Desktops starting with Dell have begun being sold with Linux pre-installed, almost all of the new UMPC Eee-like notebooks that are selling in extremely large numbers these days are coming with Linux pre-installed, Everex is pushing Linux desktops through Wal-Mart, and lots of new computers are getting SLED certified or some other form of Linux [...]
The class of Professor John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made some serious strides in the world of chip technology. One such advancement is that they now have IC’s that you can bend and stretch instead of the strictly rigid chips that Silicon offers up.
You might be wondering why this is [...]
Word is that Asus’s new Eee’s might have touchscreens, GPS, and possibly even 3G along with their enlarged 8.9” screens. Even better yet they could be shipping as soon as May or June.
So you know how every time you buy a new computer the first thing you have to do is either reformat with the version of Windows or Linux that you really want on it or go through the long and tedious process of removing all the junk from the pre-installed OS? Well Sony is more [...]
It measures in at 9.09×7.24×2 inches and weighs a mere 3.3 pounds. We have all the details for this beautiful PC except price, release date, and processor (what?), normally processor is one of the few details we do get, oh well.
I am no computer historian but when the two computers that made up this beast are referred to as old and older, its pretty obvious this stuff is old. So some guy took a Spectrum ZX and a Toshiba Libretto 110 and smacked the two together.
This little half-domino shaped/sized squares are actually individual really tiny computers. You build them together to add functionality to whatever pieces you already have.
They each have a bunch of component in them starting with a 20MHz AVR processor and full color OLED screen on the top. Then they have tactile/haptic drivers, a 3-axis accelerometer, built [...]
These drives are great for Mac computers. They have two FireWire 400 ports on them which means you can daisy chain them, they have an Oxford chipset so they are Plug N Play compatible with Macs, and they are designed similar to the Mac Pro.
They are releasing the Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue notebook and making it all about multimedia. They are going back to basics and bringing back true multimedia functionality.
Sony GIGA JUKE is a set of products with the goal of offering up the benefits of hard drive storage for your music without the use of the PC. Granted these things are nearly computers themselves with the SC55PKE having and LCD screen, WiFi, a 16x CD-ROM for ripping, and an 80GB HDD.