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Giveaway of the Day
Check this site on the right (its a real time update of the daily offers, with the time remaining). It's called "Giveaway of the Day". Everyday they offer a software, for free. Usually these software' are commercial and they come with a cost. But everyday, these people give away the software for free. You would have to install it before the offer day ends. I have tried few softwares from them and its all working fine, with activation. Have fun.
For those looking for a laptop, I recommend reading the reviews on NBR. I, personally, like Jerry' reviews a lot, along with John Ratsey' reviews (Check out his user review for the Latitude E6400 - in two parts at NBR. You couldn't have asked for a more detailed review! :-) ..) And while we are at it, I recommend dropping in to Chaz' wonderful reviews / news bits & heads up on various wonderful gadgets, and Andrew' reviews as well.
Finally, check out the wonderful and pretty awesome "How It Works" series going on in NBR, thanks to PULP, The Author. These are the topics that have been covered (click on them to read more):
How It Works: Your Guide To Notebook Technology
How It Works: Motherboards
How It Works: Processors
How It Works: Memory
How It Works: Graphics Hardware
How It Works: Hard Disks
Coming Up: Optical Drives
** WWW.WIRED.COM Reviews **
Wired.com has put together all the reviews it has been doing on various products. You can find them all here.
Notebooks & Accessories Reviews can be found here.
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Alienware Area-51 m17x Review, From Chaz @ NBR.
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WinBubble 1.76 Released - Click here for more (Full credit to "Lawrence" for that program / announcement)
Dell to offer 12 month limited warranty extension for the nVidia GPU issues.
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Following the revelations that nVidia GPU' were faulty due to an in-correct die-packaging materal, Dell has decided to offer an 12 month warranty extension for free, for all customers worldwide who have the system' shipped with nVidia GPU's. Please remember that this warranty extension does not cover the whole system but just the GPU issues, hence its a 12 month limited warranty extension. The system warranty stands separate. Please click on the above link for more.
From the Direct2Dell blog:For those customers who haven’t read my previous posts, here’s the summary. My initial post defined the issue and explained that we published BIOS updates that could help reduce the likelihood of GPU failures. In my second post, I published a list of systems that the issue could potentially affect. In my third post, I explained that we intended to offer a 12-month limited warranty enhancement specific to this issue.Today, we’re moving forward with that intention.Again, the limited warranty enhancement is specific to this issue and will extend coverage by 12 months from the date the original warranty term for the laptop expires. For example, one-year warranties will be extended to 24 months for this issue only. The maximum combined period for the initial warranty and the limited-warranty enhancement is 60 months. Systems purchased with 60-month warranties will not be extended. Customers whose warranties have expired will be eligible for this limited warranty enhancement from the date the initial warranty expired.This table above contains the list of laptops that are eligible for this limited warranty enhancement. If your system is not listed, no action is required. Please note that because it is specific to this issue, the warranty enhancement will not be reflected in your overall system warranty that is listed on support.dell.com if you are logged in.