Alienware’s laptops first hopped on the Sandy Bridge bandwagon when the company’s top-of-the-line M17x got Intel’s second-gen Core processors, and now it appears the more budget-conscious M11x may get some Sandy Bridge love too. According to Dell News and more — who correctly foretold the 3D screen on the M17x R3 before its January debut, among other things — the littlest alien laptop is getting your choice of Core i5-2537M, Core i7-2617M, and Core i7-2657M chips ranging in speeds from 1.4GHz to 2.7GHz. Accompanying the new silicon is an optional 750GB HDD (up from 640GB) and an upgrade from 800MHz to speedy 1333MHz RAM

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Alienware M11x R3 specs leaked, brings Sandy Bridge to your next LAN party?

We noted Firefox 3’s spectacular eight million downloads in a day when discussing the recent launch of IE9 , and that mark shall live on as a record for another day.

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Firefox 4 clocks up 5 million downloads within first 24 hours, fails to beat Firefox 3 download record

We noted Firefox 3’s spectacular eight million downloads in a day when discussing the recent launch of IE9 , and that mark shall live on as a record for another day. Firefox 4 looks to have a had a thoroughly successful debut, going past the five million milestone within the first 24 hours of its release, but it hasn’t quite been able to overshadow its predecessor.

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Firefox 4 clocks up 7.1 million downloads within first 24 hours, fails to beat Firefox 3 record (updated)

Despite Toshiba having glasses-less 3DTVs on the market already , Samsung’s spoken out about the future of 3DTV by saying “attempts to put glasses-free 3DTV to market within the next 10 years will be difficult.” Uh-oh. More

In NVIDIA’s own words, this Thursday will bring us the company’s “next generation, highest performance graphics card.” If that has you thinking GeForce GTX 590 , you’re not alone. The dual-GPU solution was expected to arrive at the PAX East get-together this month but seemed to shyly dodge the limelight, though now there’s no escaping its date with destiny. Just make sure to be up nice and early tomorrow, say around 9AM US Eastern Time, for the inevitable barrage of reviews

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NVIDIA’s next flagship graphics card to be unveiled at 9AM on Thursday, bring your own popcorn

The Technology Studio connected a Kinect sensor/camera to a Pufferfish round video screen and created their own animated Eye of Sauron that follows you around the room. Kinect & Pufferfish Eye of Sauron ( via Super Punch )

Patience can bear such wonderful fruit, can’t it? The electrified (and electrifying ) Karma , which first graced the world with its presence back in 2008 , has managed to negotiate the slalom course of funding and logistical issues that faces any new upstart company and can now boast its very first production unit. The Karma 1 above will be making its way out within a month (presumably after every nook, cranny and capacitor has been polished to perfection) and company spokesman Roger Ormisher says the plan is to ramp up very slowly and carefully, reaching “over 7,000 deliveries” by year’s end.

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EV milestone: Fisker rolls first Karma off the assembly line, aims to deliver 7,000 this year

A Wired/Jalopnik post details the sad history of the Schienenzeppelin, a Weimar-era German “rail zeppelin” that used a giant prop to pull itself down the railroad tracks: Conceived and built in 1930 by the German rail company Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Schienenzeppelin was a design alternative to the streamlined steam locomotives of its day. It was a slick and relatively lightweight at 20 tons, running on but two axles and powered by a 46-liter BMW V-12.

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Weimar Rail-Zeppelin: streamlined white-elephant

For a series built on its graphical prowess, the options in Crysis 2 on PC are a little on the bare side. These command line tweaks should improve things .

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Get Crysis 2 Running Properly On Your PC [Blip]

T-Mobile subscribers at this point are preparing for what could be a new, blue overlord , and now you can count Audi among the ranks of those wondering what’s next.

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Audi Connect signs contract with T-Mobile, surprised like the rest of us by the AT&T thing