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Stone Aquires Rock
Stone Group and IT provider to the public sector aquired the trade and assets of Rock Group plc yesterday saying:
The acquisition will enable Stone to offer a larger range of specialist high-end Notebook products to its public sector customers.
I’m not quite sure why public sector workers need high end gaming laptops though?
The aquisition is good […]
Dell To Axe XPS Gaming Rigs
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal Dell will shortly begin phasing out its XPS gaming desktops. Apparently Dell is concerned the XPS range is eating into sales of its high-end Alienware brand, which it aquired in 2006.
To manage this Dell is apparently planning to cut four XPS gaming desktops, and update the […]
Gateway P-172X FX Gaming Laptop
The Washington Post (that well known reviewer of gaming laptops) carries a review of the Gateway P-172X FX.
The laptop features a 17-inch display with a native 1920-by-1200-resolution, a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T8300 Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and nVidia’s GeForce Go 8800M GTS graphics board.
Overall they didn’t seem to like […]
Toshiba Announces Cell Based Laptop
Toshiba has announced that it expects to begin selling notebooks equipped with its SpursEngine graphics chip later this year. The SpursEngine chip is based on the technology that powers the PlayStation 3 gaming console’s Cell processor.
Toshiba’s management said it will put its SpursEngine SE1000 chip into multimedia-oriented notebooks - probably the company’s flagship Qosmio G40 […]
Hitachi Announces TravelStar 320GB Laptop Hard Disk At 7,200rpm
The 2.5-inch Travelstar 7K320 offers 320GB of storage, up from the previous 200GB. Hitachi also claims that the drive can boost application performance by up to 12 per cent, and to have reduced power consumption by 22 per cent.
The drive connects across a SATA 3Gb/s interface, or alternatively 1.5Gb/s for the models that feature […]
Dell Adds Ageia PhysX PPU To Gaming Laptops
IGN is reporting that Dell is going to start offering the Ageia’s PhysX dedicated physics processor to some of it’s gaming laptops. Their source couldn’t confirm which laptops would contain the unit but they believe it’s likely to be Dell’s flagship XPS M1710.
This is the first manufacture we’ve heard of offering it as standard, it’ll […]
Ageia Offers A Mobile Version Of It Physics Proccessing Unit
Ageia has announced the release of the mobile PhysX M100, a dedicated physics processing unit for laptops. It has the same processing power as its desktop counterpart, the M100. You could be forgiven for wondering what you would want a physics processing unit for, the answer is it takes the physics workload of the CPU […]
Intel Boost Graphics Performance On Laptops
TrustedReviews explains how a new driver update for the GMA900 series of integrated graphics from Intel boost graphical performance for laptops based on the chipset. The updated driver adds hardware support for Vertex Shader 3.0 which should allow users to achieve a playable framerate on games like Battlefield 2. They explain:
The reason this update is […]
Toshiba Announces The Satellite X200 Gaming Laptop
Toshiba has also announced their new Satellite X200 laptop which is designed for gamers. It features a 17″ TruBrite WSXGA+ display, nVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT, 1GB of RAM plus 1GB of Intel Turbo memory. Four Harman Kardon speakers on board and Dolby Sound Room. On top of that you get fingerprint security (just what every […]
XtremeNotebooks Xtreme 917V
US based XtremeNotebooks announced its new Xtreme 917V laptop recently. The laptop is perfect for gamers with an Intel Core 2 Quad processor. The Xtreme 917V includes the option to have RAID 0, 1, or 5, dual SLI nVidia 8000 or Quadro series graphics cards (Microsoft DirectX 10 support) and triple SATA hard disk drives […]