Computers

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor from last…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor. The new…

By JR Bookwalter Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a second. As megahertz (MHz) speeds have given way to today’s faster gigahertz (GHz) processors, however, there’s more to…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Kane Fulton Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the previous model, Upton is confident that the new $35 (£22.85/AU$45) board is more capable of handling more…

By Kane Fulton Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the previous model, Upton is confident that the new $35 (£22.85/AU$45) board is more capable of handling more…

By Kane Fulton A new version of the popular Raspberry Pi micro-computer has raced out of the traps and is six times more powerful than the previous model according to the Cambridgeshire-based charity behind it, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Called the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, it features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU that runs…

By Kane Fulton A new version of the popular Raspberry Pi micro-computer has raced out of the traps and is six times more powerful than the previous model according to the Cambridgeshire-based charity behind it, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Called the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, it features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU that runs…

By Mike Jennings Introduction and features Introduction Toshiba has become one of the biggest names in business laptops thanks to its wide range of effective, no-nonsense office systems, and its latest attempt to nail the ideal corporate portable comes from the Satellite Pro R50-B-12U. This system includes a Core i5 processor inside a slim body…

By Mike Jennings Introduction and features Introduction Toshiba has become one of the biggest names in business laptops thanks to its wide range of effective, no-nonsense office systems, and its latest attempt to nail the ideal corporate portable comes from the Satellite Pro R50-B-12U. This system includes a Core i5 processor inside a slim body…

By Dave James We’ve seen some outstanding monitors appear recently. From the massive-o-monitor that is the Philips BDM4065UC to the wide-screen awesomeness of the LG 34UM95, we’ve had some great new screens hit our test benches. What we haven’t seen recently though are any budget-oriented screens, just high-spec panels. So what do you do if…

By Dave James We’ve seen some outstanding monitors appear recently. From the massive-o-monitor that is the Philips BDM4065UC to the wide-screen awesomeness of the LG 34UM95, we’ve had some great new screens hit our test benches. What we haven’t seen recently though are any budget-oriented screens, just high-spec panels. So what do you do if…