Following a series of leaked reports and teasers, the Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, has finally decided to officially debut its much-anticipated Adamo XPS ultra-thin laptop. Featuring a thickness of just 9.99mm, the new model adds to the company's growing Adamo family of high-end laptops, providing users with an alternative to Apple's successful MacBook Air. As expected, the Adamo XPS adopted Intel's CULV platform and integrated it into a high-class design. “Our engineers and designers are breaking new ground and throwing away the old rules with the ... [read more >>] Western Digital, one of the world's most recognizable brands in the consumer storage market, has announced today the debut of its new WD S25-inch 2.5-inch traditional hard drive, featuring a SAS interface. Designed for the traditional enterprise market segment, the new drive is the company's first SAS-based product, offering an alternative for users looking for a high-performance storage solution. At the same time, it is aimed at mission-critical enterprise server and enterprise storage applications, such as data centers and large data arrays.“Our entry into the traditional-enterprise market continues the strategic expansion... [read more >>] While 2008 and 2009 were mostly about netbooks, 2010 could just be about the growing segment for thin and light laptops, as both Intel and AMD have announced products to support said segment. On that note, it appears that another chip maker – VIA Technologies, to be more specific –, has also decided to join in the race, with the official announcement for its new series of Nano processors, namely the Nano 3000 family of chips. According to the company, these chips are built on the 'Isaiah' architecture and are specifically targeted at thin and light notebooks, consequently competing with Intel's CULV and AMD's... [read more >>] The Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA has just updated its GeForce drivers support page with the introduction of a new series of Beta drivers. Coming in the form of the GeForce 195.39 Beta series of drivers, the new release offers support for the latest operating systems, including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. According to the release notes, the series of new Beta drivers delivers a number of new features, while also improving performance in several of the latest gaming applications, consequently providing the end-user with support for a better gaming experience. At ... [read more >>] Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to up the performance ante with the release of a new Radeon graphics card, which will boast a dual-GPU design and will be launched under the Radeon HD 5970 branding. While the card is expected to be released sometime next month, no specific details have yet been leaked on the Internet. However, that isn't the case anymore, as the new card has just surfaced in a range of pictures that have been made available on the Internet, also bringing with them some details regarding its specifications. The fellows over at Alienbabeltech.com have been lucky enough to get their han... [read more >>] Despite the fact that the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA has already announced the introduction of its next-generation Fermi architecture, the company has yet to unveil its first consumer products to take advantage of the benefits and features enabled by said architecture. However, this only leaves room for speculations and rumors, as it is with any highly anticipated product. On that note, it appears that the company has recently leaked a couple of its upcoming products from the GeForce mobile segment.Our colleagues over at Fudzilla have received a rather interesting tip on NVIDIA's future GeForce 3xxM series... [read more >>] Kingston, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based storage solutions and memory products, has announced today the expansion of its new family of SSD V series drives with the debut of the SSD 40GB accelerator drive. According to the company, this new product has been designed as a cost-effective way to accelerate the performance of a desktop computer system, by improving boot times and application load times. While it doesn't provide the highest capacity in its class, the new SSD does deliver an impressive read performance, making for an ideal choice for PC users looking to boost the performance of their PCs in an affordab... [read more >>] The launch of Microsoft's next-generation Windows 7 operating system has spawned a new interest in the computer industry, with some companies hoping the new OS will raise the consumer demand for new PCs. A number of industry players have updated their product portfolio to support the latest OS, which is also the case with Sunnyvale, California-based AMD, which has just announced the release of a new set of Catalyst Drivers for its line of graphics processing units. The new Catalyst 9.10 Driver Suite comes with a number of new features and support for the latest operating systems, including the aforementioned Windows 7. According... [read more >>] EVGA and NVIDIA, two of the world's biggest names in the graphics card industry, have jointly announced that they will host a Halloween party where they will make public the launch of a new graphics card. Unfortunately, the specific technical details of the new product haven't yet been announced, but there already are speculations that it will be featured with a dual-GPU configuration, unlike any other card that has been previously launched on the market. “EVGA and NVIDIA would like to invite you to a new graphics card launch at the NVIDIA campus in Santa Clara, CA. No it’s not based on the new Fermi architectur... [read more >>] Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the debut of a couple of new desktop processors, part of the company's extending line of Athlon II chips. With Windows 7 just around the corner, these new parts are expected to provide system builders and users alike with a choice for an affordable CPU that can also perform decently for its price range. The new lineup of Athlon II CPUs includes dual-core, triple-core and quad-core models in total of eight new chips, six of which are part of the chip maker’s energy-efficient lineup. The lowest priced model, announced today by the world's second larg... [read more >>] | 
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