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Photos: Asus G71V quad-core laptop

Crave Other specs include a 2-megapixel webcam with face recognition login, four USB ports, Dolby Home Theater surround sound, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 2GB of Intel Turbo Memory, Windows Vista Ultimate edition and Express Gate.

4 December 2008, 12:08

Spotify: Pure music-streaming win

Crave Spotify runs on both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X (10.4 is required). One email to the press department and a very short wait later and we had ourselves an invitation to the closed trial. The idea behind Spotify is that you download a very slender...

Tags: wait, account, clicking, listen

4 December 2008, 11:38

Windows 7 is not a service pack, Microsoft says

Crave The company is trying to make the case that the product won't break things that work with Vista, but at the same time trying to convince users it's a worthy upgrade. It's a minor release when it comes to incompatibilities," he said, adding that...

Tags: microsoft, case, upgrade, connect

4 December 2008, 9:49

Microsoft aims Windows 7 for Christmas 2009

Crave In a presentation on its rather secretive Velocity programme to improve PC quality, Microsoft director Doug Howe showed a slide saying that the Vista Velocity programme would continue through to next spring as Microsoft worked to improve Vista...

Tags: christmas, windows vista, testing, machines

7 November 2008, 10:00

Video: Hands-on Windows 7 alpha

Crave Our colleagues in the US have got their hands on an alpha version of the upcoming Vista replacement from Microsoft, Windows 7. The video also looks at the improved User Account control, to try and reduce the annoying pop-up messages you get in Vista.

6 November 2008, 12:19

Microsoft hails choice in Windows 7 as advantage over rival

Crave While Vista has largely been absent in the fast-growing netbook category, Windows 7 is aimed to work well on such low-end PCs -- a number of which are on display at WinHEC. Microsoft touted its new Windows 7 as having more choice than its rival...

Tags: machines, handle, beta, enable

6 November 2008, 10:00

Hands-on with Windows 7 touchscreen interface

Crave Microsoft, meanwhile, seems aimed at touch on the screen itself -- though trackpad makers such as Synaptics have added support for gestures that XP and even Vista laptops can take advantage of if their makers wish.

Tags: window, maker, developers, machine

4 November 2008, 9:36

Asus F6: The scent of a laptop

Crave Basic specs include Intel Core 2 Duo T9400, P8600 or P8400 processors, up to 4GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM, an Intel PM45 chipset, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Windows Vista, ATI Mobility Radeon Radeon HD3470, and hard drives up to 320GB in size.Both the Floral...

Tags: inspired, lid, radeon, smells

3 November 2008, 10:49

CNET UK Podcast 109: Windows 7 won't suck. Honest

Crave In the news, we were surprised to learn that Windows 7 is less annoying, and more stable than Vista. In fairness, those of us who use Vista on a daily basis don't really find it that annoying, but a multi-million pound Apple advertising campaign...

31 October 2008, 11:01

Photos: Windows 7 'quicker, less annoying' than Vista

Crave Microsoft today went into much more detail on Windows 7, successor to the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista. Make it less irritating, pleaseThe software maker has also tried to reduce some of Vista's other annoyances, such as the frequently...

28 October 2008, 16:59

Microsoft unveils Windows Azure

Crave Today, Microsoft plans to go into more detail on Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, due out by January 2010. Microsoft yesterday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centres.

Tags: developers, servers, windows vista, preview

28 October 2008, 13:33

Unreleased Windows 7 gets security patch

Crave Microsoft will be providing attendees of PDC 2008 on Tuesday with a pre-beta version of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft released a security patch on Monday for software that won't be available publicly until today at the...

Tags: windows vista, beta, pre, patch

28 October 2008, 9:42

Zepto Nox A15: Like a black MacBook, only cheaper

Crave Prices start at around £500, but our £774 model came with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 running at 2.26GHz, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi and 64-bit Vista Ultimate. When Zepto, Denmark's only finest laptop maker, said it was sending us...

Tags: lid, vista ultimate, wi fi, ram

27 October 2008, 14:50

Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo M9410: 1999 called, wants laptop back

Crave Plus it comes with both Windows Vista and XP, thanks to Fujitsu Siemens' TwinLoad system. We cracked open the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo M9410 this morning and almost forgot what year we were in. You might not be able to tell from the picture, but...

Tags: keyboard, siemens, fujitsu, fujitsu siemens

20 October 2008, 10:35

Crave Podcast 107: Let's spam the universe

Crave We also dealt with the interesting news that Microsoft would be using Windows 7 as the official product name for its new version of Vista. This week's Crave Podcast crew -- Ian, Rich and Nate -- were scrabbling around for stuff to talk about, but...

Tags: podcast, crave podcast, crave podcast lounge, cinema display

17 October 2008, 11:37