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Monday, July 14, 2008
Dell to spruce up its corporate laptops
Dell is planning to add a bit more style and a few new technologies to its line of business notebooks.
A recent peek at the new Latitude laptops showed a black, textured exterior, an edgier shape and a logo offset to the side instead of the middle. (Please pardon the amateur photography from yours truly…)
The laptops almost certainly will carry the new Intel Centrino 2 chipset expected to be released tonight. Few other details on the new laptops were forthcoming.
Separately, Dell said today it will offer a download to facilitate multi-touch capability on its XT tablet computers, and said it would start selling 128-gigabyte solid-state drives in its high-end notebooks.
Because of their durability, solid-state drives are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to traditional hard drives with spinning disks. Dell will begin selling the 128-gigabyte version for $649 in its corporate notebooks. It will add them to its Alienware gaming systems next week, the company said.
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Apple sells 1 million 3G iPhones even with the first day hassles
Apple sold 1 million 3G iPhones in its first three days, the company says.
Not bad considering it took 74 days to reach that total in the iPhone’s initial rollout. Then again it wasn’t sold in 21 countries the first time around either.
That puts 7 million iPhones in circulation, and moves Apple closer to its goal of 10 million by the end of the year.
In addition, Techcrunch.com says there were also 10 million applications downloaded. Of the 800 applications available, 200 are free.
The big weekend occurred despite a major hassle on Friday at Apple and AT&T outlets. There was a global problem with Apple’s iTunes servers that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store.
Instead, employees told buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers.
It was a tough pill to swallow after they stood in line before daybreak to be among the first customers in the store.
