Asus has announced that the initial shipment of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer in the UK were already sold out. Asus UK didn’t expect such huge demand for the affordable tablet device and so they are now apologizing for the difficulties regarding the stock availability of the device with their retail partners, specifically in the more »

Awhile ago PC World has posted a pre-order page for the Wi-Fi version of the upcoming Motorola XOOM. And guess what? They even had a price tag for the said Android tablet and that something around £449.99. That amount was a bit lesser than how much the 3G Motorola XOOM is being sold in the more »

With the economy stumbling along, many retailers are looking forward to holiday sales to spruce up their bottom line. Some companies, such as Electrical retailer DSG international plc, owner of Currys and PC World, believe that tablets, like the iPad will outsell netbooks 2:1 this holiday season. Jeremy Fennell, DSGi said: “There is no doubt more »

PC World writer, Galen Gruman, called out iPad pre-order buyers on Saturday, calling them names in his post, “iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only.” Apple’s iPad went on pre-order Friday and is rumored to have 120,000 devices sold as a result. Even at the cheapest model, that’s $60 million, not a bad day in my book. more »

The 12th annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity hosted by TigerDirect, CompUSA, AMD and Systemax is set to take place again from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. on January 8, 2009 at the Wynn Hotel. In case you aren’t familiar with this charity event, basically 30 tech journalists/companies work amongst themselves to design a PC in the shortest amount of time. For first place, $10,000 gets donated to that companies’ chosen charity, second place gets $2,500 to their charity, and then third gets $1,000 for their charity.

To give some perspective on how fast these computers can be assembled, last year’s winner, Maximum PC’s Will Smith, made his PC in 10 minutes 30 seconds.