Category: Computers
NVIDIA Ion 2 now official; Acer, ASUS and Lenovo at the ready
April 8, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

NVIDIA’s Ion 2 chipset — or “the next generation of Ion” as the company clunkily calls it — hasn’t exactly been a secret, but NVIDIA is finally signing on the dotted line and giving up the deets on the new Intel Atom-compatible graphics chipset. It hasn’t been a secret that Ion 2 uses NVIDIA’s new [...]
Archos 7 And Archos 8 Home Tablets Appear
April 6, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Archos has added a couple of new tablets to its range with the launch of the Archos 7 Home Tablet and the Archos 8 Home Tablet. Both of these new devices run Google Android.
The Archos 7 Home Tablet features a 7 inch touchscreen display, and it comes with either 2GB or 8GB of built in [...]
Mio Moov V780 Tablet
April 6, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Mio, who make satellite navigation systems has launched a new tablet device, the Mio Moov V780 Tablet. The Mio Moov V780 features built in GPS navigation and a 7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480.
The Mio Moov V780 features a built in web browser, support for adobe flash, and also support [...]
LG OLED TV Hits Europe in May
April 6, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

LG is launching the worlds largest OLED TV during May, which will be available in Austria to start and then the US. The not so huge but very thin 15″ OLED TV LG 15EL9500 will be the worlds largest at the time of its release.
The 15″ OLED LG 15EL9500t has a 10.000.000:1 contrast ratio, HD [...]
Apple’s A4 chip: less is more?
April 5, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Although early erroneous reports placed Apple’s custom A4 chip at the leading edge of ARM-based design, things are slowly falling back to earth. First, we learned that the graphics subsystem was almost certainly the same PowerVR SGX component found in the iPhone, and now Ars Technica reports that the actual CPU is the familiar single-core [...]
ASUS Eee PC 1018P and 1016P
April 1, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Come on, you had to know that one of our first stops at CeBIT was going to be the ASUS booth to see if we could get a glimpse at the leaked 10-inch Eee PC 1018P and 1016P. Though they will be officially announced at ASUS’s press conference tomorrow we got some time to play [...]
PS3 issues apparently resolved, game on
April 1, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Rejoice: PS3s across the land are now once again playable. That’s the word according to our friends at Joystiq, who say that the clock issue affecting “fat” PS3s has been somehow resolved and games are once again working correctly. We’re not sure if this means Sony’s fixed something on the network side or if the [...]
SonyPS3 Glitch Warns Users of Data Loss
April 1, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

Sony said in a blog post Monday that the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system, reminiscent of the Y2K bug a decade ago. The problem is affecting older PlayStation 3 models, but not the newest slim version that went on sale in September.
The company urged customers [...]
Apple Facing With iMac Monitor Yellowing Probblem
March 31, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

More than enough consumers have complained about the 27-inch iMac’s yellowing issue to make the company pay attention to the problem.
Apple isn’t saying much, but it has finally pledged to support its owners failed products.
“The ultimate all-in-one. Now with the ultimate display…Faster processors…Faster Graphics…” Apple’s description of its new iMac, first released in October make [...]
HP Expands EliteBook, ProBook Lines
March 31, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment

…All the new systems will be available in a variety of configurations, so running down specs is tough. However, here are the broad strokes: the HP EliteBook 2740p Tablet PC offers a 12.1-inch outdoor-viewable, multitouch tablet display driven by Intel HD Graphics and handles up to 8 GB of RAM: options include an Intel Core [...]
