After seeing how well Psystar did with its Open Computer, we think we'll just build our own Hackintosh rather than jump into this OpeniMac we've recently been hepped to. But who knows? Maybe you've been dying to send your hard earned money down to some shady Argentinean characters. In that case, this 2.53GHz machine should be right up your alley. Selling for $990 (or $1,330 with an LG 19-inch monitor), the base unit ships with 2GB memory, 320GB storage, and a 256MB ATI Radeon HD PRO. If you've got deep pockets, $1,710 will get you the OpeniMacPRO, a 3.0GHz machine with a 20-inch widescreen monitor and 4GB RAM. But seriously -- who knows where the money goes? And who knows whether you'll ever see the machine? One thing is for certain, however -- this case is as ugly as sin.

[Thanks, Santiago]

Filed under: Desktops

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div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/081204-openimac-02.jpg" alt="" /br / div align="left"After seeing how well Psystar did with its a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/psystar-open-computer-notes-benchmarks-and-video/"Open Computer/a, we think we'll just build our own Hackintosh rather than jump into this OpeniMac we've recently been hepped to. But who knows? Maybe you've been dying to send your hard earned money down to some shady Argentinean characters. In that case, this 2.53GHz machine should be right up your alley. Selling for $990 (or $1,330 with an LG 19-inch monitor), the base unit ships with 2GB memory, 320GB storage, and a 256MB ATI Radeon HD PRO. If you've got deep pockets, $1,710 will get you the OpeniMacPRO, a 3.0GHz machine with a 20-inch widescreen monitor and 4GB RAM. But seriously -- who knows where the money goes? And who knows whether you'll ever see the machine? One thing is for certain, however -- this case is as ugly as sin.br /br /[Thanks, Santiago]/div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/"OpeniMac offers cut-rate, aesthetically challenged Apple clones direct from Argentina/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:41:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fopenimac.com.ar%2Famp;hl=enamp;ie=UTF-8amp;sl=esamp;tl=enRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391388/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/openimac-offers-cut-rate-aesthetically-challenged-apple-clones/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Zp9RnDnsp6iHPnow_7xfE_bmNFA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Zp9RnDnsp6iHPnow_7xfE_bmNFA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=lyNsY5qi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=lyNsY5qi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=90ipjUVw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=90ipjUVw" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/-DButlKJ9DE" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag"Video/a/pcenter object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="490" height="296" id="viddler_f971ed2c"param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/simple/f971ed2c/" /param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /embed src="http://www.viddler.com/simple/f971ed2c/" width="490" height="296" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_f971ed2c" /embed/object /centerStarbreeze wasn't cooling its heels while it waited for word on a a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/30/riddick-remake-and-maybe-ghostbusters-go-to-atari/"new publisher/a for a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena"emThe Chronicle of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena/em/a, as evidenced by this first video of the game in all its current, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/riddick-dark-athena-coming-early-09-features-new-10-hour-camp/"two-games-in-one/a glory. We've seen it in action and can attest to the fact that, yes, it actually looks like this on 360 and PS3 (though it will also be hitting PC).br /br /The video features a couple of elements that we were especially impressed by. The first is a visual nuance, but one that speaks to the effort being put into the polishing of the final game. In the segment where Riddick hangs from a pipe and moves along it, hand over hand, there wasn't one iota of clipping - no "hand through wrist" glitching, nada. The look of the game is extremely solid. br /br /The new gameplay mechanics are as well. The half-man, half-weapon characters in this trailer are "drones" - cyborgs created by the Dark Athena crew from the hapless passengers of ships they've raided. Riddick can kill these enemies and use them as human shields, while using the gun grafted to their arm to shoot. As you'd expect from a real body, it's difficult to push it forward, but dragging it's a snap (which factors into overall strategy). It's also possible to control these guys from a remote terminal, hence the red-hued POV you catch at one point during the footage.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/riddick-comes-out-of-hiding-in-new-dark-athena-video/"Riddick comes out of hiding in new Dark Athena video/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:35:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/riddick-comes-out-of-hiding-in-new-dark-athena-video/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391568/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/riddick-comes-out-of-hiding-in-new-dark-athena-video/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TCxCokYzGJcHvS_26_YCiZSk4YY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TCxCokYzGJcHvS_26_YCiZSk4YY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=i1YWHnGt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=i1YWHnGt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=7udDcQpm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=7udDcQpm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/23821IK0wMs" height="1" width="1"/

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DICE plans on keeping Mirror's Edge players on their toes next month with the January release of a downloadable Time Trial Map Pack, featuring seven new maps for your running enjoyment.

Players will be able to strive for the fastest times in nine races spread across the seven maps, all for the low price of $10 or 800 Microsoft fake monies. As an added bonus, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to download an additional map for free, because DICE loves them more.
”The freedom of movement and control in first person has been the most popular aspect of Mirror’s Edge so we decided to distil these down to their purest form for this map pack,” says Owen O’Brien, Senior Producer, DICE. ”We deliberately chose a more abstract aesthetic that is still within our distinctive art style and then focused on flow and gameplay to create an experience and challenge very different from the main game.”The Time Trial Map Pack will be available in late January for the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC version of the game, which ships on January 13th in North America.

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DICE plans on keeping Mirror's Edge players on their toes next month with the January release of a downloadable Time Trial Map Pack, featuring seven new maps for your running enjoyment.

Players will be able to strive for the fastest times in nine races spread across the seven maps, all for the low price of $10 or 800 Microsoft fake monies. As an added bonus, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to download an additional map for free, because DICE loves them more.
”The freedom of movement and control in first person has been the most popular aspect of Mirror’s Edge so we decided to distil these down to their purest form for this map pack,” says Owen O’Brien, Senior Producer, DICE. ”We deliberately chose a more abstract aesthetic that is still within our distinctive art style and then focused on flow and gameplay to create an experience and challenge very different from the main game.”The Time Trial Map Pack will be available in late January for the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC version of the game, which ships on January 13th in North America.

Category: Games
Released: Dec 01, 2008
Price: $5.99

Description:
Low Grav Racer is an instantly playable arcade racer with amazingly fast visuals which make for the ultimate iPhone racing experience. Low Grav Racer combines intense high speed future racing with high tech shoot-em-up action to create a unique handheld experience for the iPhone and iPod Touch. New Tracks and Features to be added via future updates. Featuring: - Amazing 3D iPhone graphics. - Blisteringly fast and smooth game-play. - Single play or Competition Play. - 12 planet based tracks. - Different ships and Race classes. - Amazing soundtracks & 3D spatial sound. - Missles, Mines and Mayhem. Designed specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch, Low Grav Racer perfectly combines the tilt and accelerometer with stunningly fast paced action to give one of the finest racing and action experiences on the iPhone. See Low Grav in action at www.youtube.com/cobimobi Make sure you try out Cobra Mobile's other award winning titles, Mouse About and Numba.

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pSun vient d'annoncer la sortie de JavaFX. Je suis content que cette technologie voit enfin le jour. Il va maintenant falloir que cette technologie s'impose ce qui va être une autre affaire. Je pense qu'une grosse partie de l'adoption de cette technologie se jouera la semaine prochaine lors de Devoxx. A mon sens la courbe d'adoption de la technologie dépendra de l'impact de la Keynote de cette conférence sur les 3000 développeurs présents./p pJe pense que le principal concurrent de JavaFX est Flex. Cette technologie a largement convaincu la communauté java. Il va maintenant falloir que JavaFX sorte Flex de son territoire.../p pa href="http://www.application-servers.com/public/WindowsLiveWriter_JavaFX1.0suivons_A703_image_2.png" img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px" height="306" alt="image" src="http://www.application-servers.com/public/WindowsLiveWriter_JavaFX1.0suivons_A703_image_thumb.png" width="589" border="0"/a/p pa href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Ships-JavaFX-Rich-Internet-Application-Platform/" Sun Ships JavaFX Rich Internet Application Platform/a/p pa href="http://www.javafx.com/"http://www.javafx.com//a/p

You know what we could really use right now? A chunky slab of XP running on a device that is simultaneously too big for our pockets but less functional than a netbook. Oh, what's that Trigem, you've got that? Suweet. Meet the LLUON Mobbit PS400, an Atom Z520-powered UMPC MID with a 4.8-inch (1,024 x 600) touchscreen LCD, 2 megapixel camera, 1GB memory, choice of 30GB hard disk or 16GB SSD, WiFi, and Korean WiMax (WiBro) and digital television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price (the similarly-speced R50A from ASUS costs over $1,800). If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the pricing goal set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late.

[Via Akihabara News]

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div align="center"a href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63007760"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/lluon_mobbit_ps400_1.jpg" alt="" //abr //div You know what we could really use right now? A chunky slab of XP running on a device that is simultaneously too big for our pockets but less functional than a netbook. Oh, what's that Trigem, you've got that? Suweet. Meet the LLUON Mobbit PS400, an Atom Z520-powered sUMPC/s MID with a 4.8-inch (1,024 x 600) touchscreen LCD, 2 megapixel camera, 1GB memory, choice of 30GB hard disk or 16GB SSD, WiFi, and Korean WiMax (WiBro) and digital television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price (the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/15/asus-r50a-finally-arrives-jacks-your-wallet-in-the-process/"similarly-speced R50A from ASUS/a costs over $1,800). If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/microsoft-said-to-issue-specs-for-ultramobile-lifestyle-pcs/"pricing goal/a set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17128-LLUON+Mobbit%2C+the+latest+MID-UMPC+with+Wimax+from+TG.html"Akihabara News/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/"Trigem's Atom-based LLUON Mobbit crashes below the $500 UMPC sweet spot /a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63007760Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390854/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JwMvplR3PBp-tfUzLSa5PcT-4fA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JwMvplR3PBp-tfUzLSa5PcT-4fA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=EOIewE2S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=EOIewE2S" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=tJUQ2fAc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=tJUQ2fAc" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/YrKE35AVg7U" height="1" width="1"/

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pstrong1998:/strong The space shuttle citeEndeavour/cite lifts off from Cape Canaveral, carrying the first American-built component of the International Space Station. Two days later, the connecting node known as Unity is coupled with Zarya (Sunrise), the Russian-built control module, and the space station is a reality./p pFollowing a flawless ascent, the crew of six mdash; five Americans and a Russian mdash; maneuvered citeEndeavour/cite to within a robot-arm's length of Zarya, which had preceded the shuttle into space on Nov. 20. Once the shuttle had a firm grasp on the Russian module, the job of a href="http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/gallery/5_unity_zarya.htm"joining Unity and Zarya/a began./p pThree spacewalks were performed to connect electrical and communications systems, and once the two components were functioning harmoniously, mission specialists began preparing the a href="http://www.wired.com/science/space/multimedia/2008/12/gallery_spacestation"space station/a to receive its third module, which the Russians sent up the following year. The citeEndeavour/cite astronauts also tested Zarya's battery supplies before heading home./p pThe space station's third component was the service module, which arrived in July 1999. This represented a huge piece of the overall puzzle, housing as it did the first living quarters for a station crew./p pThe a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html"International Space Station/a was assembled gradually, with most of the world's space-faring nations providing specific components, which were then delivered on a regular basis by U.S. and Russian cargo ships. Following the a href="http://www.space.com/columbiatragedy/"loss of the shuttle citeColumbia/cite/a in February 2003, the Russians took up the burden of shuttling supplies and components to the ISS until the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Fleet_history"shuttle program was back/a on its feet./p pNow, a decade later, expansion of the space station continues. It is easily the most expensive construction project in history, and it got a little more expensive on Nov. 18 when a spacewalking astronaut a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27784400/"lost her tool bag/a./p pciteEndeavour/cite, incidentally, was named after 18th-century explorer James Cook's ship. Cook, of course, was an Englishman, hence the British spelling of the word. The shuttle is currently scheduled to be decommissioned in 2010./p pemSource: Various/em/pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:d32d6fcdf34aa5294d4d7f3aa0c76156:l%2Bl3%2B%2BBgkVvCXV8GfpH6XsEZqwo3HVkWj03TGrSOoq1b9gMZ5b3pj%2FBTeZy9NEoPUtDO9IJouvSsTQ%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3ca4d5acd2b6527057626a36246dc486:T7I3Dnm3wC9m6qFKRhhqO6gQVcggQbxSeccyNTCfVC2GnTm3m%2FbjFDNOuhEp0gjNEZMS%2FbIkGAwi'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:1212d98c76e5df9cdd10ad4bcff4d699:ags%2BlagaMPLt1rkscYUIC5SQSh3966xN%2BEJmdgHWQ1B%2B2eXWIuhTAABjxZaE7nKWVO%2FFWiAEgc89'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:ed33b762d6a752523cfcb4363a977cb7:b5Y%2BQ9MxoOZS%2FNs9M8IE1Lnxv7vDRbC6XNMOKccNwycd7W95bPiCh7tSOPaGDM%2FAZZGWgogCvHS2'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=36d6837fa5826cd9e446b64024acbbd0p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=36d6837fa5826cd9e446b64024acbbd0p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=36d6837fa5826cd9e446b64024acbbd0" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=7rwTdo"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=7rwTdo" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/474334206" height="1" width="1"/

div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/winboni-20081203-600.jpg" //abr / div style="text-align: left;"We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/takara-tomys-wall-climbing-aerospider-rc-car-ships-this-month/"AeroSpider/a, makes a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-son/"great gift/a), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/12/students-build-window-washing-robot.html"The Raw Feed/a]/div /divpa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"Household/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/robots/" rel="tag"Robots/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/"MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:20:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390213/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ZDNNhZbH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ZDNNhZbH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=f7ZydRht"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=f7ZydRht" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/B7bNzlz4vdw" height="1" width="1"/

If MSI's suite of Winds are just too cramped for your gorilla-sized hands, maybe the marginally larger EX300 will do the trick. The 13.3-inch laptop tips the scales at 4.5-pounds and includes a Core 2 Duo P7350 CPU, ATI's 256MB Mobility Radeon HD3450 GPU, WiFi / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a 3-in-1 card reader and a 2.0-megapixel webcam. You can claim one now at a variety of fine e-tailers for $999. Full release is after the break.

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div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-3-08-msi_ex300.jpg" /br //div If MSI's suite of a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/wind"Winds/a are just too cramped for your gorilla-sized hands, maybe the marginally larger a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/27/msi-rolls-out-ex300-ex400-laptops/"EX300/a will do the trick. The 13.3-inch laptop tips the scales at 4.5-pounds and includes a Core 2 Duo P7350 CPU, ATI's 256MB Mobility Radeon HD3450 GPU, WiFi / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a 3-in-1 card reader and a 2.0-megapixel webcam. You can claim one now at a variety of fine e-tailers for $999. Full release is after the break.pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msi-ships-999-13-3-inch-ex300-laptop/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMSI ships $999 13.3-inch EX300 laptop/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msi-ships-999-13-3-inch-ex300-laptop/"MSI ships $999 13.3-inch EX300 laptop/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:06:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msi-ships-999-13-3-inch-ex300-laptop/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390390/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msi-ships-999-13-3-inch-ex300-laptop/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fHDIVO39XoZGwDOxrX35fijBoJk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fHDIVO39XoZGwDOxrX35fijBoJk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=G9ubjSfN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=G9ubjSfN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=790sCjwX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=790sCjwX" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/44Rl4rqyMB8" height="1" width="1"/

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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...


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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...

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OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been released. In addition to improvements in ZFS, DTrace, IPS (the new OpenSolaris package manager) and the other OpenSolaris specialties, it also ships with a host of other OSS goodies: Gnome 2.24, Firefox 3, CherryPy, MySQL, DTrace for Ruby and many more. This new release targets developers and desktop users as well as traditional server roles. Download the live cd and give it a spin. Release notes here.

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a hi