OCZ Technology Group on Wednesday unveiled its new Do-It-Yourself (DIY) gaming notebook program. The OCZ DIY program allows users to build their own mobile gaming PC while aided with guides and direct support to make it easier for novices or experienced PC builders to create their own notebook. The foundation is 15.4-inch WXGA notebook, OCZ’s [...]
A Windows-based installer that allows Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same machine and a powerful new sound server are the key features of the latest Ubuntu update. Codenamed “Hardy Heron”, version 8.04 is the second Ubuntu release to offer long-term support. This means that security and maintenance updates will be available for [...]
HP on Monday added two new desktop PCs for business users to its range, with the Compaq dc5850 and Compaq dx2450. The two are some of the first HP PCs to use AMD’s triple- and quad-core Phenom X3 processors. The latter is the value-oriented offering, and can be configured with a choice of [...]
Kingston announced its first high-performance notebook SO-DIMM RAM for the global market. The notebook RAM is has low-latency and runs at 667MHz with capacities of 2GB and 4GB available. The low latency RAM operates at CL4-4-4-12 at 1.8V.
“Kingston customers asked about higher-performance memory for current notebooks and our new 667MHz CL4 low-latency SO-DIMMs are the [...]
Shuttle announced a new small form factor PC today called the XPC G5 6801M that features a dual format Blu-ray and HD DVD drive. The machine is powered by an AMD Athlon X2 6000+ and has 2GB of RAM. Storage capacity is 500GB and graphics are handled by ATI HD3450.
The combo optical drive is [...]
CyberLink announced today that its PowerDVD Ultra software now supports playback of BD-Live content. BD-Live is Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 and allows for advanced interactive disc content and multiplayer gaming, e-commerce, movie trailer downloads and more.
“CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra has already been certified for various HD formats including BD-Video Profile 1.1, BD+, AVCHD, and BD-RE [...]
45 Nanometers of Quad-Core Glory—
With more than 800 million transistors for quad-core, the new 45nm Core 2 Extreme introduces new microarchetecture features for greater performance. Some of these advanced new features include: greater performance at all previous given
imagefrequencies, up to 50-percent larger L2 caches, and expanded power management capabilities for new levels [...]
Samsung Electronics launched its 24-,30-inch LED backlit monitors ‘Syncmaster XL24/XL30’ in Korea market. Its range of color reproduction expands to 123% compared to the RGB standard.The LX24 and XL30 provide Calibrator which allows the color characteristics of your monitor to be calibrated according to your needs, and Natural Color Expert that is a program [...]
Kojinsha Korea announced the release of its mini notebook pc ‘E8′ aimed at ASUS’s Eee PC. Running on Windows XP and AMD Geode LX800 CPU, the E8 adopts 40GB HDD, 512MB memory and touch screen display with 1024 x 600 resolution. Other features included built-in stereo speaker, memory card slot, and USB port. Supporting [...]
A British company has developed a laptop which will cost just £99. PC maker and services company Elonex is to unveil the “One” laptop at The Education Show, which is to kick off in Birmingham on 28 February. The Linux-based laptop will offer a three-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, a flash-based hard drive, a “hard-wearing [...]
