Archive for November, 2010

Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G gets modest refresh

When is a notebook a new release or just an update? If you take the news of Acer’s Aspire Ethos 8943G announced in Australia today, then it’s the later. This 18.4-inch model is aimed at the luxury notebook market with lots of everything, including 1080p (1920×1080-pixel) resolution and 1500GB of hard drive space. However, the [...]

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Navigation devices to disappear in favour of smartphones

It’s as inevitable as night following day that standalone navigational devices will disappear from the market. With every almost every smartphone released now featuring GPS (global positioning system) technology inside, the need for single-function devices will dimish. The cost of GPS technology has crashed dived over the last year or so – and that’s been [...]

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Asus launches Intel P67 chipset motherboards

Motherboard and notebook maker ASUS has officially announced its latest boards featuring Intel’s new P67 chipset. The new boards are designed for Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge-class of Core CPUs, expected to be announced in the next couple of weeks. The new boards, which include the P8P67Pro and P8P67 Deluxe, will feature two PCI-E 8x slots [...]

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Australia gets Acer Ethos notebooks – four months’ late

Taiwanese notebook giant Acer is after a bigger slice of the luxury notebook market, launching two new models that pack in the high-end features. The two new models are the Aspire Ethos 8943G and 5943G models, both running Intel’s mobile quad-core Core i7 processor and feature AMD Radeon HD 5850 graphics. The 8943G features a [...]

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Apple to announce Beatles’ collection on iTunes tomorrow?

Any likelihood IT giant Apple will be launching a new iTunes streaming service is being seen as “unlikely” after it was reported that Apple most likely does not have the required licenses from major content providers. Website AppleInsider reports the company does not have the explicit rights to offer an all-you-can-eat subscription service based on [...]

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