Vizio has confirmed rumours by announcing that it is launching five new PCs. The launch date for them is expected to be sometime in the Spring of this year.
All five models run the Windows 7 operating system. Other than that, the details are a little sparse at the moment although Vizio has commented that they will “turn the PC market upside down and accomodate the entertainment needs and wants demanded by consumers”.
Logitech is releasing a new mouse called the Logitech Cube. The device looks like a small box and fits in the palm of your hand. What makes it unique is that the top side of it is a touch sensitive panel. When picking up the Cube it jumps in to presentation mode and allows you to control a presentation from the palm of your hand.
One third of all all-in-on PC sales were claimed by Apple for the iMac range. The numbers are from the third quarter of 2011. In second place was Lenovo with 22.7 percent of the share. The reason Lenovo did well was due to strong sales in China where its all-in-one PC range has taken off. HP took third place with 21.4 percent of the sales.
An Intel Core i7 has been overclocked to 5.6GHz on a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard. The motherboard is the first in the world to achieve a multiplier of 57x. Although it's not the fastest a chip has been overclocked, that record was set at 8.58Ghz, it is the fastest this model of the Core i7 has reached.
A new 128Gb NAND has been unveiled by Micron and Intel. A 128Gb NAND is the first of its kind in the world and when in production it will be used on devices such as smartphones, tablets and other similar devices.
NVIDIA has finally made an announcement about the NVIDIA Tegra 3 and has made it official. The new chip follows on from the Tegra 2 and is a quad-core processor that was previously known as the Kal-El.
The price of hard disk drives is increasing due to the flooding in Thailand. The floods caused problems which has caused a shortage of HDDs which in turn has increased the pricing.
Firefox 8 will officially be released tomorrow although we have found out today that you can actually download the final version now. When it officially launches tomorrow you'll simply be able to visit the main page of Mozilla and you'll then see an option to download version 8 of Firefox.
If you want it today, read on below to see how you can get it.
Seagate is making changes to the hard drives it supplies for desktop computers. In the past it has offered 5400RPM models but will soon be dropping these in favour of faster 7200RPM versions. The changes are being made to the Barracuda models built for desktop computers.
Windows 8 received quite a warm welcome when it was first announced. The new metro layout along with how it functions on the desktop and tablet was one of the many interesting new features about the operating. Today though, we're taking a quick look at the task manager and although the task manager is a place that's rather boring to visit for most users, Microsoft has made a number of improvements to make it more user friendly.
After a few months of waiting we now have the first external hard drive launch that is Thunderbolt compatible. The drive comes from LaCie and comes in a few different capacities of 1TB, 2TB or a 500GB SSD model.
It's been a while since we came across a Microsft Kinect hack so we thought we'd post this one that's been doing the rounds today. The latest idea is to use the Kinect to shop online by gestures. Although we call this a "hack" this isn't strictly true as it has been designed by Mastercard to allow you to make Mastercard payments by waving an arm.
