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The Inspiron Duo ships with a Blio powered reading app

March 26th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, hardware reviews

I’m working my way through installing reading apps on my Duo and I discovered that Dell’s strange little netbook convertible shipped with a reading app. It’s called Bookstage, and it’s powered by Blio. This isn’t much of a news item, but I haven’t seen it mentioned on other blogs. Engadget didn’t talk about it in [...]

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First Impressions of a Dell Inspiron Duo

March 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware reviews

So I ended up with an Inspiron Duo, and I have to say it’s a very pretty machine. I’ve been playing with it for a few hours, but I knew how I felt within minutes. Have you ever had one of those gut reactions: “Yeah, that’s just not going to work for me”? That’s how [...]

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Jolicloud hacked to run on Dell Inspiron Duo

March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, video

This video is about 2 months old, but it recently started turning up again on Twitter. The video doesn’t show much more that a basic proof of concept, but it’s still fascinating. Jolicloud is one variation of Linux, and it’s originally based on Ubuntu. It follows in the footsteps of Android in that it tries [...]

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Dell Inspiron Duo on sale for $400 – I think I’ll pass

February 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news

The Microsoft Store have Dell’s new convertible tablet on sale right now for $150 off retail. Curiously enough, Dell are still selling it for $550. The Duo is based on a 10″ touchscreen, and it’s running Windows 7 on a dual core 1.5GHz Atom CPU with 2GB Ram, a 1.3MP camera, SD card slot, Wifi, [...]

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New Dell Duo clone shows up in China

December 6th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Now that was fast. Newpad.cn got their hands on this new, still unnamed convertible tablet. (No, seriously, they have actual product photos, not just photoshops like the one at right.) This baby is based on a 8.9″ (1024×600) touchscreen with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, camera, Wifi, and a 160GB HD. It’s running Win7, [...]

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