Medion has announced the Akoya P36888 home entertainment desktop PC that goes on sale at big Tesco stores, and via Tesco Direct, for £599.
Featuring a quad-core Intel processor with an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, 3GB RAM, a 1TB hard drive and a Blu-ray high definition optical drive, Medion describe the machine as “high performance.”
Offering Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6660 2.4GHz chip with four execution cores, Medion says the computer can handle processor-intensive tasks whilst the NVIDIA GeForce 9300GS PCI-Express graphics card can run 3D games as well as Vista’s interactive features.
Other specs include eight-channel surround sound audio, dual TV tuner, an 8-in-1 memory card reader, six USB ports and a remote control.
With a gloss black finish, silver stripe and blue backlit triangular power button, the desktop PC comes bundled with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium edition, Microsoft Works 9 with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Trial Edition, Nero Burning ROM 8 Essentials and Nero Recode 2 Essentials.

From pocket-lint

Not backing up your data at home or at the office is a good way to lose important documents that you may not be able to recover. The easiest way to backup data at home and at the office is with external storage connected via USB. Other World Computing has a new external storage drive called the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Drive.

The OWC offers up to 2TB of storage capacity with 2 SATA drives along with an 3-port integrated USB hub (2 on the back and 1 on the front). Despite the drive is offered in dual config, the Elite-AL doesn’t seem to support RAID1, just JBOD. The two 1TB drives enclosed are said to be Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 coupled with 32MB cache buffer. The Mercury Elite-AL is priced at $439.99, making it right at $100 less expensive than the Western Digital 2TB MyBook Pro. You however get a copy of Prosoft Engineering Data Backup for Mac and NovaStor NovaBACKUP for Windows. For a simpler setup, you can go with the cheap toaster looking JBOD SATA dock that accepts 2 drives of various size.

From Everything USB

HP this morning complemented the launch of its first quad-core notebook with two desktop LCDs that emphasize color accuracy. The 24-inch LP2475w can display 102 percent of the standard NTSC color gamut, making it more appropriate for artists and other visual editors; the 22-inch LP2275w partly overcomes the color limits of most same-size displays with 92 percent of the same color range.

Both also produce a relatively high 1,000:1 static contrast ratio and rotate into portrait mode for print layouts and other tall documents. HP hasn’t listed full specifications but notes that the LP2275w supports DVI and the new DisplayPort format, hinting at similar support for the larger screen.
The smaller 22-inch display is already shipping for $459, while the 24-inch screen will be available for $649 in September. HP also plans to launch a DreamColor Advanced Profiling software package to help with color calibration, and will ship a Windows version this month for $349 with a Mac OS X equivalent ready in September.

From electronista

Last week shuttle unleashed its H7 7800 with Hybrid SLI designed for music amateur. Our new mini-PC can support AMD Phenom/Athlon 64X2/Athlon 64/Sempron CPU, as well as a NVIDIA Geforce 8200/7200/8600 or ATI Radeon HD3850 graphic cards, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 1.5TB of HDD, a Realtek ALC888DD sound card (supporting 7.1HD audio systems, Dolby Digital Live, DTS). It also features HDMI interface, and 2x Blu-ray Triple writer.
The starting price is of 500€.

From Akihabaranews

The eMachines T5254 ($400 street) is a budget-friendly PC that rivals the performance of the company’s recent top-of-the-line T5246, but costs $30 less. It also saves you money in the long run, because of to its low-power AMD Athlon X2 BE processor. The T5254 continues eMachines’ new (and most welcome) stance of offering budget Windows Vista PCs with 2GB of system memory. The T5254 is best suited as an extra PC for the home, or a good first PC for the kids.

Price-wise, the T5254 falls between the eMachines T3642 ($350) and T5246 ($430), but its dual-core AMD processor and extra gigabyte of memory make it a far better bargain than the T3642, with its single-core processor and 1GB of RAM. The increased RAM and extra processor core of the T5254 improve multitasking and really come in handy when the system is running processor-taxing multimedia apps. Considering that Vista Home Premium is bundled with the system, the more memory that’s included, the better.

For more information visit http://www.pcmag.com

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Rack Workstation Performance.
Remote Access Revolution.

The Dell Precision^TM  R5400 Rack Workstation paired with the Dell^TM  FX100 Remote Access Device, forms a unique Dell solution. This flexible standards based offering enables remote access to the full performance of a rack workstation from anywhere on the network. In addition users can:

• Securely centralize data and applications
• Enable high-performance GPGPU clusters
• Resolve traditional KVM distance limitations

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Wait a second — are absurdly large, overdecorated gaming desktops making a comeback? With Acer’s Aspire Predator and ASUS’ ARES CG6155 lighting up eyes everywhere, we’re beginning to think yes — particularly when you take one glance at Packard Bell’s elephantine ipower X2.0. Revealed at the Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, this beast features a tremendously large, high-gloss chassis, a liquid cooling system, a dedicated lock to keep PCB snatchers at bay and a nice array of components including Intel’s Core 2 Quad / Extreme processor, a Blu-ray optical drive, hybrid TV tuner, up to 3TB of storage, a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2, a 21-in-1 card reader and a gaming keyboard / mouse. Somehow, Packard Bell is managing to offer this thing up for anywhere between £999 ($1,979) and £infinity, but don’t count on securing one ’til Christmas.

From www.engadget.com

This bold all-in-one computer borrows its combo concept from the iMac, but is actually a gaming PC. Modder Ville ‘Willek’ Kyrö always liked the idea of small-form-factor computers, but wanted the expandability and power to run his PC games. Being a talented modder with numerous cases under his belt, Willek decided that could have his cake and eat it too.

The Hybred Gaming PC takes up residence in a custom-built aluminum box, housing both the PC’s motherboard and a 17-inch LCD panel. The system runs on a reasonably speedy Athlon64 3500+ CPU, with graphics powered by an ample nVidia GeForce 6800GT on a PCI-e bus.

For more information visit http://technabob.com

This bold all-in-one computer borrows its combo concept from the iMac, but is actually a gaming PC. Modder Ville ‘Willek’ Kyrö always liked the idea of small-form-factor computers, but wanted the expandability and power to run his PC games. Being a talented modder with numerous cases under his belt, Willek decided that could have his cake and eat it too.

The Hybred Gaming PC takes up residence in a custom-built aluminum box, housing both the PC’s motherboard and a 17-inch LCD panel. The system runs on a reasonably speedy Athlon64 3500+ CPU, with graphics powered by an ample nVidia GeForce 6800GT on a PCI-e bus.

For more information visit http://technabob.com

Mousse Computer released a new beautiful beast with this computer, the MASTERPIECE V960XV1. This High-End Computer features an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX9770 (3.2 GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 1600MHz FSB), Intel X48 Express Chipset, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 (1GB), 4GB of DDR2, 1.3TB of SATA HDD (WD VelociRaptor: 300GB at 10,000rpm and 1TB at 7,200rpm), as well as Super-multi blue drive, 11-in-1 card reader.
This beast should cost 3,500€.

From www.akihabaranews.com