Category Archives: Hardware

iPad Beta

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 2, 2010

Centercode, the guys behind OnlineBeta.com, have just announced a new community: iPadBeta.com. We’re pleased to announce iPadBeta.com, a new unique user community being offered by Centercode. Unlike other communities we’ve announced in the past which use our software, iPadBeta.com is owned by Centercode and will act as a sister community to OnlineBeta.com, but focused specifically [...]

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iPad Pics, dimensions and first impressions

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 26, 2010

Well, it finally happened… Way back in July, many speculated about a tablet coming from Apple, and now we get to see how close everyone came with their guesses. Am I disappointed? Well … yes and no. It’s cool, it’s really f-ing cool. It’s almost exactly what I expected from Apple, but it’s not exactly [...]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. DirectX compare-o

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 25, 2009

The ExpReview crew have run the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark on a rig in both DirectX modes to point out that differences do indeed exist. The shadows look a bit more realistic, and the tessellation in DX11 brings a bit more details to some of the textures. There’s a slight performance hit for the [...]

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It’s HD5970 day

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 18, 2009

AMD’s newest top-of-the-line huge honkin’ dual-GPU beast of a graphics card has been officially released today, & the reviews are hitting the interwebs. The verdict? AMD’s made an enthusiast card that enthusiasts will appreciate not only for eye-bleeding speed, but overall build quality as well. That is… if they can find one to spend their [...]

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HP buys 3Com; hopes to compete with Cisco

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on November 12, 2009

Image via Wikipedia A tidy sum of just a hair under $3 billion. I’m not so sure that adding 3Com’s gear to their ProCurve gear will make any sort of dent in Cisco’s market share, but then again, I’m not a major business analyst, either.

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Crunchpad Release Date…

Written by geekE Management | Published on November 5, 2009

Perhaps … NEVER! The last few days have been full of rumors that the Crunchpad is dead, but is it? Are Mike Arringtons dreams of producing a $200 $300 tablet dead in the water? The time-line behind the Cruchpad does play out like your typical too-good-to-be-true vaporware product, but the evidence of real working prototypes [...]

Also posted in Tablets | Tagged CrunchPad, Fusion Garage, Google, Google Chrome, Open Source, Operating system, Physics, Web browser | 1 Comment

Moto Droid Day – Google Nav demo

Written by Travis Burrell | Published on October 28, 2009

TechCrunch has a full run-down on the Google Nav application that will ship with Android 2.0 (Eclair), along with a demo video. If you couldn’t tell by the screenshot alone, this is one killer navigation app. It includes plain English search, as you can see in the video below. Oh yeah, & did I mention [...]

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Acer Aspire Z5610 All-In-One MultiTouch

Written by geekE Management | Published on October 15, 2009

Acer joins in on the mutli-touch all-in-one party with their announcement of the Z5610. This announcement come just a week or so after Sony and Gateway announced similar All-In-One systems. Priced at $899 for the Z5610-U9072 comes configured with a 23″ HD Display (1920×1080), Pentium Dual Core E5300 Processor (2.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB), 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, 320GB [...]