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Get Comfy With Microsoft’s Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000
Posted on Dec 15 2011 09:36 PM by xper in Hardware
Today, Microsoft Hardware offers a more comfortable keyboard experience with the new Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000 — the perfect balance of portability and comfort for both tablet and laptop users. Featuring an ergonomist-approved Comfort Curve d...
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Microsoft Releases AMD Bulldozer Hotfix
Posted on Dec 15 2011 08:35 PM by xper in Hardware
This update optimizes the performance of AMD Bulldozer CPUs that are used by Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computers. Currently, the performance of AMD Bulldozer CPUs is slower than expected. This behavior occurs because the thre...
Glass multi-touch keyboard and mouse look amazing
Posted on Nov 29 2011 03:04 PM by xper in Hardware
You know how in movies that are set in the future, you have people using see through keyboards and mice on their computers? Well, we’re actually not too far away from owning such devices – provided that Giddings Product Development’s current Kicks...
Price of DRAM Continues to Drop Rapidly
Posted on Nov 29 2011 02:51 PM by xper in Hardware
Due to slow season, oversupply of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and shortages of hard disk drives (HDDs) pricing of computer memory continues to decrease. The contract price of 4GB DDR3 memory module in the second half of November was down t...
Microsoft Debuts Software for Homebrew Gadget Builds
Posted on Aug 04 2011 09:32 PM by xper in Hardware
Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new devices: a software development platform for home-built gadgets, called .Net Gadgeteer.".Net Gad...
AMD Launches Radeon HD 6990M Mobile Graphics Card
Posted on Jul 13 2011 08:38 AM by xper in Hardware
AMD on Tuesday released the Radeon HD 6990M, a GPU that's built for notebooks and tailored toward graphics-intensive gaming. This comes exactly two weeks after AMD rival Nvidia released its latest high-end mobile graphics card to similar claim...
Toshiba Unveils Glasses-Free 3D Laptop
Posted on Jul 05 2011 03:08 PM by xper in Hardware
Toshiba has introduced the Qosmio F750, the world's first 3D laptop that doesn't require special glasses for watching movies or playing games in 3D. Like the Qosmio T851/D8CR model Toshiba announced in April, the Qosmio F750 can also do si...
Sony Vaio Z renders MacBook Air less cool
Posted on Jun 30 2011 06:26 PM by xper in Hardware
The Sony Vaio Z not only bests the Air on portability but--perish the thought--may be showing Apple a thing or two about ultrathin laptop design. Sony's latest Z series, based on published specifications, easily beats the current MacBook Air o...
Seagate Unveils Industry’s First Hard Disk Drive for T...
Posted on Jun 26 2011 08:05 AM by xper in Hardware
Seagate has announced that it supplied hard disk drive (HDD) for the world’s first handheld tablet computers with hard drives. The Archos G9 8” and 10” tablets feature the Seagate Momentus Thin hard drive in super-slim 7mm profile.Momentus Thin dr...
Asus May Have 13-Inch Android Laptop in the Works
Posted on Jun 23 2011 02:40 PM by xper in Hardware
Asus is rumored to be working on making the largest Android laptop to date: a 13-inch device with an attractive price tag under $299 and possibly a quad-core Nvidia processor. This cheap laptop, according to DigiTimes , may be expected as ear...
AMD aims new chip at quad-core laptops
Posted on Jun 14 2011 05:55 AM by xper in Hardware
Advanced Micro Devices will bring quad-core processing and powerful graphics silicon to mainstream laptops, as it seeks to strike the right balance between the two computing paradigms. On Tuesday, AMD is announcing the Fusion A-Series chips for ma...
Gigabyte Offer Motherboard featuring 20GB SSD
Posted on May 30 2011 08:54 AM by xper in Hardware
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced the new GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD3-iSSD motherboard based on the Intel Z68 Express chipsetand pre-bundled with the20GB In...
Nvidia shows tablet running quad-core Tegra chip
Posted on May 30 2011 08:30 AM by xper in Hardware
Nvidia has shown a prototype tablet computer running a four-core version of its Tegra processor and said products based on the new chip will go on sale starting in September. Speaking to reporters ahead of the Computex trade show in Taipei on Mond...
Are you ready for 3D computers? New Microsoft UI patent
Posted on May 14 2011 06:12 AM by xper in Hardware
With the surging popularity of 3D movies and 3D TVs, it’s only a matter of time until computers go 3D, right? Microsoft last month got approval for a patent on a three-dimensional user interface (PDF ). And it’s different from the “multi-dimension...
World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse Has 9-Month Battery Life
Posted on May 13 2011 05:34 AM by xper in Hardware
HP has revealed a wireless mobile mouse that it says is the first on the market to connect using Wi-Fi. The mouse won’t require an easily misplaced USB dongle, and HP says its nine-month battery life is a lot longer than Bluetooth or wireless USB ...
Google launches Chrome PCs, takes on Microsoft
Posted on May 11 2011 06:28 PM by xper in Hardware
Samsung and Acer Inc laptop computers using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as the world's No. 1 Internet search engine tries to entice people to do more on the Web. Samsung's and Acer's new Web-centric PC...
Game developer creates a USB stick PC for $25
Posted on May 07 2011 07:15 AM by xper in Hardware
It's not much bigger than your finger, it looks like a leftover from an electronics factory, but its makers believe their £15 computer could help a new generation discover programming. The games developer David Braben and some colleagues came ...
Toshiba launches HDDs with built-in Wipe Technology
Posted on Apr 19 2011 09:28 PM by Tripredacus in Hardware
The 2.5-inch MK6461GSYG drives will be available in capacities ranging from 160GB to 640GB and are not only destined for enterprise notebooks and mini-PCs, but could also end up in copiers, printers, and point-of-sale systems. The inclusion of the...
Toshiba launches HDDs with built-in Wipe Technology
Posted on Apr 19 2011 05:27 PM by xper in Hardware
The 2.5-inch MK6461GSYG drives will be available in capacities ranging from 160GB to 640GB and are not only destined for enterprise notebooks and mini-PCs, but could also end up in copiers, printers, and point-of-sale systems. The inclusion of the...
Memory Chip Prices Surge
Posted on Mar 15 2011 06:47 PM by Tripredacus in Hardware
Memory chip prices surge in aftermath of Japan's quakePrices for DRAM and NAND flash memory chips shot up Monday in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami as markets displayed concern over fabrication plant shutdowns, power outages and...
Microsoft kills off Zune hardware
Posted on Mar 15 2011 05:04 AM by BogenDorpher in Hardware
Details are still coming in, but it looks like Microsoft will be killing off the Zune. Not much is known, but sources say that Microsoft plans on killing off the hardware aspect of Zune and instead focus on the software aspect.As Engadget reports,...
Intel Delivers New Dual-Core Intel Atom N570 Processor...
Posted on Mar 02 2011 11:13 AM by xper in Hardware
Today, Intel announced the dual-core Intel Atom processor N570, providing netbook users Internet access on the go and a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor and great battery life as single-core Intel Atom processors. Running...
Seagate Launches 3TB Barracuda XT With Windows XP Support
Posted on Mar 02 2011 10:30 AM by xper in Hardware
Seagate today began shipments of the industry’s most elegant, easy-to-install 3TB desktop drive – the Barracuda XT hard drive – a product that eliminates the need to purchase extra hardware or software to overcome the 2TB barrier. The Barracuda XT...
AMD HD 6990 up and running at Cebit
Posted on Mar 02 2011 09:56 AM by xper in Hardware
While Nvidia's dual-GPU card is nowhere to be seen on Cebit, AMD's dual-GPU HD 6990 is happily running at MSI's booth and is showcased behind close doors by other partners around the show.The partners' mouths are sealed when it com...
MSI to Release Three 10.1-inch Touchscreen Tablets in ...
Posted on Feb 24 2011 06:37 AM by xper in Hardware
Taiwanese PC maker Micro-Star International (MSI) said on Thursday it would target business users with the release of three new 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet PCs on June 1, two with Windows 7 and one with Google's Android Honeycomb OS.The WindP...