About a month ago NVIDIA officially launched the GeForce 700M series of graphics accelerators. Designed primarily for notebooks the family includes a total of five models - the GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M, GeForce GT 740M, GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M. Apparently there's one more model - the GeForce GT 760M - that has not been officially announced - but it's there living happily un...
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Acer debuts Aspire V5-122P budget notebook
30 April 2013 | Notebooks
The Taiwanese hi-tech company Acer has released a new budget-oriented notebook under the trade name of Aspire V5-122P. The new company product is built around an 11.6-inch display at 1366 x 768 pixels and packs an AMD A6-1450 APU (Temash) at 1 GHz (1.4 GHz in Turbo Mode) with built-in AMD Radeon HD 8280 GPU at 300-500 MHz. The notebook comes with 2 GB of DDR...
Intel to release Ivy Bridge-E in September 2013
30 April 2013 | PC
The arrival of Haswell in June of this year will soon be followed by the official release of the next generation high-end Intel chips – the LGA2011 Ivy Bridge-E generation. The chips were at first expected in Q3 2013 and later moved to Q4 2013 but the actual release has been pushed back to Q3 2013 with the arrival date expected in September of this year. LGA2011 users shoul...
Samsung unleashes 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3
30 April 2013 | Featured, Tablets
Despite announcing plans for 10.1-inch and 8-inch versions of the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet Samsung has released a brand new 7-inch version of the device. It strongly resembles the Galaxy S4 smartphone and on the inside it packs a few improvements when compared to the previous generation. Here's a quick specs list of the latest version of the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet - a 7-inch display ...
Apacer plans another ultra fast flash memory module
29 April 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
Not so long ago Apacer released a USB flash drive – the AH450 – which boasts 140 MB/sec of read speed. Now Apacer has another similar USB drive - except that the upcoming AH552 model will be even faster. The new Apacer USB flash drive will fully support USB 3.0 and will arrive in a stylish aluminum chassis that measures 73 x 20 x 9 mm for a total weigh...
Gigabyte gets ready for Haswell
29 April 2013 | PC
There’s a little over a month till the debut of Intel’s Haswell chip and the LGA1150 platform so motherboards on the new socket have started to appear here and there. Gigabyte also has a new offering – the GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard. As the name suggests the motherboard is based on the latest Intel Z87 chipset and supports only Haswell processors being LGA1150 only. The m...
Toshiba rolls out Portege Z10t tablet-notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks, Tablets
German customers have become the first to see the latest Toshiba Portege Z10t tablet-notebook – the latest in a new series hitting the market that combines the features of a tablet and a notebook in one device. Depending on the model the Toshiba Portege Z10t offers four processors – the Intel Core i3-3229Y, Core i5-3439Y, Core i5-3339Y and Core i7-3689Y. The display is al...
Samsung debuts first ATIV notebooks
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
The South Korean Samsung has released the first two ATIV notebooks – the ATIV Book 5 and ATIV Book 6. Until this moment the ATIV brand was reserved only for versatile PCs that can work as notebooks and tablets. The ATIV Book 5 is the less powerful model – it comes with an Intel Core i5-3337U processor at 1.8 GHz, a 14-inch sensor display at 1366 x 768 pixels and 200 cd/m2...
Lenovo releases IdeaPad U310 Touch notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
Lenovo has introduced a new notebook – the IdeaPad U310 Touch. The new company product is now available on the US market where it sells for USD 699. The new IdeaPad U310 Touch is based on a 13.3-inch LED display with Multi-Touch and glossy finish (1366 x 768 pixels resolution) and has an Intel Core i3-3217U Ivy Bridge processor at 1.8 GHz (2.7 GHz Turbo), Intel HD 4000 grap...
First benchmark results of Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E published
26 April 2013 | PC
Intel’s plans for the ultra high-end X79 platform are quite clear nowadays – with the arrival of Haswell in a month and a half the chip giant will retire the current Sandy Bridge-E generation and will introduce the Ivy Bridge-E CPUs. The first tests of the upcoming processors are now available thanks to the efforts of a Chinese enthusiast from the Coolaler.com forum and they show Ivy Bridg...
Intel adds 80 GB model to 335 Series SSDs
25 April 2013 | SSD
Intel has announced the addition of an 80 GB model to its 335 Series of SSDs. The new model is the least spacious of all but will be the cheapest too. The chip giant released 180/240 GB models of the same SSD line earlier this year. The 80 GB model is based on the same 20 nm MLC NAND Flash memory used in the more spacious models. As to speed the SSDs reach sequential read spe...
