Tag Archive for 'leak'
I’m sorry if it’s seemed somewhat budget ultraportable heavy today, but the pre-show news out of Computex keeps spilling through the wires and we can’t help but lap it up. Latest tidbit is the partial spec-list for the soon-to-be-announced ASUS Eee PC 1000, the notebook expected to be the largest in the Eee range. Up [...]
Rumors are flourishing that Sony are the first name connected with VIA’s OpenBook ultraportable reference design, which the chip company unveiled last week. The leak came from the WiMAX Expo currently being held at Taipei, with manufacturer Quanta Computer showing an OpenBook-based notebook which turned out to list Sony as its manufacturer.
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Feel free to groan and say “not another one”; photos purporting to be Acer’s challenge to the Eee/Wind/2133/etc range of budget ultraportables have shown up, together with some basic spec details. Believed to be called the Aspire One, the notebook has an 8.9-inch, 1024 X 768 display. It also, apparently, runs Windows XP SP3 and [...]
If Creative thought they could smack down budget camcorder rival Flip with their recent Vado and get away with it, it’s time for a reality check. An eagle-eyed browser has spotted Flip’s latest model, the Mino, in B&H’s print catalog, and it’s likely to be the company’s retort to the Vado’s “dramatically thinner and lighter” [...]
AMD is set to replace a large percentage of its current video card range starting from next month, according to a recent leak, as the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series supersedes the existing 3800 series. Key improvements will be the inclusion of AMD’s GPGPU physics processing, hitherto limited to the high-end cards, and improved HD [...]
Photos of ASUS’ upcoming Eee PC 901 - the Intel Atom powered version of the 8.9-inch budget ultraportable - have appeared online, together with a run down of the differences Asustek have made to the case design and ports layout. It seems that the company wasn’t content to merely wait until Intel could catch [...]
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.
News of three new ranges of upcoming Dell notebooks has leaked, together with details of the company’s new design languages and customization options. The Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 series are all set to launch this year, and reach just 1-inches thick at their slimmest point (rising to 1.5-inches at the hinge). Dell has described [...]
AMD are planning a refresh to their 790FX motherboard range that should satisfy power users and overclockers’ demands for a better-performing Southbridge. Currently ‘boards using the 790FX chipset rely on the SB600 Southbridge, which in comparison to more recent chipsets has relatively poor PCI and SATA performance. Fudzilla have found the reference design for the [...]
Hey kids, want to get your copy of Grand Theft Auto IV early? How about for free? No, we’re not giving it away, however, apparently you can go out and find a download of it, because it has already been leaked online. This means you should go to your favorite tracker and download a copy [...]
