Engadget's back to school guide 2012: mainstream laptops

Welcome to Engadget's back to school guide! The end of summer vacation isn't nearly as much fun as the weeks that come before, but a chance to update your tech tools likely helps to ease the pain. Today we're getting down to the very important business of helping you sift through laptops, and you can always head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back -- at the end of the month we'll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides -- and hit up the hub page right here!

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Freshman year of college may no longer be the gateway to the magical world of laptop ownership, but even if you already have a notebook, who can resist a new machine in the spirit of starting fresh when September rolls around? Whether you're looking for a Core i5 companion to get you through semesters of paper-writing, Facebooking and WoWing, or a super-sleek centerpiece to your bare-bones dorm, there's a vast playing field of machines to choose from. While sifting through the countless options would surely get you back in the academic research frame of mind, it's a daunting task. We're here to take some of the work off your plate with nine solid mainstream laptops that should satisfy every budget.

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The Matrix One – Another Sub $100 Android Tablet

While the big guys are trying to field tablets in the $200-$250 range, some sellers are introducing 7″ Android tablets in the under-$100 range.  The Matrix One is a 7″ Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablet with a Cortex A8 1.5Ghz processor, capacitive screen, 4GB of storage, and 512MB of memory for $89.99.  Screen resolution is 800 X 480, and there’s a mini HDMI 1080p output connector.  The Matrix One also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, USB port, and a mini USB port.  There’s also a microSD slot to expand the storage with up to a 32GB card.  It has built-in WiFi, a 2MP front camera, microphone, gyroscope, and accelerometer, and a 3200mAh battery.  The Matrix One is available in black, white, blue, and pink.  There’s also a version with 16GB of storage and 1GB of memory for $129.99.

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The Matrix One – Another Sub $100 Android Tablet originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 8, 2012 at 1:00 pm.

FTC and Facebook settle privacy dispute, skip the fine

FTC and facebook settle privacy dispute

Well, Mark Zuckerberg is finally trying to make things right after admitting to a "bunch of mistakes" when dealing with user privacy on his juggernaut of a social network. The FTC and Facebook had agreed to settle the dispute in November, and now the final details of the deal have been ironed out. Noticeably missing from the list of concessions is cash. The government isn't asking Facebook to cough up any dough as part of the settlement -- avoiding the sort of hefty fine that Google recently found itself on the wrong end of. The company will, however, have drastically revamp how it handles user data and subject itself to privacy audits every two years for 20 years. Customers will now be provided with "clear and prominent" warnings any time information is shared. And, before anything can be shared, users must give express consent to for that information to be distributed. Ideally, these measures would have been in place on day one, but we'll take what we can get at this point. For more details, check out the FTC's press release after the break.

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Google Grafts Gmail Onto Web Searches

Google has announced it's testing a new service that will include relevant information from a user's personal Gmail account when that person types in a query on the company's basic search page. Google said the service is meant to further integrate the company's Web presence and its many functions, including e-mail, so that users can have faster, more relevant information at their fingertips. Participants in Google's field trial for the new feature will be able to type a query into the site's main search page and receive suggestions from their own e-mail accounts.

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BattlePaint is an addictive geometric shooter game

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In BattlePaint, you play a cube. In fact, you're not even a cube -- just a square. But boy, are you fast! And you can shoot in all directions. That's important, because there are baddies coming in from all over the place.

The "baddies" are swarms of other squares, in all sorts of pretty colors. They track you all over the screen, and you run around very quickly and just shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. If that doesn't sound very emotionally deep, it's because it isn't. But it's fun!

After you shoot a baddy, it splashes paint as it disappears. You need to skate across this blob of paint and "eat it up" to get points. This game is fast. It clocked in at around 60-70 FPS on my system, and was loads of fun to play. It does tend to insult you when you die, though, but don't be offended -- I don't think it's personal.

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Deal of the Day – 10.1″ Asus 32GB Eee Pad Transformer TF300T Tablet

Saturday’s LogicBUY Deal is the Asus 32GB Eee Pad Transformer TF300T on sale for $374.99.  Features:  Tegra 3 quad-core 1.2GHz processor, Android 4.0 OS, 32GB storage, 10″ 1280 X 800 IPS display, 1GB RAM, dual-facing cameras (1.2MP front, 8MP back), GPS, microSD, microHDMI, a weight of 1.4lbs, and more.

$399.99 – $25 coupon code = $374.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires August 11, 2012 or sooner. Check the above link for more details on this deal, and check the LogicBUY home page for other deals.

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Here Are Mark Zuckerberg's Nipples [Summer Of Zuck]

A Facebook employee just posted this picture of Zuck (on Facebook) and a bunch of other shirtless dudes doing what shirtless dudes do best: stand around shirtless. The hoodie is gone. Just nips. Just chest hair. Just pure, unfiltered Zuck. More »


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Altaro Hyper-V Backup beta launched, only 250 places available

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This one's for the sysadmins in the audience: Altaro, makers of our favorite "time machine for Windows" back solution, OopsBackup, have just announced a new product entering beta called Hyper-V Backup.

It's a backup solution for virtual machines running on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization solution. If that sentence just seemed like a bunch of buzzwords crammed together, Hyper-V backup is not for you. But, if you actually use Hyper-V and are hankering for a good backup solution, Altaro might be worth checking out.

The beta run is limited - Altaro are looking for just 250 testers. All participants will get a free license key to the final, production version. So if you're interested in helping test Hyper-V Backup, get yourself over to Altaro now and join the beta.

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Boost Mobile HTC EVO Design 4G review

HTC EVO Design 4G

Contract-free and prepaid carriers are gaining in popularity. But when prepaid Android devices starting hitting those markets, they tended to be lower-tier phones. But recently we have seen plenty of great devices hitting various prepaid carriers, one of them being the HTC EVO Design 4G, which recently hit Boost Mobile.

Looking to get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich in your hands, without breaking the bank monthly, and locking yourself into a new two year agreement? With lower monthly costs and the same high quality, could the HTC EVO 4G Design be your next Android device?

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