Freakn' Sweet » Laptops http://www.freaknsweet.com Curing TV Face one geek at a time. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:48:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Give Your MacBook the All Natural Look http://www.freaknsweet.com/gear/give-your-macbook-the-all-natural-look/ http://www.freaknsweet.com/gear/give-your-macbook-the-all-natural-look/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 03:13:33 +0000 cwhitmore http://www.freaknsweet.com/?p=3770

Hippies and outdoors people will rejoice over this.  At least I know I will….  I’m a huge fan of using natural wood (first of all, wood) in design and the people at Karvt have definitely impressed me with these Wood MacBook Skins ($35).  You can get these 100% wood skins in a variety of  types such as Bamboo, Cherry, Maple, Pine or Walnut and since these are all natural each skins wood grain, patterns and knots will be unique.  They all look awesome but I think my favorite is the Chocolate Cherry.

While you’re busy drooling over the MacBook skins, be sure to check out Karvt’s wooden iPad skins too.

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For $80 you can let the guys over at TwelveSouth disguise your MacBook as a real book.  Hiding your laptop in an old book does have its security advantages.

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]]> http://www.freaknsweet.com/style/accessories/bookbook/feed/ 0 RIP CrunchPad. Sorry we never met :( http://www.freaknsweet.com/gear/rip-crunchpad/ http://www.freaknsweet.com/gear/rip-crunchpad/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:30:38 +0000 cwhitmore http://www.freaknsweet.com/?p=720 rip-crunchpad

One of my major obsessions over the last year has been the CrunchPad, a pet project by Michael Arrington.  Sadly yesterday he reveled on TechCrunch that CrunchPad is dead.

“It was so close I could taste it.”

That’s how Arrington started to tell the story of it’s a tragic end, as the tablet computer Crunchpad is in the Deadpool now.

The  unfortunate end to CrunchPad is not due to some technical issues or financial problems but the end is a result of greed, jealousy and miscommunication as told by Arrington. Crux of the story- Partner company Fusion Garage no longer wanted to go along with TechCrunch and wanted to sell CrunchPad on their own, under their own banner. Arringoton says that both TechCrunch and Fusion Garage hold the intellectual property of CrunchPad and TechCrunch solely holds the CrunchPad trademark. So, TechCrunch plans to file multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage and its stake holders. (Read the full melodramatic story here in detail by Arrington). The nature of the law suites is yet to be made public.

[via Tech Crunch]

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Have you ever gotten tired of using your laptop, well, on your lap?

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Have you been holoding out for that mythical iTablet?

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Today Apple updated its low-end consumer notebook, adding a slightly faster processor and a larger hard drive.

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Lenovo IdeaPad U350 and G550 – Marking its territory in the upcoming battle over the ultra-thin, ultra-cheap, better-than-netbook PCs, Lenovo announced the IdeaPad U350 and G550. The former (pictured) has a 13.3-inch display with ambient light sensing, a 1.4 GHz Core 2 Solo or two less powerful options, a 500 GB hard drive, up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, a GMA 4500M or 4500 MHD graphics set and an optional 8-cell battery for 10 hours of life. The G550 has a 15.6-inch display with a Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a hard drive of up to 320 GB, a DVD burner and either a GMA X4500 or GeForce G105M graphics card. The U350 will sell in July starting at $649, while the G550 goes on sale in June starting at $599.

Lenovo also announced the IdeaCentre C300 all-in-one, featuring a meager Atom 230 processor but a 20-inch display with up to 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and up to a 640 GB hard drive. You

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While Dell originally mentioned a TV tuner option back when it launched the Mini 10 in January, it’s still working on bringing the feature to market. The latest news is that the configuration will tack roughly $50 onto the price, includes an external antenna (which is only required in low-signal situations), and should be available “this summer.” The couple of channels we saw in action seemed plenty good on the quality front, but nothing groundbreaking. Meanwhile, we also got a look at the new Mini 10v, which swaps HDMI for VGA, lacks the flush “glass” styling of the Mini 10 display, and bounces over to the Atom N270 processor. The version we were looking at included a 6-cell battery (a $30 add-on), which added a considerable amount of lift at the back — it might be ergonomic, but it sure isn’t pretty. Unfortunately the TV option won’t be available for the 10v, so if you were holding out… maybe you should be spending more time with your family.

[via Engadget]

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Looks like Dell’s Stateside online store has put the new $299 Atom N270-powered Mini 10v (n

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