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According to custom pc, AMD have lead presentation slides, which indicate that windows 7 could be released as early as 2009. This is rather an interesting turn of events as Windows Vista has only been around a few years and has still not been fully accepted by the majority of business. Is Microsoft attempting to salvage the this situation?
Open Pandora, is finally a reality, this is truly an awesome device offering emulation of all sorts of systems including the Playstation, several Nintendo systems, etc. it also is able to run Ubuntu;
If you are interested you can preorder it HERE.
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Packard bell has recently announced that it is releasing a netbook to be be called the packard bell dot, The net book is expected to have much that same specifications as the many other netbooks such as the eeepc, msi wind, hp mininote and the dell mini inspiron 9. It’s likely to be powered by an intel atom cpu, but other details are sketchy at best, so watch out for updates on this one. This shoulb be interesting as packard bell has also recently annouced that they are looking to get a new slick image like Apple has, maybe this Netbook is part of that?
Ubuntu dragon wallpapers are available in almost every common desktop resolutions in use today, including the new netbook resolutions, it you have any suggestions, requests or comments please feel free to lave them here. If you use digg and you like this wallpaper please digg it;
Wide Screen Versions
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Blue and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Green and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Orange and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Pink and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Red and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Yellow and in the widescreen, available in the following resolutions;
Standard Versions
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper in Blue and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Green and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Orange and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Pink and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Red and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Yellow and the standard aspect ratio, available in the following resolutions;
Netbook Versions
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Blue for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Green for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Orange for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Pink for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Red for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;
Ubuntu Dragon Wallpaper Yellow for netbooks, available in the following resolutions;

Well a lot more pictures of the new Toshiba NB105 Netbook have come out since the last post, but the specifications are expected to be the same as we posted last time. Specs at this time stand at;
Laptop Mag has an interesting article on the approach of sony to the already very crowded Netbook market. While sony has produced UMPCs in the past they have always been far too expensive to be classed as netbooks, but now it looks like sony is entering the ‘race to the bottom’ along with other manufacturers. I didn’t say anything about them being hypocrites.

CNET is reporting that intel has released a new 6 core chip, designed for high performance servers. The Xeon 7400 is one of Intels first chips to have multiple cores on a single pieces of silicon, prior to this all Intel chips with more than 2 cores had separate pieces of silicon. The Intel Dunnington chip has 6 cores and 16MB cache.

Mobile Whack Has an Interesting article about the 2nd quarter results of mobile phone sales. Turns out that blackberries RIM Operating system has beaten windows mobile operating system as far as market share is concerned. Blackberry have doubled their market share inside of a year but more impressively the iPhones operating system has trebled it’s market Share within the same amount of time. The biggest looser seems to be Symbian which has lost about 10% from 65.6% to 57.1%.
Android Community has an excellent group of videos up showcasing googles mobile phone platform with the android 1.0 firmware. I must say that it has really come on. This firmware version has not yet been seen in the wild, Some of the applications have only been seen in pictures. Other videos featuring; browser, IM client, video player, and Quake which is now playable and very fast on the handset are available here
