Asus Redefines Mobile

Asus is set to launch its UMPC, the R50A, which has full PC and GPS functionality, in January. Not much more info at this time, but stay tuned!.

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Marvell Chip

Marvell has released chips for PC and notebook that determine the amount of power an application will need and will optimize accordingly.
Optimizing power cuts down on power consumption and, of course, global warming-causing greenhouse gasses. It seems such a small thing - our PCs adding to global warming, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

ATI TV Wonder(s)

The $149 ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USb offers two TV tuners allowing users to watch and record off-the-air Digital TV/HDTV, unencrypted Digital TV (ClearQAM) cable programming, analog TV, and listen to FM broadcasts.

“No other company offers this exceptional choice of connectivity and configuration in TV tuner PC products,” said Matt Skynner, vice president [...]

Dell XPS 410 Gets CableCARD

As a heavy user of my own PVR, I’ve been hankering to convert to a system with CableCARD support. It’s just plain silly to pay the $6.00/month for a cable receiver, and then futz around with the IR blaster (which inevitably gets out of synch right when I’m ready to start recording). No, I’d rather [...]

If You Just Gotta Have One Now - Alienware Area-51 M5550

Some manufacturers are having some difficulties shipping their hottest machines (cough, Dell, cough), but Alienware will ship you a mediocre, moderately configured Area-51 M5550 "Quick Ship" version. It’s nothing to get that excited about, with no Santa Rosa, a T7200 Core 2 Duo, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 (not the best performer), 2Gb RAM, a 15.4" [...]

Tatung Releases Tablet PC That’s JUST Right

The typical UMPC is too small for many people, particularly in screen size, while the typical Tablet PC is too large for some purposes (e.g., industrial and medical applications). So, along comes Tatung with a sort of hybrid (my term, not theirs) between a UMPC and a Tablet PC, the WebPad TX-3000: 10.4 inch screen, [...]

Sony’s VAIO TP1 Full of Goodness but Looks Like Ottoman

That might not seem fair, but I swear: I was in a furniture store the other day and saw an ottoman that looked just like Sony’s new VAIO TP1 HTPC. Which might be on purpose, because this thing certainly won’t fit in any A/V rack that I know of. It’s also not the most well-equipped [...]

The Netsurfer: World’s Most Comfy Chair

This chair absolves the use of traditional notion of a separate chair and desk set, by putting them together into the perfect office chair. Instead of being rooted upright, the chair rests at a reclining angle with the screen resting at eye-level.
Arms, legs and back are supported with cushy pillows and adjustable arm and footrests. [...]

PC Mag Reports on the $99 Zonbu

This ultra-cheap Zonbu desktopios a Linux based, environmentally friendly, ultra-small, ultra-cheap PC launching this month. It is based around a Via chipset and has no internal storage, except for 512MB of RAM and a 4GB flash drive used for the OS. The $99 computer is meant to be used in with a $12.95 per month [...]

Apple’s Multi-Touch Mouse

As if our current range of computer mice weren’t enough, Apple in works to create the Multi-Touch Mouse. Depicted by the rather vague looking diagrams above, the mouse activates commands by sensing the position in which you hold your fingers. Therefore, this eliminates the need for buttons or the need to move the mouse in [...]