Before HP brought us the low-priced ink-jet printer all office printing was black.

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Talking to an analyst here at Dell World yesterday, the reaction was: either HP get ex-Autonomy chief Mike Lynch into a US court quickly or the people at the top at HP will suffer.

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That's exactly the same price as the 12C, so come on, you HP and TI diehards -- duke it out and tell us which brand makes the better adding machine once and for all, won't you?

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We encountered a couple FlipShare crashes on both our 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac or our bruiser HP Elitebook, which makes us a little wary about long-term performance -- it's is very clearly built as a cross-platform app, and we've had painful experiences with those in the past.

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While it may pale in comparison to the slew of laptops that HP just dropped on us, Toshiba's batch of just-announced systems is certainly respectable enough, including a pair of new Tecras, some updated Satellites, and the desktop-replacin' Qosmio G45.

ENGADGET: Toshiba intros Tecra A9, M9, and Qosmio G45, updates Satellite P205, A205

Call us wimps, but we like the extra bite at the front of a 450-plus-hp 911 Turbo, given the car's tremendous rear-weight bias.

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