There’s no doubt that Apple’s new iPhone 4-only FaceTime feature is great, and the company is letting everyone know about it with an avalanche of new television commercials. But whether you’re stuck on an older iPhone or you don’t have any iPhone 4-toting friends to video chat with, there are thankfully some free App Store [...]
Introduction Gnews – It has been four and a half years since the original Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005. New bundles have come out, hard drives for consoles have jumped in capacity exponentially, and there is even a black model of the 360 out there, but at its core the console has remained [...]
Patrick Baudisch, professor of computer science at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Postdam, Germany, and his research student, Sean Gustafson, are developing a prototype interface for mobile phones that requires no touch screen, keyboard, or any other physical input device. A small video recorder and microprocessor attached to a person’s clothing can capture and analyze [...]
MSI’s latest netbook, the U160, boasts a new design for the company’s Wind line of affordable sub-notebook computers, while heralding its second Intel Pine Trail netbook model. The U160 was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The new build is much slimmer and sleeker than the bulkier netbooks of MSI’s existing Wind [...]
It’s been a week of mistakes. It kicked off first thing on Monday morning when the news of an Apple prototype iPhone being left in a Bay Area bar and has ended with McAfee admitting to a major mistake. Mistakes are part and parcel of human nature. We are human, ergo we make mistakes. It’s [...]
Since releasing the first Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card some four months ago, AMD has continued its assault on Nvidia with an army of new models. Following the Radeon HD 5870 came the 5850, 5770, 5750, 5970 and most recently the 5670, while today yet another new product is set to make its first appearance.
It’s self-evident how AMD has kept us busy over the last few months, showing us new generation GPUs aiming at all possible price points. From the performance-oriented HD 5850 / 5870 , to the mainstream HD 5770 and the extreme dual-GPU powered HD 5970 .
If you’re an early adopter of solid-state drive technology, odds are you’re interested in squeezing every last drop of performance out of your system otherwise you probably wouldn’t have spent $300 on 80GB of storage (or considerably more than that a few months ago).
Time really does fly as I can recall testing the original BioShock like it was yesterday. However that was actually over two years ago and as you can imagine the GPU scene was quite different from today. Back then we were testing with the Nvidia GeForce 8 and ATI Radeon HD 2000 series graphics cards, while the Intel Core 2 Duo processor was the de facto standard for performance computing and gaming.
While Windows 7 is a largely polished upgrade from Vista, a few headaches have carried over. Among them is a security feature that assigns ownership of many system and program files to an entity called “TrustedInstaller.”
PC gamers are no strangers to the Battlefield franchise, making its first appearance in 2002 with the multiplayer focused Battlefield 1942. Several other titles and expansion packs have followed in recent years, though Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the direct sequel to a game released in 2008 that only made it to consoles.
Roughly a month ago we brought you an early preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD . This uber-fast product was supposed to be part of a new series of drives based on controllers from start-up SandForce . However, as we recently learned OCZ decided to scrap the Vertex 2 Pro altogether due to the high cost of its SF-1500 controller, and instead shift focus to the originally announced Vertex 2 and Vertex 2 EX.
One pitfall of our previous buying guides and many others on the Web is that they expire shortly after publishing. Prices change daily, components come and go, and the guides simply degrade in worth until they’re eventually rewritten a few months later. Recognizing this, we will be taking an alternative approach in our revamped PC Buying Guide.
It’s been a while since we last reviewed a portable system from Lenovo. You might recall, their IdeaPad S10 was our top pick in the netbook round-up we published over a year ago for delivering the most solid package between the keyboard, screen and build quality.
Windows users have been customizing their desktops in a variety of ways for years. Whether by downloading themes and backgrounds , or using third party applications to change more obscure settings like the default logon screen , many people seem intent on personalizing every aspect of their operating system to something that fits their individual taste. And what better to alter than an icon that’s always visible?
Right now there are a number of quality options for budget-conscious users looking to build a new computer. The AMD Phenom II X2 processor series, for example, will get you a fine deal of processing power at just $110 for the 3.2GHz flagship part . Combine this with the affordable AMD 785G based motherboards selling for around $70 and you have the makings of a seriously good value platform.