "right" side, although that doesn't make the situation fair for the baker, who just lost a loaf of bread. So what would you say if the father was a 23-year-old homeless American named Shaun Fawster, his family was his smartphone, and the bread was electricity to feed it? Still kind of ok, but also still unfair?

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Adobe Offers 50 Percent Discount For Final Cut Pro Users Who Switch To Premiere Pro

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:41 AM PDT

As you may have heard, Apple’s new version of its video editing software, Adobe Final Cut Pro X, has received considerable backlash from users. And as Jim Dalrymple reports, video editing rival Adobe has been welcoming these disheartened Final Cut Pro users with open arms. Now Adobe is taking it one step further, announcing a formal ‘switching program’ for any Final Cut Pro or Avid Media users.

Adobe says that anyone who has purchased any version of Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer and want to switch to Adobe’s video tools (Production Premium or Premiere Pro) will be eligible for a 50 percent savings on Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

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Roku 2 Sneaks Out Of The FCC

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:38 AM PDT

These photos from the FCC show us a few of the new Roku devices coming out in 2011 including the 3000X, 3050X, and 3100X. These guys will have 1080p HDMI, USB support, a microSD slot, and surround sound support. The HD model features an RF remote control.

Two entry-level models, the XS and XD, will not have Ethernet ports.

Look for these this year, probably for launch around the holiday.

via ehomeupgrade


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