Lenovo has announced a few new multimedia computers scheduled to be released in 2011. The IdeaPad Y460p andIdeaPad Y560p laptops, and the IdeaCentre K330 desktop PC are aimed at “young adults who seek the ultimate multimedia experience for watching movies, listening to music and playing games,” according to Lenovo. IdeaPad Y460p and Y560p Arriving in January 2011 [...]
Gigabyte is most commonly known as a manufacturer of motherboards and PC components, but the company has been slowly but surely working its way into the gaming peripheral market as well, with a variety of multimedia keyboards and gaming mice. Nowhere else is this new strategy more evident than in the new Gigabyte Aivia K8100 [...]
Demand for mini-ITX boards built around Intel’s socket 1156 has been rather high this year, and as a result, vendors like DFI, ECS, Intel and Zotac have enjoyed free reign of sales despite releasing products that don’t necessarily live up to or meet user expectations. Going mini-ITX means there will always be a few compromises [...]
Fujifilm makes an extremely long range ultrazoom with DSLR control. Ultrazoom, non-DSLR cameras have almost always been exercises in compromise. They can shoot long distances, but the optical quality often takes a dive to reach such extreme lengths, and the control is rarely any better than on a point-and-shoot costing half the price. Fujifilm’s FinePix [...]
Earlier this year when everybody started noticing the ‘SandForce’ phenomenon in the hardware scene a lot of people shouted ‘yay’, finally some competition on the SSD IC HOST controller SSD, more ODMs will bring some more competition into a predominantly stiff SSD controller market — and that’s a great thing as emerging companies always have [...]
ASRock’s current X58 line-up consist of the SuperComputer ($275), Deluxe3 ($225), Deluxe, and the Extreme3′s predecessor, the Extreme (AT review, $170). The Extreme3 is available today for $190. Other products in this price range that the Extreme3 is competing with are the Gigabyte EX58-UD3R at $189, the MSI Pro-E for $190, the MSI Pro-E USB3 [...]
The Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H (AMD 890GX) motherboard Product Gallery On the next few pages we’ll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel. Okay then, let’s start off with the box shot so you know what to look for [...]
The newest Radeon takes multi-monitor gaming to the extreme You may have seen the news post when, one day several weeks ago, a couple of guys from AMD arrived in our offices to set up a six-display Eyefinity rig. In my years of writing about enthusiast-class PC hardware, I have seen and used some incredibly [...]
Sony calls the Dash a “personal internet viewer.” It’s more like a $200 alarm clock with an app store. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The Dash, if you’re unfamiliar, is a glossy, Sony spin on the Chumby. But while the original Chumby was a personable, hackable beanbag; the Dash is a typical black [...]
On Wednesday, Capcom handed me the controls to its August release title, Dead Rising 2. From the weapon combination system to the character customization, the game is laughs and fun across the board. The newest feature in the sequel is the ability to combine weapons within the game. This can’t be done on the fly: [...]
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