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Cine5 compact surround PC speaker bar rolled out by ASUS

Published on: 14th March, 2010

ASUS has rolled out what it claims to be the smallest five-channel speaker array in the world. The Cine5 is meant to provide computers with surround sound in a special single piece design. It uses standard analogue 3.5mm connections for surround instead of optical ones, but can restore details lost while a track is downmixed [...]

Intel announces second-generation Classmate PC tablet

Published on: 5th March, 2010

Intel has recently announced the imminent launch of the second-generation Learning Series Classmate PC designed for young children. The new computer will sport a 10.1-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1,024×600 instead of the 8.9-inch screen of the original computer. A low-power Intel Atom processor is used, although few details are provided. Wi-Fi is [...]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad W701 to have USB 3.0 and 16GB of RAM

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Lenovo has recently updated its highest-end series of ThinkPad W.
The first ThinkPad with USB 3.0 is the W701, which should support the 5Gbps standard dedicated to very fast external hard drives as well as future peripherals down the line. The large case of the W701 supports up from 8GB up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM [...]

No fan to cool the Atom-based PC from Habey

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Habey has presented the new ultra-compact PC equipped with the Intel’s embedded Atom platform BIS-6620. The new PC has a small 4.5 square-inch footprint and a height of only 1.5 inches. It is considered a very green device with its total power consumption of less than 5.5W. The system is fanless and uses the low [...]

Fully customizable Black|OPS gaming PC from Digital Storm

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Digital Storm has recently presented a new flagship gaming PC: Black|OPS. This is a customizable PC, which can have overclocked CPUs ranging from AMD’s Phenom to Intel’s Core i7. All versions of this PC come with Digital Storm’s Sub-Zero Liquid Cooling System, which is able to keep the system stable, with less noise.
All variations have [...]

Acer’s prediction: US PC builders will not survive more than 20 years

Published on: 25th January, 2010

Stan Shih, Acer’s creator and former chief, said in an interview for the Taiwanese Commercial Times that he would not expect PC makers form the United States to survive more than the next 20 years. He thinks that the tendency towards budget PCs is still valid for the next years and US companies do not [...]

Classmate PC netbooks to be updated with Intel’s Pine Trail Atom

Published on: 25th January, 2010

Intel is expected to release soon the Classmate PC netbook series updated with its Pine Trail Atom processors. The chips are more efficient and quicker, but the netbooks will also be redesigned, beginning with the Convertible Classmate netbook, 10.1-inch sized. The goal is to make them lighter while keeping them robust enough to resist to [...]

MSI’s Pine Trail-based Wind Top and Wind Box coming at CES

Published on: 27th December, 2009

MSI started the holiday week with the announcement of the launch of some new versions of the Atom-based desktops, running on Intel’s Pine Trail platform. The event will certainly take place at CES. The 18.5-inch Wind Top AP1920 seems to be the Taiwan designer’s thinnest all-in-one, being less than 1.4 inches deep. It will be [...]

Pine Trail and 3G in the new Toshiba NB305

Published on: 26th December, 2009

According to FCC, Toshiba will launch their third generation of notebooks with HSPA and dual-mode 3G for EVDO. The NB300 and NB30 will incorporate a Gobi 3G chip that will give users access on mobile phone networks like Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. We expected that in the future at least one of the carriers will [...]

2010: LED backlit displays and tablet PCs from Samsung

Published on: 19th December, 2009

A new product niche will be approached beginning the next year by Samsung. According to a Current report, the company will start producing tablet PCs. Samsung will also add more 3D computing solutions and will also integrate, before the end of 2010, LED backlight technology into its PC displays. Emannuele Silanesu, Samsung’s IT product marketing [...]

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