SHUTTLE SHOWED OFF a range of notebook products at CES, but you can’t have one. Well, at least not directly from Shuttle for the time being as the company is looking for smaller notebook vendors to join the Shuttle Notebook Ecosystem and they will then in turn offer the notebooks for sale to end users.
Read more ▶
EVERY COUPLE OF years the death of the desktop PC is announced and we’re told that notebooks are set to replace the humble desktop as not only are they getting faster but they look so much better, use less power and of course they’re much more desirable than a desktop PC. However, the New York Times Bits blog talked to a few technology companies at CES about the desktop PC and according to them, it’ll still be around, for now.
Read more ▶
ALTHOUGH ASUS ALREADY has an Atom Ion mini-ITX board on the market it looks like the company is getting ready for round two with its upcoming AT3IONT-I and AT3IONT-I Deluxe boards. We don’t have a lot of details on these boards, but from what we can tell from the single picture that has surfaced so far, it looks like Asus is getting ready to take on Zotac.
Read more ▶
VESA HAS ANNOUNCED the latest iteration of the DisplayPort standard called 1.2 and the new version adds a couple of handy features and some that are more marketing spiel than actual features at the moment. However, with the announcement coinciding with CES, no one seems to have taken any notice of it.
Read more ▶
WE SPOTTED THE picture below over at TweakTown and it shows off three GeForce 100 cards, also known as Fermi, running in SLI. This in itself is big news, as it shows that Nvidia has more than one card that’s working, but what really intrigued us were the ports on the cards.
Read more ▶
THE RECENTLY LAUNCHED Intel H55 chipset has found a home in a really tiny motherboard from Zotac and it’s hard not to be impressed with all the features that this tiny board has to offer. Zotac got famous for making some nForce based mini-ITX boards, but the company has continued the trend with other chipsets and the H55-ITX WiFi is the latest addition to its range of tiny, yet feature packed boards.
Read more ▶
ALIENWARE’S Optx AW2310 screen is the company’s first venture into the land of 3D video and the specifications aren’t too bad, for a 23-inch screen, that is. Although Acer beat Alienware to be the first company to announce a full HD 1080p 3D Vision ready display, it looks like Alienware might be the first one to ship units. Well, at least as long as you live in New Zealand or Australia that is, as it’s only listed on the local Alienware websites in those two countries.
Read more ▶
GIGABYTE HAS DISPLAYED its range of H55 and H57 motherboards at CES and we’ve got a few pictures of the boards along with a picture of the high-end P55 model. The GA-P55A-UD7 is Gigabyte’s latest addition to its already solid range of P55 motherboards and it builds on the legacy of Gigabyte’s Extreme series of motherboards by utilizing a similar cooling solution, among its many high-end features.
Read more ▶
ZiiLABS HAS YET to get a single retail product based on its StemCell Computing Arrays or System on a Chip (SoC) that most other companies refer to them as. This doesn’t seem to have weakened the company’s resolve as the Creative Labs spinoff has announced a new platform for its 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 based ZMS-08 SoC. The SiVO digital home platform is set to offer 1080p video playback at “Blu-ray quality with bit-rates of up to 40Mbps”.
Read more ▶
MARVELL SEEMS TO be set on becoming the leader in ARM based processors and its announcement of the world’s first quad core processor based on the ARMv7 architecture must be a major blow to its competitors.
Read more ▶
CYBERLINK MIGHT VERY well be selling the most well known DVD playback software with its PowerDVD, but the company seems to have finally decided that it want more than just the Windows market and has as such announced PowerDVD for Moblin version 2.1. As you might know, Moblin is Intel’s own Linux version for netbooks, but hang on a second, how many netbooks can you buy with a built-in DVD drive?
Read more ▶
MARVELL’S PLUG COMPUTER has been given an overhaul just in time for CES and the new model looks set to be the greatest one yet. Marvell has moved away from its 1.2GHz Kirkwood SoC to the new 2GHz Armada 300 SoC. The Armada 300 is still based on Marvell’s Sheeva core, but Marvell hasn’t disclosed if the Armada 300 is based on the ARMv5 or ARMv7 architecture. Other new additions include WiFi, Bluetooth and an “internal hard drive”.
Read more ▶
SKYPE HAS ANNOUNCED not only support for HD video calls in Beta 4.2 for Windows, but the company also intends to bring Skype to HDTVs from LG and Panasonic. HD in this case is 720p video and currently there aren’t any webcams on the market that seem to be compatible with the new HD video service. This is despite the fact that there are manufacturers out there with 720p capable devices already.
Read more ▶
WE DON’T HAVE any specific details as to what speed these new water cooled DDR3 HyperX memory modules from Kingston will run at, but judging by the picture posted on twitpic, Kingston will offer them in triple channel kits for the X58 platform. Unlike similar products from its competitors, it seems like Kingston has come up with a very low profile design for its water cooled modules.
Read more ▶
USB 3.0 IS SLOWLY gaining ground and we’re seeing more and more devices being announced. VIA has just announced what it claims to be the first USB 3.0 hub controller and we have no reason to doubt it. Whether it’s needed is another matter altogether, but as always with new technology, there’s the chicken and egg effect and if no one brings out the chips for the bits that people are going to want, then no one’s going to buy into the technology.
Read more ▶
