The verdict: Logitech takes the mouse prize with Darkfield sensor

The results were definitive in our pussyfoot head-to-head. Logitech's Performance Mouse MX and its newborn Darkfield device boldly went where Microsoft's Explorer Mouse and its BlueTrack device could not. We proven two assorted glass tabletops and Logitech's newborn pussyfoot tech had no pain maintaining communication integrity. Microsoft's pussyfoot obstructed dead. Logitech was also healthy to appendage every of the newborn surfaces Microsoft's BlueTrack blazed when it surpassed the traditional laser device at the modify of 2008. And patch Microsoft is right to point discover that its BlueTrack mice are acquirable for less, Logitech's $99 Performance Mouse MX not only gets you the prizewinning pussyfoot device on the market, it also blithely marries its wireless and rechargeable shelling technologies into a unseamed whole. Throw in a tiny USB earpiece that entireness with another Logitech products, Logitech's innovative variable-speed scroll wheel, and a host of multipurpose buttons placed around the easy design, and the termination is an Editor's Choice-winning product that we'd recommend to anyone who takes his or her screen signaling devices seriously. Read our analyse of the Logitech Performance Mouse MX.

Leaked Asus roadmap shows (surprise!) more Netbooks

Digital City No. 47: Installing Snow Leopard and the fallout from falling PS3 and Xbox 360 prices

Episode 47 of the Digital City, where we establish Apple's new Snow Leopard OS update; handle the current ammo of game housing toll cuts; check discover whatever Netbooks with HD displays; and encounter discover why Time Warner Cable's new "Mystro" cable box code update makes us poverty to give up on TV altogether. Related links: >>All things Snow Leopard >>New toll cuts upend housing continuance landscape >>Rise of the high-def Netbooks Watch the Digital City springy every Friday at 3pm EST on CNET Live! >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Facebook follower page >>Need more? Follow Dan on Twitter! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video)

Get a loaded Lenovo laptop for $399

For less than $400, the business-savvy Lenovo G550 features a full-size denotive keypad.(Credit: Lenovo)

MSI: Intel Core i7 processors coming to laptops next month

Duo converts laptops and monitors into tablet PCs

As consumers hold their respite for the rumored Apple tablet, KCI Communications has an immediate and possibly meliorate solution for those who can't wait to get touchy-feely with their screens. The Duo turns monitors and laptops 17 inches or small into a tablet. A small figure that acts as a "base station" clips onto the top of the monitor, continuously production up the user's signaling with the Duo pen. Lee Jae-jun, nous of research and utilization at KCI Communications, explains the technology: "The pen's coordinates are calculated by the turn of instance it takes for the infrared and ultrasonic waves to be echolike from the base station."

Digital City No. 46: Debating the PS3 Slim, plus how to get your free Windows 7 upgrade

Episode 46 of the Digital City, where we speaking the merits of the PS3 Slim, show how to intend your free Windows 7 upgrade, and handle newborn games from Batman: Arkham Asylum to GangStar for the iPhone. Related links: >>Skip the PS3 Slim and intend one of these Blu-ray laptops >>Should I acquire a newborn laptop now, or move for Windows 7? >>Are recreation handhelds likewise expensive? Watch the Digital City live every Friday at 3pm EST on CNET Live! >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Facebook follower page >>Need more? Follow Dan on Twitter! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video)

Hannspree's Netbook isn't giraffe-shaped (sniff)

Look familiar?(Credit: Hannspree)

Chance to Win a Mac Package for Back to School from iSkin!

Why should kids intend all the back-to-school fun? I may be a taste older to go into raptures over the 64-box of Crayolas, but who says I can't ease intend the tingles over the shiny and the colourful? What I need, obviously, is the grown-up equivalent of rise crayons.

iSkin to the rescue! More than overcompensating for the expiration of acceptableness of crayons in the room or workplace, their back-to-school oppose accolade collection is a doozy - MacBook, Mighty Mouse, iPod Touch and a selection of accessories all fashioned to send your intrinsic kindergartener into a swoon.

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Microsoft Webcam brings 720p HD wide-screen video to consumer marketplace

LifeCam Cinema(Credit: Microsoft )

Apple releases fix for MacBook Pro hard drive issues

Apple on weekday released a code update it said would mend a difficulty with its MacBook Pro line of portable computers that hit the 7200rpm 500GB hornlike drive. (Credit: Apple)

Thin, semiprofessional: IdeaPad U350 reviewed

Thin, light, nicely designed: the IdeaPad U350.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

Digital City No. 45: Apple tablet rumors, NFL games not named Madden, and music tech pioneer Les Paul

Episode 45 of the Digital City, where we discuss the latest Apple paper rumors and discover who besides EA has a authorise to display NFL video games. Plus, an approval of penalization school originator Les Paul. Related links: >>The Apple paper haw be low wraps until 2010 >>Can Gameloft's NFL 2010 for iPhone fall Madden? >>Les Paul, recording-tech pioneer, dies at 94 Watch the Digital City springy every Friday at 3pm EST on CNET Live! >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Facebook follower page >>Need more? Follow Dan on Twitter! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video)

Digital City No. 45: Aple tablet rumors, NFL games not named Madden, and music tech pioneer Les Paul

Episode 45 of the Digital City, where we handle the stylish Apple tablet rumors and discover who likewise EA has a authorise to display NFL recording games. Plus, an approval of music school originator Les Paul. Related links: >>The Apple tablet may be low wraps until 2010 >>Can Gameloft's NFL 2010 for iPhone fall Madden? >>Les Paul, recording-tech pioneer, dies at 94 Watch the Digital City springy every Friday at 3pm EST on CNET Live! >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Facebook follower page >>Need more? Follow Dan on Twitter! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video)

Rilakkuma Netbook: The best computers have bears on them

Some might call this a bear-y artful Netbook. Bear-y...get it? (Credit: Yeddo Mango )

Report: Apple shot ad for new product in diner

Secretive consort shoots secretive ad for secretive creation that probably doesn't countenance same this.(Credit: artilleryunit.com)

Keyboard for Apple tablet already here?

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Apple adds antiglare to 15-inch MacBook Pro

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Super Cute Bags for Your Bike!

I came across this enthusiastic place by Jan over on PoppyTalk (a enthusiastic journal on emerging designers, with a pore on handmade) about bags for your bikes - if you can't have the traditional basket.  She posted a number of photos from different designers.  This digit is my fav - it's the "Bicycle Bag" fashioned by Alexandra Cassaniti and available from OogaBooga for $96.

Dell's Mini 12 bites the dust (but the Mini 9 is still hanging on)

Digital City No. 44: We welcome The Shack, plus the world's greatest pancake-making machine

Episode 44 of the Digital City, where we recognize Radio Shack's re-branding as The Shack; speech most dismissed laptop-users existence banned from drink shops; and see most the world's coolest individualized pancake-making machine. Plus, remember that hacking your housing is ease illegal under some circumstances, so check it! Related links: >>We recognize our newborn colossus laptop overlords, manner of The Shack >>Meet the ChefStack >>Modder collar a reminder that most housing hacks are illegal Watch the Digital City springy every Friday at 3pm EST on CNET Live! >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Facebook follower page >>Need more? Follow Dan on Twitter! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video)

Have a Netbook? Looking for Sleeve or Case?

I got a newborn ACER shiny flushed netbook a some weeks ago. I adore it, but I've already damaged the cover because I was circularize it and the powercord in a sleeve that was likewise bounteous for it. Poor lowercase netbook. But I've scholarly my warning and am here to help you not attain the same mistake. I've started a Funky, Chic and Cool Netbook Sleeve lense over at Squidoo.

Now, I'm meet effort started, so you crapper expect to see more analyse there presently - but there are a few, including some super-cute sleeves from designers on Etsy! Please drop by!

The budget laptop dilemma: Go with a fixed config, or do it yourself?

The Gateway NV5807u: $599.(Credit: wife Tew/CNET)

Mimo 7-inch USB monitor goes clamshell

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