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Yet another online advertising fiasco is unfolding down under. As Apple is believed by all to be inching closer to the much awaited and needed Mac Pro and MacBook Pro updates, online adverts in Australia showed up with weird prices. This heightened the frenzy that was already surrounding this highly anticipated update.

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The term ‘desktop replacement’ has been around for quite some time now but there has been a serious gap in the category for those professionals who want a (comparatively) mobile solution that will allow them to work uncrippled. Visual artists have faced this problem the most since visual processing is very demanding and requires a selection of features that are not really required by mainstream users. Even though it is meant to be a business notebook, with the Dell Precision M4500 it looks the age of the mobile visual artist is finally, erm, coming of age? Read on for all the juicy details.

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Here’s one for the professionals out there who need extremely high speed storage. Crucial has started shipping its C300 SSD’s. These are 2.5″ SSD’s and hence meant for those who want to swap out HDD’s from their laptops and put in fast SSD’s instead. These C300 drives have a read speed of up to 355MBps and they come it sizes of 128GB and 256GB.

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Well, here’s another example of bad controlled leaks/bad control of accidental leaks. There’s a new Studio series laptop starring right beside the Studio 1749 Touch on Dell’s own online catalogue. So this isn’t an accidental leak by a partner either, this is Dell itself. There are no mentions of this new model anywhere else, so it has to be treated as an accident.

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While the name will remind people of certain fictitious alien robots that change shape, NVIDIA’s Optimus technology is something that works on improving graphics performance on notebooks without straining the battery. The basic premise of this technology is that it switches between integrated and full blown graphics options as required and it does it at a hardware level. This basically means you are not frying your battery while simply editing a text document. Smaller graphics needs are handled by the integrated chip and the games are handled by the dedicated part. Asus has decided to use this technology in their latest consumer multimedia notebook — the N71JV-X1. They still can’t be bothered to come up with names that people can remember. Specs follow.

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Lenovo has updates its notebook offerings with two new G series models — the G445 and the G555. These models are imbued with the powers of the latest products from the house of AMD. That of course means that they are pretty fast and well equipped. There isn’t much known about them yet, as Lenovo did not mention much in the press release that it sent out. But as is usual with these things, the press release has enough to tantalize us.

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Well, we would really like to think so but GeekBench is hardly a place where you verify things and use it as a proof. However, if these are indeed the benchmark results of a new built of MacBook Pros, they are pretty darn good! And besides, the MacBook Pros are quite overdue for a upgrade anyway. I am talking about the 15 inch and 17 inch models of course. And if this is it, boy are we in for a treat.

This is supposed to be the new model because the internal naming of 6,1 for a MacBook Pro doesn’t exist yet. This signifies a major shift in the whole line up.

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This one’s a classic accidental leak or so you think. How a company as big as Intel manages to do this I do not know. But it was their Spanish branch, to cut them some slack here. Here’s what they did: Spanish Apple site Faq-Mac.com spotted a competition advert from Intel Spain that was showing off a Core i5 MacBook Pro as a Grand Prize. Pretty sweet I say!

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According to Alienware the Alienware M11X is the most powerful sub 12″ gaming laptop in the world. The M11X is powered by a Core2Duo and a 1 Gigabyte Nvidia 335 graphics card which provides enough power to play games like Crysis or Call of Duty in the laptop’s native 1366×768 resolution.

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Here we go folks. With the new year into full swing after the Nexus One event, the tech industry is abuzz with the next big release — the iSlate (the Apple Tablet’s purported name). Things have been racy as usual in rumorsville and I have tasty few treats for you to digest. There’s a possible date now (yes, the one you have heard already), a possible hint at what the Ui might be like and some more. Head over to the other side of the break to get them all in one place.

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