Best Buy Black Friday 2009: Western Digital Hard Drives

The Media age is moving at a fast rate, gone are the days when we have huge collections of photo albums, CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray’s, most of our media is digital and are stored on hard drives. Black Friday 2009 is almost here and would be the perfect opportunity to purchase one, and Best Buy have a choice of two Western Digital hard Drives for you. Read more

Dock-a-Mac: Apple MacBook vertical docking station

A new product called Dock-a-Mac has recently been announced by Florida based Computer Docking Systems, LLC, this device allows you to easily dock your MacBook to allow it to be used as like a desktop Mac. Read more

Sony VAIO CW: Specifications and Pricing

Earlier this week Sony announced a new series of VAIO notebooks, the new series is called the VAIO CW Series, all of this series of notebooks feature a 14 inch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, they also come in a range of vibrant colors. Read more

Dell leaks Alienware m15x Documents: Core i7 and 8GB DDR3

We were all expecting to learn all the details of the upcoming Alienware m15x later today from Dell, but it seems that three leaked documents have made their way online. The two key features that got our attention were the Core i7 processor and the 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory. Read more

Gigabyte Lynnfield P55 Motherboard

GigaByte have revealed some of their latest motherboards, these motherboards support the Intel P55 chipset and support LGA1156 processors. There are two boards that we will be looking in to, they are the Gibabyte GA-P55-UD4P and the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6. Read more

Mac OS X 10.5.8 Beta’s: All bases covered

With our recent look into the Snow Leopard Beta release it is becoming obvious that Apple are literally given every aspect of the Operating System a once over. With all these changes and how much redesign Apple are undertaking a lot of experts believe that this will be the update for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Read more

2TB Western Digital My Book series released

If you are in the market for a new Western Digital single-disk My Book external hard drive, then you will pleased to know that the storage solution company has upgraded the range to a 2TB capacity. To put this in perspective you will be able to store 241 hours of full-bitrate HD, ideal for Mac user who shop at iTunes. Read more

Apricorn announces Aegis Mini 1.8-inch 240GB External hard drive

Apricorn have just announced their super slim Aegis Mini 1.8-inch 240GB drive. It is able to slot nicely into your pocket and due to it’s compact size, it is now the world’s largest capacity 1.8-inch external hard drive. Read more

Better CPU Specs on Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have certainly been busy, and today they have launched a number of updated products, one of which is the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The new notebook comes with a better CPU and specs, all of which are fully upgradable. Read more

New 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro: 8 hour battery life

Philip Schiller has been doing a great job so far at his keynote at Macworld, and the best product so far has to be the new 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro. As you would expect Apple have worked hard to try and produce something special and an 8 hour battery life is certainly that. Read more

New Apple MacBook Air Rev. B Review

The new Apple MacBook Air Rev. B is a vast improvement over the older model and although things look the same on the outside, it is inside where Apple have really worked hard. The MacBook Air Rev. B is now a serious laptop, and Engadget have the good fortune of having a review unit. Read more

New Apple MacBook Family: Notebook Design Redefined

Apple® today unveiled an all new MacBook® family that redefines notebook design, and at the same time dramatically lowers the entry price for advanced notebook features including all-metal enclosures and pro-performance notebook graphics by $700 to make them far more affordable Read more

LaCie USB speakers: designer desktop sound

As we know when it comes to gadgets for the PC, LaCie products go that extra mile with their design features. This is true with these LaCie USB speakers, which have been designed by Neil Poulton.

With these speakers LaCie offer you a designer desktop sound, which as Pocket Lint call them “an encore” to its FireWire speakers.

These speakers are powered through the USB port and have plug and play compatibility. The cable has an internal storage and the speakers come with their own carry case. These LaCie USB speakers are available worldwide and have a price tag in the UK of £39.

Hands-on: GIGABYTE GA MA78GM S2H 780G Motherboard

This is the GIGABYTE GA MA78GM S2H 780G motherboard, and the performance is on par with 780G boards, but its ability to overclock makes it a much better option for a HTPC with some kick. HDMI, eSATA and FireWire make this the ultimate HTPC board.

Tweak Town have given this motherboard a full hands-on review over 13 pages, and in their final thoughts they said, “Overall, the 780G chipset is extremely impressive; that much is certain. However, it’s usually put into cut-down boards using the Micro-ATX format. While this makes for a great HTPC, some of the potential of the 780G chipset is left unused.

GIGABYTE has done a fantastic job with this board. While it’s aimed at the HTPC users and even the office environments, it still has a bit of kick in it in regards to overclocking.

While it’s not able to push the boundaries like that of Core 2, it’s still able to give the AMD platform a kick in the pants and we know that AMD is no where near as easy to overclock as Intel since there are more tweaks needed to get them to run in a stable fashion”.

Read the 13 page review.

ECS A780GM-A 780G Motherboard: not same level as GIGABYTE and ASUS

This is the ECS A780GM-A 780G Motherboard and although it’s not on the same level as GIGABYTE and ASUS, ECS are still producing some impressive boards. While it does run equal in performance to the 790FX, its feature set leaves a bit to be desired. Given the lack of digital features, this board best serves in the mid-range to value oriented market.

Tweak Town have given this board a review and covered the results over 16 pages, in their final thoughts they said “AMD’s Phenom platform in its current state is definitely not going to push Intel off any performance crown, not until AMD is able to increase its clock speeds from its current stand point of 2.5GHz. While it’s not a monster performer, it’s a definite choice for a power conscious gamer that just wants a good all round system without burning a hole in their wallet.

So far the boards for the Phenom range are starting to finally emerge, and ECS has done a fantastic job on its 780G installment. It is fast, supports all the Phenom processors and has a reasonable array of features.

However, there are a few issues we have. First off, the lack of BIOS overclocking rules it out for hardcore users, or even the average tweaker. There are no dividers to control the CPU FID or the Hyper Transport link speeds, making it virtually impossible to get any real speed out of the system. Next is the feature set; missing FireWire means that if you have any FireWire devices (I know I have at least three) you’re going to have to get a separate controller. This should be a standard feature on every digital home board these days.”

Read the 16 page hands-on review.

Lenovo IdeaPad U110: ultraportable notebook coming to the U.S. soon

The Lenovo IdeaPad U110 ultraportable notebook is coming to the U.S. soon thanks to a tip off from J&R. This laptop is only a small laptop as it has an 11.1 inch screen and will come in two versions the U110B which has a black cover and the U110R which comes with a red cover. Both of these models are identical, so let’s see what the notebook has to offer.

Firstly the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 weighs 2.3 pounds and comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 and has a low voltage. The ultraportable notebook also comes with an impressive 3GB of RAM, a nice sized 120GB hard drive and Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics. However there is one downside, the laptop does not come with an optical drive.

The Lenovo IdeaPad U110 notebook comes with a 1.3-megapixel web camera as well as Intel 4965AGN wireless and Ethernet LAN. The laptop also comes Bluetooth, but one of the best features has to be a battery life of up to 8 hours. There are all the usual connections like VGA output, USB ports, 6-in-1 media card reader as well as a Firewire port.

The Lenovo IdeaPad U110 ultraportable notebook also has touch-sensitive media controls, and to add to your media enjoyment is Dolby Home Theater Sound. Also for the safety of your hard drive is the Active Protection System, this means that if you drop your laptop your hard drive will be safe.

Source – Laptoping

Stealth Powerful Core 2 Duo Mini PC: Built-in PCI Expansion Card Slot Capability

Stealth Computer Corporation, a market leader in the industrial computer and peripherals market has released a new small form factor mini PC with built-in PCI expansion slot capability. The Stealth LPC-450PCI Little PC utilizes Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo processor technology delivering the ultimate in Mini PC performance. The robust anodized aluminum chassis measures just over 2 inches tall having the overall footprint about the size of a hard cover novel Read more

Buffalo New Storage Options: 1TB and 2TB QSIBSU2 HD / R

My Buffalo Link Station has only 250GB of storage and is over a year old, I am going to have to update soon to something a bit bigger like this new product in their external hard drive line.

Buffalo’s new line of RAID 0, four-drive models are called the QSIBSU2 HD / R, and they feature TurboUSB functionality Read more

Internet AQUOS from Sharp : 3 specs available

The Internet AQUOS from Sharp has been revamped, but just to note that it does not come with an LCD, but most likely you already have one. Read more

Thermaltake DH 102 HTPC with seven-inch touch screen

Many of us like to sit back and relax while they are using their HTPC, but some of us love to be hands on which is why Thermaltake have put a seven-inch touch screen on their Read more

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