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The end of 2009 is less than a two weeks away, and it’s only been a few short months since mobile computing enthusiasts were treated to the first netbooks making their way to retail shelves, with the likes of the early Asus Eee PCs and HP’s short-lived but strangely popular Mini-Note 2133 powered by Intel Celeron and VIA C7-series processors. Today, we’re already seeing a throng of netbooks in various shapes, sizes and colors available to buy, such as the Lenovo IdeaPad S10.

Lenovo may be a little later to market than most of the other laptop makers also keen to grab a slice of the netbook pie, but at the very least they’ve managed to produce a respectable product that also happens to be one of the better netbooks we’ve had the chance to play with so far.

Full write-up and oodles of pictures, all after the break.

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Imagine you’re a traveling salesman, and you’re finding it a little more than inconvenient to be pulling out your laptop for a presentation, only to discover that you can only handle so many people at one go at the local Starbucks, before they point out they can’t see what’s on the screen, or that the table’s a little too small to be crowding around.

Times like that, gadgets like the 3M MPro110 Pocket Projector could come in great handy. Battery operated, built using LCoS technology, fits into the palm of your hand; this is literally the smallest projector i’ve seen yet.

Quite recently made available on the sunny shores of Singapore, I had an opportunity to take the MPro110 out for a spin a day or two back, and here’s my take. A word of warning though, a great number of pictures lie waiting after the break.

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Awhile back, the internet was all abuzz over an Apple launch event, with pre-launch rumors swirling around that Apple would be introducing their refreshed lineup of laptop computers, a vague reference to a US$899 item listed in a US store’s inventory, as well as something called the ‘brick’.

As it turned out, the bulk of the pre-launch rumors proved correct. Apple had introduced new MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops, as well as an LED-backlit 24-inch Apple Cinema display (priced at US$899 over the United States), while the ‘brick’ proved to be a reference to Apple’s new way of manufacturing their laptop chassis, being milled out of entire blocks of aluminum.

Earlier today, journalists in Singapore had the opportunity to check out the new releases (for the most part) for ourselves, despite the fact that official specifications, images and whatnot were already available online since the launch in other parts of the world a couple of days ago. Nevertheless, this was a hands-on opportunity too good to pass up.

Unfortunately for us though, while the new and refreshed MacBook and MacBook Pro were both available for us to paw over, the new Cinema Display and MacBook Air weren’t.

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