October 16th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage ‘n’ networking stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, and John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old [...]
October 15th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, which John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old router. Network [...]
October 15th 2008
I just got a promotional email from HP that shows the Mini-Note is now available for $399. This starting configuration is the low-end version of the netbook:
Via processor
512 MB of RAM
Suse Linux
4 GB SSD
The unit with 1 GB of RAM, 120 GB hard drive and Windows XP but with no Bluetooth is now just $499. [...]
October 15th 2008
Apricot Computers has returned to the UK with an entry into the netbook market.
Apricot’s “PicoBook Pro” is an 8.9-inch netbook boasting optional WiMAX support that will be priced at £279. Oh, and it’s tiny!!!!!
It runs either Linux or Windows XP, has a 60GB hard drive and boasts a battery life of 4 hours.
They even throw [...]
October 15th 2008
I continue to love my Acer Aspire X3200 as a wonderfully tiny, low power sipping, extremely affordable all-in-one HTPC solution. There’s something to be said for going out and buying exactly what you need instead of hobbling together a Frankenstein solution from spare parts.
Unfortunately, one of the features missing from the last-gen of [...]
October 14th 2008
You’ve likely heard enough today about expensive laptops and need to hear about some netbook goodness. Laptop Magazine’s netbook diva Joanna Stern has you covered with a hands on look at the new Samsung NC10 netbook. Joanna spends some quality time with the $499 10-inch Samsung and shares her thoughts on the new netbook. The [...]
October 14th 2008
I continue to love my Acer Aspire X3200 as a wonderfully tiny, low power sipping, extremely affordable all-in-one HTPC solution. There’s something to be said for going out and buying exactly what you need instead of hobbling together a Frankenstein solution from spare parts.
Unfortunately, one of the features missing from the last-gen of [...]
October 13th 2008
Asus are hitting the headlines again for all the wrong reasons with news that some models of the Eee Box PC are shipping with a virus on the hard drive. It was only last month that the company was found to be shipping recovery DVDs containing a cracking tool, confidential Microsoft documents and Asus application [...]
October 11th 2008
I have been lusting after a VooDoo Envy notebook since seeing them a few months back and that hasn’t abated, even after seeing this hands-on review at Gizmodo. Their reaction to the VooDoo is probably what mine would be, even with abysmal battery life it’s just so darn cool. The Envy is not cheap either [...]
October 11th 2008
The Xbox 360 Arcade unit, with its meager of 256MB of storage, always seemed like a rather cynical neutering of the 360 to try to superficially bring the price down lower than the Wii. Which it obviously was: if you are an Xbox 360 Arcade owner and want to keep up to date with the [...]
October 10th 2008
The Xbox 360 Arcade unit, with its meager of 256MB of storage, always seemed like a rather cynical neutering of the 360 to try to superficially bring the price down lower than the Wii. Which it obviously was: if you are an Xbox 360 Arcade owner and want to keep up to date with the [...]
October 10th 2008
As for those of you who don’t know already, WiMax technology offers wireless download speeds of 2 to 4 Mbps and upload speeds of 1 to 2 Mbps, offering more bandwidth than 3G wireless data solutions.
That being said, the new Acer 4930-6862 notebooks will feature Wimax and Wi-Fi Networking while being powered by a [...]
October 10th 2008
Besides just looking a lot snazzier, the New Xbox Experience uses a whole new foundation that’s server-based rather than sitting on your hard drive, so it’s easy for Microsoft to add on features and…
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Tags: Hard Drive, Lot, Microsoft, Movie Photo, Movie Sharing, New Foundation, New Xbox, Photo Sharing, Xbox
October 9th 2008
One of the first things I noticed when I received the evaluation S10 netbook from Lenovo was how the specs of the review unit were not available for the consumer to purchase. This always creates a bad situation for us as reviewers as it casts a pall over our reviews because it looks like reviewers [...]
October 8th 2008
The term UMPC gained most of its momentum in 2008 when many major manufacturers produced a model to compete in this growing market. We saw everything from the 7” Eee Pc to the 10” MSI Wind. Many of them offered a hard drive size to be laughed at and poor battery life with 3 cell [...]
October 6th 2008
A netbook purchase choice just might be a little harder now, or actually easier, depending on your point of view. The Acer Aspire One is now appearing on Amazon in new configurations and colors. Yup, they cost a bunch more, but some will be happy with the upgraded configurations. For starters, there’s a 6-cell battery [...]
October 6th 2008
We reported last week that RealNetworks was sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) over their release of a product called RealDVD. RealDVD reportedly allows for users to create backups of their DVD collections to their hard drive. Playback of the backups created by RealDVD is limited to the RealDVD software itself. Apparently [...]
October 5th 2008
You ever get that feeling when you see something that you never realised that you needed and then all of a sudden you can’t imagine how you ever got by with out of those?
Well, designer Sangho Jin has come up with a clever solution that allows you to add more hard drive space to your [...]
October 3rd 2008
Hitachi showed off a cool-looking camcorder concept at CEATEC this week, which adds a Wi-Fi module for streaming video from its hard drive or what’s being shot live over WLAN to your TV. For recorded…
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Tags: Camcorders, Dlna, Hard Drive, Hd, Hitachi, Hitachi Camcorder, Hitachi Video, Live Tv, Streaming Video, Streams, Tvs, Video Hard, Wi [...]
October 3rd 2008
As tiny 1.8″ hard drives continue to get larger in capacity and smaller in size, this design concept for hanging one from the back of your laptop display seems like the way to go—it’s using a 2.5″…
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Tags: Design Concept, Hard Drive, Hard Drives, Laptop Display, Laptops