We knew netbooks were all the rage, but this confirms it. Out of nowhere, Hannspree–a company better known for lower-end televisions and general dodads that typically go unnoticed in the mainstream gadget realm–has issued its very first netbook. Has the world gone mad? Not until we see a netbook from Toyota. Anywho, the Hannsnote netbook is a pretty average fellow, with a typical 10″ LCD, 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor (you know, that CPU that’s in pretty much every single netbook ever made) as well as a 1024

Sony hasn’t sold a PS3 that offered a hardware-level backwards compatibility mode in several years, but with the announcement of the PS3 Slim, fans of the feature were hopeful it might reappear in the new, slimmed-down version. Ars Technica recently had the chance to sit down and talk with Sony’s director of hardware marketing John Koller, and the company executive was quick to dismiss any notion that backwards compatibility would reappear. “It’s not coming back, so let me put that on the table,” Koller told

It’s not the first example of end user review gaming, (anyone recall the Belkin Amazon.com review “scandal” from January?) and there’s no reason to believe there isn’t a lot more of this going on than you might think. In fact, a leaked document shows end user review gaming is happening in the App Store. Reverb Communications is a PR firm that specializes in video games on several platforms. Their site describes the advantages of Reverb thusly: At Reverb Communications, we specialize in launching new videogame

Nokia’s much-hyped XpressMusic 5800 was met with high expectations. It was the company’s first foray into the full touchscreen world with Symbian S60, and hopes were high that it would really rival the iPhone and other touch alternatives in HTC, LG and Samsung’s lineup. Unfortunately, the North American version had some pretty significant issues, and even though Nokia eventually cleared most of them up, it was still widely viewed as a lackluster first attempt. That said, the 5800 Navigation Edition certainly

We encountered not only Booth Babes, but more CosBabes and even CosDudes in costume at BlizzCon 2009. In fact there were so many CosPeople that it was hard for us to just narrow down the top ones that we saw, so we gathered together 20 CosBabes and a few CosDudes for you to take a peak at if you couldn't make the show.

BlizzCon 2009 may be over, but we are just now able to wrap our heads around what we have seen over the weekend. The Legit Reviews staff was hard at work testing Blizzard's next-gen game titles and each piece of equipment the hardware vendors brought to the 26,000 attendees. We wanted to share this in-game video of the upcoming title, Starcraft II.

Showing the new title from Blizzard Entertainment – Starcraft II. This is a video that shows what the real graphics and in-game play will be like.

It’s a topic we cover often because it’s near and dear to our hearts. It’s battery life, and it’s finally starting to get the attention that is has long deserved in the industry. We’ve seen article after article point out that battery life claims on laptops are flawed in one way or another, and AMD’s own Pat Moorhead is stepping forward this week with some facts and figures to back that up. For whatever reason, AMD has taken a strong, vocal stance against shoddy battery life claims. They’ve had it with PC manufacturers

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Blizzard Entertainment has released in-game video from their newest role-playing-game franchise, Diablo III. During this weekend's BlizzCon 2009, Legit Reviews was able to not only play the latest title, but grab this in-game video:

BlizzCon 2009 In-Game video of Diablo III featuring the newest character class, The Monk.

Let’s be clear, this is a way to try, not indefinitely use different versions of Windows 7 from one DVD or .ISO image. A small tweak will allow users tech-savvy enough to get a taste of all the versions of Windows 7. Now, why do you need a little technical expertise? You need to remove a file from the DVD or from the .ISO image. As Windows Secrets notes, all you have to do is delete the ei.cfg file. To make things easier for you, the ei.cfg file is in the sources subdirectory (WS didn’t indicate its location).