Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Dell’s Studio XPS 1340 And Studio XPS 1640 Sneak Onto The Scene

In all-too-familiar fashion, Dell’s new Studio XPS laptops have snuck onto the company’s store with nary a press release to keep them company. The 1340 is obviously the Studio XPS 13 we saw last month, while the 1640 is naturally the 16-inch version of the leather accented system. Both machines are (oddly) hitting at the [...]

HP Mini 2140 Reviewed, Very Loved

No sooner does HP announce the Mini 2140 than we get reviews from two lucky outlets who seemed to have fallen in love with the netbook. While it retains the sturdy case, ExpressCard / 54 slot, and not-quite-full-sized keyboard that reviewers loved with its predecessor, it also has the awkward, narrow touchpad and side-mounted vertical [...]

MSI’s Upgraded Wind U100 Gets Tested And Overclocked

While the original Wind U100 has stooped below $350 in many shops, the upgraded version — complete with a 160GB hard drive and a much needed 6-cell battery — is currently going for around $420. The PC abusers over at HotHardware managed to get this slab onto their testing bench, and test they did. After [...]

HP Greets Us With 13.3-inch Pavilion dv3 Entertainment Laptop

While you and HP can argue the rest of the night away about the most accurate moniker for its Pavilion dv2, the dv3 is definitely an ultraportable. The AMD-powered machine comes in a plethora of configurations with CPUs ranging from 2GHz (Athlon X2 QL-62) to 2.4GHz (Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86), ATI’s Radeon HD 3200 graphics, [...]

HP Officially Launches Firebird With Voodoo DNA

We figured it was destined for a CES release, and HP has confirmed that today’s the day. The hotly anticipated Firebird with Voodoo DNA has been properly introduced to the world, and within it will come an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, twin NVIDIA GeForce 9800S graphics cards in an SLI configuration, hot-swappable 320GB hard [...]

HP’s 12.1-inch Pavilion dv2 With Blu-ray — Don’t Call it A Netbook

Here we’ve got the fruits of AMD’s new Neo platform: the Pavilion dv2 series of entertainment laptops. Starting at 3.8-pounds with a keyboard 8% short of full-sized, this 12.1-inch (1,280 x 800 pixels) ultra-portable features a 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, up to 4GB of memory and 500GB of disk, optional 802.11n WiFi, and WWAN [...]

HP’s New Mini 2140 Stuffs Atom, Larger Screen into Original Form Factor

Just when we thought HP had moved on, what with the Mini 1000 getting all the love these days, HP has returned to its original Mini-Note 2100 series of netbooks with the 2140. Supposedly aimed at businesses, the new netbook loses that sluggish VIA C7-M of its predecessors and replaces it with — you guessed [...]

MSI At CES: Wind U115 / U120, NetOn All-in-One PC, Gaming Laptops Galore

If you thought that MSI would allow CES to pass it by without unleashing a veritable smorgasbord of new kit upon us, you’re dead wrong. For starters, the company will be showcasing its Wind U115 and U120 netbooks for the first time in the public eye at CES, and those oh-so-intriguing NetOn all-in-one machines we [...]

Exper Style’s Colorful 8.9-inch Netbook Rolls Out in Turkey

We don’t have a heck of a lot to go on here, but the above is apparently a new, 8.9-inch widescreen netbook from Exper called the Exper Style. It seems to boast standard netbook internals — a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and an 8GB SSD– and apparently runs Windows XP. It [...]

PowerBook G4 Titanium inelegantly Modded into Desktop

We’re all for taking lemons and making lemonade, but at least clean up the mess before you showcase it to the world. All kidding aside (sort of…), Sir Bibin and Nick Lee found something better to do with their jacked up PowerBook G4 Titanium than fetch a few pennies on eBay. When the hinges finally [...]