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 Lexmark Rolls Out Home/Student and Professional All-in-One Printers
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 22, 2008
Wireless printing is the hot trend both for small offices and for student and family users, so five of Lexmark's six new inkjet printer/scanner/copiers feature built-in WiFi as well as USB connectivity and four of them deliver fax as well as the big three functions, for prices as low as $100.
Acer's 2.2-Pound, 8.9-Inch Subnotebook Starts at $379
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 18, 2008
Even with a bigger, brighter display and newer, more efficient Intel Atom processor, Acer's new subnotebook costs less than last year's hit Asus Eee. It's also available with your choice of a poit-and-click Linux environment and an 8GB solid-state drive or Windows XP and a 120GB hard disk.
Addonics Kit Adds AES 256-Bit Encryption To Any SATA Hard Drive
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 14, 2008
Drive enclosures that turn off-the-rack Serial ATA hard disks into swappable external or desktop-drive-bay storage modules are easy to find, but Addonics' newest kit adds on-the-fly, 256-bit hardware encryption to keep your most critical business or personal information safe.
Averatec Joins All-in-One Desktop Club
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 11, 2008
The bargain-priced laptop maker sets its sights on the iMac (and its Dell, Gateway, HP, and Sony challengers) with a 22-inch widescreen LCD/Core 2 Duo desktop priced under $1,300.
Seagate Rolls Out 1.5-Terabyte Desktop Hard Drive
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 10, 2008
If you haven't caught up with the terabyte generation of PC hard disks, you'd better hurry -- Seagate's newest desktop drive leaps from 1TB to 1.5TB in a single bound. The company has also announced 5,400- and 7,200-rpm notebook drives that fit 500GB into the 2.5-inch form factor.
Acer Mini Desktop Targets Home Entertainment
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 8, 2008
Acer aims for the living room with a $450 slimline PC with AMD dual-core power, 64-bit Vista, PCI Express 2.0 expansion capability, and DirectX 10-compatible Nvidia graphics with big-screen HDMI output. Retail shoppers can also pick up a bargain bundle with 22-inch widescreen monitor.
Guess What Color SteelSeries' Gaming Bundle for Women Is
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 7, 2008
Attention, female PC gamers: You don't stand a chance of winning China's giant Warcraft 3 women's tournament and being named "Super Iron Lady" unless you use SteelSeries' specially bundled laser mouse and non-skid mouse pad -- available, of course, in wedding-dress white or baby-blanket pink.
Gateway, eMachines Unveil Back-To-School PCs
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 3, 2008
Superstore sightseers will find everything from a quad-core gaming rig (with 6GB of RAM and overclocked GeForce 9800 GT graphics) to well-equipped 14.1- and 15.4-inch Core 2 Duo laptops and AMD Phenom X3 and Intel Celeron desktops as Gateway unveils its fall fashions for retail shoppers.
OCZ Offers Solid-State Drives for Half the Price Of Rivals
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 3, 2008
OCZ jolts the PC storage market with the most affordable solid-state drives to date, promising to outrun and out-rugged 2.5-inch SATA hard disks for as little as $169 (for the 32GB model, with 64GB and 128GB drives also available).
Lenovo Consumer Desktops Feature Face Recognition, Sanitary Keyboard
By Earthweb Staff -
Published July 3, 2008
Following Lenovo's launch of its IdeaPad consumer notebooks, the company introduces a retail desktop available with Intel Core 2 Quad power and Blu-ray video playback, along with a monitor that adjusts its brightness depending on how far away you are and an antimicrobial keyboard to help keep Mom and Dad from catching Junior's cold.
The Return of the All-in-Wonder: AMD Card Combines HD Graphics and HDTV
By Earthweb Staff -
Published June 30, 2008
A venerable video brand comes back -- and low-priced, integrated-graphics desktops turn into TiVo beaters and elite gaming PCs -- as AMD adds high-definition digital plus analog TV tuning to a Radeon HD 3600 Series DirectX 10 graphics card, all for $199.
Brother Launches Ledger-Sized All-in-One for $300
By Earthweb Staff -
Published June 30, 2008
Plenty of inkjet printer/copier/scanner/faxes can print on media as small as 4 by 6 inches, but the first entry in Brother's new Professional Series line doesn't stop until it gets to 11 by 17 inches for plus-sized signage, flyers, or business proposals. It also offers WiFi, Ethernet, an automatic document feeder, and a 400-sheet paper capacity.
Dell Studio Brand Restyles the Laptop -- and Vista's Desktop
By Earthweb Staff -
Published June 26, 2008
Stepping above its bread-and-butter Inspiron brand and sharing some styling touches with its champagne-and-caviar XPS brand, Dell launches a new label for consumer notebooks, with 15.4- and 17-inch widescreen models featuring colorful cases, slot-loading optical drives, and a bloatware-fighting spin on the familiar Windows taskbar.
AMD Touts Teraflop Power of Radeon HD 4800 Series GPUs
By Earthweb Staff -
Published June 26, 2008
A whopping 800 stream processing cores and the graphics card industry's first use of beyond-bandwidth GDDR5 memory? It's got to be the new flagship of AMD's ATI Radeon HD fleet, for hardcore gamers and digital content creators who will spare no expense to -- Huh? The top of the line is $299? And its junior sibling does a trillion floating-point ops per second for $199?
NEC Unveils Premium 26-Inch Desktop Display
By Earthweb Staff -
Published June 24, 2008
The newest member of the famed MultiSync family offers everything from game-worthy 5-millisecond response time to high-definition DVI output, not to mention a four-way adjustable stand and a 1,000:1 contrast ratio.
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