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Dell Inspiron Zino HD desktop PC

November 12, 2009

Dell is thinking small with the launch of the Inspiron Zino HD. It's a mini desktop PC that measures just 197x197mm.

The tiny PC has a choice of seven interchangeable coloured lids and three patterned ones. Dell believes customers increasingly want to personalise their home technology and perhaps even choose a colour scheme to match their decor. The Piano Black lid is included in the price, while extra lids are priced at £20 each.

Carrie-Ann Skinner | Read more...


Asus Eee Box PC EB1501

October 26, 2009

Asus Eee Box EB1501Asus hopes consumers impressed by the positive feedback about Windows 7 will be on the scout for a powerful new PC in a tiny box.

The Asus Eee Box EB1501 runs Microsoft's brand-new Windows 7 operating system off an Intel Atom N330 dual-core processor with nVidia ION graphics and, despite costing a modest £399, offers HDMI high-definition video support.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Apple iMac 27in all-in-one PC

October 22, 2009

Apple iMac 27in all-in-one PCApple has launched its largest iMac all in one PC to date: the 27in Apple iMac has already arrived at the PC Advisor Test Centre. Our first impression: "It's a colossus".

The 27in backlit LED screen with 16:9 aspect ratio conceals the most powerful iMac Apple has yet produced. The top-of-the-range model has a dual core 3.06GHz processor. Other processor options are a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 or 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7. Apple includes 4GB of RAM the standard build, but it's possible to fit up to 16GB in the iMac. The screen resolution, meanwhile, stretches to 2560x1440 pixels.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


HP Touchsmart dv3 multi-touch laptop

October 14, 2009

HP Touchsmart dv3 multi-touch laptopHP has launched a multi-touch notebook PC that it claims is the first of its kind to hit the market. The £799 HP Touchsmart dv3 is a 13.3in laptop in a clamshell design.

Running Windows 7, the successor to Microsoft's Vista operating system which goes onsale next week, the dv3 goes onsale the same day as the new OS (22 October).

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


BFG Deimos X-10 gaming laptops

October 13, 2009

BFG Deimos X-10 gaming laptopBFG (Big Friendly Giant), has launched an 18.4in gaming laptop with nVidia SLI graphics and up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

The Deimos X-10 can take two 1GB GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and has a proper 1920x1080-pixel resolution screen. Customers can choose between an Intel Core 2 Duo, Quad or Extreme processor and can have up to 1.5TB hard disk.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Sony VAIO L Series all-in-one PC

October 9, 2009

Sony VAIO L Series all-in-one PCSony has launched an all-in-one PC designed to take advantage of the touchscreen capabilities in the about-to-launch Windows 7 operating system.

The Sony VAIO L Series PC is a 24in flatscreen display that plays high-definition video and TV programmes and that conceals a powerful home computer. It comes in a choice of 32bit or 64bit Windows 7 Home Premium.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Medion The Touch X9613 all-in-one PC

September 17, 2009

Medion has unveiled The Touch X9613 - a sleek black all-in-one home entertainment PC with multi-touch and voice control capabilities.

The 24in The Touch X9613 can be wall mounted or placed on a desk. Powered by an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 processor, it has 4GB RAM and 1GB of nVidia GeForce GT 240M graphics.

Carrie-Ann Skinner | Read more...


HP Pavilion DM3 ultra-slim laptop

September 16, 2009

LaptopRiddle me this: what's less than an inch thick, weighs 1.9kg and starts at around £470? If you read the headline, you might have already figured this one out - it's HP's new Pavilion DM3.

What is still puzzling, though, is why we haven't seen more machines try to encroach on this in-betweener category of "ultraslim" laptops.

Darren Gladstone | Read more...


Mesh Ice5 desktop PC range

September 9, 2009

Mesh Computers has launched its Ice5 range of desktop PCs that are powered by Intel's Core i5 processors.

The Ice5 LE is priced at £599 inc VAT and features 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, as well as a 1GB ATi HD4870 Graphics accelerator, DVD writer and Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium.

Carrie-Ann Skinner | Read more...


Fujitsu Siemens Celsius Ultra on show at IFA

September 4, 2009

Fujitsu Siemens claims the Celsius Ultra is the "fastest air-cooled gaming PC on the planet", and our hands-on test at IFA suggest it's packing some serious horsepower: the machine ripped through the notoriously hard-to-handle Microsoft Flight Simulator X without a hint of a stutter.

The Fujitsu Siemens Celsius Ultra has an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme processor, a massive 12GB of DDR3 RAM, more than two terabytes of memory divided into three separate drives, two GeForce 295 GTX graphics cards, Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium audio and a Blu-ray reader.

David Price | Read more...


gScreen Spacebook dual-screen laptop

August 28, 2009

gScreen Spacebook laptopComing soon to a laptop near you: widescreen displays like you've never seen before. We don't just mean the 16:10 screens on the latest high-end Blu-ray 'entertainment' laptops either.

Word is that portable PCs are about to get displays that expand horizontally. A North American company called gScreen has designed a laptop display that can nearly double in width.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


nVidia Ion boosts netbook and nettop graphics power

August 28, 2009

LaptopA picture can tell a thousand words. And if you display enough pictures every second, you get a good illusion of 2D reality. That's how we all enjoy film and TV, and it's increasingly how we find ourselves interacting with our PCs.

As computers move further from the purely textual command-line experience and toward the cuddly graphical interface, so has their graphics capability expanded. Hugely.

Andrew Harrison | Read more...


Touch Book tablet-style netbook

August 27, 2009

Touch Book netbookWe got pretty excited when we came across details online of the Touch Book - it's a touch-sensitive laptop along similar lines to a tablet PC but its screen doesn't just swivel; it's actually detachable. It's also priced at an eye-popping $399. A tablet only version is also available for $100 less.

Specifications include an 8.9in (1024x600-pixel) screen, ARM OMAP3 processor, 8GB of SSD (solid state) memory, 802.11 a, b, g and n Wi-Fi, speakers, four USB ports and a battery life of around 10 hours.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Advent Altro ultraportable laptop

August 17, 2009

Advent Altro ultraportable laptop PC World has launched a new laptop range under its Advent brand. The Advent Altro is an ultraportable with a thickness of just 21mm - giving it the edge in the svelte stakes over other sub-£600 models.

The £599 Advent Altro mimics models such as the iconic Apple MacBook Air by having a 13.3in screen and has a touchpad that can recognise users' gestures. The Altro runs off an Intel ULV (ultra-low voltage) processor and comes with 3GB of RAM.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Acer Veriton N260G nettop

July 31, 2009

Acer Veriton N260G nettopAcer has unveiled a new line of nettop PCs under its Veriton business brand. The Acer Veriton N260G nettop costs £195 inc VAT.

The Acer Veriton N260G eschews the bright white and blue colour scheme of Acer's consumer-focused Aspire Revo nettop and instead proffers a smart grey exterior that conceals an Intel Atom N280 processor and up to 2GB of RAM.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Compro VideoMate T1000W Media Centre PC

July 22, 2009

Compro VideoMate T1000W HD Network Media Centre PCIt's been a while since we've seen a brand-new media centre - Sony's Vaio all-in-one PCs and the HP Touchsmart all in one PCs having largely filled this niche. However, Compro is banking on consumer interest in high-definition video and offers H.264 playback on its VideoMate T1000W HD Network Media Centre.

The T1000W has a Full HD 1,920x1,080p flatpanel display, a DVB-T TV tuner, HDMI and S-Video connections, wireless LAN and Ethernet. The Network Media Centre comes with up to 1TB of storage and wireless g networking.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Medion Akoya E6300 D desktop PC

July 20, 2009

Medion has unveiled the Akoya E6300 D - a desktop PC powered by AMD's Phenom X4 9650 Quad Core processor.

Running Windows Vista Home Premium, the PC also comes bundled with Microsoft Works 9.0 and Microsoft Office 2007 Trial Edition along with a voucher for a free upgrade to Windows 7 when the OS is released on October 22.

Carrie-Ann Skinner | Read more...


Two thirds of PC Advisor readers still use Windows XP

July 16, 2009

Windows XPIn the final months of Windows Vista's reign as the top dog at Microsoft, around 64 percent of PC Advisor users are still running Windows XP on their PCs.

According to anonymous user stats gathered via our free online 'PC Performance Monitor' tool, around 34 percent of PC Advisor users are running Windows Vista, with the remaining 2 percent already enjoying some variant of the Windows 7 Beta/RC.

Matt Egan | Read more...


Toshiba Satellite A500 laptop

July 16, 2009

Toshiba Satellite A500 laptopToshiba has today released further details of the Satellite business laptops it's set to put onsale in the UK from the end of the month. See also: Toshiba Satellite A500 review.

The Satellite A500 models will be sold with either AMD or Intel processors and will cost from £599. Options include a 2.53GHz Intel Core2 Duo P8700 or a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500. Whether Intel or AMD-powered, all A500 laptops will have a least 2GB of RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 graphics and come with 500GB hard drives and a Super Multi Dual-Layer DVD. A TV tuner will be an optional extra.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


Virgin Media Freedom netbook

July 15, 2009

Virgin Media Freedom netbookVirgin Media has launched a netbook that will be offered as an incentive to customers who sign up to the company's broadband service. The Freedom netbook is a 10.2in backlit screen model with 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard disk drive.

Running Windows XP Service Pack 3, it is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor and connects to any sort of wireless network including 802.11g.

Rosemary Hattersley | Read more...


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