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Android-based gaming console Ouya hitting retail in June, preorders start today

Android-based gaming console Ouya hitting retail in June, preorders start today
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • Ouya, the Android-based gaming console that raised over $8.5 million from more than 63,000 backers on Kickstarter, is now officially available for pre-order to anyone who missed out on the campaign and will be available at a wide range of…

Neowin: Sony Vaio Tap 20 review

Neowin: Sony Vaio Tap 20 review
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 11:00 AM by Steven Parker | Filed in Hardware
  • Windows 8 has brought with it an influx of new computer form factors, including dockable tablets, flipping convertible hybrids and even dual-screen laptops. But perhaps one of the most bizarre ideas came out of the labs at Sony. We all…

Reviewing Cooler Master's HAF XB "LAN Box"

Reviewing Cooler Master
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 2:02 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • Following the success of 2008's HAF 932 chassis, Cooler Master didn't waste any time adapting its High Air Flow design to various other form factors and price points -- many of which we've covered in depth. Along with its larger options, the company offers three mid-towers: the $50 HAF 912, $100 HAF 922 and $130 HAF XM.

    While the cost of these cases varies significantly, they're all fairly similar in terms of stature in that their tall, rectangular profile resembles most other mid-towers. Mixing things up, Cooler Master's latest mid-size enclosure, the HAF XB, breaks the conventional mold with boxier dimensions -- in fact, the company describes it as a "LAN box".

HP's first Chromebook officially out, priced at $330

HP
  • Posted February 4, 2013, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • HP’s Chromebook plans were first revealed last week through a product sheet on its website, but now the company has made it official. Joining the likes of Samsung, Acer, and Lenovo, HP is embracing Google’s browser-based operating system with its…

VESA updates DisplayPort Dual-Mode, pushes 4K UHD over HDMI

VESA updates DisplayPort Dual-Mode, pushes 4K UHD over HDMI
  • Posted February 1, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Industry standards body VESA has officially updated its DisplayPort Dual-Mode 1.1 standard to provide better performance, higher resolutions and increased interoperability when hooking up to HDMI and DVI ports through a cable or adapter. Under Dual-Mode, a DisplayPort can output…

Google Glass could include built-in bone conduction headphones

Google Glass could include built-in bone conduction headphones
  • Posted February 1, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Despite the fact that Google recently held a hackaton for Project Glass developers a few days ago in San Francisco and is hosting another event starting today in New York, we still don’t know an awful lot about the search…

Nvidia to build reference smartphones and tablets for OEMs, ODMs

Nvidia to build reference smartphones and tablets for OEMs, ODMs
  • Posted January 31, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Nvidia is no stranger to producing reference designs for the graphics card market and working with partners to get products into customers’ hands. Now, according to a report by Russian site Mobile Review, the company is looking to replicate that…

Fanless barebones PC from Foxconn lands at Newegg for $250

Fanless barebones PC from Foxconn lands at Newegg for $250
  • Posted January 30, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Silent PC aficionados may be interested to learn that Newegg is now stocking a silent small form factor computer from Foxconn. The aptly named NanoPC, measuring just 7.5-inches x 5.3-inches x 1.5-inches, has a TDP rating of just 9W which…

Acer chief hints at low-cost, quad-core slates later this year

Acer chief hints at low-cost, quad-core slates later this year
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Acer has been making some noise in the budget tablet market with their Iconia B1, a $150 slate designed to go toe-to-toe with Google’s popular Nexus 7. It appears that prospect may be panning out as Acer CEO Linxian Lang…

Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro will ship with just 83GB of usable space

Microsoft
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Microsoft has revealed that the 128GB Surface Pro will ship with just 83GB of usable storage space. No word yet on how much space the 64GB version will arrive with but if the same 45GB is unavailable from the get-go,…

AMD's upcoming 'Richland' APU clock speeds detailed

AMD
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 9:39 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • With AMD's successor to Trinity already shipping to computer makers we’ve been hearing more and more details about the upcoming parts. Last week, Chinese website Expreview revealed the initial lineup for Richland on the desktop, and now VR-Zone is complementing…

MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook: Powerful mobile GPU without breaking the bank?

MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook: Powerful mobile GPU without breaking the bank?
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 2:33 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • Most people can’t afford to spend a few thousand on a notebook computer, even if it's on a solid gaming machine that doubles as a desktop replacement. To that end, today we'll be checking out a portable from MSI that aims to deliver a solid gaming experience without the excessive cost.

    The MSI GX60 comes packed with a quad-core AMD A10-4600M CPU clocked at 2.3GHz alongside AMD Radeon HD 7970M discrete graphics with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, a 15.6-inch non-glare display operating at 1920x1080, 8GB of DDR3 memory in a 4GBx2 configuration, 128GB of flash storage used as the OS drive and a 750GB 7200RPM disk drive for storage.

Intel introduces mSATA SSD 525 Series for Ultrabooks

Intel introduces mSATA SSD 525 Series for Ultrabooks
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Intel has announced a new mSATA solid-state drive designed for Ultrabooks and low-power embedded applications. The SSD 525 Series is essentially an mSATA version of the 2.5-inch 520 SSD Series, and as such it’s also the company’s first drive in this…

HP Pavilion Chromebook detailed in leaked specifications sheet

HP Pavilion Chromebook detailed in leaked specifications sheet
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • HP’s first Chromebook has been ousted ahead of a public announcement thanks to a PDF that was recently discovered on the company’s website. The HP Pavilion Chromebook looks to be in line with similar offerings from the competition albeit with…

AMD's upcoming "Richland" desktop APU lineup detailed

AMD
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD is set to replace the current generation A-series "Trinity" APUs with updated parts that are said to offer a performance boost of 20% to 40% over their predecessors. The company has said these new APUs, codenamed Richland, are already…

IHS: SSD shipments to double in 2013 as ultrabook sales pick up

IHS: SSD shipments to double in 2013 as ultrabook sales pick up
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 9:37 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Solid-state drive shipments are set to more than double in 2013 bolstered by a new generation of lower-cost and more appealing ultrabooks, according to an IHS iSuppli report. The market research firm estimates worldwide shipments will rise to 83 million…

Samsung overtakes Apple as top semiconductor buyer in 2012

Samsung overtakes Apple as top semiconductor buyer in 2012
  • Posted January 23, 2013, 4:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Samsung has vaulted past Apple to become the world’s biggest buyer of semiconductors, according to new data from Gartner. The two were virtually tied for semiconductor purchases in 2011, but last year the scale tipped slightly to the South Korean…

Intel to exit desktop motherboard business after Haswell

Intel to exit desktop motherboard business after Haswell
  • Posted January 23, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Intel has announced plans to shutter their retail desktop motherboard business after more than 20 years on the job. The chip maker informed a number of tech publications of the decision late yesterday, stating that there will be no more…

Nvidia said to be readying $899 GK110-based GeForce Titan card

Nvidia said to be readying $899 GK110-based GeForce Titan card
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Gaming
  • Preparing for the upcoming launch of AMD's Radeon HD 8000 series, which will presumably kick off with a single-GPU flagship leading the charge, Nvidia is reportedly hoping to steal some of its rival's thunder by releasing a new card that will exist between today's GeForce...

Asus intros 13.3-inch VivoBook S300 with touchscreen, Windows 8

Asus intros 13.3-inch VivoBook S300 with touchscreen, Windows 8
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 4:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Asus has expanded its VivoBook line with a new model that offers an in-between alternative to the existing 11.6 and 14-inch models. As with its siblings, the 13.3-inch VivoBook S300 has an ultrabook-like body, weighing between three and four pounds…

Intel to launch Haswell just days before Computex on June 2

Intel to launch Haswell just days before Computex on June 2
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • We all know that Haswell is the successor to current generation Ivy Bridge CPUs but up to this point, we haven’t had a date to circle on our calendar for its arrival. That’s all changing now according to a new…

Intel quietly releases seven budget Ivy Bridge desktop processors

Intel quietly releases seven budget Ivy Bridge desktop processors
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Intel released the first wave of processors based on the 22-nanometer die shrink of Sandy Bridge close to a year ago. Ivy Bridge has thus far been reserved for mid-range and high-end applications but that’s all changing as Intel has…

Rumor: Galaxy Note 8.0 to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress

Rumor: Galaxy Note 8.0 to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress
  • Posted January 18, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • Samsung’s line of Galaxy Note products will soon be welcoming a new member to the family if the latest rumor to come down the pipe is to be believed. We are hearing that Samsung is preparing to introduce a new…

VIA updates APC mini ARM PC line with $79 Rock, $99 Paper

VIA updates APC mini ARM PC line with $79 Rock, $99 Paper
  • Posted January 17, 2013, 4:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • Following the Raspberry Pi's cult-like reception, many companies scrambled to enter the DIY palm-sized PC market, including VIA, which started shipping its 6.7 x 3.3-inch APC for $49 last summer. That device ran Android 2.3 Gingerbread and offered an 800MHz…

Acer to intro laptops with high-PPI (2880x1620) displays

Acer to intro laptops with high-PPI (2880x1620) displays
  • Posted January 17, 2013, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • According to a number of reports, Acer plans to outfit several of its premium laptops (and one ultrabook) with high-PPI displays. Although the exact specifications are unknown, we do know that one 15.x-inch display Acer showed off boasts a resolution…

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