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	Archos announces Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet Archos is currently having an event in France, and while we're still expecting some sort of Android announcement, the company's leading off with the Archos 9, a nine-inch Windows 7 tablet.		Jimmy Fallon rocks out with Project Natal They weren't just setting up Project Natal on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon set last night for nothing, you know -- Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda was on the show, giving a little demo to Jimmy, John Krasinski, and Stephen Moyer.
	Lenovo's ThinkPad T400s in the wild, still waiting on an official debut Lenovo is apparently slimming down its T400 series ThinkPads, with the new T400s being caught in the wilds of technologyland.	Other news of import Video: Samsung's 12 megapixel WB1000 rocks analog gauges, 3-inch OLED Linux gets first driver for USB 3.0 Matching IDs suggest fake matte iPhones may not have been so fake
	Mitsubishi's 3D-ready and Unisen HDTV lines in the flesh Toshiba already showed us what its freshest line of HDTVs looks like, and now its Mitsubishi's turn.		Is this T-Mobile's Samsung Bigfoot with Android, AMOLED, and QWERTY? So this really doesn't look anything like that Bigfoot we saw a little while ago, but we can sorta see the familial resemblance if we squint really (really, really) hard.
LG's Netflix-friendly 47LH50 and 50PS80 NetCast HDTVs now shipping in America Will the DTV transition get more people watching OTA television?		LG Tritan brings QWERTY, touch, and trademarkable misspellings to Alltel Samsung's E1107 packs solar power, not much else

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Since the launch of the Wii, Nintendo has been the subject of no fewer than 15 patent-related lawsuits. While many of those suits are still winding their way through the courts, Nintendo on Thursday issued a statement touting victory over Guardian Media Technologies in one of the more recent patent ...

Going to a retail store for consumer electronics purchases can be both exciting and frustrating. After working at Best Buy for two years, I have a few opinions to share that you might want to consider before your next shopping trip.

1. We have no formal training in the field of consumer electronics.
Upon transferring to the computer department from home theater, I expressed concern to the manager: "Will there be time for someone to train me on laptops/desktops? What do these specifications mean?" His reply was simple: "Just do your best. A good salesperson can just read the labels and compare specs." Ouch.

Salespeople are not necessarily experts in the products sold in their departments, even if they are expert salespeople. Though many express a strong interest in the products they sell, your time spent at a retail store fishing for information about a future TV purchase could be better spent online researching the products yourself (I heard CNET has pretty great reviews).

"You need those HDMI cables, you know you do."

(Credit: Amazon)

2. We make little off the big-ticket items, so we smother you with accessories.
Remember the story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"? Well, if you tell a salesman you're going to buy a TV, he's going to want to sell you a DVD player to go with it. Once he sells you the DVD player, he's going to want to get you to buy an HDMI cable, too.

Managers at Best Buy (and possibly all retailers) tell employees that the store profits surprisingly little from video game consoles and computers. Cables, accessories, mice, and other components, however, have a huge profit margin-- stores can make about $120 from a $150 Monster HDMI cable. Angry yet? The point is, we're going to work really hard to convince you to purchase that big item, but once you've said "OK" you've opened Pandora's Box.

Here's my advice: Grab the big item, and run. Purchase all accessories online, including memory cards, cables, traveling cases, and so on. Amazon, Monoprice, and Newegg are all reputable discount Web sites. You'll find what you need at a much lower price.

You'll need a screwdriver to do it, but the sealed batteries in the new MacBook Pros announced last Monday are as user replaceable as those of the MacBook before it. IFixit has already carried out its customary explorations inside the body of the new notebook, and found that, apart from the rearrangement of ports and the latch-free baseplate, things are much as before.

The new, bigger (and 60 grams heavier) battery is claimed to last seven hours. IFixit found that the new unit is a 60 Watt-hours cell, up from the 45 Watt-hours of the original, itself supposedly able to last five hours. So there will be a boost, but we expect you'll be lucky to even get five hours from it.

The doorless base brings new problems, too. I swapped a 500GB hard drive into my 13" unibody MacBook last week and it was so quick and easy that it wasn't even worth writing up for Gadget Lab. The hard drive is still considered user-replaceable by Apple, but "replacement does require removing 10 more screws than on the MacBook Unibody."

IFixit also notes that the SD card sticks out about half an inch when inserted, a little messy, and that the new combined headphone/jack socket omits a digital in connection. It also means that you can't use headphones and a mic at the same time.

It's apparent, though, that this is still one of the easiest Apple machines to take apart. If you don't believe me, try replacing the hard drive on a 12" PowerBook.

MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Teardown [Fixit via Cult of Mac]

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	iPhone 3G S supports OpenGL ES 2.0, but 3G only supports 1.1 -- will the App Store splinter? A 2.0-only app can't simply run on a 1.1-only device and not look as good -- it won't work at all.		Apple's new MacBook Pro family unboxing and hands-on! What would you call this? A "fleet" of MacBook Pros? A "catch?" A "murder," perhaps?
	WebOS homebrewers say 'Hello World!' to Palm Pre It's begun. Although lacking a general release of the SDK, the first homebrew apps have emerged thanks to last night's leaked WebOS root image.	Other news of import Snow Leopard officially puts PowerPC Macs on endangered species list Palm Pixie (Eos) confirmed via webOS ROM leak? Iwata says Nintendo tried and rejected camera-based motion control
	Toshiba REGZA ZV650, XV648 and SV670 HDTVs hands-on Remember that trio of HDTV families that Toshiba told us about this morning? You know, those models that you've been waiting for since CES?		Nokia's N86 8MP now shipping worldwide Just under two months. That's how long it took Nokia's N86 8MP to go from FCC to store shelves here in America.
Ask Engadget HD: A good & cheap 1080p projector? Nielsen's final pre analog shutoff survey finds 2.5% still unready		Casio EXILIM now available on Verizon, water resistance no extra charge Virgin Mobile USA launches prepaid Broadband2Go 3G service

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