Guardian impressed with new Adamo XPS

Guardian technology blogger Jack Schofield, reporting from the CES, is impressed with Dell's Adamo XPS. Here's just some of the reasons...

- Nice unlocking system (you can just stroke the lid to open it)
- When opened, it sits at an angle which makes for better typing
- The motherboard and drive sit behind the screen, as opposed to under the keyboard. This means you can fit ports AND have a thin keyboard
- It looks original and stylish (hurray!)

Down points from Mr Schofield...

- Expensive (£1,750 RRP)
- Quite heavy (1.44kg)
- You can get laptops that are just as good with better battery life for a fraction of the price

Acer to launch new netbook with Google Chrome OS

Acer are to launch a new netbook using Google Chrome as an operating system. Chairman JT Wang says that Acer will be the first manufacturer to launch with a Google Chrome OS system, with an aim to release in November of this year.

http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/news/091202/acer-to-launch-first-google-chrome-os-netbook-in-2010

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10408031-260.html

The Guardian: what are the best TV ads of the noughties?

The Guardian take an interesting look at what they feel are the best ads of the last ten years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/01/best-tv-ads-of-the-noughties-decade

Personalised Search for Everyone

On Friday Google switched it's default search results to personalised

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html

What does this mean to searchers?

Basically, every computer accessing Google is now being personalized based on previous searches, signed in or not, so any desktop, laptop or internet kiosk will start tracking everything everyone searches for and you won't be able to access the same search results from any two computers.

If you want to disable history-based customisation, follow these steps:

In the top right corner of the search results page, click Web History. On the resulting page, click Disable customisations.(Because this preference is stored in a cookie, it'll affect anyone else who uses the same browser and computer as you).

Apple opens first France store

Apple opened its first store in France on November 7th. The store, located in the "Carousel du Louvre", hopes to maximise store visits thanks to the 7.5 million annual visitors to the museum. Ten thousand people gathered for the opening, with many there as early as dawn and some even the night before.

The Paris store will be followed by numerous other stores in France, including the opening in Montpellier on November 14th.

For more information, please contact MediaCom France.

Windows 7

Please find below the four ads Microsoft have produced for the launch of Windows 7. Each ad highlights one of the new features of the operating system.

Taxi Lady


Gym Guy


Family Man


Mum

PC World - Windows 7

Please see below the new PC World ad for Windows 7.