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Core i5 and Core i7 PCs May Drop in Price

We have already seen that the prices of existing Ultrabooks are going down, but it looks like there may be some extra good news coming our way. People thinking of buying a new PC but who aren't sure if this is the best time may want to learn about this latest tidbit. Though it was only an off-hand mention at...

14 February 2012
08:49 GMT

Video Course Teaches Everything Worth Knowing About PCs and Repairing Them

There are various ways to gain hardware and software knowledge, but for those people who can't attend standard courses or just want a comprehensive explanation for what part of a PC goes where, the Computer Repair Mastery Course may be the perfect thing. It was about time someone put together this sort of guid...

9 February 2012
07:01 GMT

Lenovo Posts Record Financial Results for Q3 FY 2011

Lenovo has again posted its financial results and, as has become easy to expect from this particular IT player, its evolution during the latest quarter was positive indeed. Lenovo wasn't much of a PC brand name a few years ago, but it soon became one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. This situ...

9 February 2012
02:48 GMT

ECS BR95IIX Compact Desktop with Sandy Bridge CPUs Visits the FCC

Even though they aren’t as popular as its motherboards, ECS also builds and sells a series of compact desktop PCs designed around various Intel platforms, such as the ECS BR95IIX that recently popped up online featuring Intel Sandy Bridge processors. The compact computer, which resembles a nettop more than a f...

8 February 2012
09:45 GMT

Cooler Master HAF-X and HAF 932 Advanced Cases Get Cheaper

It looks like ultrabooks and memory prices aren't the only ones going down nowadays, although, true enough, Cooler Master's reasons for making cases cheaper is not the same as that of semiconductor companies. Long story short, Cooler Master has announced that the HAF-X and HAF 932 Advanced cases will beco...

7 February 2012
11:41 GMT

Acer Starts Price War in Brazil, Hopes to Sell 1 Million PCs

Acer did say it was changing the way it approached the IT market, but its tactics vary more from country to country than some may have thought. One of the most recent reports published by Digitimes deals with the tactics that Acer means to employ in Brazil. As some may or may not know, the company does not exactl...

1 February 2012
13:31 GMT

BitFenix Ghost Case Poses from All Angles, or Most of Them Anyway

BitFenix has a certain desktop enclosure in store for its prospective customers, one that bears the name of Ghost. The folks at TechPowerUp were able to snap some photos of this item, showing the all-black paint job and lots of other things. Whoever decides to buy it will get three 5.25-inch drive bays, four 3.5-in...

31 January 2012
11:17 GMT

Shuttle Outs XH61 7cm-Tall Desktop PC

In case you all missed it, Shuttle is ready to start selling the latest Barebone PC to ever come out of its labs. Since it is a barebone PC, it ships without a processor, memory and storage units. That means that owners have to get their own Intel Core-series chip, HDD / SSD and ODD. What the XH61 does have, thoug...

12 January 2012
11:21 GMT

RHEL 6.x Updates BIND Daemon

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, an enterprise Linux platform suited for a range of applications across the IT infrastructure, just received an important security update.According to the Red Hat developers, the multi-threaded BIND daemon uses the atomic operations feature to speed-up an access to shared data. This featu...

10 January 2012
10:33 GMT

Cougar Solution PC Case Now Released

Cougar just made the official introduction of a new PC case, one that strives to be both versatile and affordable. Yet again an IT company has officially launched a product without saying how much it costs. This is doubly unfortunate as Cougar, the company in question, did go as far as saying that the Solution, as ...

7 January 2012
12:41 GMT

All-in-One 3D PC Built by LG, Set for CES 2012

LG, like so many others, plans to make the best of this year's CES trade show, so it has many things prepared, like an All-in-One PC called V300. Unlike most of its kind, it features support for 3D, via the Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology. The IPS display has a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pi...

5 January 2012
08:21 GMT

Epson Endeavor Pro 750 Gaming PC Comes Under Lock and Key

Epson is one of the not so numerous companies that sell pre-built personal computers, and it is just this sort of product that has now come on sale in Japan. The computer that Epson's Japanese customers can now look at is called Endeavor Pro 750. Simply put, it is a desktop PC configured in such a way as to s...

28 December 2011
13:21 GMT

Sharkoon Reveals Three Extra Case I/O Front Panels

Frustrated that your shiny, mighty new motherboard has loads of pin headers but nothing to link them to? Do you wish your desktop case had more than a couple of plugs and the audio jack on the front? Fear not, for Sharkoon has built three distinct 3.5-inch front panels that will finally decorate that desktop with a ...

23 December 2011
19:41 GMT

Sharkoon Offers T28, Spacious Desktop PC Case

Given how many sizes cases come in, some of them don't support the bigger pieces of consumer hardware out there, so Sharkoon decided to make sure it has one for precisely those people who want long graphics cards and such. Then again, it would be just as accurate to say that Sharkoon revealed three such cases,...

21 December 2011
15:31 GMT

Get the Party Ice Theme for Windows 7 Today

The ice might give you shivers sometime, but when coupled with great colors and put on the background of your Windows 7 desktop, it can become a visual pleasure. We recently saw how snowflakes and frost can bring a bit of winter to your desktops, or how high-resolution close-ups of ice cubes can give a new perspect...

16 December 2011
16:41 GMT

Dell Launches Its Mightiest Gaming Desktop, Alienware Aurora

Alienware is a brand that doesn't often get stapled to a machine, but when it does, it definitely means that the computer is among the highest-end that Dell has to offer. This once, the Alienware brand has landed not on a laptop, but on a full-fledged desktop personal computer. Dell US hasn't yet unleash...

13 December 2011
05:09 GMT

HanJung Tech Tron 200 and 200 EX Cases Reach Europe

There are all sorts of computer cases and South Korean company HanJung decided it would try and make itself known in Europe better by launching two of them. The Tron 200 and Tron 200 EX mid-towers are quite similar in overall design. What justifies their price difference (39.90 Euro/$53.27 versus 46.90 Euro/$66.2...

12 December 2011
05:13 GMT

Samsung 23-Inch All-in-One Formally Unveiled

Samsung decided to turn its eyes upon the PC market, the All-in-One segment in this instance, so it created one system, or two of them but which are just variations of the same product. The AiO that showed up online has the name of DP700A3B and doesn't precisely try to stand out overmuch. It has no flashy 3D...

6 December 2011
03:26 GMT

Elite 431 Plus Case from Cooler Master Launched

Since new CPUs have and are coming out, case makers decided to follow their own routine and launch some enclosures, with Cooler Master being, this once, the company to step forward. What Cooler Master built is a smaller than usual mid-tower case, but one which still has enough room for large CPU coolers and a bunch...

5 December 2011
15:31 GMT

Colorful Intros Reversed Technology eXtended Case

That a PC case is upside down can't really be said about most enclosures, unless one deliberately makes it stand on its head, but Colorful just gave a new meaning to the phrase. What the company did was build a PC chassis which was designed in accordance with the RTS (Reversed Technology eXtended) technology. ...

1 December 2011
08:10 GMT

PCs Are Being Reinvented, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini Says

Once in a while, tech company leaders sit down to have an interview or two, and this is precisely what Intel's CEO did a short time ago.The folks over at ZDnet are the ones who got the man to say a few (or more than a few) words on several topics that are of interest right now.One of them is the apparent declin...

30 November 2011
11:23 GMT

Antec P280 Desktop Case Joins Award-Winning Series

There may be no shortage of desktop PC cases, but one cannot really argue that there is a surplus either, so Antec just went ahead and launched the P280. It is the latest of the Performance One line and is supposed to act as a dwelling for those computer configurations that aim high. As such, Antec strove to make...

30 November 2011
08:16 GMT

DarwinMachine Type 339 Is a Wacky Sort of Box PC

One would think a small form factor PC would have a low price, but that's definitely not even close to being the case with the DarwinMachine Type 339. Conceived by architect and racecar designer Matthew Kim, it is something like a cube, though not really a perfect cube, with a size of 9.5 x 9.5 x 8 inches (241...

28 November 2011
09:56 GMT

Dell Basically Misleads Customers About Graphics Cards

Dell must really be going through some tough times if it resorted to misleading images when making the “Help me Choose” pop-up assistant. Granted, after being called out on it, Dell quickly removed the offending picture and apologized, saying that it was never its intention to mislead its buyers or cause...

25 November 2011
20:31 GMT

Download Waterfalls, Rocks, or Candlelight Themes to Personalize Windows 7

Windows 7 users have a wide range of personalization options available for them, the most appealing of which involves downloading and installing of themes for their PCs. Some new themes are now available for those who are into changing the looks of their desktop to fit their mood or the outside weather. Depending on...

25 November 2011
15:11 GMT

Origin PC Millennium RTS Desktop Locked and Loaded

The Millennium RTS (Ready-To-Ship) desktop is the new computer that showed up on Origin's website, a big, solid creature of steel and other materials that costs $1,799 (1,337.04 Euro). The new machine that Origin has put together has all the performance and design people have come to expect from high-end pre-c...

21 November 2011
10:01 GMT

Lenovo 20-inch C225 All-in-One Is Based on an AMD APU

One would think that 6 GB of RAM and 1 TB HDDs aren't exactly entry-level market material, but Lenovo seems to disagree and showed it through the C225 all-in-one. Two versions of this All-in-One personal computer are available for customers to choose from. One has 4 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory), a c...

4 November 2011
06:51 GMT

Giada i51 Nettop Ready to Go Basic

The new computer that Giada has prepared is not exactly the strongest beats out there, not by a long shot in fact but, then again, it is not supposed to be, not at a price of 421 Euro. The Giada i51 is the latest small form factor desktop personal computer that Chinese company JEHE has created. It isn't even...

3 November 2011
09:40 GMT

Commodore C64x Extreme Has Intel Core i7 CPU and 8GB RAM

Continuing the tradition established by the original Commodore keyboard computer, Commodore C64x is now entering its third form, or at least is getting its third set of internal components. Back in June, we mentioned how the Commodore C64x computer was ready to start building on what was essentially a cult status. ...

3 November 2011
09:02 GMT

MSI Wind Top AP2011 All-in-One Desktop Announced

Micro-Star International (MSI) just made the official introduction of its newest business-oriented all-in-one computer, one that can actually change the position of the screen.The Wind Top AP2011, as MSI's newest all-in-one business computer is called, is one of those uncommon AiOs that can change from landscap...

2 November 2011
12:10 GMT

Apple Considering to Kill the Mac Pro - Report

Apple is reportedly questioning whether or not to keep the Mac Pro line on board after learning that both consumer sales and enterprise adoption have dropped off considerably.People familiar with the matter cited by AppleInsider say that the Mac Pro’s days are numbered. At least in its current form, according t...

1 November 2011
04:01 GMT

Lenovo ThinkCentre M77 Desktop Debuts

Knowing that all professionals will want some sort of desktop to carry out their office work on, Lenovo set up the ThinkCentre series a fairly long time ago, a collection that just got updated in fact. The new ThinkCentre M77 (which we talked about a while ago as well), as the desktop is called, is powered by the A...

28 October 2011
10:59 GMT

Gigabyte GZ-P5 Plus Mid-Tower Case Incoming

Gigabyte is no stranger to the case market, so it was not too surprising to learn of a new model being completed, even if the company is more or less busy with motherboards. The new case that Gigabyte created bears the name of GZ-P5 Plus and, quite obviously, is a revision of the GZ-P5. Oddly enough, even though i...

27 October 2011
04:57 GMT

In Win Dragon Rider PC Case Goes White in Europe

The Dragon Rider seems to have had enough success for In Win to decide it could do with a refresh, so it put together a new version, colored white. The Dragon Rider that In Win launched in Europe not long ago is a recolored version of the one that appeared last year. Released in December, 2010, the Dragon Rider wa...

26 October 2011
18:01 GMT

iBuyPower Claims a World's First Title with 32 GB RAM-Equipped Systems

It was already known that the standard RAM capacity had doubled over the past year, but iBuyPower took things not a step, but a whole leap further with some of its gaming systems. The company actually issued a press release dedicated to claiming the title of “'first system builder to offer 32GB memory on...

26 October 2011
03:48 GMT

Lenovo All-in-One PC C325 Runs on AMD Brazos

Lenovo is not showing signs of slowing down in its product releases, not after becoming the second greatest PC supplier in the world, having developed the C325 all-in-one. The new all-in-one computer that Lenovo created already has its own product page on Lenovo's webstore (find it here). For one, it is powe...

25 October 2011
04:08 GMT

Abee Intros ATX-Ready AS Enclosure DX3

Japanese company Abee may not be the best known of PC makers, but it definitely hasn't been keeping a low profile recently, its latest announcement dealing with, among other things, a model called AS Enclosure DX3. AS Enclosure DX3 is not the most visually-embellished of PC enclosures, nor the largest or most ...

24 October 2011
18:01 GMT

Aerocool Strike-X GT and Strike-X ST Cases Debut

People wondering if they had any fresh case to put their new rigs in can rest assured that Aerocool, at least, is ready to oblige, with two additions to the Strike-X collection. The two chassis that Aerocool is revealed to have completed are meant for heavyweight gamers, so to speak. They are large, solid, fe...

10 October 2011
03:26 GMT

Thermaltake V3 BlacX Edition Mid-Tower Case Docks In

The desktop PC case market can safely say it has increased its population now that Thermaltake has officially launched a new version of a certain enclosure that it originally unveiled about two years ago. Desktop PCs are more easily assembled from parts than notebooks, which can't actually allow for more tha...

6 October 2011
07:26 GMT

Dell 23-Inch Inspiron One 2320 All-in-One Formally Launched

All-in-one desktop PCs often show up, since any PC player will want to stay in the action of space-efficient systems, and Dell is the one that now made its move, showing off the Inspiron One 2320. Dell just added its latest all-in-one personal computer to its official website. Then again, perhaps it would be ...

5 October 2011
10:07 GMT

Samsung Series 7 AiO Officially Released at Last

We already spoke about a certain all-in-one PC that Samsung had created, but only now has the company actually made the official introduction of the Series 7. Last week, some may have run into this particular piece of news, which details the newest all-in-one PC to leave Samsung's labs. The 23-inch machin...

3 October 2011
10:32 GMT

ThinkCentre M77 Is Lenovo's Newest Business PC

Lenovo decided to update its business-oriented product line, so it went ahead and expanded the more or less well-known ThinkCentre series of PCs, using AMD CPUs. Lenovo is making good on its status as one of, if not the fastest-growing PC company in the world. For those that aren't aware, it was back at t...

1 October 2011
04:57 GMT

Gigabyte's Newest PSUs Are Superb

Gigabyte's Super line of computer power supplies may not be exactly new, but the five members covered in its latest and succinct press release definitely are, even if they haven't reached stores yet. The new Superb Gigabyte PSUs are complaint with the ATX 12V v2.3 standard, have 80Plus certification, whi...

30 September 2011
09:23 GMT

Samsung All-in-One Series 7 Features SAW

Most all-in-one PCs look like monitors that happen to have every necessary PC component behind the display panel, but Samsung chose something less ordinary when it designed the new member of the Series 7. Samsung is known for a great many sorts of IT products, from PCs to consumer electronics and even more or les...

30 September 2011
03:39 GMT

Toshiba Plans 23-Inch All-in-One for October 2

Toshiba is making good on its status as supplier of various PCs and consumer electronics by announcing a whole bunch of items, one of which is the DX735 all-in-one PC. The market for all-in-one computers is one that, though not overly extensive, is, nonetheless, a fairly healthy one. The fact that general pric...

27 September 2011
09:21 GMT

ASUS Also Unveils Three New All-in-One PCs

ASUS seems to have gone for an all-rounder tactic this once, having offered something on both the mobile and non-mobile PC markets, namely a netbook series and a line of all-in-one computers. The all-in-one system market may not be the largest segment of the PC industry, but it does have a faithful following. ...

26 September 2011
03:59 GMT

Raidmax Viper Mid-Tower Desktop Case Debuts

With all the new hardware coming out, users who are thinking of buying a new PC will invariably check out the PC case field, a place where Raidmax decided to show its stuff through the Viper. When the DIY (do it yourself) computer market established itself as an intrinsic part of the IT field, many companies chos...

16 September 2011
05:58 GMT

Ultimate Portable LAN Computer Made by Ben Heck

Those who are familiar with the Ben Heck show may have become aware of the latest PC that a certain modders' competition ended up creating, completely encased inside one full ATX case. The Ben Heck Show is a television series that is aired twice a week and is focused exclusively on system and hardware modding....

12 September 2011
06:05 GMT

HP Releases Many All-in-One PCs for Homes

Gigabyte may have done something for people seeking all-in-one PCs, but HP is the one that really smashed into and through expectations with its massive new range of such items. All-in-One systems may not be as cheap as similarly-powered regular desktops, but they do have a higher space efficiency and, sometimes,...

7 September 2011
09:33 GMT

The Windows 8 Desktop Is Like an App, It Can Be Used, or Not

Microsoft has already said that because of the Metro evolution, the desktop code won’t even be loaded in Windows 8, unless users actually want it. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, compares the desktop in Windows 8 with an application. When the new Start Screen is center...

5 September 2011
12:11 GMT


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