The Gear65 episode you’ve all been waiting for is finally here! This week we finally take a look at the ultra-thin Sony Vaio X, a machine that in my opinion is Sony building a right product. We can’t hide the fact that we really love this machine, so much so that we made a 2-part special! So grab some pop-corn, sit back and find out if you feel the same about this sexy machine as we did. (Don’t forget to click on to watch Part 2 of the video as well!!)

Link: Sony Vaio X

This week we take a new look at the special edition of the HP Mini 110, and discover why it deserves a second look despite the hard to pronounce name. If you’re interested in the HP Mini 110′s specs and design, do check out Gear65 #32.

Link: HP Mini 110 Tord Bootje

DK, Farinelli, Justin & Justin

Stories this week

[1:40] StarHub to offer iPhone
[7:55] Google investing in a mobile future with AdMob
[10:00] Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
[15:00] Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++
[23:10] ZiiLABS ZMS-08 offers Cortex A8-powered Full HD and Flash acceleration for netbooks
[30:20] Xbox 360 Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm hit Nov. 17
[36:10] Tech65 website was hacked on monday night
[38:00] HackerSpace.SG

[43:20] Byte of the week: Prezi

Using the Acronic TrueImage Home 2010 for Netbook from Mohd Hisham on Vimeo.

review crossposted from http://mhisham.org/?p=512

An edition of Acronis True Image Home 2010 optimized for netbooks. With Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition you can back up to and restore your data from different storage media.

The video that exhibits the ease with which I restored the Samsung NC10 netbook. The backup process intuitively ask for an external media, where in this case, I used a 2GB Sandisk Flash Drive and a Western Digital Elements160GB External HDD. Additional information that may interest you, when it comes to Netbook support for the Netbook edition, the processors supported are Intel’s Atom 230, 330, N270, N280, Z500, Z510, Z520, Z530, and Z540 chips or the VIA C7-M chip.

“How Much Will This Cost Me?”, you asked.

“How much does it cost to replace “… the video of your firstborn child and images from your best friend’s birthday party, your most successful sales-clinching documents and the spreadsheet that details the work you have done …”?”, I replied.

Acronis True Image Home 2010 series of product pricing can be located at http://www.acronis.com.sg . Do explore the site out, to see the products that will definitely add value and security to your home as well as the enterprise.

At the HP Fall 2009 launch event in Singapore, HP announced the HP Mini 311, a 11.3″ version of the HP Mini 110. This is also HP’s first netbook featuring the Nvidia ION graphics chip and an HDMI-out port.

Link: HP Mini 311

At the HP Fall 2009 launch event in Singapore, HP announced a special edition of the HP Mini 110. This netbook features a 3D imprint cover designed by Tord Boontje, and has newer software such as QuickWeb (instant web access without booting up) and Quicksync. This netbook will also feature Windows 7 starter edition.

Link: HP Mini 110 Tord Bootje

Some of the Tech65 crew were attending Twestival, the local tweet-up aimed at raising money for charity, when Daniel and Justin noticed an HP Mini 5101 on a table there. Without hesitation, we tried to dig up as much as we could regarding the HP Mini, and filmed it. Then we asked for permission…

This video was so ad-hoc, so unplanned that we had to rush through it as I didn’t have enough memory left in my camera. That’s why the video gets cut of abruptly at the end. Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks Melvin! And for those who were there, hope you had fun at Twestival!

Remember Sony’s ultra portable computer that they refused to call a netbook? The Vaio P? Well, they decided to admit that they were being silly to think that that’s the right way to build one and finally conformed to everyone else and built a more ordinary, yet still pretty good, netbook they call the Vaio W.

Link: Sony Vaio W

UPDATE: Read on for a second clip for this episode!

In this special edition of Gear65, we have 4 presenters talking about 2 netbooks! The new N310 and the N120 netbook by Samsung. What are these netbook’s differentiators? We’ll find out this week!

Links: Samsung N310, Samsung N120

This week we take a look at HP’s new netbook, and discuss how it’s different from it’s older brother, and from other netbooks in the market.

Specs: Intel Atom N280 (1.66Ghz), 160 GB Hard drive (5400 RPM), 1GB DDR 2 RAM, Built-in WiFi (B/G) but NO bluetooth (comes bundled as a USB dongle for the S$699 version). 10.1″ display, 5-in-1 card reader.

Link: HP Mini 110 (S$599 version without bluetooth dongle)

Daniel, Jerrick, DK, Nicole, Justin

Stories this week:

[03:00] Starhub’s Prepaid Mobile Broadband Plan
[07:40] Windows 7 RTMed
[13:30] Jolicloud (A Netbook OS designed for the Cloud) Alpha-ed
[20:20] Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish
[22:15] Facebook let you change your username – Just one more time

[24:30] Byte of the week: Google Latitude for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Unboxing time! This time it’s the new HP Mini 110, the new netbook that was launched in Bejing during the HP Touch The Future Now event. I was blessed to have won a unit of the HP Mini 110 thanks to the HP Power To Change contest and all the people who put me as their referrer when you guys downloaded the application.

In this technically difficult episode, we take a look at Toshiba’s offering into the netbook market with their very own NB200. So how does this netbook stand out from the crowd? Check it out on this week’s Gear65.

Link: Toshiba NB200

We’re releasing two episodes of Gear65 this week! Watch out for the next episode coming up really soon!

Mugs and Quiches

Daniel, DK, Nicole & Farinelli

Refresh-fresh-fresh-fresh-fresh-fresh
[04:00] Palm Pre syncs with iTunes!
[04:50] Palm Pre emulating an iPod to accomplish iTunes sync?
[07:25] Nokia Ovi Store opens for business
[10:10] Microsoft launches My Phone beta
[11:00] Microsoft publishes maximum Windows 7 specs for netbooks
[13:32] Intel delays Core i5 platform debut to early September

Discussion
[15:48] Hewlett-Packard Touch the Future. Now. event

Byte of the Week
[36:00] HP Power to Change