There's a definite trend in CPU air cooling design, one that has cooler makers gravitating towards increasingly bigger heatsinks. The idea is to provide more surface area for heat to dissipate, and we've seen some air coolers that are as big as a softball[......]
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Graphics card vendors have been busy with the onslaught of new PC titles heading into the holiday, forcing AMD to release its second out of cycle performance driver in less than 2 weeks. Catalyst 11.11b includes Crossfire performance scaling for Skyrim, similar multi-gpu support for Assassin’s Creed Revelations, along with DirectX 11 tweaks for Batman Arkham City. [......]
Lots of great alternatives to Microsoft’s deluxe office suite have emerged over the past few years, but if you find yourself only occasionally in need of a tool to edit Word or Excel files, the hefty $159 price tag for the full home and student edition can be a bit hard to justify. Google Docs or even Microsoft’s own online versions of office can help in a pinch, but nothing quite matches the native experience you get from running the desktop app. [......]
The PC in 25 years The best way to predict what the future holds, they say, is to look to the past, but such a philosophy isn't necessarily the best option when it comes to computers. It's a useful way of extrapolating the numbers to see how fast the processors of the future may be; that's one reason Moore's Law continues to work. We can even use it to predict how much RAM future machines will have access to and how big hard drives are going to get, but given that the biggest changes to computers come in the way we use them, any predictions of the future would be better left to futurologists, industry wishlists and brief glimpses of roadmaps. [......]
After peering into its crystal ball, the market psychics at Kingston firmly believe that by this time next year, you're likely to choose a solid state drive over a mechanical hard drive. NAND flash memory prices are coming down, and while it's been slow going, overall pricing for SSDs will finally reach the point where they're able to attract would-be HDD buyers[......]
A French website claims Samsung is telling its partners via email that it intends to stop producing netbooks in 2012 and will shift its focus towards Intel's Ultrabook form factor and classic ultraportables measuring 11.6 inches and 12 inches. [......]
Bargain hunters beware – what may seem like a harmless email from iTunes randomly offering you credit could in fact be delivering a nasty strain of malware. [......]
T3 is offering up a Black Friday deal that sees the price fall to £27.49 - and include not only the iPad edition free but also a Griffin iPad A-Frame. "Subscribe today for only £27.49 and save a massive 50% on the cover price !" explained T3 "Plus as a subscriber you will get the T3 iPad Edition FREE. And to round off this extra special limited offer we are throwing in a free Griffin iPad A-Frame to the first 100 subscribers! "This multi-position stand will lovingly hold your iPad upright, in either portrait or landscape view — perfect for watching video or viewing pictures. [......]
The FA is closer than ever to implementing goal-line technology in the Premier League and could have the technology in place by the start of the 2012-13 season. [......]
Good news for fans of common sense: the European Court of Justice has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to implement widespread, indiscriminate monitoring and filtering of their users' traffic. Belgian music company SABAM wanted ISPs to monitor all P2P traffic for copyright infringement and block anything potentially illegal; the Court has essentially told them to get bent. The verdict is hugely important, because it undercuts the key claim of the content industries: that they have a divine right to be protected from naughty people on the internet at all costs. [......]
Are you rocking a preview build of Windows 8? If so, you don't need to go without CPU-Z. There's a new update available, the first one in about five months, that brings CPU-Z up to version 1.59. [......]
While many people were getting ready to stuff their faces with turkey and watch the Detroit Lions not suck for once on Thanksgiving (or just Thursday), Google's been busy doing some off-season spring cleaning. Again. [......]
'Tis the season for stuffing your face and dodgy panto, so it seems apt that we've teamed up with the Pantomime-Dame-named Twonky to give you the chance to win an iPad 2 Wi-Fi 16GB, Apple TV and a host of the company's finest software. It's all to celebrate the launch of the Twonky Video and Twonky Beam Browser, which lets you share and beam video, music and photos from any mobile device to any web-enabled TV. [......]
To call HP’s 2560p an “ultraportable” is pushing it. It has a slightly smaller footprint than the Toshiba R830, with a screen size of 12.5 inches, but it’s heavier by more than a pound. With its power brick, you’re looking at more than five pounds, including a battery that protrudes a full inch from the back of the notebook’s body[......]
