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Acer ships Veriton X270 business desktops to suits with egos

Darren Murph — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:39:00 +0000

With a name like Veriton X270, it just has to be good, right? Um, not entirely. While the label may give off the impression that Acer's latest desktop is destined for gamers, the actual component list proves otherwise. Indeed, this rig was tailor made for suits in corner offices, though it does offer an impressive list of Excel-crunching hardware. We're talking a Core 2 Duo CPU, NVIDIA's GeForce 7100 graphics, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 500GB SATA HDD, a DVD writer, gigabit Ethernet, Windows Vista Business and support for 5.1-channel audio. Said machine is available for ordering today in North America with a starting tag of $399.

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Acer ships Veriton X270 business desktops to suits with egos originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows 7 edges out Vista in thorough gaming benchmarks

Ross Miller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Looking to find out what's the better gaming experience out there right now -- Windows 7 beta or Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 -- the folks at PC Perspective put both operating systems through the ringer with help from seven graphics cards running the gamut of price ranges. Overall, three ATI Radeon HD and four NVIDIA GeForce cards were pitted with six games and applications in one of the lengthiest benchmarking features we've ever read. AMD / ATI gets credit for being the first to release combined drivers that work on both OSs, and with one lone exception, performance on the Windows 7 machine was equal to or better than Vista. That said, the recomendations for each system is the same: ATI gets an advantage here for cards in the $120 to $130 range, but the competition is much closer as you start looking at more expensive models. Hit up the read link for technical details that you can shake an anti-aliased stick at.

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Windows 7 edges out Vista in thorough gaming benchmarks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo’s IdeaCentre A600 now available to order, should ship soon

Darren Murph — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:57:00 +0000

Lenovo's breaking some serious molds with the IdeaCentre A600, and if you've been waiting anxiously ever since we got up close and personal with one back at CES, the patience has (nearly) paid off. As of now (like, right this very moment in time), three variants of the all-black machine are up for ordering, with base prices sitting at $699.99, $799.99 and $999.99. They each show that shipping won't happen for another few weeks, but we'll bet Lenovo's just being conservative.

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Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 now available to order, should ship soon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP’s debuts new Pavilion Elite m9600 series desktops, range of widescreen monitors

Paul Miller — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:00 +0000

For middle-of-the-high-road types, HP just debuted its new Pavilion Elite m9600 series of Core i7 excitement. Things don't get quite as wild as Dell's new 24GB monsters, but HP packs in a respectable amount of power for the price. The base configuration includes a Core i7 920 2.66Ghz processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS graphics and a DVD burner, all for $950, and you can escalate up to a Core i7 940 2.93GHz processor, 12GB of RAM, a couple of 1TB hard drives, 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics and a Blu-ray burner. HP is also outing four new 16:9 monitors, the 18.5-inch w1858, 20-inch 2009m, 21.5-inch 2159m and 23-inch w2338h. The latter two include HDMI inputs, and the prices range from $170 to $300 -- not bad at all.

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HP's debuts new Pavilion Elite m9600 series desktops, range of widescreen monitors originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell unveils Nehalem-based Precision T3500, T5500, and T7500 workstations, EqualLogic PS6000S solid state storage arrays

Ross Miller — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:36:00 +0000

Well, what do we have here? An industry source has sent along information and images for a trio of new Dell Precision workstations using Intel's Nehalem architecture. The T3500 (starts at $999) sports up to 24GB DDR3 ECC memory. Just above that, we've got the T5500 (starts at $1,620) with up to 72GB of memory and dual socket Intel Xeon. Meanwhile, granddaddy T7500 (pictured; starts at $1,800) boasts 192GB of three-channel DDR3 ECC memory up to 1066 or 1333MHz, dual native Gen 2 PCIe graphics slots and supports NVIDIA SLI technology. All models feature an E-SATA port, up to 1.5TB SATA HDD, dual / quad monitor support, DisplayPort connectors, and for those trying to keep some assemblance of eco friendliness, these are all Energy Star 5.0 compliant. We also caught wind of new EqualLogic PS6000 and SSD-equipped PS6000S storage arrays, which start at around $17,000 and $25,000, respectively. Interests piqued? Hit up the gallery below for some pics.

Update: Dell releases the official presser for the PS6000S.

Gallery: Dell Nehalem-based Precision T3500, T5500, and T7500 workstations, EqualLogic PS6000S solid state storage arrays

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Dell unveils Nehalem-based Precision T3500, T5500, and T7500 workstations, EqualLogic PS6000S solid state storage arrays originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Digital foundry’s HDScope is the capture device for gamers who serve gamers videos about gaming

Tim Stevens — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:32:00 +0000

If you wanted to launch a videogame site in the old days all you needed was high school grammar and a bunch of grainy, 300 x 200 screencaps of Mario 64. Today's readers are a more fickle bunch, wanting monitor-busting screenshots and CPU-taxing HD videos of the latest Xbox 360 and PS3 titles. To cater to the sites who will cater to those gamers, Digital Foundry is launching the HDScope, a pixel-crunching, semi-portable PC designed explicitly for recording content in 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i via component or HDMI inputs. It sports a 7-inch touchscreen, meaning you can just plug this into the wall and start gathering footage from that exclusive (and oddly dusty) beta copy of Duke Nukem: Forever you scored. No word on price or availability, but launch a site full of random videos captured on one of these and you'll surely be swimming in ad revenue -- and outrageous hosting fees.

[Thanks, Dirk]

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Digital foundry's HDScope is the capture device for gamers who serve gamers videos about gaming originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 sport new Xeon CPUs, Tesla C1060 GPU

Darren Murph — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:01:00 +0000

We have to say, we didn't exactly expect Lenovo to have any hard-hitting news emanating from the floor at Game Developer's Conference, but this is pretty swank. The company has just unveiled two new ThinkStation desktops, the S20 and D20, both of which are designed exclusively for specialized professionals in fields such as computer-aided design and digital content creation. Within, you'll find your choice of Intel's latest Nehalem-based Xeon chips (yep, the same 5500 and 3500 series as in Apple's newest Mac Pro), NVIDIA's Tesla C1060 GPU platform (or an ATI FirePro, if you prefer) and Windows Vista or RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 running the show. Hit up the gallery below for the specifications breakdown, and as for pricing, you'll find 'em in Q1 for $1,070 and $1,550, respectively. Full release is after the break.

Gallery: Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 sport new Xeon CPUs, Tesla C1060 GPU

Gallery: Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 specs

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Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 sport new Xeon CPUs, Tesla C1060 GPU originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BenQ’s nScreen i91 all-in-one PC gets the hands-on treatment

Darren Murph — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:34:00 +0000

BenQ's nScreen i91 came straight out of left field around a month ago, and while it definitely looked striking in the press photography, the live-in-person look is even nicer. Said machine has been unboxed and photographed somewhere in Asia, and it somehow managed to pick up a svelte looking VoIP phone along the way. Hit up the read link for a few more good looks, and if you're a native Chinese speaker, you may even learn some of the pros and cons of ownership.

[Via Engadget Chinese]

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BenQ's nScreen i91 all-in-one PC gets the hands-on treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Stealth’s latest fanless mini PC: the Core 2 Duo-powered LPC-625F

Darren Murph — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:53:00 +0000

Not that we're far removed from Stealth's last fanless mini PC, but hey, there's no harm in having options, right? The company's latest, dubbed the LPC-625F, is a 7.9- x 7.9- x 2.4-inch machine that somehow houses a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of RAM, your choice of 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, integrated Intel graphics, gigabit Ethernet and a surprisingly plentiful array of ports including HDMI, eight USB 2.0, RS-232 and DVI. The stock configuration sits at $1,595, but it doesn't take too many tweaks to cross the two large mark.

Gallery: Stealth's latest fanless mini PC: the Core 2 Duo-powered LPC-625F

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Stealth's latest fanless mini PC: the Core 2 Duo-powered LPC-625F originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cyberpower Gamer Dragon 9500 desktop gets reviewed

Donald Melanson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:16:00 +0000

It's not the first Dragon-based gaming rig out there but, according to ComputerShopper, Cyberpower's new Gamer Dragon 9500 may just be one of the best bargains around, with it even able to do double duty as a media PC if you're looking to keep your number of boxes to a minimum. That latter attribute comes larger from its addition of a Blu-ray drive, but the system expectedly really delivers the goods when it comes to gaming, with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics (with 2GB of DDR5 memory) helping to pump out some respectable frame rates at even ridiculous resolutions. The $1,499 base price will also get you a generous 1TB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and, of course, the 3.6GHz AMD Phenom II X4 940 processor at the heart of the rig. Hit up the link below for the full rundown, and a few benchmark numbers.

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Cyberpower Gamer Dragon 9500 desktop gets reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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