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After announcing the super-slick Envy ultraportable earlier on today, Voodoo have also unveiled their new gaming PC, the Omen. Conclusively proving that hard edges are back in style (and that minimalism never really went away), the monolithic 22-inch tall Omen was designed in-house. Based on an ASUS Striker Extreme II (NVIDIA 790i) motherboard, CPUs up to [...]
Giant dancing pandas aren’t usually in the SlashGear remit, not unless they’re robotic or play Blu-ray discs in their multimedia mouths, but when HP and DreamWorks invited us to see how the two companies had created the animated film Kung Fu Panda it was hard to resist. Hitting movie theaters this week, Kung Fu Panda [...]
If you’re of a squeamish disposition, look away now. Over at HP 2133 Guide the temptation to see what’s going on under the hood of the well-considered Mini Note budget ultraportable was too strong to resist, and so Josh has taken his screwdrivers to the notebook to get down to bare silicon. If you’ve been [...]
As expected, HP have today released their new wave of 2133 Mini-Note ultraportables running Windows XP rather than Vista or SUSE Linux. However, while the leaked pricing may have been correct, what the tips didn’t tell us was that HP would be pushing the Vista-downgrade route to XP rather than supplying XP alone. [...]
This week’s highlight has been the SlashGear team knuckling down to cover HTC’s London launch of the Touch Diamond smartphone. Our hands-on video of the Windows Mobile 6.1 device is pulling in some serious views, so if the thought of a 3G iPhone is leaving you cold then you need to be checking out the [...]
Pricing details for the XP version of HP’s 2133 Mini-Note ultraportable have emerged courtesy of a leaky HP rep. Assuming they’re the real deal, we now know that the four-model range will be priced from $729 to $819. Another HP rep confirmed that XP will be available, preloaded, on the 2133 on May 15th.
HP Compaq has announced two new business desktop PCs, the dc5850 and dx2450, which will be available with AMD’s Athlon X2, Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 processors, themselves freshly branded as ”AMD Business Class processors”. The dc5850 has ATI Radeon 3100 graphics and AMD’s own Cool’n’Quiet 2.0 technology, and can be specified with up to 8GB RAM and with [...]






