Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

MSI Unveils Neton All-in-One Nettop Models Ranging From Mild To Somewhat Less Mild

MSI and Asus, having apparently found the bottom in the netbook race, are now working hard to find that magic point on the desktop. Asus has its B202 and all-in-one Eee Top nettops, the latter of which MSI is now countering with the new, all-inclusive Neton series. The smallest is the M16, starting at $400 [...]

Dospara Doles Out Atom-powered Prime Note Cartina UM Netbook

It’s been forever and a day since we heard from Dospara, but as it typically does, it’s just hanging around and waiting to see what catches on before it dives in. Case in point: here we have the Prime Note Cartina UM, an 8.9-inch netbook that’s hitting alongside the second and third iteration of everyone [...]

HP Reveals Multi-touch TouchSmart tx2 Convertible Tablet

While HP mistakenly claims that its sparkly new (but previously rumored) TouchSmart tx2 is the world’s first multi-touch consumer notebook, we’re still decidedly stoked about this here convertible tablet. Boasting a 12.1-inch swivel display (LED-backlit) that’s just dying to have your prints all over it, the tx2 will come loaded with Windows Vista, a bezel-mounted [...]

Celio’s REDFLY C8N Hands-on And Video Not Terribly Exciting

We just got the official announcement of Celio’s REDFLY C8N a few hours ago, and Laptop magazine’s already had a chance to touch it and make a video! Their initial impressions? That $20 REDFLY Media Cable you have to buy to hook the C8N up to your phone is a tangled mess! This is exciting [...]

NVIDIA Announces Cost, Energy-saving Tesla Personal Supercomputer

AMD has already outlined its plans to harness the power of its GPUs for some added computing muscle, and it looks like NVIDIA is now taking things one step further by announcing its new GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which promises to deliver the power of a traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price. That [...]

Mobile Edge ‘Fashion-inspired’ TSA-friendly Laptop Bags For Her Are Not Very inspiring

We’ve seen Mobile Edge’s ScanFast line of TSA-approved laptop bags before, so it was only a matter of time, we suppose, until there was a spate of the cases specifically for women. What does it mean, then, to be a laptop bag that is “designed for women by women?” Well, it helps to be pink [...]

Celio’s New REDFLY C7 And C8N Answer Questions No One is Asking

What if you took the REDFLY — you know, that Foleo-like thing for Windows Mobile phones — and cheapened it up a bit? Maybe knock the luxurious 8.3-inch display down to a more reasonable 7 inches, lose three hours of battery life, and add $30 to the asking price, for starters? That’s the indecent proposal [...]

More “Vista Capable” Emails Unsealed, Revealing Sassy Civil War

Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) 915 chipset? Yeah, [...]

Video: Fujitsu Siemens’ GraphicBooster Plays Crysis, Probably Blends

Ah yes, one more item to tick off the yes it runs Crysis checklist: Fujitsu Siemens’ GraphicBooster hooked up over PCI Express 2.0 to an AMILO Notebook Sa 3650. While ATI’s XGP tech is pretty sweet, the Fujitsu Siemens GraphicsBooster implementation only works with the Sa 3650 laptop according to the spec sheet. Shame. For [...]

Apple iTunes Content Throwing HDCP Flags On New MacBook / MacBook Pro

Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, [...]