Amazon’s Kindle 2 is Actually in Stock

For those who prefer to pack a lot of books with them on trips, or who are trying to simply their lives and move to all digital media where possible, Amazon’s Kindle 2 is actually in stock a day earlier than anticipated. Specifications: – Price: … Read more

Sales and Deals – Feb 12, 2009

There are some decent laptop sales this week, thanks to a couple of holidays/events in the US – President’s Day and Valentine’s Day.

OnSale:
$25 Off – ASUS Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch – 1.66GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1GB RAM, 160 GB HD – Blue Now only $369.99 (was $394.99)
$25 Off – ASUS Asus Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch – 1.66 GHz Intel Atom, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD – Black Now only $369.99 (was $394.99)
$121 Off – Lenovo IdeaPad S10e – Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz Notebook Now only $298.99 (was $419) + FREE Printer after rebate

Lenovo:
3 day sale at Lenovo ecoupon USPTHREEDAYSALE
15% off all IdeaPads (except S10) + 20% off consumer service upgrades Feb 10-16-use USPIDEASAVINGS for IdeaPad Y & U Series
– $399 IdeaPad S10 Bundle ecoupon- USPBUNDLES10 Feb 10-16
Click here to get to ecoupons at Lenovo for additional 5% to 10% off select ThinkPads

Lenovo Canada:
– Save an extra 10-15% on Ultraportable Lenovo Notebooks use -CAPULTRAPORTABLE -Feb 10-16
Save up to 20% on top of sale price during the Lenovo 72 Hour Sale- CAP72HOURSALE -From Feb 11-13

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MSI Wind U100 and 9-Cell Batteries

First reports of the third-party 9-cell batteries for the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100 are coming in. Wired Magazine mentioned a thread over at the MSIWind.net forums where somebody ordered one off of ebay. They mentioned that currently, you are looking at over 4 hours with … Read more

MacBooks and FireWire: Steve Jobs’ Response

A few days ago, I had a long-winded rant about Apple dropping FireWire from the new MacBooks. A lot of other people have been ranting about it as well, going by Discussions.Apple.com and various other blogs and Mac-oriented forums. Steve Jobs has responded to one … Read more

There Will be New MacBooks

It’s now almost certain that there will be new MacBooks introduced in a few days at Apple’s October 14 notebook event. A PDF-format repair guide was accidentally posted on Apple’s website. It detailed how the Airport Extreme Card would be replaced, and it specifically said … Read more