February 10th Odds and Ends

A roundup of interesting articles from the past week. Wired Magazine: Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the Internet in Your Pocket – Discussion of Intel’s Silverthorne and Intel’s efforts at pushing beyond that, to where we can have a near-desktop like internet experience in … Read more

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – RTM

Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has officially been released to manufacturing:

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers……Windows Vista SP1 includes quality improvements that help enhance reliability, security and performance.

You can read the full press release here (Microsoft.com).

Some interesting information:
– It will be released through an Windows Update as an option to existing customers in Mid-March if you do not have any driver issues with SP1 – SP1 contains some driver issues/problems and will not automatically install on those machines. This will be for English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
– Windows Vista users who have updates set to download and install automatically will receive SP1 in mid-April, although, again, systems that have known driver issues will not receive it automatically. Once those drivers are fixed and received through Windows Update (automatically), then it will be turned on and installed.
– All other languages not being released in March will be released to manufacturing in April.

More from the Windows Vista Team Blog (excerpts):

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Sony SZ7 Series Shipping, Taking Pre-Orders

Sony is starting to make available some models of the new VAIO VGN SZ7 series (last month, Notebook Review came across the information on Sony’s website as well as online retailers). At some point it will be fully replacing the SZ6 series. While it shares … Read more

Deal of the Week: HP Pavilion tx1000z ($699)

Note: This deal is now over
HP Pavilion tx1000z

Now that the HP Pavilion tx2000z, HP’s latest “entertainment” 12.1″ widescreen Tablet PC/Convertible Laptop is in production, prices on its predecessor, the HP Pavilion tx1000z, are being reduced quite a bit to clear out existing inventories.

You can now find (if you are in the US), the tx1000z on sale at Office Depot for $699.99 (before taxes, but has free shipping if you qualify) through January 26, 2008 (sale page at Office Depot).

The particular model on sale has these specifications:

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Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Details Leaked?

On Friday, Gizmodo reported on what they claim is leaked information about a Lenovo ThinkPad X300, a new line from Lenovo that would be competing with the MacBook Air from Apple. One advantage it would have is that it has an integrated DVD writer (albeit … Read more