Despite having recently been handed the RTM version of Windows 7, Taiwan-based OEM PC makers have said they will not be able to start rolling out PCs with Windows 7 off their production lines until September, instead of mid-August as projected previously, since they are still waiting on tools from Microsoft as well as final validation tests from independent software and hardware vendors.

Industry sources pointed out that, although the major OEMs were given RTM copies of Windows 7 on or around July 24, ISVs and IHVs will not get access to the same code with which to complete final testing until August 6. But OEMs who want to include third-party software such as multimedia tools or anti-virus, etc., or drivers for specific hardware devices need to wait until after this time before they can begin to prepare their disk images. In addition, the OEMs said that they are also awaiting performance testing and system preparation tools from Microsoft.

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It’s hard to deny that the netbook market is largely stagnant. Even new machines joining the fray are forced to abide by Microsoft’s hardware limits if they use Windows XP, which means that you’ll be hard pressed to find a netbook with anything more potent than an Atom N270/N280, a hard drive larger than 160GB and more than 1GB of RAM. Always Innovation, however, has remained true to its name by inventing a somewhat different netbook in the form of the so-called “Touch Book.”This netbook is more of a tablet/netbook-in-one,

Reports of iPods with battery issues have been around for years. Reports have ranged from iPods catching fire to batteries exploding. This is just another example of such an incident, but in this case the family involved says that Apple wanted to them to sign a gag order in order to get a refund. According to the Times Online, Ken Stanborough, 47, dropped his 11-year-old daughter Ellie’s iPod touch last month. “It made a hissing noise. I could feel it getting hotter in my hand, and I thought I could see vapour”.

The M17x is Alienware’s current flagship gaming notebook. It features an anodized aluminum shell that is available in a variety of colors, including silver, black, and red, and its 17″ LCD sports a covering comprised of a shingle sheet of glass, that runs from edge-to-edge. The M17x also features ‘BinaryGFX’ technology which gives users have the ability to switch between discrete or integrated graphics and a ‘Stealth Mode’ in which the discrete graphics cards are turned off and other components throttle down

Is the Tablet PC really ready to make a comeback? With Apple’s rumored tablet inching closer to reality each and every day, we’ve got yet another entrant vying for attention. According to a new article in the Straits Times, a Singapore start-up company by the name of Fusion Garage has teamed up with TechCrunch’s own Michael Arrington in order to produce the world’s next tablet–or, at least the next one that anyone will bother to care about.The device will purportedly be called the CrunchPad, and according to

The Plantronics Voyager PRO is said to be one of the best noise-canceling Bluetooth headsets available on the market today. With two noise-canceling mics on a boom, an adaptive 20-band equalizer, and three layers of WindSmart technology it might really be the best noise-canceling headsets! Read on to find out if your callers will hear every word spoken despite the noise around you or if you'll be yelling like the buffoon you see at airports.

The annual PMA camera conference isn’t even close to happening again, but a slew of camera companies have seen fit to introduce new point and shoot models this summer. The latest of which appears to be Samsung, if a new teaser website is any indication of the company’s true intentions.The “Tap And Take” web portal just launched today, but it really doesn’t do a lot of explaining. Instead, Samsung has designed it to tease viewers for ten straight days until its newfangled “Smart Cameras” are officially unveiled

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire–right? Um, right–at least, we sure hope so! Just a week after we heard some pretty convincing rumors that Apple really was gearing up to give the whole Tablet PC thing a shot, along comes an even more believable report suggesting that a Barron’s analyst has not only confirmed that Apple will be producing a tablet, but that he has actually played with it.Now, we’ll be the first to admit that this whole thing sounds somewhat fishy. After all, when’s the last time Apple let an

We’ve been more focused on Hewlett-Packard’s latest assault on the notebook world than its LCD doings here lately, but this beauty was just too stunning to let slide under the radar. The ultra-sleek 2709m is a 27″ LCD monitor that offers a true 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, a 1920×1080 Full HD resolution, 5ms on/off response times, 400 nits of brightness and a 1000:1 contrast ratio. It also supports 92% of the color gamut, arrives with integrated 2-watt stereo speakers and touts a VGA port, DVI-D socket and