Sunday, July 26, 2009

Dell Studio 14z hits the review bench, disc drive stays behind with few regrets

Dell Studio 14z hits the review bench, disc drive stays behind with few regrets


While ASUS is busy adding an optical drive to its Eee PC line, Dell is diving into the low-priced, optical-free, thin-and-light category with its new Studio 14z portable. The folks at Laptop Mag have taken the new laptop for a spin, and seem to like what they see. While its 4.4 pound weight isn't quite best in class, the 14z outperforms most of its brethren thanks to GeForce 9400M graphics and a "real" Core 2 Duo processor -- none of that weak sauce CULV stuff. The battery life isn't bad either, and for $750 it's easy on the wallet. You just have to ask yourself: can you live without instant access on-the-go to your limited edition set of Billy Joel hits on Compact Disc?

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The Big Picture is a project-management tool which fuses a calendar, task lists, and project creation tools with a mind-map style interface. The result is an intuitive click and drag interface that makes project management simple.

Whether you're creating an initial project or adding an event to your calendar, all you need to do is click and drag to create an entry. After the creation of every calendar event a suggestion box pops up allowing you to immediately associate the event on the calendar with one of your projects. You can move nearly everything in The Big Picture around by grabbing and sliding it to a new location. Watch the demonstration video below to see the interface in action:




Use The Big Picture? Use another tool with an easy to use interface? Share your favorite project-management tool in the comments.



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