Computing

At CES this year Toshiba decided to follow the HD DVD trend with a laptop that is capable of burning HD DVDs. While the laptop was only a prototype, it is a great step for HD DVDs because it will quicken the transition from traditional DVDs to HD DVDs. As of right now everyone is keeping hush-hush about this drive, ...

Axiotron has released the first ever tablet computer that runs Mac OSX (you know, the OS that the iPhone has on it). It was rumored that a Mac tablet would be unveiled, and that it wouldn’t be Apple that did it; these rumors have turned out to be true. Here is some interesting information that the press release contains: The ...

At the Rhinoskin booth today, they we’re showing off their nice new iPod cases, but of couse, there are so many iPod cases already released that they needed something else. They definitely had that something else. The new Macbook Hardcase looks very nice with it’s hard ABS plastic outer shell that looks as if it’s an army ready to fight ...

Pulling out your laptop in front of the airport security scan is something that frequent flyers are so used to, it can be a benign routine, and it can also be a disastrous nightmare. British company Midrix came out with a solution that makes it easy for everyone to pull out their laptop from the backpack (or case or murse ...

Today at CES Memorex unveiled their new 12GB Mega TravelDrive, a monster in the field of USB drives. While this looks a little big to be carrying around on your keychain, the 12GB is more than enough to transfer all the files you want in a single trip. The 1 inch drive is encased in a silver case about the ...

Late last year Intel released the Q6700, their brand new baby that was a Core 2 Quad (not duo) and had a clock speed of 2.66 GHz. So what is the difference between the Q6700 and the brand new Q6600, well, other than 100, there is a difference in clock speed of .26Ghz. The new Q6600 runs at 2.4Ghz intsead ...

Remember last week, all of the news stories of a new LG DVD player that had broken the barrier that stood between the new next gen DVD formats? That player, the BH100, has officially been released at CES. Any new news? Yes, they also announced that there will be a drive for the PC released also due in Q1 of ...

Before the almighty, all-expensive Nokia N95 made it into the market, the guys at IT168 had taken a preproduction model and decided to take it apart. You can follow the link below for the stills, the video was not the dissection (corrected — Jan.8) but just a review walk-through. IT168 also made a comment that we have not heard of: ...

According to Sony, the dream of actually having force-feedback in driving games will never come to full bloom. Partial bloom won’t happen either. So why will force-feedback never arise? It’s all to blame on that damn Sixaxis controller which does not have a rumble function. All PS3 games are programmed for the SIXAXIS which doesn’t have force feedback, therefore the ...

ASUS� newest laptop is being released with enough features to roll with the big dogs. With many laptops manufacturers getting more competitive, maybe ASUS decided to come in strong and show that they could do it. The Z84Jp has everything: Intel Core 2 Duo, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, SATA hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics card. ...