Gaming PCs are on the Christmas wish list for lots of gaming geeks this holiday season. Boutique gaming PC manufacture iBuyPower has unveiled five new gaming machines that will be offered exclusively through Newegg.com.
The new machines include the Gamer Extreme 922 SLC, 559 SLC, 919 SLC, 929 SLC, and 979 SLC. The most powerful of the five PCs is the 979 SLC with an Intel Core i7 975 processor, Asetek 240mm CPU liquid cooler, 12GB of DDR3 RAM, 128GB SSD, 1.5TB HDD, Blu-ray, and dual NVIDIA GTX 295 video cards. The machine sells for $3,999.99.
The cheapest of the five new machines is the 922 SLC coming in at $989. Full story...
Sony has just officially announced its new motion controller at GDC 2010, and it’s dubbed the Playstation Move (for rather obvious reasons).
This comes off as a touch too incredible to say the least, but Imagination Technologies, who makes the PowerVR chip powering smartphones like the iPhone, Droid, and Pre, states that smartphones will be able to have graphics performance on par with a PlayStation 3 console in about three years.
Well, here’s a good one. After coming off a not so life-changing announcement yesterday, Cisco is rumored to be preparing the new line of Flip videos cam (they purchased the company in 2009) for launch sometime in early April, which happens to be, oh, next month.
Computing pioneer and Microsoft technical fellow Chuck Thacker was honored today with the Turing Award; widely considered as the highest distinction in the field of computing, and dubbed the “Nobel Prize of computing”.
A new Consumer Reports survey has put Apple comfortably ahead of Lenovo, Toshiba, Dell and other computer manufacturers for after sales care, with consistently strong performance in phone support, online support and general problem-solving ability.
It’s only been a couple days since the official announcement heard ’round the world: Valve is releasing Steam for Mac.
We can still remember the days when you needed a whole bunch of wires, strung up along the wall or hidden beneath the carpet, and speakers placed methodically throughout a living room or bedroom, to recreate that beautiful surround sound experience we all love so much in theaters.
There’s a pretty distinct set of reasons why, for the most part, it’s a good thing or a bad thing to be an early adopter of any piece of tech that comes out.
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