Posts from 'Laptops, tablets and PCs' category

The last 12 months seemed to be a very good period for Intel, who launched the successful Core CPU family, which are used also by Apple for it's Mac desktop, laptop and server product lineup.Today another industry big name, SUN Microsystems, announced the switch to Intel CPU's from their usual AMD Opteron chips, that are no longer considered optimal for the giant's needs. For beginning, SUN will use Xeon chips in their server and workstatio...

All Media Center PC lovers dream of having a computer case that seamlessly integrates in their living room, that can be easily mistaken for a digital amplifier or DVD player.OrigenAE takes this idea even further with S21T, their latest HTPC (Home Theater PC) model, that integrates a 12" LCD display with an amazing 1080p screen resolution.The 12" LCD screen moves thanks to a motorized mechanism Even if it's not the first computer case ma...

Multi-core battle has begun with the launch of the first desktop dual-core CPU. Now Intel is pushing the research further with it's 80-core Tera Scale prototype.Even if you won't see those numbers of cores in a single CPU for at least five years, Intel is getting ready starting today.From this scheme we can see that some cores have special functionality The chip giant announced today than it successfully developed the first 80-core CPU p...

If you need a laptop for special environments with harsh conditions check out the latest offering from Dell, who joined this niche with Latitude ATG D620, a competing model for Panasonic's Toughbook. From specs point of view, the new model is similar with Latitude D620, so we get the same Core 2 Duo CPU, 14.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) display updated now to 500 nits luminosity (the regular D620 has only 200 nits, making it impractical in outdoor trips o...

If you consider that sub-notebooks are in fact very small notebooks then how can be called a OQO product? Maybe a very-small-sub-notebook... Their first product, Model 1, with an easy to remember name, and a very small footprint, managed to impress the IT press all overt the world.Despite it's size and limitation it was capable of running Windows XP. Now they're back with an upgrade, it's name, as you might have guessed, it's Model 2. OQO e...

If you like style but you don't like Apple then you have only one alternative and that's called Sony. From beginnings the Japanese manufacturer has emerged as a style creator not follower. It's new creation, VAIO TP1 Living Room PC, distinguish itself by round shapes and white milky coating, iPod like you might say.What else does it do besides looking gorgeous? If you get past the looks, VAIO TP1 is a regular PC with a mainstream configurat...

With Vista nearing it's launch day for end-users, everybody is trying to get new products on shelves, to welcome rich ignorant customers who don't know anything about the power requirements of the next generation Microsoft OS. I don't want to sound anti-Bill Gates but I've tried Vista Premium on a dual-core CPU with 1 GB of RAM and I can say that I've never heard the hard-drive screaming so much since I've owned a 486 PC with 8 MB of RAM running ...