Tag Archive for 'media-center-pc'
People in the market for a media centre PC are often as equally swayed by the looks of the thing as they are the specifications; after all, if it’s going to take pride of place in your living room then it has to at least make a token effort to fit in aesthetically. Some machines [...]
A little bit of free consultancy for you all: if you’re going to call your product “Clever”, you better make damn sure it lives up to the name. Therein lies the challenge for UK-based CyberSelect, who have seen fit to name their latest Media Centre PC the Clever 3000. First impressions are okay; it’s a [...]
Here’s a little warning for all those slender Tablet PCs out there who refuse to eat their vegetables. If you’re not careful, one day you’ll get fat and stop being a portable computer any more - you’ll have to sit on a table and suffer the indignity of being jabbed at by someone’s chubby fingers [...]
Lacking a little in detail it may be (i.e. aside from names, there’s none!), but Krunker’s photo essay on the variety of compact media PCs using Intel’s greatly-vaunted (by them, at least) Viiv technology is an interesting indication of just what manufacturers will be pushing us to slot under our TVs this coming year.
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In a further move to take over not only your study and living room, but generally your home as a whole, Microsoft unveiled the media-excitement that is their Home Server. An embedded OS with a definite entertainment bias, it’s designed to be both so straightforward to use that your technophobic, button-hashing mother could use it, [...]
Cool as it might be, having a SideShow supplemental display on the outside of your laptop isn’t the most essential thing. Yes, it’s handy to be able to check your calendar or address book without booting Windows up fully, but most power-users (i.e. the people who would be most likely to use SideShow) will already [...]
As compact PCs get more and more powerful, the argument for having a full-sized desktop or tower unit in your study grows weaker. Latest to wave the flag for the little man is Japanese barebones manufacturer Dirac, whose Noah range of Mini ATX cases certainly don’t skimp on the specs. Available in a multitude of [...]
Perhaps it’s because I didn’t have a spell in supermarket retail when I was younger, but the idea of scanning barcodes and getting that “beep!” sound makes me all a-quiver. Someone at My Movies obviously feels the same, because they’ve released a beta of v.2.20 of their Windows Media Centre plug-in that uses a standard [...]
Here’s something useful: a small-form-factor PC that has space for not one, but two hard-drives. Japanese company MiniPC (I guess the name says it all) have taken all the good parts from their previous designs and come up with a Shuttle-sized box that can support Celeron, Core Solo, Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors, [...]
Some YouTube news for you now, seeing as how I know that their $1.65bn buy-out makes them all the more alluring. First off, there’s the news that Verizon are close to negotiating a deal to feature YouTube videos as part of their Verizon Wireless “V Cast” service. While it’s unknown whether access to the YouTube [...]
