News Bits: HP 2710p Review, AA Puts Wi-Fi on Planes, Crysis Coming Nov. 16

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HP 2710p tablet PC full review

Tiffany Boggs at our sister site TabletPCReview.com has done a full review of the new HP 2710p tablet PC. The 2710p has sturdy build quality and a sleek design. It features an Ultra Low Voltage Core 2 Duo processor and an LED backlit widescreen display.

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American Airlines first US-based airline to test WiFi in-flight

In 2008, American Airlines will test AirCell in-flight broadband service on 767-200 transcontinental flights. The service will be available to all passengers for a fee. There will be three antennas on the outside of the plane to transmit 802.11a/b/g signals. Nothing has been said about widespread adoption.

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The word on Clevo's Type IV MXM video card module

MXM-Upgrade.com is running an article focused on Clevo's MXM Type IV (HE) graphics card module. Clevo is a second-tier Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebooks; they are most widely known for their gaming models. The author notes that Clevo does not use the standard MXM format but has second thoughts about their Type IV module seen in their latest notebooks. He suspects that Clevo might be using a larger MXM form factor in their largest notebooks.

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LED backlighting to be in 25% of notebooks in 2008

LED-based backlighting will be in 25% of notebooks shipped in 2008 according to the general president of Coretronic's BLU business, Fred Huang. The company started shipping LED-based backlighting units for notebooks in June of this year and does not expect LED BLUs to account for more than 5% of its notebook applications this year.

LED backlighting is still two to three times more than that of traditional CCFL backlighting. Coretronic is sourcing white LEDs from Taiwan to reduce costs.

Read More (DigiTimes.com)


Crysis to be released on November 16

Electronic Arts and Crytek have announced that Crysis will be released on November 16 in North America and Europe. According to Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek, &quot;It's going to be worth the wait.&quot;
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Wow that's so cool about the Wi-Fi on planes. I was on a plane last week wondering if there would ever be internet on planes. (Have you guys heard about google going wireless across the country for free?).

Also, Crysis coming out in November sounds good to me! As I remember, an 8600m GT 256 will run Crysis fine, right? I swear I remember reading that somewhere.

 

Hi Guys,

I forwarded the article to someone at nVidia. He was a bit hesitant at first but maybe he spoke to some people internally. Anyways, he now confirmed there is a Type IV in the works, but they could not communicate it because it was not final yet.

So, Clevo is not leeching on the standard, they were just early

That doesn't explain why the card does,'t boot though. I guess I need to look into this in a bit more detail.

Ice-Tea