Charlie Demerjian the inquirer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:15 +0000

CES 2009 Tool-free tinkering

INQUIRER Newsdesk the inquirer Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:24:00 +0000

Thinnest all in one arriving April

Charlie Demerjian the inquirer Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:15:46 +0000

No more reorganization

INQUIRER Staff the inquirer Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:43:00 +0000

For the first time

Charlie Demerjian the inquirer Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:04:00 +0000

Insightful blog or decoy?

Paul Taylor the inquirer Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:21:40 +0000

Apple withdraws after 2009

Paul Hales the inquirer Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:49:00 +0000

Sugar turns to Stone

Emil Larsen the inquirer Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:27:57 +0000

First INQpressions Intel’s GMA X4500HD also grilled

Rob Kerr the Inquirer, Thursday 8 May 2008. 18:10:00

Wee Titan

MSI HAS shown off its new, Shuttle-esque mini PC. The Titan 700 is based on the Mini-ITX board and is powered by a VIA C7 Series 2Ghz processer with 1GB of DDR2 - running from a VIA CN700/8237R+ chipset. It ships with a slim DVD burner, a 2.5-inch S-ATA HDD enabling the compact size and reducing heat dissipation within the chassis. The basis of the MSI bare-boned themed system is a Mini-ITX motherboard. MSI Titan 700 Dimensions for the mini-ITX run in it at 170 x 170mm, smaller than the micro ATX form factor. Since it utilises a smaller chassis, the 60W power source is an external energy-efficient notebook style power-supply....

Charlie Demerjian the inquirer Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:50:00 +0000

The home shopping event of the, err, day

INQUIRER staff the Inquirer, Wednesday 18 June 2008. 20:22:00

Juggernaut on a roll

PC MAKER Chillblast has a reputation for getting more out of its hardware than other manufacturers, but the Fusion Juggernaut system takes this to new levels. The £1318 (plus VAT) Juggernaut ties an overclocked 45nm quad core Q9450 with an Nvidian 1GB 9800 GX2 graphics card. With 4GB of fast PC2-6400 DDR Corsair memory and the latest Samsung F1 hard drive, the PC minces most benchmark scores. The bundle d peripherals are no let down either, with a spunky 24-inch Samsung 245B display, 7.1 surround sound from Creative T7900 speakers and a gaming keyboard and mouse bundle from Saitek and Razer respectively....

Sylvie Barak , Friday 5 September 2008. 10:10:00

Unexplosive, hopefully

SONY YESTERDAY decided to announce three new all-in-one, Blue Ray inclusive PCs at Denver’s CEDIA show. The three new Vaios, the JS, LV and RT, seem to have been designed with three specifically different usage models in mind, with the JS acting as ‘ye old bog standard PC’, the LV aimed at replacing the TV in the living room, and the RT focused on multimedia fanatics who want to edit their own epic movies on their computers. Sony’s main selling point for its new baby Vaios, of course, is the screen. Whilst the lower ended JS comes with a 20.1 inch Xbrite-Eco display, the LV gets a diagonal 24 inch Wuxga display and the yuppy magnet RT comes complete with a ginormous 25.5-inch diagonal LCD....

Sylvie Barak the inquirer Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:10:00 +0000

Unexplosive, hopefully

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Friday 5 September 2008. 10:10:00

Unexplosive, hopefully

SONY YESTERDAY decided to announce three new all-in-one, Blue Ray inclusive PCs at Denver’s CEDIA show. The three new Vaios, the JS, LV and RT, seem to have been designed with three specifically different usage models in mind, with the JS acting as ‘ye old bog standard PC’, the LV aimed at replacing the TV in the living room, and the RT focused on multimedia fanatics who want to edit their own epic movies on their computers. Sony’s main selling point for its new baby Vaios, of course, is the screen. Whilst the lower ended JS comes with a 20.1 inch Xbrite-Eco display, the LV gets a diagonal 24 inch Wuxga display and the yuppy magnet RT comes complete with a ginormous 25.5-inch diagonal LCD....

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Friday 5 September 2008. 10:10:00

Unexplosive, hopefully

SONY YESTERDAY decided to announce three new all-in-one, Blue Ray inclusive PCs at Denver’s CEDIA show. The three new Vaios, the JS, LV and RT, seem to have been designed with three specifically different usage models in mind, with the JS acting as ‘ye old bog standard PC’, the LV aimed at replacing the TV in the living room, and the RT focused on multimedia fanatics who want to edit their own epic movies on their computers. Sony’s main selling point for its new baby Vaios, of course, is the screen. Whilst the lower ended JS comes with a 20.1 inch Xbrite-Eco display, the LV gets a diagonal 24 inch Wuxga display and the yuppy magnet RT comes complete with a ginormous 25.5-inch diagonal LCD....

Ian Williams , Friday 15 August 2008. 12:12:00

Intel remains at the top of the stack

GLOBAL SHIPMENTS of PC microprocessor reached new record levels again in the second quarter of 2008, according to analyst bods IDC. Shipments grew 3.1 per cent quarter over quarter and an impressive 16.1 per cent year over year. This came as a bit of a shock to the researchers. Not only is everyone counting every penny these days, but April to June is normally a pretty quiet time for this part of the industry. Although shipments were up, overall market revenue dropped by 4.5 per cent quarter over quarter to $7.7 billion. It seems that the huge amounts of competition between little lapwarmers as well as strong vendor price competition in the middle and low end of the desktop PC processor market were to blame....

Rob Kerr , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 15:44:00

Giving the Mac Mini a run for... much less money

CALIFORNIAN COMPANY CHERRYPAL has just produced the greenest of the green computers, pulling just a meagre two watts in power. It looks like a KVM switch, it has no moving parts, 80 percent fewer components as compared to other PCs and pulls in 112 fewer watts – with a cost of just $249. For that one-off-fee, what you actually get is a thin client-esque computer still needing a monitor, mouse, keyboard and internet connection, but is still a PC nonetheless. The CherryPal C100 boots within 20 seconds and is powered by Freescale MPC5121e mobileGT processor with 800 MIPS, or 400 MHz running an embedded form of Debian Linux....

Stewart Meagher , Tuesday 15 July 2008. 17:12:00

Psystar suit finally filed

THE MIGHTY APPLE will bring the full force of its dogs of law down upon cheeky cloning minnow Psystar according to The Gray Blog, a lawyerly web site specialising in copyright law. The blog claims, "Apple, Inc, manufacturer of the well known line of computers and software, filed suit on July 3 in the federal district court for the northern district of California against Florida company Psystar, Inc. The suit alleges counts for violation of its shrink wrap license, trademark and copyright infringement." Psystar has maintained that it is doing nothing wrong and that Apple's EULA may well be contrary to US monopolies legislation....

Sylvie Barak , Thursday 10 July 2008. 09:17:00

Computer, heal thyself

FUJITSU SIEMENS have announced what sounds like a ‘magic button’, software which proactively identifies and fixes computer problems and glitches as they arise. The company reckons its new ‘wonder software’, which will be available as of September, uses an application suite called Questra which performs online remote monitoring and automatically fixes any problems it finds – something of a digital IT service desk, the company claims. Fujitsu Siemens is boasting that the software will mean more uptime and PC productivity, fewer calls to the support desk and less time waiting for faults to be fixed. Richard Schlauri, Executive Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Fujitsu Siemens explained, “reporting problems via phone or email to a helpdesk agent becomes an outdated practice, as today’s machine-to-machine communication is more efficient and can even prevent future problems from arising.” He added: “Today, this technology is an innovation but we are sure that it will quickly become a standard in the IT services business.” CEO at Questra, Emil Wang, claimed the digital Service Desk, "will have already identified, interrogated and resolved problems by the time rival helpdesk service organisations receive their first traditional help desk call”....

INQUIRER staff , Wednesday 18 June 2008. 20:22:00

Juggernaut on a roll

PC MAKER Chillblast has a reputation for getting more out of its hardware than other manufacturers, but the Fusion Juggernaut system takes this to new levels. The £1318 (plus VAT) Juggernaut ties an overclocked 45nm quad core Q9450 with an Nvidian 1GB 9800 GX2 graphics card. With 4GB of fast PC2-6400 DDR Corsair memory and the latest Samsung F1 hard drive, the PC minces most benchmark scores. The bundle d peripherals are no let down either, with a spunky 24-inch Samsung 245B display, 7.1 surround sound from Creative T7900 speakers and a gaming keyboard and mouse bundle from Saitek and Razer respectively....

Paul Hales in Old Taipei , Wednesday 4 June 2008. 09:11:00

Computex 08 P45 leads the charge

ECS IS TAKING the opportunity of today's launch of Intel Series 4 chipsets to up its stature in the motherboard market. Traditionally a stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap sort of outfit, the company is aiming its new Black Series boards at a higher-end and higher-margin niche. Black is cool, apparently and this is another line aimed at the see-through case brigade. The top-of-the-line P48-based X48T uses DDR3 memory, an innovation which ECS reckons will help bring the price of this format down to a more reasonable level over coming months as the volumes crank up. As Intel noted, the 1600FSB speed beefs up up the performance of P48-based boards....

Paul Taylor , Friday 13 June 2008. 08:02:00

Hardware Rounds Get your tarjetas right here

CHILE HARDWARE HAS some red hot 9600GTs on test today – actually four of them (hence the “Poker” title): eVGA, Foxconn, Palit and ECS contributed with one each. This is one of those articles where everyone’s a winner, and gives you that warm comforting feeling when you come across any of them at a retail outlet somewhere. Foxconn is a powerful overclocker, while *gasp* ECS wins the overall challenge. Get your tarjetas right here, or read it in magical Googlenglish Laptop Mag took some time, but they finally got round to testing the “terabyte laptop” from Asus, ie: the M70SA-C1....

Wily Ferret , Tuesday 29 April 2008. 06:59:00

Shipping unannounced processors on the not-so-sly

APPLE HAS UPDATED its popular line of Imacs with some very interesting technology indeed. Usually the most interesting thing about Apple's desktop refreshes is a quick tally of who is in and who is out on the graphics front. For both DAAMIT and Graphzilla, getting their chips into the all-in-one machines is a nice trophy sale, not to mention a good bit of branding. (For the record, ATI is the big winner this time around, with three of the four models sporting 2400 or 2600 cards. Only the top end 24" Imac has an Nvidia card, the 8800 GS). But the no, the most interesting thing this time around is the processor spec....

Wily Ferret , Friday 2 May 2008. 10:14:00

Alien-who?

PROVING THAT is really had no reason to purchase Alienware, Dell has pushed out a revision to its XPS range of gaming systems that really trounces most of what the UFO-bods have to offer. Based on the same XPS 700-series chassis that has won it critical acclaim in the tech press (as well as some stunningly large courier bills, no doubt) the XPS 730 H2C adds quad-core processors and funky water-cooling to the line up. Dell is shipping Corsair Dominator memory, as well as multi-graphics-cards from both ATI and Nvidia. Interestingly, the boys from Round Rock have dropped the previous BTX form factor and gone with standard ATX boards, making this possibly the most upgradeable XPS system to date....

Rob Kerr , Thursday 8 May 2008. 18:10:00

Wee Titan

MSI HAS shown off its new, Shuttle-esque mini PC. The Titan 700 is based on the Mini-ITX board and is powered by a VIA C7 Series 2Ghz processer with 1GB of DDR2 - running from a VIA CN700/8237R+ chipset. It ships with a slim DVD burner, a 2.5-inch S-ATA HDD enabling the compact size and reducing heat dissipation within the chassis. The basis of the MSI bare-boned themed system is a Mini-ITX motherboard. MSI Titan 700 Dimensions for the mini-ITX run in it at 170 x 170mm, smaller than the micro ATX form factor. Since it utilises a smaller chassis, the 60W power source is an external energy-efficient notebook style power-supply....