Desktops

By Desire Athow It is difficult not to be amazed by the strides made by laptop manufacturers over the past few years when it comes to improving the general aesthetics and the size of notebooks. Indeed, this has happened to such an extent that Ultrabook-sized laptops have become the norm, making the term all but…

By John Archer Not content with dominating the TV world, Samsung now seems to have its sights set on becoming the number one brand for home entertainment audio, too. To bolster its claim to the audio kingdom it’s nabbed talent from a range of the hi-fi world’s biggest players, built a new, no-expense-spared audio laboratory…

By Mike Williams After 20 years in the business you’d expect DreamHost to know what they’re doing, and first impressions of the website don’t disappoint. The company offers shared, WordPress, web, VPS and dedicated hosting with stacks of custom and unusual features, all presented in a distinctive and appealing style. There’s none of the hard-sell…

Intel is rumored to unveil its Basin Falls platform and Coffee Lake chips earlier than expected. The scheduling adjustments is purportedly due to the increasing popularity of AMD’s new chips. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Desire Athow The MaxOak K2 is named after the world’s second highest mountain, and it’s a fitting moniker that manufacturer KayoMaxtar chose. After all, at 50,000mAh, this is one of the biggest portable laptop battery chargers available, with a literally mountainous capacity. Just to put that in perspective, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus has…

By Mike Williams HostPapa is a Canadian web host which is still independently owned, as opposed to being a part of some massive corporation you’ve never heard of before. The company presents itself as a little different to the hosting giants, too, highlighting features like its support for sustainable business practices and green hosting. HostPapa’s…

By Kevin Lee While RGB lighting and macro keys might seem like all the rage in gaming keyboards, all those extra features add up. Between the Roccat Suora and HyperX Alloy FPS, it’s clear there’s a demand for affordable keyboards with a straightforward design and fewer gimmicks. Meet Logitech’s first affordable mechanical gaming keyboard, the…

By Damien McFerran Update: The Asus ZenPad 3S 10 is now listed in our best tablet of the year ranking. While Apple’s iPad range has been a big seller since its inception in 2010, Android tablets have failed to achieve the same commercial success, despite Google’s early enthusiasm for the concept. Asus is clearly of…

By Desire Athow The very mention of the term workstation will probably conjure images of massive beige or anthracite metal towers, designed to house the most powerful computer components known to humanity before being swiftly shoved underneath a desk, never to be seen again. Well, times have changed, or at least some vendors are opting…

By Mike Williams Some hosting companies market themselves on price, others on features, but eHost tries both. The company claims to offer ‘everything you will ever need to host and manage your website’ for the lowest possible cost. Could this be true? The feature list is impressive, with unlimited storage space, bandwidth, databases, email accounts,…

By Zak Storey So then, let’s cut straight to the point. This isn’t Vega. Nope, this isn’t the heady heights of that next gen 14nm GPU architecture. This isn’t a brand new flagship finally joining us after AMD’s long absence of almost two years from the high end GPU competition. Nope, this is, in short,…

With its Ryzen 5 CPU out, AMD has announced the release of its latest graphics card: the Radeon RX 500. The cards are scheduled for a May release. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Nicholas Fearn NewsgroupDirect is a popular Usenet service which has been operating in this crowded market for over a decade. Founded in 2004, the company aims to offer high-speed Usenet access without compromising on price. This provider currently caters for more than 110,000 customers, making it one of the larger newsgroup operators out there.…

After 20 years, Intel has officially announced that it’s canceling the annual Intel Developer Forum, or IDF, as its business evolves into other ventures, such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and more. Here’s why. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Mike Williams OVH may not be as well-known as some of its more consumer-oriented competitors, but don’t be fooled. It’s one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, with more than a million customers and 20 data centres – this outfit even builds and maintains its own servers and network. The company…