Cooler Master touts world’s smallest 95W laptop adapter

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In the neverending quest to shrink down the size of notebook power adapters, Cooler Master tosses its hat into the ring with the pretty-small SNA 95. It’s a 95-watt adapter with some thoughtful extras like a USB charging port, cable management base, and nine different power tips for widespread compatibility with most notebook manufacturers.

Cooler Master claims to have “the smallest 95W adapter in the world” at 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches and, indeed, the short, flat, and wide body shape may allow it to slip more easily into backpacks and briefcases. That is, of course, assuming you leave the above-pictured cable management dock at home.

The SNA 95 is available online at Sundial Micro for $70 — I couldn’t find it anywhere else after a quick search but Cooler Master products are found all over the place so it may just be a matter of time as this is still a new-ish product.

Cooler master touts world’s smallest 95W laptop adapter

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In the neverending quest to shrink down the size of notebook power adapters, Cooler Master tosses its hat into the ring with the pretty-small SNA 95. It’s a 95-watt adapter with some thoughtful extras like a USB charging port, cable management base, and nine different power tips for widespread compatibility with most notebook manufacturers.

Cooler Master claims to have “the smallest 95W adapter in the world” at 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches and, indeed, the short, flat, and wide body shape may allow it to slip more easily into backpacks and briefcases. That is, of course, assuming you leave the above-pictured cable management dock at home.

The SNA 95 is available online at Sundial Micro for $70 — I couldn’t find it anywhere else after a quick search but Cooler Master products are found all over the place so it may just be a matter of time as this is still a new-ish product.

 

In the neverending quest to shrink down the size of notebook power adapters, Cooler Master tosses its hat into the ring with the pretty-small SNA 95. It’s a 95-watt adapter with some thoughtful extras like a USB charging port, cable management base, and nine different power tips for widespread compatibility with most notebook manufacturers.

 

Cooler Master claims to have “the smallest 95W adapter in the world” at 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches and, indeed, the short, flat, and wide body shape may allow it to slip more easily into backpacks and briefcases. That is, of course, assuming you leave the above-pictured cable management dock at home.

The SNA 95 is available online at Sundial Micro for $70 — I couldn’t find it anywhere else after a quick search but Cooler Master products are found all over the place so it may just be a matter of time as this is still a new-ish product.

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NPD: Consumers Are Dissatisfied with Netbooks

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A new survey shows that a lot of consumers who buy netbooks may be dissatisfied with their purchases. In late spring, consultant NPD surveyed 600 online consumers to gage their impressions of the popular mini-laptops called netbooks.

The survey yielded some suprizing results: Sixty percent of consumers thought that netbooks would function exactly like regular laptops. As a result, only 58% of consumers who purchased a netbook instead of a laptop were satisfied with their purchase (as a point of reference, about 70% of regular laptop buyers were satisfied with their purchases).

One of the reasons is, consumers aren’t using their netbooks as intended, for light Web browsing and e-mail via Wi-Fi or 3G wireless networks outside the home. Some 60% of the netbooks purchased never leave the house, according to NPD. After making their purchase, many users realize the netbooks’ chips aren’t as fast and capable as those of laptops, and don’t support video as well.

Clearly, PC makers and retailers need to do a better job explaining the differences in capabilities between netbooks and regular laptops to consumers. After having played with an HP Mini netbook for the past couple of months, I can attest to the fact that netbooks are great — if used for what they were intended. I loved using mine to quickly check Hotmail or to watch a video off of YouTube. But try multitasking, such as downloading a photo or a document while streaming a video off of YouTube, and their performance falls off the cliff. Consumers need to be made aware of this before they make their purchases.

Competition Dell Inspiron Mini 10

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Filled with fabulous frocks, romance and laugh out loud comedy moments this is one "must have" that won't break the bank, allowing fans to get their fashion fix from the safety of the sofa. 

Based on the best-selling books by Sophie Kinsella, Confessions Of A Shopaholic stars Isla Fisher  as New York journalist and shopping addict Rebecca Bloomwood.

Unable to land her dream job at a top fashion mag, Rebecca gets a break as a columnist on a financial magazine edited by the dashing Luke Brandon (played by British actor Hugh Dancy). 

But as the debts mount up and the bailiffs move in, Rebecca realises she could lose everything.  Will she realise there's more to life than retail therapy and change her ways in time to keep her job and get the guy?

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In Retrospect, Bringing the Laptop Was a Bad Idea

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I took BART up to The City today to attend a World Fantasy Convention 2009 meeting. Because I got off to a late start, I had to the choice of getting to the razor-repair place before the meeting or having breakfast; I choose the latter for health reasons. Not much I can say about the meeting other than "it was a con committee meeting and we talked about a lot of organizational stuff, some of which affects me." After the meeting, I started walking down Market Street toward 5th when a streetcar happened to come along. As a Muni transfer is good for 90 minutes, I figured I could get two rides out of the system, so I paid my $1.50 (soon to be $2) and hopped on for the short trip. I then walked down to the appliance-repair place on Folsom Street.
As I sort of figured, the cost of replacing the battery on my razor -- it's soldered in to the chassis and is not something you can casually replace like a watch battery -- plus the cost of replacing the razor heads (which were due for replacement) plus the cost of another $10 BART fare in a few days to come get the razor when they'd finished working on it exceeded the cost of buying a new comparable model that uses the same lotion cartridges, so I bought a new razor from them. They offered to dispose of the old razor (the battery is supposed to be separately removed and disposed of as battery waste), and I rather thoughtlessly said yes. This was a mistake about which I didn't remember until later. It's possible to pick up the replacement batteries fairly cheaply online, and Lisa said that she'd wanted to take a crack at soldering a replacement if my trip to the repair shop didn't work out. I'm kicking myself now about that and hope that Lisa doesn't kick me too much about it when I admit to the brain cramp. The repair shop guy said that when the batteries start to wear out on that model, the motor usually fails not too long afterward, so maybe it's not a huge loss in any event, but it bugs me nonetheless. The now-discarded razor did last four years, which may not be too bad a run, although the razor before than went ten as I recall and still runs at need.
I then had lunch and decided to walk down Market toward the Ferry Building and the Embarcadero, planning to catch the next streetcar going my way. I got nearly all the way to Pier 39 before one came along, while eight went the other direction. Sheesh. And when one did come along, it only went about three stops before getting to Pier 39 and the end of the line. By then my transfer had run out, and I had the choice of paying another $1.50 or walking back downtown. I walked. I walked a lot. Right now there's over 11,000 steps on my pedometer. My blood sugar an hour after a big plate of pasta was a mere 78, so I didn't feel guilty at all about getting a venti Mocha at Starbucks, where I'm finally online for the first time since I got up here. That briefcase with the computer including the spare battery is heavy, and really there was no point in my having brought it along, but it does give me a chance to record my thoughts while I'm still thinking about it before tonight's SF in SF reading.
At one point I thought I might just go back to Fremont, but once I was up here and after all that time spent walking, I figured I might as well stay up here until the SF in SF event tonight and get "full value" from my travel day.
The people in this Starbucks are mopping the floor and looking anxiously at me, with ten minutes to closing, so I'll shut down here and get a move on.

NEW VAIO LAPTOP

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Sony’s gone and sparked a Blu-ray price war with its newest machine, the Sony VAIO NW, packing some impressive specs and BD-ROM for just over £500! Read on for the lowdown.

The Sony VAIO NW had the covers whipped off it in the US last night, and the 15.5-inch laptop promises a lot for a little. Inside the Sony VAIO NW you’ll find WXGA display, 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Radeon HD4570 graphics, 4GB of RAM, a 400GB HDD and the option of a large capacity 5.5 hour battery.

The major selling point though? You can buy the Sony VAIO NW with a plain old DVD drive, but for $880 (£535) you can nab a build kitted out with BD-ROM to belt out Blu-rays on the go.

We’re still chasing confirmation of a UK release and price, but the Sony VAIO NW is shaping up to be a tasty, and tastefully priced, future proofed desktop replacement, so check out the official shots in our gallery.

More than half of schools seen joining state laptop program

More than half of Maine's high schools plan to equip their students with Apple laptops as part of the state's Learning Technology Initiative, according to preliminary state data.

Sixty-four of Maine's 119 public high schools have signed or are planning to sign onto the program. The remaining 55 districts have declined to participate.

The Maine Department of Education expects to place an order with Apple for 60,000 laptops and then order additional machines as eight additional districts formalize their decisions, department spokesman David Connerty-Marin said.

Those 60,000 machines will also cover seventh- and eighth-grade students and the state's middle and high school teachers, who have received computers under the initiative since it began in 2002.

There's a chance the eight districts that have yet to formalize a decision ultimately won't participate in the laptop program, Connerty-Marin said. Some are waiting until the Department of Education has confirmed with federal officials whether schools can use a pool of federal funds called Title I to pay laptop leases. Others need their school boards to sign off on their intentions to provide the machines.

"Ultimately, districts will need to decide for their budgeting purposes," he said. "There will be a point at which they won't be able to have them for their students at the start of school.

"That doesn't mean they can't have them for the third week of school," Connerty-Marin added.

The expansion of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative to the high school grades has changed shape a number of times since Gov. John Baldacci unveiled the plans in March.

School districts initially faced a May deadline to decide whether they would participate in the program's expansion. But the decision deadline is on hold now as state education officials sort out what federal funds schools can use to pay for the machines.

Early program guidelines also required that school systems purchase laptops for all high school students. Now, program rules allow districts to lease laptops for only a portion of the student body.

Apple is charging $242 annually for each MacBook, equipped with pre-installed educational software.

The initiative also includes training for teachers on integrating technology into their instruction and wireless-network upgrades for schools.

2 arrested in Best Buy laptop burglary

Police pursue pickup from scene and recover 15 computers, officials say.

By EUGENE W. FIELDS

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

ORANGE – Police arrested two men and are looking for two others who are suspected of burglarizing the Best Buy electronics store at 2375 Tustin St. early this morning.

Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams said officers responded to an alarm call at the store at 2:25 a.m. and saw a pickup speeding away and two men fleeing on foot.

Officers pursued the truck, ending the chase less than a mile away at the intersection of Tustin and Bixby Avenue. Adams said 15 laptop computers were recovered.

"We have two in custody and the other two got away," Adams said. "We have information regarding the suspects that got away and our detectives are actively investigating."

The names of the two men in custody were not released, and Adams said that the police would not release descriptions of the others because the investigation is ongoing.

A call to the Best Buy corporate office was not immediately returned.

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