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Good news: Dell Adamo $500 cheaper. Bad news: It’s $1,499

Tempted to upgrade yet?

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For those tempted to give in to Dell’s vision of thin-and-sort-of-light luxury, the Dell Adamo laptop has been lowered in price by half a thousand dollars; $1,499 gets you the 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo version of the 13.4-inch …

By Scott Stein

Tales of PC gaming’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Who are you calling dead?

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We’re really having this discussion again? Should we just refresh this article every year to correct for the misguided interpretation of NPD’s U.S. retail sales figures?

The “death of PC gaming” has become reliable column and blog fodder for tech journalists. Perhaps it stems from lingering bitterness over time wasted editing Warcraft batch files in DOS 6.0. Regardless, you shouldn’t take the idea seriously.

To prove it, we won’t even lean on that most tempting pillar of PC gaming, the 12 million-strong World of Warcraft monthly subscription-paying player base. Instead we’ll point to a report by Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Kieron Gillen from Britain’s Develop 09 conference, specifically from a presentation on digital distribution.


By Rich Brown

Gateway joins $299 Netbook club

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The $299 Netbook club is getting a little bit bigger with the announcement of Gateway’s 10.1-inch LT2000. Gateway calls it “a sleek and compact,” system that will, “let mobile customers maximize their time on the go to stay connected and productive.” We call it a Gateway-branded version of corporate-cousin Acer’s popular Aspire One (also available for $299).

Like the Acer models, the Gateway LT2000 supports some basic multi-touch gestures on its touchpad, and it will be available in red and black (sorry, that’s actually “NightSky Black and Cherry Red”).

Look for it to be available to order starting today. Click through for more pics and specs….
By Dan Ackerman