Filed under: Peripherals

It’s not too often we see a diamond-cut solid brushed aluminum keyboard (complete with steel mesh grill), but Enermax’s hotshot new Caesar keyboard definitely made us sit up and take notice. Successor to the Crystal aluminum keyboard, weighing in at 3.2 friggin mounds and blocking off 20.5 x 8.46 x 1.1-inches (521 x 215 x 28mm) of desk space, this mound of metal also has a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a built-in audio device (what for we’re not yet entirely sure), five media and five Vista buttons, and scissor-mounted keys. It’s a surprisingly low $75 per, but we’ll be waiting pit it against the Optimus Maximus in the keyboard Thunderdome.

Gallery: Enermax Caesar metal-clad keyboard up in your grill

 
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Original post by Ryan Block

Filed under: Features, Laptops, Tablet PCs

We spent a few minutes with the brand new Dell Latitude XT and we have to say, as far as tablets (and especially Dells) go, this thing is top-tier. Some thoughts:

The whole machine’s decked in a ThinkPad-esque soft touch finish, and has the same rugged feeling, with magnesium and a seemingly higher quality build than you’re normally likely to find in most other Dells.
The capacitive touchscreen worked really well, was nearly flush with the bezel, and, not surprisingly, instantly made us never want to go back to resistive touchscreen tablets.
The hinge is unidirectional and feels really sturdy.
It only has one speaker, so don’t expect stereo audio out of the thing. The wireless on/off switch is much appreciated though, as is the SD slot.
The extended battery “slice” / platform add-on doubles your running time, although we’re not entirely sure how it hurts heat since it covers [...]

Original post by Ryan Block