Archive for August, 2007
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 […]
MaxFire Pandora Pro Folding Game Pad
GearLog has a review of the MaxFire Pandora Pro Folding Game Pad. It’s a cool new small gamepad - ideal as part of your mobile gaming setup. The retractable USB cable sounds like a very good idea, just not that well implemented - it’s too short!
Still might be just what you want if you’re into […]
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 […]
Acer Aspire 5920
NotebookReview has a review of the Acer Aspire 5920. It sounds like a heavy laptop (read desktop replacement) at almost 7lbs. But has quite an impressive spec for the price:
Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor T7300
15.4″ WXGA high-brightness (220-nit) Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, 8 ms response time
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT […]
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 […]
Asus Gives The G1S Gaming Laptop The Santa Rosa Treatment
The Asus G1 is based on the Intel Santa Rosa architecture and has apparently been designed with mobile gaming in mind. While the spec is fairly modest by hard core gaming standards:
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz)
Screen: 15.4″ WSXGA+ (1680×1050)
RAM: 2048M DDR2 667
Hard Disk: 160GB HD 5400 RPM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForceGo 7700 GPU 512 MB
It’s prefectly […]
Alienware Offers The m5550 Laptop As A “Quick Ship”
Alienware is apparently now offering the Area 51 m5550 laptop as a “Quick Ship” that is they promise to ship within two business days of payment confirmation and validation. The configuration for the Quick Ship laptop is as follows:
15.4″ glossy screen
Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor and 2GB of memory
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics
802.11g wireless
160GB 5400 […]