ASUS’ slew of Computex rollouts on Monday included notebooks and netbooks. The UX21 shares the tapered, all-aluminum body but is even thinner than its Apple counterpart at 0.67 inches thick and can be optioned up to a Core i7 processor. It similarly depends on SATA 6Gbps-based SSD storage and has custom software that takes more […]
SanDisk kicked off Computex with a trio of flash-based storage devices made for everything from phones through to ultraportables. The SanDisk SSD line gets the U100, a raw SATA III card that gives thin-and-light notebooks speed closer to desktop SSDs. They can read and write at high peak speeds of 450MB and 340MB per second […]
MacBooks shipped between October 2009 and April 2011, regardless of warranty status, may qualify for a free “bottom case” replacement if the rubber surface has begun to separate from the metal bottom case. The company is also offering to refund owners who have paid for a repair or replacement bottom case due to this issue […]
LG kicked off its turn at Computex with a new all-in-one specially designed with the help of Intel. The V300 is the Korean company’s first all-in-one PC. The 23-inch, 1080p panel brings passive glasses 3D that keeps the cost down but also supports multi-touch and uses a color-accurate IPS screen. The PC appropriately uses custom […]
Android saw its first real decline in US share last month, Nielsen discovered in its latest smartphone use breakdown. Google’s OS dropped in share for the first time in recent memory, down one point from March to 36 percent. The iPhone and BlackBerry were also largely near their earlier levels at 26 percent for Apple’s […]
Intel’s Ivy Bridge chip architecture may have its launch timing narrowed down based on an updated roadmap leaked out Wednesday. Where a previous copy had only given the 22 nanometer desktop processors a vague first-half 2011 target, MyDrivers’ new version narrowed the release down to a “March-April” timeframe. The schedule wasn’t strictly a delay but […]
Sony said today it will fully restore PlayStation Network and Qriocity services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia – excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea – by the end of this week. Service updates for Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea will be available at a later date. Full restoration for PSN Includes […]
A trailer for Activision’s online membership service, Call of Duty: Elite, has leaked online. The video has since been removed by Youtube due to a copyright claim by Activision Games Inc According to the video, Call of Duty: Elite allows players to form groups and clans, compete online for prizes, film sharing, study maps and […]
NVIDIA was the first to start off its Computex unveilings in earnest late Sunday by launching two notebook graphics chipsets and 3D glasses. The GeForce GTX 560M headlines the group and is designed to bring high-end gaming to moderately sized notebooks without hurting battery life. Its 192 processing cores, 192-bit memory bus, and 775MHz core […]
NVIDIA in another phase of its Computex show rollouts gave the first real demo of its quad-core Kal-El chip. A graphics and physics demo, Glowball, showed the future Tegra as the first smartphone-class chip of doing true dynamic lighting while still keeping a smooth frame rate, even with advanced physics for cloth and obstacles. Kal-El […]
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