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US Department of Transportation Loses 133, 000 Social Security & Address Records of Florida ResidentsAugust 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.
Dell Computers Chooses AMD ProcessorsMay 19th, 2006 Dell Computers (DELL) announced that it will start using AMD's processors, breaking its long-standing, single-source relationship with Intel (INTC) and giving AMD yet another victory over Intel. AMD shares surged 12% to $35.10 in late trading, while Intel shares dropped 5% to $17.80.
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Dell XPS M1710 Laptop Rocks Mobile Gaming WorldApril 19th, 2006 It is arguably the fastest mobile gaming machine with Intel dual core processor and nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX. Specifications:
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo T2600
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
RAM: 2048 MB
Hard Drive Capacity: 100 GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce Go 7900GTX
Primary Optical Drive: DVD+R DL
Wireless: 802.11a/g
Screen Size: 17 inches
Screen Size Type: widescreen
System Weight: 8.8 lbs
Price: 2558-2902-3474 (base configurations) from Dell Direct
XPS M1710 is equipped with six grills, lacing the laptop's edges, that light up in a myriad of user-definable colors.
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Samsung Laptop Replaces Hard Disk with Flash MemoryMay 24th, 2006 Samsung Electronics said that it will launch a laptop computer and a "ultra-computing device," in early June. In these devices the hard drives will be replaced with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory.
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NEW YORK — Wi-Fi, WiMax, WirelessHD, WHDI and now ... WiGig?
Computer and home entertainment industry leaders, including Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc.
A Dell laptop sudenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident, at a Japanese conference.
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July 31st, 2006 at 9:08 am
[...] Last month I reported the first case of Dell laptop’s exploding in flames at a conference in Japan. [...]
August 1st, 2006 at 6:21 pm
spill any fluid over a notebook and it will start doing very weird things. or intentionally spill high percentage alcohol, and the thing will start to burn exactly as described.
but right: people do drink a lot in planes, so it is dangerous.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
[...] “Take a laptop which runs perfectly and hop on a transatlantic flight. There is a high risk that it will jam up once during the trip and you have to reboot it.” Now that is another good reason not to use Laptop in flights. Personally I have seen it happen once or twice but I previously attributed them to the vagaries of Windows. [...]