Computers

By Juan Martinez If the rumors are true and Microsoft is readying a Surface Pro 4 for October, then Lenovo just beat it to the punch with its own nifty convertible laptop. The Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 700 (starting at $699, £453, AU$979) is a gorgeous 2-in-1 designed for the on-the-go consumer who demands hardware that…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction and design Not to be outdone by arch-rival storage company Western Digital, the Personal Cloud is Seagate’s answer to the WD MyCloud, a NAS that makes it as simple as possible to access your stored movies, pictures, music and documents remotely. The Personal Cloud can be used to stream video or…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction and design Not to be outdone by arch-rival storage company Western Digital, the Personal Cloud is Seagate’s answer to the WD MyCloud, a NAS that makes it as simple as possible to access your stored movies, pictures, music and documents remotely. The Personal Cloud can be used to stream video or…

Acer’s Aspire One Cloudbook 11 runs on Windows 10 and retails for just $190. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Alienware gaming laptops gets revamped. Here is a quick comparison of the Alienware 13, Alienware 15 and Alienware 17. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Pax Prime is already underway in Seattle. At the annual gaming convention, Alienware has revealed some new updates to its X51 desktop, laptops and Graphics Amplifier. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Alastair Jennings Introduction and design XYZprinting produces FDM 3D printers that are perfect for education such as the Da Vinci 1.0. These printers feature enclosed environments, cartridge filament systems and no nonsense straightforward software that makes them incredibly easy to use and an ideal choice for demonstrating the technology to students. At present FDM…

By Nick Broughall You would think, in the day and age of digital content, that it would cost less to pick up a digital file than a blu-ray disc, given it’s little more than a collection of ones and zeroes transferred via the internet. But the sad truth is that in many cases, you’ll still…

By Nick Pino When it launched back in June 2012, Alienware’s original X51 system had all the merits of a Steam Machine without the title: It was small in stature and perfectly tuned for gaming in the livingroom. Packing Ivy Bridge, the three year old model had a marked advantage over the much smaller crowd…

By Kane Fulton Introduction AMD reckons the Mini-ITX spec hasn’t got enough attention in recent years, with many gamers passing up on smaller boxes due to performance concerns. To change how you think about mini gaming PCs, the company is launching the Radeon R9 Nano on September 10. A tiny graphics card that’s barely bigger…

By Juan Martinez Introduction and design Let’s be honest: most mobile workstations are too heavy (and ugly) to comfortably carry around. These powerful and expensive devices typically weigh more than five pounds (2.26 kg) and they look as boxy and boring as the laptops in ’80s sci-fi films. Luckily, HP has done its part to…

The Sensel Morph is the first pressure-sensitive, multi-touch input device that transforms into a computer keyboard, piano keyboard, DJ controller, gamepad, and much more. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Just about any household with broadband internet will have a wireless router supplied by the service provider – but there are plenty of good reasons to buy a newer, more powerful model. Your existing router may be a bit long in the tooth, and that means it doesn’t have the latest…

By Desire Athow As the laptop leapfrogs its desktop cousin to become, for many, the main (and often only) work computing device, it is not surprising to see that docking stations are becoming more popular as well. Factor in the unstoppable, relentless drive towards thinner devices with fewer connectivity options (like the new MacBook), and…

By Chuong Nguyen It’s all integrated While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most underestimated asset. With Skylake, Intel’s Gen9 integrated graphics not only brings significantly better graphics performance to the average computing users, but Intel is…