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This week in laptops

Crave presents this week's laptop news, in digest form.

Cheap laptops got their fair share of headlines this week, starting with the Intel Classmate PC, a low-cost laptop for schools in developing countries that costs $350 with a Microsoft operating system. Also $350 (after a $200 rebate): the Acer Aspire 3680, spotted at Circuit City by Laptoping.com. Maybe we should buy one for Matt Elliott, who is still waiting for his $150 Medison Celebrity laptop, now supposedly scheduled to ship around August 15.

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This week in laptops

Crave presents the week's laptop news, in digest form.

The thin-and-light Dell XPS m1330, announced at the end of June, finally started shipping this week, though not before hundreds of customers gave Dell the what-for in the comments section of the company's Direct2Dell blog. Alex Gurzen, Dell's senior vice president of consumer products, blamed the delay on multiple unanticipated manufacturing issues, including a shortage of parts. His excuse gained some credibility the next day, when electronics market researcher DRAMeXchange declared that laptop makers are facing a components shortage that likely will worsen in the third quarter.

In … Read more

This week in laptops

Crave presents the week's laptop news, in digest form.

Intel got mobile gamers talking with the announcement of the first Extreme Edition processor for laptops. The 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme X7800 features 4MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, plus the overspeed protection has been removed. And you thought the era of flaming laptops was over...

Actually, flaming laptops never left the headlines, as evidenced by reports that Toshiba is recalling 5,100 more Sony laptop batteries due to fire risk. And Mac users need not be smug: the head writer for The Late Show with … Read more