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AOC announced a portable new USB monitor that is perfect for mobile users who want an extra display for their laptop. This lightweight monitor uses its USB port for both power and connectivity to your laptop, no separate power cord or VGA cable is necessary. The 16-inch monitor, model e1649fwu, features a Dynamic Contrast Ratio of 50,000,00:1,...
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Despite the fact that HP will be shuffling out of the consumer PC business, there are quite a few products in the pipeline that have to get out first. The company has just revealed "its largest investment in the all-in-one desktop PC market to date," but it's a shame that it could very well be its last big investment in the space. The company's...
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Years back, embedded systems weren't much good in the consumer realm. They were used for rather boring enterprise applications, and not much else. But with the power packed even into low-end CPUs and APUs these days, that's all changing. Habey USA is leading that charge in a way, with the introduction of quite a few...
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Small just keeps getting smaller. Zotac's ZBOX line has been around for a few years now, and we've been rather impressed with every iteration that we have played with. But the "palm-sized" ZBOX Nano AD10 makes those prior models look like giants. The new AD10 series shrinks the form factor even more, and inside it's packed with an AMD Brazos...
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It's that time again. The time of year where students and parents frantically hit e-tailers with overnight shipping deals in order to get that all-important back-to-school technology into a dorm room or backpack before classes begins. It's back-to-school season, and whether you've started classes recently or are awaiting (dreading?) that first...
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It's that time again. The time of year where students and parents frantically hit e-tailers with overnight shipping deals in order to get that all-important back-to-school technology into a dorm room or backpack before classes begins. It's back-to-school season, and whether you've started classes recently or are awaiting...
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If you thought Google buying Motorola Mobility was a bombshell to end all bombshells, have a look at this. HP just announced their most recent earnings, but that's hardly the buzz. In a rather camouflaged way, HP just made a couple of huge, huge announcements that will no doubt leave a lasting impression on the...
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One of Alienware’s Aurora R3 gaming systems crash landed at HotHardware, and today it's us performing the Alien(ware) autopsy. We dissected the Aurora R3 from head to toe, discovered what makes it tick, and then fed it a handful of games and other software to observe how it digests a diet of DirectX 11 and other modern morsels, all in...
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As the final days of summer wind down, most people will find themselves in one of two situations. Either you're gearing up to head back to school, or it's life as usual, only with worse weather right around the corner. It doesn't matter which category you fall into, because either way, there's a good chance you'll be spending less time outside...
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Admittedly, small form factor machines have seemingly vanished from the spotlight in recent years, but there are still a handful of companies out there working at them. CompuLab is one of them, and this week they've introduced the Trim-Slice. The Trim-Slice H is an ARM Cortex A9-powered desktop that runs on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipset. The...
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Nothing like the fresh smell of a new PC to get the morning started right. So thinks Lenovo, as they've just announced the latest in their biz-centric ThinkCentre line. The new M71z is an all-in-one desktop designed for large businesses, schools and governments, but as always, there's nothing stopping the average...
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iBUYPOWER added the Gamer Power BTS11 to its back-to-school lineup. This PC comes with a liquid cooled Intel Core i5 2500K processor. The Gamer Power BTS11 is designed with student gamers in mind. It is housed in the gloss white NZXT Phantom case. Other key features include an NVIDIA GTX 550Ti 1GB graphics card, 8GBs DDR3 memory,...
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Lenovo is hoping to attract small businesses with its new LS Series of monitors. These monitors offer a 10 million to one dynamic contrast ratio and are very energy efficient. The series includes the 21.5-inch LS2221 wide and 23.6-inch LS2421p wide HD monitors. The LS2221 wide comes with VGA and DVI connections while the LS2421p wide offers...
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A few weeks back, AMD officially launched their Llano-based A-Series Accelerated Processing Units, or APUs, in both desktop and mobile flavors. If you’re unfamiliar with Llano, it’s AMD’s mainstream, low-power APU that fuses four x86 cores with a DX11-class graphics processor on a single piece of silicon. The current flagship...
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A few weeks back, AMD officially launched their Llano-based A-Series Accelerated Processing Units, or APUs, in both desktop and mobile flavors. At the time, we covered the high-end variants of both A-Series offerings; our coverage of the desktop version A8-3850 APU and its companion chipsets is posted here and the mobile...
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iBUYPOWER announced a new Professional Series line of workstations that feature 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 processors, RAID cards and NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards. These systems are designed to run demanding applications from companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, RTT, Dassault Systemes, and Bunkspeed. Like other iBUYPOWER systems, the new line...
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Apple's Mac mini hadn't seen a substantial update for about a year, but with Intel's Sandy Bridge-based second generation Core processor family arriving in 2011, it was only a matter of time before one of those chips found favor with Apple's tiniest desktop. The Mac mini design really hasn't changed all that much in the year or so it took...
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Apple's Mac mini hadn't seen a substantial update for about a year, but with Intel's second generation Core processor family arriving in 2011, it was only a matter of time before one of those chips found favor with Apple's tiniest desktop. The Mac mini design really hasn't changed in the year or so it took the folks in Cupertino...
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SanDisk recently launched a new line of SSD drives that is designed to breathe new life into aging computers. The SanDisk Ultra SSD is a SATA II-based drive that supports both TRIM and SMART. The drive offers up to 280 MB/sec sequential read and 270 MB/sec sequential write speeds. The Ultra SSD is available in capacities of 60GB, 120GB, and...
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Here's an... interesting one. Habey USA isn't exactly known for pumping out vanilla machines, and the company's keeping it weird with their latest idea. The new 12" Touchscreen Intel Dual Core Atom Nvidia ION Panel PC doesn't have much of a name (the model number is PPC-6512), but that long-winded title tells you most everything you'd need...
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Intel's results for the second quarter of 2011 are a model of strong execution, high performance, and continued market dominance. So much so, in fact, that writing these reports has actually become a teensy bit boring. (Note to Intel: We expect precious little sympathy.) The nature of some of the records has changed, and a few key figures...
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One of the downsides to system reviews is that it's usually impossible to evaluate system reliability or performance over an extended period of time. Since boutique builders typically assemble rigs with a focus on solid warranties or top-level components, not being able to properly grade long-term reliability is an area of product coverage...
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