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Sporting a 1920 X 1200 resolution 20″ widescreen, the Lieberman Olympus notebook is one monster of a laptop.  The rest of the specs are nothing to cough at either.

• 20.1″ widescreen - 1920×1200 resolution OLED
• Single or Dual Core desktop processor up to 4.50GHz
• PCI-Express architecture
• 4GB DDR SDRAM
• Built-in 3 megapixel camera
• 1066 MHz BUS
• Dual SLI Nvidia graphics (upgradable)
• 7-1 card reader
• Instant-On technology
• PuRAM Solid State system drive
• Dual internal SATA hard drives
• Dual Blue-Ray and HD-DVD optical drives
• 5 enhanced speakers plus subwoofer
• PAL/NTSC HDTV internal tuner
• Digital audio
• Dual 64 bit PCI-Express CardBus
• Firewire 800
• USB2
• Gigabit LAN
• 108g turbo wireless
• Bluetooth
• High speed infrared
• Quad DVI output
• S-Video out

Certainly a monster of a notebook that would make any SuperGeek drool.   Without any announced release date and a price tag that could surpass the $10,000 mark, it may be only something to drool over instead of actually use. Of course, we here at SuperGeek would love to get our hands on something like this to test out.  We can only imagine the fun we would have giving this things tires a kick.

Technorati Tags: widescreen notebook, widescreen, 20 inch screen, 20″ notebook, liebermann olympus

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Whoa!  This is a little interesting.  Not exactly a non-reliable source either.  I can’t begin to fathom what exactly it could mean to the industry if this were to ever go through.  Of course, Skype would certainly be integrated into Windows.  That might be alright for a while.  I don’t really see much integration with eBay except for the mentioned integration with the Live Search.  Added exposure for certain.  Could also make for interesting integration of both Skype and Ebay into MSN Spaces.

One question that comes to mind is how much is eBay worth.  They just paid a bucket load for Skype and that was a minor drop in their total value.  This would almost certainly be a deal in the billions.  I also would like to ask why we haven’t heard anything else about this in the few weeks that they have been talking. Could be a lotta smoke and mirrors but, the nypost is normally a pretty good source for not following rumors around.  We’ll have to keep our ears to the ground and see if/what everyone else is saying.

Technorati Tags: ebay, microsoft, merger, buyout, msn, yahoo, google

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I’ve been trying to access my gmail since at least 8:00 pm tonight. Each and every time, I get a server error. At first it was simply a generic error and now it is a “we’re working on the problem” error message.

So what happened Google? DDOS attack? Wouldn’t think that could take down a google service, but you just never know. Maybe Google has finally spread it’s server farms a little too thin. The rapid expansion of the Google services and usage could account for a minor glitch in the servers if the load became too high. Not very likely, but possible.

My guess? An upgrade gone wrong. Either that or somebody tripped over the fibre and pulled it out of the socket.

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ZDNet is showing some rather interesting phenomena that may point to Yahoo having bought Technorati.  Appearantly, while surfing through technorati, the user hit the back button only to get a Yahoo 404 message while still on the technorati domain.  Interesting.  Could point to the technorati pages being migrated over to the Yahoo servers.

Of course, it could just be a browser bug.  I still wouldn’t be surprised if we heard some announcements sometime soon.

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Barry Gerber over at TomsHardware.com has a great piece on why you would want a PDA phone over a smart phone.  The article is a bit long, but that is only because Barry walks us through a lot of good, useful information.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

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Washington Post published a list of the top web domains from February 2006.(via A Venture Forth)

A couple things struck me immediately.

One.  The top 4 sites are search engines.  When people want to find something online, they go to a search engine.  It only makes sense that the top sites would be search engines. On a side note, #’s 3 and 4, MSN and AOL should be thrown out as anyone who uses their ISP services is forced to use those sites as a homepage.  Thus, each and every one of their users counts as a unique visitor.  Kinda unfair if you ask me.

Two.  Never underestimate usage’s ability to boost traffic.  Ebay, Hotmail, MySpace are high user usage sites.  It makes sense that they are this high.  Side note here is that Google and Yahoo are not necessarily user usage sites as you don’t usually need to be a user of the site to use the main function.

Three.  The ability of a site like Myspace, Wikipedia, Blogger and the like to rise from nowhere is amazing.  Gives new meaning to the phrase “if you build it they will come.”

Where will these companies be on this list next year?  Will Google overtake Yahoo?  Will MSN?  Or will a darkhorse come out of the shadows and overtake them all?  Perhaps thatedeguy.com will be that darkhorse?  Ok, maybe not.

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The OpenCD is a useful tool for getting people to experience open source software. The CD comes with a variety of open source programs from productivity to design which can be run from windows. It also includes a live version of Ubuntu to allow a person to experience a Linux operating system.

If you haven’t tried it out yet, feel free to download the .iso file and burn it to a blank CD. A number of these programs I already had found individually and use - but even I found a few new ones that were very useful. (This blog post was typed on Notepad2, a nice customizable text editor. Also great for script writing.) At the very least, check out the list of software for ideas of what you might find useful.

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Well, we’ve been around for a little while and have only had a few minor tweaks of our design.  This weekend marks the first major upgrade to the banner across the top and several other little design tweaks to the sidebars and such.  Please visit and take a look see.  Tell us what you think!  What would you like to see changed more?  What shouldn’t we have changed?  We want to hear Your opinion.

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