AMD today introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card, raising the performance bar for graphics cards priced at less than $150 (USD). Like all ATI Radeon HD 4800 series products, the new offering delivers game performance and HD multimedia capabilities, as well support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games. The ATI Radeon HD 4830 … Read more
BenQ announced the availability for its M2400HD, a 24-Inch LCD screen, on November 1st. The screen has a resolution of ,920×1,080, a brightness is 300cd/m², a contrast ratio of 1,000:1 (with DCR of 10,000:1), a response time of 5ms, and the AMA (Advanced Motion Accelerator) and Senseye Tech. It also comes with a 3 port … Read more
Play.com are now listing Asus Eee All-In-One-Touch Screen PC for pre-order. The release date is set for the 20th of November. Processor: Intel Atom Memory: 1GB HD Capacity: 160GB Graphics Card: Shared Graphics (128MB) Operating System: Windows XP Home Main Specifications: ScreenSize: 15.6″ (16:10 Wide Panel) Touch Screen: Single Touch Panel OS: Windows XP Home … Read more
Over the past few years WEP encryption has been on the decline thanks to the serious security flaws associated with it allowing people to crack the encryption within minutes. This has led to more and more people using WPA and WPA2 to secure their wireless networks. Russian security company Elcomsoft have posted a press release … Read more
Antec will soon be releasing the Skeleton PC Case, this is a open-air PC Case consisting of 2 shelves for the motherboard and other components. It is clearly aimed at the enthusiast market where people constantly fiddle with their PC. The case also uses a huge 250mm TriCool fan which combined with the open-air aspect … Read more
Asus is set to release the words first official Quad Core gaming notebook!
Based on the new Intel QX9300 quad-core processor the laptop comes with a 17 inch display, GeForce 9700M GT GDDR3 512MB, 4gb Ram and up to 1TB hard disk.
There will also be a 2Mpix web camera, Bluetooth V2.1, and Blu-ray writer.
A pretty nice spec if you ask me, though I am sure you will pay for it!
No word on battery life yet! 🙂
Full press release follows.
Scan’s Great White, as shown to the left, has won the coveted Custom PC Dream PC 2008 award, beating competition from HP and Armari. Armari’s machine technically wasn’t fully entered, as the magazine chose not to fully review it since the submitted computer was a prototype not available for mass production. Custom PC has had … Read more
Apple’s paper-thin notebook machine has received a fairly major software update, reports The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Accessed via the usual updating system within OS X, the patch addresses issues with video playback as well as – primarily – issues with heat. The CPU cores in the MacBook apparently don’t idle as they should out of … Read more
NVIDIA have finally enabled PhysX support via a free GeForce Power Pack download that contains a free full copy of Warmonger, three PhysX-enabled Unreal Tournament 3 maps, demos of Metal Knight Zero and the Nurien UT3-based social networking service, and a couple tech demos. As you may know Nvidia bought Ageia and the PhysX engine … Read more
Micron is starting production of a new line of solid state drives (SSD) that offer much faster data rates than were previously possible. The new drives are capable of 250MB/s data transfer and come in two lines, an enterprise-class RealSSD P200 and the client-focused RealSSD C200. The company hopes the increased speed and reduced power … Read more
Well we have all heard of the Asus Eee PC but now Asus are hoping to do to the desktop market what they did to the notebook market. As you can see from the picture the Asus Eee Box is an ultra small desktop PC and is expected to cost $349 in the US or … Read more
Over the past few days I have been considering buying a new laptop. It is for work but far from essential. It will only be used for emails, web browsing, blogging, maybe the occasional word document or perhaps something as adventurous as FTP. So nothing CPU intensive. Because I wont be doing any gaming or … Read more
Well, when MightyGadget got the opportunity to visit Paris on an all expenses paid trip to have a ganders at the latest Toshiba gear the answer was already set in stone (that would be a resounding yes if you hadn’t already got it). Take a closer look was the objective and that is exactly what … Read more
A little late off the mark on this one but unfortunately Rock Direct has ceased trading and has gone into administration. Rock are a UK based manufacturer of Gaming laptops and notebooks. I personally always preferred them over other companies producing gaming laptops such as Alienware and Dell, so I am sad to see the … Read more
I’m here at the Toshiba seminar entitled ‘Take a closer look’. When I return I will be giving you lucky people an insight into the latest technical goodies that they have on offer. I have to admit that there are some delightful little gems on offer and have some photos to prove it. It’s a … Read more
Ok so the ASUS Eee PC has been out for a little while, and Everex are planning to ship the “Cloudbook” UMPC shortly (release date was supposed to be 25/01/08). The Cloudbook appears to be aiming at the Eee PC market but how do the two UMPCs compare to each other? Asus Eee PC 4G … Read more