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At last, after seeing it unboxed and fiddled with on camera last week, we’ve got out first in-depth review of the 10.1-inch Acer Aspire One D150, courtesy of Laptop. How does the Intel Atom N270-based machine fare? Excellent for its $350 price tag, although the keyboard and touchpad don’t compare favorably with the pricier Eee PC 1000HE or Samsung NC10. As for battery life, the 5800mAh-rated 6-cell had a very impressive 7 hour and 57 minute runtime, which is 49 minutes longer than the 1000HE and 38 minutes over HP’s Mini 2140. Of course, seeing as most consumers will end up with the 4400mAh batteries, a more likely estimate is 5 hours per charge. Additionally, the site had a Q&A session with Acer VP of Product Marketing Sumit Agnihotry, who said that $100 Aspire One with AT&T 3G deal is “only the beginning” and they’re developing a plan to offer discounted laptops with an hourly-use program. There’s also talk of incorporating NVIDIA’s Ion platform into future computers. Hit up the read links below for the full review and more deets from Agnihotry.

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PC startups, take note — this is how you cut through the noise and get recognized. Rather than simply copying Alienware or some other boutique gaming outfit, BFG Technologies is introducing its first line of high-performance PCs with quite the unusual extra. Sure, the 3.2GHz Core i7 965 Extreme Edition is totally expected, and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 GPUs aren’t all that shocking, but the complementary concierge service is certainly a step in a new direction. With each Phobos purchase comes six months of said service, which includes “expert in-home installation and a six month follow up maintenance visit.” Check the full release after the break for all the deets, but you can count on spending at least three large to get in.

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Were you hoping to spend the day glued to your iPhone or BlackBerry, keeping an eye on our live Macworld coverage while in the office? If you’ve got AT&T on the East Coast, you’d better make sure your wireless data connection is operational. Just like in September we’re getting a number of tips from people on the right side reporting outages and error messages when attempting to connect. Meanwhile we’re not finding any issues out here in SF or Vegas, and the Midwest appears to be going strong after last week’s shenanigans. We’ve pinged AT&T for deets, but let us know — what’re you seeing on your end?

Update: We still haven’t received official word either way, but by the sounds data is back up for at least most of you. We’ll keep after AT&T for some sort of confirmation.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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