February 10, 2010

Howto: When the PC is a Toaster

Not much time has passed since Apple announced a team that was more traditional PC devices and we are still feeling the pinch. It was a system “closed” and she criticized the digerati. Some said this could damage future generations who would lack the tools to tweak and program.

Others reported a new metaphor for dealing with information as too restrictive and as a toy. Universally, it was agreed that it was way too expensive for what it offers to the market. Now you might think I’m talking about the introduction of the iPad few weeks ago. Actually, I mean the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984.

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January 16, 2010

Hot Issue: Gartner predicts that cell phones will overtake PCs as most popular global web browsing device by 2013

A forecast predicting that the phones will surpass PCs as the most popular device to be used to browse the website was carried out by research firm Gartner. When? In 3 years, in 2013.

According to Gartner PC installed base forecast, the total number of PCs in use will reach 1.78 billion units in 2013. In 2013, the installed base of smart phones and phones equipped with the improved browser to exceed 1.82 billion units, and will outnumber the installed base of PCs in the future.

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January 13, 2010

Review: Tiniest 1080p PC is silent, enjoys Doublemint gum

HTPCs If they are smaller and smaller. One day soon be the size of a flash unit with flash memory drives the size of pebbles. This computer has a little folly VIA EPIA-P820 Pico-ITX motherboard inside and Via Amos-3001 is the first PC to use it. Have COM ports and two USB ports on the front, and Ethernet, USB and HDMI ports on the back. It measures only 6 inches wide.

The 1.2GHz all-in-one VIA VX855 media system processor
Plays 1080p video. And yes, the fanless design, which keeps things quiet. No pricing information yet, but we should know more soon.

January 12, 2010

Review: Shuttle XPC SG41J1 All-in-one PC

Shuttle has announced the new Shuttle SG41J1 at CES 2010, for those who like the checkerboard patterns. It is designed for everyday home and office use, but can be used anywhere. We will not tell.

This all-in-one PC is located at J1-new “chassis”, which is all jazzed up. The PC is based on Intel G41 chipset, which can handle up to the Intel Core 2 Quad and a board Intel X4500 graphics chips.

The front is still customizable.