Garmin’s nüvi 700 series brings two exciting new features — multi-destination routing and, “Where am I?/Where’s my car?” — to its popular pocket-sized GPS navigator lineup. As with all nüvis, you get Garmin reliability, the fast satellite lock of an integrated high-sensitivity receiver, a slim, pocket-sized design with a gorgeous display, an easy, intuitive interface, and detailed NAVTEQ maps for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico with more than 6 million name-searchable points of interest. All of the 700-series navigators also feature a rich array of features including spoken directions in real street names, MP3 player and photo viewer, and an FM transmitter that will play voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle’s stereo system.The nüvi 760 and 770 add integrated traffic receivers and Bluetooth capability for hands-free calling. The nüvi 770 adds maps for Europe. The nüvi 780 adds enhanced MSN direct content capability. [source]
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The X300 is a new category of notebook computer that launched with the visually aggressive and less compromising Macbook Air and the idea Lenovo has come up with suggests that a new “Perfect” notebook for our time is approaching quickly and turning into a moving target. (Business Week has a first look at the X300).
So, what makes this X300 a better Macbook Air and what can we expect from this category in the long term. How will Intel’s Silverthorne, hybrid graphics, ready-boost/turbo memory/hybrid drives, fuel cells, Wi-Max, modularity, and “Cloud Computing” impact this new category?
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