All the stories tagged with: Computers

HP iPAQ Navigate

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] Don’t you find it annoying when you plan a trip on your computer, then when you get into the car, you have to re-enter the address again? It’s even worse it you have decided to take a particular [...]

HP MediaSmart Receiver in The Flesh

01/02/2008, You like the fact that a MediaSmart TV can stream all sorts of content and act as a Windows Media Center Extender? May be, but what if you just bough a “dumb” TV recently? HP has the solution: the MediaSmart [...]

HP MediaSmart TV

01/02/2008, HP plans to use its computer background to get an edge over the competing HDTV manufacturers: it plans to make its TV smarter, something that Samsung or LG might have hard time to do, due to a lack of software [...]

HP Pavilion HDX 20.1-inch Notebook

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] We would rather call it a desktop replacement: with its 20.1” display, the HP Pavilion HDX is impressive at first sight. Playing with it, we liked a few things in particular: Display: the dual hinge provides better ergonomics. [...]

HP Pavilion TX2000 Tablet PC

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] The HP Pavilion TX2000 is a 12.1” Tablet PC that is designed to have everything that a student needs… to study and to keep in touch with the family. The tablet format can come in handy, if one [...]

HP Pavilion Elite m9150f

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] I remember the days where you had to drop $2500 to get a good Media Center PC. These days for $1160, you can get something like the m9150f: a high-end CPU, plenty of storage and a high-definition optical [...]

HP Pavilion Media Center m8330f

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] AMD’s Phenom is getting some love from HP with this m8330f Media Center PC. Obviously, it has a NTSC/ATSC TV Tuner, 3GB of RAM, 640GB (2×320) of storage and a video-friendly GeForce 8500 GT graphics card. However, it [...]

HP Pavilion Slimline s3330f Desktop Computer

01/02/2008, It is easy to see that the HP s3330f is small – only one-third of the size of the average desktop PC. The second interesting feature is the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combo drive – yes the very thing that makes the HD-war [...]

HP w2207h and w2408h widescreen displays

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] HP has updated 22” and 24” widescreen monitors: the “h” in the name stands for HDMI, because that’s the main difference, compared to the w2207 and w2408. The photos don’t really do justice to these displays – they [...]

Cable controversy: digital signals are just bits, but it does not mean that nothing can go wrong

01/02/2008, I have seen a lot of controversy about whether or not more expensive cables are worth their price, and the argument that comes often is that digital signal is just bits (0 and 1) and is therefore not degradable. And [...]

Microvision SHOW Pico Projector

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] When your company is called Microvision, you’d better have really small projectors and that’s obviously the case. Microvision has SHOW, a tiny projector that is capable of projecting an 848×480 pixels image as big as 100” in diagonal [...]

Sandisk Cruzer Titanium USB Drive with Automatic Online Backup

01/02/2008, [CES 2008] Sandisk’s Cruzer Titanium is a USB flash drive that has an integrated automatic online backup (powered by BeInSync, using the Amazon S3 infrastructure), in case the drive is lost or has simply been forgotten. Additionally, the Cruzer Titanium [...]

Gaming On The Asus Eee – GTA Vice City (Video)

01/02/2008, Most of us don’t think of the Asus Eee as a gaming laptop, but that doesn’t mean that the Eee is not “gaming-capable”. Here’s a video showing GTA Vice City in action. Eeeuser.com has a list of compatible games. More [...]

No Li-Ion Batteries Allowed in Checked Luggage Anymore

01/02/2008, To reduce the risk of batteries catching on fire, the US Transportation department is now requiring that batteries in checked bags be stored in a plastic bag. This applies only for batteries that are not installed in a device. This [...]