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Almost six months after the release of the Tegra 3-powered Yoga 11, Lenovo has introduced a version of the system featuring Intel Ivy...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

This week on the roundup, we've got news about flash drives from Adata, a Thunderbolt-enabled Haswell mobo from ASRock, and an arcade-style fighting game controller...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Input devices

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Windows 8.1 would be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users. We also learned that a public preview...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Quite often, our biggest complaint about PC notebooks and tablets is that their display resolutions are too low. 1366x768 has become the norm even...

Type: News story Tags: Displays Mobile computing

HP has introduced a pair of convertible tablets with detachable keyboard docks. The most interesting of the two is the SlateBook x2, which...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Over the past few weeks, ASRock has released small nuggets of information on the features of its next-generation Haswell motherboards. We know that some...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Since I have decried the dearth of weather-resistant smartphones, it's only fair that I take a moment to recognize Sony's Xperia ZR. ...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Intel is slowly but surely moving more platform components onto the processor. Over the years, the graphics, PCI Express, and memory controllers traditionally found...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Power

The smooth exterior glass of touchscreen displays is great for letting your fingers glide freely while performing various swipes and gestures. However, the lack of...

Type: News story Tags: Displays Input devices Mobile computing Personal tech

Ah. Nothing to occupy one's Thursday afternoon like a new round of financial results. This time, it's Nvidia who's reported earnings for the first quarter...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing

PowerColor has developed a new spin on AMD's Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The simply named SCS3 HD7850 has stock clock speeds and 1GB...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling

It won't be long before we're knee-deep in motherboards designed for Intel's next-generation Haswell processors. To hype their upcoming products, mobo makers have teased...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Microsoft is getting awfully chatty about Windows Blue this week. Yesterday, company CFO and marketing chief Tami Reller teased the upcoming OS update. Now,...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Traditional hard drive makers have been slow to get into the SSD business,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

How's Windows 8 selling? About as well as Windows 7 did three years ago, judging by numbers posted this morning on the official Windows...

Type: News story Tags: Windows

Last week, we saw a premature listing of an eight-inch Windows 8 tablet with a $379.99 asking price. That's already a fair bit more...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Windows 8 tablets keep getting cheaper. The latest models are available for well under $500, and if that early listing we saw last week...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Windows

Remember that 8-inch Acer Iconia W3 tablet we told you about last month? While we've yet to see an official announcement from Acer, the...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing