Desktops
Dell responds to latest capacitor-related fallout, ignores the whole lying to consumers part
The “capacitor plague” issue of the early 2000′s has started to resurface, not thanks to another batch of bogus orange-hued electrolytes popping free, but this time thanks to the release of documents relating to a three year-old Dell lawsuit. As we reported earlier this week , those docs show that Dell asked customer service reps to deny there was any problem with their motherboards, telling them to pretend they’d never heard about the issue and to “emphasize uncertainty.” Now, Dell is responding to the latest flare up — sort of
HP discretely introduces all-in-one 200xt, refreshes desktop lineup
What, no red carpet unveiling for new desktops? It seems HP’s portability-deficient PCs have gone through a number of tweaks as of late. The Pavilion and Slimline collection ranges from Intel Celerons and AMD Semprons to Core i5s and Phenoms .
Acer expects to overtake HP as world’s biggest laptop vendor by year’s end
Ah, the inexorable rise of a once-small Taiwanese company. Acer chairman JT Wang has told investors in a conference call this week that his company is on track to overtake HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the year is through
Maingear, iBuyPower and CyberPower reveal Phenom II X6 1090T-based bargain desktops
It’s akin to clockwork, as they say — Maingear , iBuyPower and CyberPower have all decided to pump out new and / or revised gaming desktops based on AMD’s latest and greatest (and cheapest, some would argue) six-core processor, barely waiting 24 hours to do the honors. The Phenom II X6 1090T certainly has the whole low-price thing going for it, enabling this trio of PC builders to offer up complete systems starting at under $1,000. Maingear’s new Limited Edition Vybe packs a $999 price tag, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support, ATI’s Radeon 5000 series graphics, a DVD burner, 640GB WD Caviar Black SATA 6G hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 RAM
Onkyo busts out DP312 Ion nettop
Onkyo ‘s just added the DP312 nettop to its lineup. This Ion -based box boasts a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and a DVD player to boot
HP stuffs Core i3 / i5 into TouchSmart PCs, gently revamps other desktops
Down for a solid spate of updates? Wipe that sleep from your eye and listen up, then. HP ‘s pushing out a list of updates tonight across a rather strange combination of desktops, so we won’t waste any time breaking it down
