Archive for the ‘DeskTops’ Category

ViewSonic’s VOT120 and VOT121 nettops suck in their guts for the camera

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Unsatisfied with only having the tall and slim 130 and 132 nettops, ViewSonic's newly announced family of hardware also features a pair of even more diminutive options: the VOT120 and 121. Snapped in the wild for your delectation, these machines are small enough to be confused for a well-filled CD ...

MorphOS for Amiga adds Mac mini support, someone in Europe is delighted

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Amiga owners are a loyal bunch. And they have to be -- stuck with a machine frozen in time (even if OS 5 was claimed to be "better than OS X") and little in the way of support, the manner in which they've stubbornly stuck with the platform over the ...

New iMac and MacBook touchscreens debut, thanks to Troll Touch

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Troll Touch -- the fun little company with the unfortunate name -- have announced more of their award-winning analog resistive touch kits for 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs as well as unibody MacBooks. Prices for the iMac kits themselves start at $1099, or you can order new machines with the kits ...

Apple OS X 10.5.7 released, updating to ensue

Friday, March 12th, 2010

That's right Mac lovers -- your mildest dreams have come true. A new update of OS X is now available via your friendly Software Update window... a little something Apple likes to call 10.5.7. What are you waiting for? You know you love updates. Full list of fixes / tweaks ...

Windows Vista SP2 is live, ready to download

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Face it: in between waiting for Windows 7 to launch and tweaking the XP build on your newly purchased netbook, there's this little thing called Windows Vista that needs to be maintained. Today, Microsoft did its part and released the standalone installers for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Service ...

MSI debuts Wind Top All-in-One AE2010 desktop

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

MSI's just announced the Wind Top All-in-One AE2010 desktop -- a step up from the previous AE1900. The 20-incher boasts a 1600 x 900 touchscreen, an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core CPU (an improvement over its previous Atom 230 / 330), onboard ATI Radeon 3200 graphics card, 4GB of ...

Corsair DDR3 memory clocked at 2533MHz, women swoon ’round the world

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Corsair -- the swashbucklin' favorite of privateers in need of RAM and SSDs -- has just announced that its Dominator GT DDR3 memory has been overclocked at a pretty astonishing 2533MHz. As you'd expect from a company made of braggarts and rogues, its claiming the world record for itself -- ...

Microsoft Surface setup impressions: “filled with mind-bogglingly frustrating usability issues”

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Microsoft's Surface has been shipping out to corporate customers for a year now, but we haven't heard much about the backend setup of the $17,000 table -- sure, we know it's fun when it's up and running all those custom apps, but what's it like after the unboxing? Incredibly frustrating, ...

ATI’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 pictured in the wilderness

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

And now... fighting out of the red corner, weighing in with two Evergreen GPUs, and wearing black trunks and red trim, it's the Radeon HD 5970. ATI's latest challenger for the title of undisputed graphics champion has been snared in the wild, and its photo shoot reveals a suitably oversized ...

Apple shipping Snow Leopard in September, $29 upgrade

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_shipping_Snow_Leopard_in_September_29_upgrade'; After showing off Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" at last year's WWDC, Apple is finally ready to ship it out the door this coming September, for a quite reasonable upgrade fee of $29 for Leopard users (as opposed to the regular $129 for larger ...