Originatic to bring wall-mountable Smart-Leaf PC to CES
You know, the world really needs more wall-mountable PCs. We mean, who hasn’t had the urge lately to pull up in one’s hallway and check their email on something other than a handheld? All unwarranted sarcasm aside, Originatic is planning to reveal a rather unique machine at CES, with the Smart-Leaf PC boasting a “space-saving” [...]
Eazo’s Z70 wooden PC looks uncommonly natural, expensive
If Eazo’s ultra-dark X70 was just too rich for your blood, we have all ideas the Z70 will really be out of reach. This luxurious tower — coated in some sort of exotic rosewood and presumably sourced from the same jungle as Odeon’s Sex Panther cologne — includes a Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processor and [...]
HP Firebird gaming towers with VoodooDNA to start at $1,799
It’d be a gross understatement to say that we weren’t remarkably excited about the HP Firebird 803 when we caught wind of it last week, but now you can safely say that our emotions have settled down after hearing the price. Granted, the $1,799 starting figure for the Firebird 802 isn’t totally unexpected — after [...]
Overclocking guide shows what Intel’s Core i7 is / isn’t capable of
Oh sure, we’ve seen just how far Intel’s most potent Core i7 chip can be pushed under the most extreme conditions, but honestly, how’s that helping you? In short, it’s not. To that end, HotHardware has whipped up a useful, easy-to-digest guide on overclocking the Core i7 920, complete with benchmarks, recommendations and tips for [...]
Windows 7 beta ISO leaked to internet, world
In case you hadn’t heard: delicious, beautiful, mind-bending Windows 7 — apparently slated for a beta release in January — has leaked and is now available. That is, if you’re willing to, you know, break the law and download the ISO that’s floating around on BitTorrent trackers all over the place. The good news here [...]
Leaked Snow Leopard image potentially indicates a 32 / 64-bit divide
Apple’s said it’s taking a break from adding flashy features to OS X to focus on the foundations and stability of the system with Snow Leopard, and this latest leaked screenshot might indicate that those foundations are moving to 64 bits — it shows System Preferences saying it needs to restart in 32-bit mode to [...]
Gingerbread Macintosh for serious gingerbread fanboys only
Tech confections are nothing new: we’ve seen laptops, Kindles… heck, Martha Stewart even got in on the geek-baking action once upon a time. So maybe we shouldn’t be impressed with this edible Mac, but the truth is, we love to eat, and the phrase “chocolate icons” really hooked us. So then… custard-filled pico projector in [...]
MSI Wind desktop now available in Japan, slightly less barebones than before
Remember that thrifty MSI Wind Desktop that came out here in August? A slightly meatier version — which looks like the one that was supposed to be out in September — is now available in Japan. The CD100-JP Nettop still lacks a hard drive, RAM and operating system, but it’s now equipped with a slot-loading [...]
Taiwan’s proposed DRAM industry bailout puts the word “global” in economic downturn
It looks like a $6.5 billion dollar bailout of Taiwan’s DRAM industry is in the works, a move that is proving as controversial on the island as the auto bailout is Stateside. The DRAM market has been in decline a while now, as evidenced by the recent closure of the Hynix plant in Eugene, where [...]
Dell’s XPS 730x H2C Core i7 gaming PC benchmarked and tested exhaustively
If you thought the original XPS 730 H2C was boss, get a load of this. The incredibly diligent benchmarkers over at HotHardware have taken the Core i7-powered XPS 730x H2C under their wings for a fortnight of testing, and they’ve got a baker’s dozen worth of review pages to display their findings. We can’t even [...]
ASUS finally details ET1602 / ET1603 Eee Top all-in-one PCs
If you’ve paid any attention to the release cycle of ASUS’ Eee Top, you’d have noticed by now that things have been done in quite the unorthodox way. Although we’ve already learned most everything we need to know from buyers in global markets, ASUS has finally seen fit to do us English-speaking folk a solid [...]