It’s not my birthday yet to come around offering chocolate and drinks, so I’ll just throw a Mini Chocolate your way to digest. This Chocolate isn’t a smaller LG version but another mini PC. When I say mini PC I mean mini desktop. We’ve had more than enough netbooks.

What’s so special about this Mini Chocolate that’s worth mentioning? It’s a desktop featuring a 1.6 Atom processor with support for up to 2GB of RAM, four USB ports, two SATA sockets and one IDE socket. If needed there’s room for a slot-loading optical drive. You have a choice of three colors, regular black, white and red.

The manufacturer is Ripple from Korea, and it will charge about $200 for every unit. Let me see if I get this right. I get to buy a mini empty case? Well if I don’t count the processor…

LG has other products out there besides cell phones. You shouldn’t be that surprise to find the new XD1 portable hard drives while browsing for extra storage solution. Not only do they look good but they also promise a lot. They are only 2.5 inch long and they have a SATA II interface. The USB 2.0 E-SATA port can transfer files for up to 480MBps. The XD1 portable hard drive will come in four versions: 120, 160, 250 and 320GB.
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Dell is thinking outside the box at this time of year and they will be shipping out Dell Systems with Ubuntu as the main OS. How about that? Since Windows XP isn’t available anymore, Dell seems to be taking appropriate measures to avoid loosing customers unhappy with Vista. And offering this Linux OS version is going to take more dollars off the final price of the selected system. Or so you would anyone think. But it appears prices won’t drop significantly, as having Ubuntu installed also costs money.
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If storage space is your problem, Seagate’s 1.5 Terabyte hard drive for PC will surely solve it. I am talking about the the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive for desktop PCs which has just become the biggest hard drive on the market surpassing all 1TB previous models.
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We’ve seen quite a few desktop PCs today and we have one more for you guys. The ipower X2.0 from Packard Bell has gotten our attention. It’s a gaming laptop with personality from what we can see. The design clearly indicates it means business. This baby will arrive anywhere in Q4 this year, maybe just in time for Christmas. The price will vary from the cheapest $1,563 version to the $2,816 top of the class.
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Here’s an All in One PC from Averatec. It’s a similar iMac concept but I am not sure it will be as popular and dependable as the Apple is. And the name is quite ‘original’ too: “All-In-One PC”.
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Remember the OS X USB device developed by EFiX? We’ve talked about this tool for laptops a while back ago. Using it you will be able to install a fresh copy of Max OS X on your PC and once you have done it you could use it without having any compatibility problems. Or so they say. There wasn’t any price mentioned for it back then but it appears things have changed.
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Remember the weird but cool looking Predator gaming desktop from Acer? With that strangely shaped Orange case to hide a very reliable system made for gamers but not only? Well Acer came up with a monitor for us to match the Predator. The G24 powered by a Predator might be exactly what you need to beat your friends in those multiplayer skirmishes.
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Sure why not, why not a new Eee Monitor that would actually be very similar to an iMac. Sure why not Asus? Why not try to take over the desktop world too? But you are forgetting something. You’re going to be packing a Windows OS inside, so no matter how cheap the Eee Monitor will be, you will still end up loosing customers to Apple.
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It looks like MSI and their Wind are taking the path to the Dark Side. Remember how Asus started pissing everyone off by labeling their Eee trademark on whatever gadget as long as it was small and computer related? We have the Eee mini laptop line, the Eee Monitor, the Eee Box, the Eee Stick. Are we to see the Wind Monitor, or the Wind Stick? Because the Wind Desktop PC is here.

I understand the need for a laptop to be really strong while really easy to move around. What’s the point in creating a really portable desktop? Besides dropping the price? I’m not going to take it with me am I? Sure I will get a few more inches of free space around my workplace, but do I really need it?

Let’s see what MSI has in mind for their Wind desktop line. The mini desktop should sell anywhere from $200 to $300 and it will be released in Asia and Europe in July while the USA will get it in September.

The full specs aren’t available for now but the Wind desktop should pack a 1.6GHz Intel Atom, up to 2 GB of RAM, up to 160GB hard drive, WiFi and a DVD drive.

Want one? Yeah, me neither!

Not only did HP launch a whole new line of laptops that mean business and pleasure, but they are also working on their current desktop offers. Their xw4550 series has just been upgraded and you might want a piece of that.
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We’ve seen some notebooks from Lenovo so far so it was time they launched a desktop. For those of you still relying on a desktop you can try the new Lenovo IdeaCentre K210.
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I have to tell you I like what I see here. First impression always counts a lot when making a choice, so I would definitely give this Shuffle XP19 touchscreen LCD a try. Sure I’d need Windows 7 or any kind of OS supporting touchscreens but I’d still give it a try. Mainly because it looks good. Let’s see what I think about it after we go through it’s specs!
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Between all cell phone and carrier news, between laptops and highly portable desktops we manage to squeeze in a few hard drive news once in a while. With all this talk about SSD which become bigger and bigger while prices are slowly dropping, Western Digital aren’t going to give up their way of producing quality HDD.
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ASUS Taiwan has announced the release of the latest Essentio CS5110 Mini PC. It belongs to the family of Eee Station series. Loaded with innovations the Essentio Mini PC lets the users enjoy exceptional quality graphics. Interestingly, Asus CS5110 Essentio Mini PC is the world’s smallest Desktop PC.

Look at the image. It appears elegant. This irresistible PC is provided with a discrete graphic card for best reproduction of high definition movies. You must be wondering what all will it include?

Well, I won’t keep you pondering..It is equipped with a Blu-ray drive, wireless remote for home theater, hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT card.

You can choose from the available black and white options as per your choice. This model will also reach Computex along with ASUS fantabulous collection of electronic products.

Via: Press

Does the picture above remind you of anything you might have seen recently? Would you guess what’s the target audience for it?

I am was a gamer once and a pretty good one. I was always looking for a better system. I was interested in faster processors, more RAM and of course the latest video card. I wasn’t at all interested in any visual upgrades.
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s the Eee fever going to last? After the success the tiny Eee PC 700 laptop had this year and after they have started selling its bigger brother the Eee PC 900, it was a matter of time for other Eee products to roll over.

Asus Eee Box B202 it’s a desktop as the picture suggest. It’s 2.2 pounds heavy packing an Intel Atom processor / 945 chipset, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 80GB hard drive. And, in order to make it run smoother I guess, there’s a Linux Based operating system. No news on the price it will retail for, nor on the monitor, which I hope Asus is thinking about as we speak!

Would you buy this Box B202 desktop?

Dell has just unveiled XPS 730 H2C Four-Barreled Gaming Horsepower Chassis for hard core gamers. Now you can play Crysis at Full 1920×1200 Resolution and 30+ FPS with Quad Graphics. This premium quality Desktop is the most powerful system available in the market. It equips Patent-Pending H2C Cooling Solution that makes the CPU cool. Consumers can choose from the available painted Anodized Aluminum H2C Chassis or Silver Brushed Aluminum Air-Cooled Chassis with Optional X-View Clear Panel.

“There is a measure of satisfaction involved in delivering products that meet the expectations of a unique set of customers who are incredibly knowledgeable, passionate, intense and competitive,” said Arthur Lewis, head of Dell’s gaming group. “With XPS and Alienware gaming systems we’ve been progressively delivering an awe-inspiring experience to gamers and now, with the XPS 730, we’ve set the bar for a truly kick-ass gaming experience.”

Supporting optional quad-core processors and Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA), the Dell XPS 730 H2C is powered by NVIDIA® nforce® 790i Ultra SLI ® chipset with standard ATX motherboard. The system comes installed with four hard drives. While the air-cooled XPS 730 is priced at $3,999, the XPS 730 H2C can be purchased at $4,999.

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Apple is getting ready for Mother’s Day with a new iMac series. If you were about to buy one, hold your horses just yet and wait for a couple of more days.

Here’s what a new iMac will offer:

• Faster processors - 6MB L2 cache
• Faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line
• 2GB of memory standard in most models
• 3.06 GHz Intel processor - for the 24-inch iMac
• the high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics - for the 24-inch iMac

These last few days it was rumored a new iMac will pack Intel’s upcoming Core 2 Duo Extreme X9100 chip, in preparation for the future “Montevina” Centrino 2 which is supposed to deliver better results for less power consumption. After all that talk it appears that the new iMacs aren’t using Montevina, but a 45nm Penryn 3.06GHz chip with a 1066MHz frontside bus.

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I am on an environmental writing spree today and after telling you all about the new Credo accessories I simply have to show you what Dell has in store for its buyers. The picture above is the eco-friendly PC which is said to be 70% less energy consumer and 81% smaller than a mini tower Dell PC (but bigger than the Asus EEE). Michael Dell says about it: “These are important issues. When you think about our industry, we produce 260 million computers a year. There’s a responsibility that comes with that.”

It’s only logical for Dell to invest more and more in electronics, specifically in laptops and desktops, meant to reduce overall energy consumption. Further more whether you own one of their products or not, you can be part of this ecological movement by joining one of their programs: “Plant a Tree for Me” (for private buyers) or “Plant a Forest for Me,” (for companies).

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