Asus seems to be ready to bring back the glory days of the netbook this year. Leaking out ahead of the upcoming CES 2012 are press shots of Asus latest netbook line – now called the Eee PC Flare Series. Even more exciting perhaps is the fact that the Eee PC Flare will be available more »

AMD hasn’t had much luck getting the drop on Intel as of late. With its latest chips, that seems to be changing. AMD has announced that its 32nm Llano A-series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) have started shipping, and systems with the chips should start shipping this quarter (Q2). These Llano APUs come from the Fusion more »

You remember MSI, MSI Wind netbooks and the other MSI laptops we’ve covered? Well, MSI has just made its presence felt again by way of announcing its latest, ultra-thin notebook – the MSI X370. By thin we mean 12.76 x 8.94 x 0.89 inches and a weight of just 1.4kg. The MSI X370 features a more »

Four years ago, AMD bought out ATI, and has continued to use the brand name for graphics cards. That all ends today as AMD has announced that the ATI branding will no longer be used by the company. AMD’s announcement sees ATI chipsets keeping the same names, so the Radeon and FirePro lines will still more »

With Windows 7 quickly approaching next month, now is the best time for new product announcements to coincide with the OS release. Usually that would mean new desktops, laptops, and this time around, netbooks. AMD is taking a different angle, however, and is going after those who build their own PCs. What better way to more »

Does anyone take manufacturers claims about battery life seriously anymore? Apparently someone does. A law firm out of North Carolina and they want to know if you feel cheated, ripped-off or otherwise victimized by manufacturer claims regarding your laptop’s advertised battery life. That’s right, the law offices of Girard Gibbs, LLP is interested in hearing more »

For the most part recently it seems that Intel can do no wrong by many people. It keeps churning out new processors like the i7 that greatly improve on everything else on the market. There’s also all its other random side projects that could improve any number of technologies. None of these things get passed more »

There hasn’t been a whole lot of improvements in hard drive technology in the past few years aside from increasing capacities. Sure, there’s the advent of the SSD, but it’s still way too expensive for most people. For the most part we’ve been using SATA 2 connections with upwards of 1TB drives. It’s about time more »

Gamers are always looking for ways to upgrade notebooks in order to serve up the best graphics and sound during game play. AMD has announced ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4000 series graphics, their planned next generation series of notebook graphics processors. AMD says that this new processor will bring PC quality gaming technology to notebook users.

So, what type of upgrades can users expect? The processor will support Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, longer battery life, and HD quality multimedia features. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series will improve HD gaming performance with support for ATI CrossFireX technology to deliver up to one teraFLOP of performance power. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300, 4500 and 4600 also are supposed to be energy efficient.

Hewlett Packard, MTV, and AMD made a joint announcement that they have decided on a winner for their Engine Room Notebook Design Contest. The honor was awarded to Hisako Sakihama, a 27-year-old designer from Japan. As the winner, his design will be the template for the new HP Artist Edition Notebook PC. The limited edition notebook will feature the AMD Turion X2 Ultra notebook platform.