Dell Latitude E Series in Sync With Intel Chips

The Latitude E Series which is already out in the domestic and international markets has plenty of stuff that its user couldn’t care less about, like “Distributed Device Management” and “Client Configuration Toolkit” to handle massive rollouts of identical computing environments across a company. Inspite of all this there are a lot more features in [...]

HP’s 8440 And 8540 EliteBooks Ready To Ship With Core i7 inside

HP promised us a mobile workstation refresh in February, and sure enough, today we are staring down the retail pages for its quartet of upgraded business laptops. The new top of the line EliteBook models come in 14- (8440p/w) and 15.6-inch (8540p/w) varieties, with the w-appended models sporting appropriately beefed up NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics [...]

HP tx2000 Suffering From Dead Screens And Wireless, NVIDIA To Blame?

When we received an e-mail from a very agitated reader detailing that the wireless card and the screen on his HP tx2000 stopped working just a convenient few days after his warranty expired we felt bad, though didn’t think much of it. But then we started doing a bit of research, and it turns out [...]

ASUS’ Congo-Based Eee PC 1201T Pops Up On Amazon’s German Portal

Tired of waiting for the Eee PC 1201T to ship? Impatient, aren’t we? We’ve been wondering about the status of this here netbook since it came to light last November, and now it looks like the Germans are about to get a real, live taste of AMD’s Congo platform. Boasting a 1.6GHz MV40 CPU, the [...]

Google’s Chrome OS-based Netbook Specs Leak Out

We’ve already seen that early builds of Google’s Chromium OS can be hacked onto existing machines, but those Chrome OS netbooks that the software giant has planned for next year have remained curiously elusive until now. According to both IBTimes  and Netbook News, the company is in talks with a number of outfits in order [...]

NVIDIA Fermi Pushed Back To March, ATI Prepping Midrange Refresh for Early Q1?

Considering the present date, it’s no longer a mystery that Fermi won’t be seeing the glaring lights of store shelves this year, but now DigiTimes reports that the delay might be even longer than feared. Sources from within board manufacturers have been informed by NVIDIA that the launch of the 40nm GPU will be pushed [...]

ASUS Eee PC 1201N Dons Burgundy Garb, You Still Can’t Have One

Say hello to the little friend you already know and want, this time dressed in a more extrovert red attire. We don’t yet know whether this 1201N variant will be finding retail shelves or if it’s just a pretty prototype, but that doesn’t make too much difference at this point. With the classical black model [...]

NVIDIA Shows Its 3D Blu-ray Readiness In Run-up To CES, Acer Demos 120Hz LCD

We recently got a chance to check out NVIDIA’s 3D Blu-ray ecosystem, and while we’re sure we’ll be all 3D Blu-ray’d out by the time CES is over, it was our first chance to see the new tech in action, and it seems pretty raring to go. Specifically we got to check out a movie [...]

FTC Moseys into Intel / NVIDIA Dispute

The dispute between Intel and NVIDIA has already reached legendary proportions, and it looks like now even the FTC is getting involved as a result of its longstanding investigation into Intel regarding another matter. While Intel just settled the antitrust fight with AMD that originally kick-started the investigation last month, the FTC is now reportedly [...]

ASUS G51J 3D Sports NVIDIA 3D Vision with 120Hz Display to Bring ‘Real’ 3D to Laptops

No knock on Acer, who got here first with the Aspire 5738DG, but it sounds like the ASUS G51J 3D has the technology edge in the nascent 3D laptop category. We’ll have to see it in action to be sure, but the laptop is using NVIDIA’s 3D Vision tech for extensive game compatibility (around 400 [...]