Prior to January’s MacWorld convention, Apple released several news bulletins. One of which is that Steve Jobs will not be attending as the keynote speaker. The other one is that the succeeding releases of Apple MacBooks and iBooks will no longer support Firewire connectors.
Both news are significant, but for ordinary users, the latter one has [...]
Source: DesktopReview.com
Dell has just introduced to the market a new all-in-one PC, this time it’s larger than the older 20-inch model. The XPS One 24 is based on a 24-inch display with 16:9 aspect ratio. Capable of up to 1920×1080 pixel resolution, the PC runs on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 processor with 4GB [...]
About ten years ago, when Compaq was at the height of its company buying spree, Compaq had a product demonstration for its latest line of notebooks. Called the M-series for mobile computing, the M-series also introduced magnesium alloy casings.
Magnesium alloys are more commonly used in mag wheels or magnesium alloy car wheel rims, as well [...]
Dell has tried it before, creating a single-piece PC, where the monitor is integrated into the CPU unit. And this time, Sony is giving it an attempt. This one looks serious, though. It’s the new Vaio JS1, with a 20.1″ LCD screen priced almost the same as a 20″ iMac.
The basic hardware for the Vaio [...]
Source: PCFrags.com
I’ve been looking at an alternative to the mouse lately. Not really intending to get a trackball (though I’ve been trying to shop around for one) but due to some minor issues I have with my computer tables, I had been giving a thought to a possible replacement to my mouse. [...]
Source: ElectronicHouse.com
LG Electronics recently released the LG HS-102 Ultra-Mobile Projector which is a palm-sized projector capable of throwing a 20-inch image from 50-cm away. This is LG’s second generation projector which uses LEDs instead of a bulb. Rated at 50,000+ hours, the LEDs are practically guaranteed for life-time use. The innovations [...]
Around the start of the year, I installed Linux on my home PC. It was okay, as it was an old Fedora distro. I had no problems as it worked fine and I really wanted to play around with it a bit. The real problem was that it was installed on top of WinXP and [...]
I have no idea what I’ll do with 1.0TB, as I don’t store movies on my computer. I’m still a DVD disk as source and backup kind of guy. But there are terabyte hard disks out there and two of the most cost-effective are from Seagate and Samsung.
As hard disks go, the Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS [...]