How can you help but be fascinated by the exceedingly thin Dell Adamo XPS? Even if you have a perfectly serviceable laptop, the thought of having something one centimeter thin to do the same job has to be intriguing. After the initial shock at seeing the form factor, my next thought was “Well, they can’t pack any good hardware inside that thing and it’s going to be ridiculously expensive, so I can forget about it.” Then Dell released the full specs and the pricing info, proving me wrong on both accounts. Great, now I want one again. Dell confirmed that the Adamo XPS would have a 13.4-inch LED-backlit screen capable of displaying widescreen in 720p HD. Inside there...

If you’re the kind of person who scoffs at ultraportables and netbooks, you just might be interested in the latest laptop to come from Acer. The Acer Aspire 8940 doesn’t bother with being compact, instead opting for an enormous 18.4-inch LED-backlit display. The screen isn’t the only impressive thing about this laptop, though. It’s got the guts to match. The Acer Aspire 8040 is packing the Core i7 quad-core processor recently released by Intel, so it can keep up with just about anything you want to throw at it. It also comes with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 500GB of storage and a Blu-ray disc drive. As if that isn’t enough, you even get the touch-sensitive media...

Today is a big day for Apple fans because Apple has updated its site to showcase the updated lineup of products. That includes quite a few new developments, including a multitouch mouse, Core i7 chips in the iMac, unibody LED MacBooks and an updated Mac Mini. Read on for the full rundown. Let’s start big and then work our way down to small. That means starting with the new iMacs, which are coming in 21.5- and 27-inch models with gorgeous displays that run all the way to the edge of the device (well, the glass part of the display, actually, not the pixels themselves). The display is LED backlit and the DisplayPort can make it behave as a second screen (why you’d want to do...

Remember gawking at the photos of the impossibly thin Adamo XPS that Dell unveiled earlier this month? Well now you can gawk at the incredibly thick price for the device. Dell has let a few more details about the device slip, including the news that this little wonder, a laptop 1 centimeter thick, will cost you $2000. Wow. Of course, you can’t expect anything cheaper than that. Getting all the components to pack into a frame that thin isn’t cheap. Lets’ be clear here, the Dell Adamo XPS is intended to be a luxury laptop. I’m betting Dell hasn’t been able to pack fantastic specs into that thin profile, so you won’t be buying it for the performance (if...

We’ve all grown so accustomed to hearing hyperbole from CEOs that we dismiss most of what they say as wild, promotional claims. Of course, that makes it all the more surprising when Acer’s president claimed yesterday the company would be shipping more PCs than Dell “very soon,” and it turned out to be true. The next day! He obviously should have appended that statement with a “No seriously, like tomorrow. I’m not kidding guys, stop snickering.” Acer President Gianfranco Lanci made the claim turned truth at a news conference in London. PC sales research from two separate firms, Gartner and IDC, have confirmed Lanci’s prediction today, with...