Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Competition With iPad Leads To Delay of Lenovo Skylight

We’ve heard talk of competitors delaying products to see what the competitors from Cupertino are up to. Before this, it was HP making some last minute pricing and feature adjustments to its Slate. Now we’ve got DigiTimes’ sources claiming that Lenovo is holding up its Linux-based Skylight smartbook — pushed from April to July – [...]

Human Sacrifice, Dogs and Cats Living Together (update: refreshed MacBook Pro?) Apple Store Down

Yeah yeah, the Apple Store is down globally, on a Tuesday, and we’re sitting on a pile of overdue MacBook Pro and Mac Pro rumors. Next.
Update: AppleInsider has a last minute tip showing refreshed MacBooks Pro across the entire range of 13.3-, 15.4-, and 17-inchers. Each ships with 4GB of memory and new Intel Core [...]

7.4-inch OLED display Sony

We await the OLED revolution to make our monster LCD HDTVs obsolete, but till the time it  finally gets here we’re left covering niche devices like this, the 7.4-inch PVM-740 professional monitor from Sony. It has a 960 x 540 resolution, can be connected directly to camera systems, is rack-mountable, and is said to “deliver [...]

Screenshot of New Model Numbers Offers Hope MacBook Pro Updates

Giving up all expectation for a MacBook Pro refresh seems silly! As, isn’t a spec bump for Apple’s flagship laptops a total inevitability? Though, the arduous wait has begun shake our faith, and we’re happy to see even this sliver of evidence to snap us from our stupor. An internal Microcenter system is listing four [...]

Intoduction of EeeBox ASUS

If you’re hunting for a nettop without all the fussy ability to play high definition content, hunt no further, ASUS’s upcoming EeeBox EB1007 might be your ticket to standard-definition minimalism. According to Netbooked, the vanilla desktop was said at CeBIT to be HD-capable, but what we’re seeing on the company’s site doesn’t appear to be, [...]

Form Factor indecisive ASUS Eee PC T101MT

Still hunting for alternatives to the iPad?? ASUS’ 10-inch Eee PC T101MT is definitely for those that can’t make the call on netbook vs. tablet, and like clockwork the Atom N450-powered netvertible is creeping up on stateside order pages in search of $500 of your hard earned cash. Sadly, for that price you’ll only be [...]

Thanks Geohot iPad Jailbreak

oh my God! what do we have here? blackrain jailbreak as predicted with the Cydia app istalled. Well that gives us one more reason as to why we should by an iPad. No details or downloadables yet but it won’t be long. All courtesy of Geohot, natch.

Colorware’d iPads Causing Loss of Retinas and Savings Making Them irrecoverable

Paying a hell lot of money ($500) for a silly tablet was considered awful till the news of paying an extra $410 to get the thing in some other color than raw aluminum rung your ears. Yes you heard it right, Colorware is on the roll again, this time dunking the back of iPads into [...]

Citation of Lack of Direct Relationship States Adobe Distancing itself Fromm JooJoo

Our team was taken aback when Adobe’s PR team gotin touch to inform us that Fusion Garage “has no direct relationship with Adobe.” Citing the young startup’s non-participation in the Open Screen Project and use of “a public beta release [of Flash] designed only for desktop use, Adobe is in for partitioning itself from JooJoo, [...]

Long Awaited 15-inch MacBook Pros MIA Coming on April 13th

Are you still longing for those refreshed, possibly Core i5- / i7-equipped MacBook Pros that have been long rumored? Incase a source close to the Australian MacWorld has any fortune, we’ll be lucky enough to have updates of the features of the new model Pro and Air, by this Tuesday April 13th. As of now [...]