Today’s deal is a double deal that gets you the Dell Inspiron 620s Slim Tower, a 20″ LCD, AND an Inspiron Duo Netbook. Better still, they all ship for free. That’s right, you get a desktop, a 20″ monitor AND a netbook and you save big in the process. The base configuration starts at just $699.99. It comes with 4GB RAM, a 500GB Hard Drive, Intel HD graphics, Wireless-N, 15 Months McAfee, Keyboard and Mouse, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS and more. It is also available in the Inspiron 620 Mini Tower form factor. A desktop and a netbook for under $700. Now that’s a Gear Deal!

Gear Deal: Dell Inspiron 620s Slim Tower Pentium 2.6GHz

Dell Vostro 3550 PLUS Inspiron Mini 1012

One of our all-time favorite New Gear Daily Deals is back!! For a limited time you can get a powerful Dell Vostro 3550 laptop AND an Inspiron Mini 1012 netbook at a huge savings. The market value is just under $1600 but you’ll pay hundreds less with this deal AND you’ll have a small, light netbook to grab and take with you on the go. It is a great productivity combination for work, school or just about anything else.

The Vostro™ 3550 laptop is designed for small business and

packed with the features you need to stay connected and in control. Its 15.6″

It has been a while since I looked at ZaReason’s Terra HD Netbook.  I liked that one, but the integrated Intel graphics still held it back from those netbooks that are now shipping Nvidia Ion or Ion 2 cards for graphics.  Today I am checking out one of ZaReason’s smaller netbooks, the Teo Pro.

The Teo Pro is yet another netbook running Ubuntu Linux and equipped with the venerable Atom N450.  In fact, spec wise the Teo Pro is almost identical to the Terra HD except that the Teo Pro has a 10.1 inch 1024×600 LCD and one less USB port.  Everything else in the loaner they sent me is equivalent to the Terra HD… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Judie attended Intel’s Upgrade Your Life event last week and wrote all about it in this post: Intel’s “Upgrade Your Life” Event. She came away from the event with an Acer Aspire One Happy Netbook. The Netbook has a 10.1″ screen, an N570 Atom processor, 1GB DDR3 RAM and a 250GB drive. We asked readers to pick three posts and retweet them. We picked one comment from among those “retweeters” as our winner. And the Acer Aspire One Happy Netbook is going to…

MarioBrotha

Congrats MarioBrotha. Contact us here with your address and other contact information and we’ll get it to you!!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

New Gear Daily Deal: Vostro 3550 with Inspiron Mini 1012

It is time to start thinking about going back to school and with this New Gear Daily Deal you can make sure you or the student in your life has all the tool s/he needs. Imagine this- you are working on a paper in your dorm on your blazing fast Vostro 3550. Suddenly you need to get to the library fast. Sure, you could grab the Vostro but with its 15.4″ screen it is more computer than you need and, well, it isn’t exactly light. Instead you grab your Inspiron Mini 1012. It is small and light but still has all the power you… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

For a brief time it looked like netbooks would own the computing world. After all, they were small, light, inexpensive and “fast enough”. Then the iPad came along and ruined their day. Yes, the iPad did a number on netbook sales (and it looks like “standard” laptops are now being hit too!). That does not, however, mean there isn’t a place for netbooks. After all, they are still “small, light, inexpensive and ‘fast enough’”. And HP’s Mini 110 is today’s Gear Deal.

Yes, the updated 10.1″ HP Mini 110 Atom Netbook is normally $299.99 but thanks to our Gear Sponsor you can get it for just $224.99. In addition, the netbook will ship for free and… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Why buy a laptop when you can get two laptops for the price of one? That’s today’s New Gear Daily Question.

That’s right, this deal will get you a powerful 15.6″ Dell Latitude E5510 laptop AND a Dell Mini 10 Netbook. That means you can work on a nicely sized powerful computer at home or the office and then grab the Mini 10 when you need to run. OR You can keep the Latitude E5510 and give the Mini 10 to someone and make their day. Either way you get a great deal.

How great is this deal you ask? The Latitude E5510 and Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook have a starting cost of… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

The impressive Motorola Atrix just launched on AT&T. To refresh your memory, the Atrix is the phone Francis and I saw at CES and I (embarrassingly) gushed over. The Atrix features a Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor, has a 4′ glass 540 x 960 display, and runs Android 2.2 Froyo and Webtop. The super-phone has an accelerometer, dual cameras (VGA front, 5MP back), 1GB RAM and up to 48GB storage. Talk time is expected to be 9 hours.

All of that makes the Atrix impressive, but what makes it truly “gush-able” are the laptop and desktop docks that turn the phone into a netbook or a desktop computer. That’s right, plug the phone into the… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

These days it is all about the apps. There are apps for iOS. There are apps for Android. There are apps for Windows Phone 7. Now there are apps for Macs, and thanks to Intel, there are apps for netbooks … and a great new way to find what’s out there.

Intel’s AppUp is “Your source for netbook apps”. It is a great resource for anyone who has a netbook, and it is worth checking out even if you don’t.

AppUp is… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Did you miss something over the past week? As things slow down for the weekend, here is your chance to catch up on some of the posts you might have missed that we thought might be of interest…

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The Wilson Electronics SignalBoost DB Pro Cell Phone Signal Amplifier Review

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iPad App Review: Interruption

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Today’s Gear Deal brings us the 8″ Sony VAIO P netbook. The Vaio P is small in size but big on features. It has an LED-backlit LCD with 1600 x 768 resolution, a built-in webcam, a card reader, 802.11n WiFi, 128GB of SSD space, Bluetooth, 2GB RAM, and more. Its long, thin design allows it to have a generous keyboard with isolated or “island” keys and, of course, it runs Windows 7.

The Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle netbook is…

so light and slim, you might not even know it’s there. About as thin as most cell phones, this 1.3-pound (with standard battery) PC is a cinch to tote. And though it may be small

While I still have a few netbook games to finish up reviewing, I have come to realize something: between the iPad and the Alienware m11x I no longer have any interest in using a netbook. Indeed, I have handed off my last netbook, the Lenovo s10 I have been using for the entire Netbook Gamer series. One reason I started The Netbook Gamer was misinformation from folks saying two different things: first that ‘it played on my old Compaq laptop so it should play on your netbook’ when in fact the netbook presents a unique set of hardware and screen resolution challenges that really needed to be explored. And second I wanted to combat the idea… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

I was selected to be one of a group of bloggers who’ll get the use of an ASUS Eee PC 1008 netbook for a year. This isn’t quite the typical netbook though, as this is a “Seashell Karim Rashid Edition” … and before you ask, no — I had never heard of Karim Rashid until I saw his name attached to this netbook. With that said, this is easily one of the most intriguing case designs I’ve ever seen.

The entire surface of the netbook is covered in Karim Rashid’s soft-touch “Techno-chic Digi-wave design”, and instead of being the type of shiny finger-print gathering plastic laptop case that I can’t stand, this… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

It’s been a little while since Intel and Nokia came together to merge Moblin and Maemo together to create the MeeGo project.  Moblin started out as a project by Intel and the Linux Foundation to produce a Linux-based OS, interface and application stack for mobile internet devices.  In February of 2009, they merged with the Maemo project that was used by Nokia in the Nseries tablets like the N770, N800, N810 and the N900 smartphone.  Intel was nice enough to send me a Lenovo S10-3t convertible netbook with MeeGo preloaded so I could get a look at the state of MeeGo in version 1.1.  MeeGo has… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

The past year has seen interesting developments in the gear we all use: the term iOS replaced iPhone OS as the OS that started on iPhone was also on the new iPad when it took the world and Gear Diary writers by storm, Android phones blossomed and became real competitors to the iPhone, and the iPad got its first real competition in the Samsung Galaxy Tab just a few months before 2010 drew to a close.  While there’s much more that happened in the past year, I thought let’s ask the following questions of the Gear Diary Team.

1. What was your favorite gear in 2010 and why?