Computers

By Chuong Nguyen Introduction, setup and design If you want to bring the bezel-less aesthetics of Dell’s XPS 13 ($799, £517, AU$1020) to your desktop workspace, then Acer’s S277HK 4K UHD ($699, £452, AU$892) display may be just the ticket. The S277HK features a high resolution output, fast refresh rates, and plenty of ports for…

By Chuong Nguyen Introduction, setup and design If you want to bring the bezel-less aesthetics of Dell’s XPS 13 ($799, £517, AU$1020) to your desktop workspace, then Acer’s S277HK 4K UHD ($699, £452, AU$892) display may be just the ticket. The S277HK features a high resolution output, fast refresh rates, and plenty of ports for…

By Kane Fulton While laptops, tablets and other devices become thinner and lighter, monitors are having some trouble shedding the pounds. But despite recent trends such as 4K laptops and tablets with larger displays, dual-monitor setups remain as popular as ever. If you’re after a second screen to lend your laptop extra screen real-estate on…

By Kane Fulton While laptops, tablets and other devices become thinner and lighter, monitors are having some trouble shedding the pounds. But despite recent trends such as 4K laptops and tablets with larger displays, dual-monitor setups remain as popular as ever. If you’re after a second screen to lend your laptop extra screen real-estate on…

By Desire Athow Remember talks of a paperless office/world where everything would be digitised, available only on a display near you? Well it never happened. We’re printing more than ever before and mobile devices have, ironically, been fueling the growth of printing. We gathered the best printer deals around in three categories: Laser printers, inkjet…

By Mary Branscombe and Dan Grabham Introduction and installation Windows 8.1 has now been out for a few months and is a freely downloadable update. Microsoft has already released what is the equivalent of a first Service Pack for it, Windows 8.1 Update 1. The latter should already have landed automatically on Windows 8 systems…

By Mary Branscombe and Dan Grabham Introduction and installation Windows 8.1 has now been out for a few months and is a freely downloadable update. Microsoft has already released what is the equivalent of a first Service Pack for it, Windows 8.1 Update 1. The latter should already have landed automatically on Windows 8 systems…

By JR Bookwalter LG may have bent over backwards to bring the world flexible smartphones, but when it comes to further innovation on current form factors, the Korean manufacturer shrugs off any notion that something cool is on the immediate horizon. TrustedReviews today published curious comments from an LG executive that shed light on why…

By JR Bookwalter LG may have bent over backwards to bring the world flexible smartphones, but when it comes to further innovation on current form factors, the Korean manufacturer shrugs off any notion that something cool is on the immediate horizon. TrustedReviews today published curious comments from an LG executive that shed light on why…

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…