Hardware

Review: Sony Tablet P

Sony's Tablet P offers something different in the tablet market, opting for a design with dual-screens that fold onto each other when closed.

By Ross Catanzariti | 30 March, 2012 12:00

Tags: Android tablets, sony, tablets

Toshiba Tablet (AT100) Android tablet

Is it just us or do most Android tablets currently on the market scream "me too"? Aside from a few small differences, most of these devices have the same sized screen with the same resolution, run virtually identical software, and have a very similar feature set and user experience.

By Ross Catanzariti | 06 July, 2011 13:37

Tags: Android tablets, tablets, toshiba, Toshiba Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet

Apple has blocked it from going on sale in Australia, and Samsung postponed the launch event, but we did some probing and were lucky enough to get our hands on the hotly-anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet before its official release in Australia.

By Ross Catanzariti | 12 August, 2011 14:33

Tags: Android tablets, Honeycomb, samsung, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, tablets, TouchWiz

LG Optimus 2X review

LG's Optimus 2X is one of the first dual-core Android smartphones to reach Australian shores. The handset is not being distrusted by a carrier; instead it will be distributed through Harvey Norman for $649.

By TechWorld staff | 04 May, 2011 12:01

Tags: Google Android, lg, mobile phones, smartphones

ViewSonic ViewPad 7 review

The ViewSonic ViewPad 7 is a 7in Android tablet. It runs version 2.2 (Froyo) of Google's Android platform. With an Australian recommended retail price of $699.00, it's not exactly cheap.

By TechWorld staff | 22 February, 2011 09:58

Tags: tablet PCs, tablets, viewsonic, ViewSonic ViewPad

The mythical Apple tablet: rounding up the rumors

As you probably already know by now, Apple is holding a product event in later this month. The big question on everyone's mind: Are tablets on the table?

By Alessondra Springmann | 21 January, 2010 07:40

Tags: Apple, Apple tablet

Hands on with the Dell Mini 3i smartphone

The first Dell Mini 3i smartphone to go on sale anywhere in the world will be available in China this December for 4800 Chinese yuan (US$704) without a mobile phone contract, China Mobile representatives said Thursday.

By Dan Nystedt | 20 November, 2009 08:05

Tags: Android, dell, Dell Mini 3i, smartphones

Review: Lenovo's A600 blurs the line between consumer, business PCs

Lenovo is not known for product aesthetics. Instead, the company has focused on straightforward designs that get the job done, for the most part leaving flash and style to competitors like Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. But with the A600, Lenovo is sauntering down the style runway with a new take on what a desktop PC should be.

By Frank J. Ohlhorst | 08 July, 2009 09:11

Tags: Lenovo

OLED screens, Blu-ray players and brain control

January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a great place to see new gadgets but they're not always available right away. A couple of the coolest gadgets from this year's CES, Sony's OLED-based Walkman and Samsung's slim Blu-ray Disk player, are now on their way with availability from April.

By Martyn Williams | 15 April, 2009 09:47

Tags: bionics, blu-ray, oled

Antec's Skeleton PC case

If you've ever been in the middle of a system build or component installation and thought to yourself, "I wish I could reach through the case but there's a panel in the way," then Antec may have a solution for you with its new -- and very unconventional -- Skeleton enclosure.

Review: Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager

On Tuesday, Microsoft released to manufacturing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The final code will be shipped on November 1. The company bills the software as one-stop organization, allowing administrators to set up and deploy new virtual machines and manage hosts and other virtual infrastructure elements from one console.

By Jonathan Hassell | 24 October, 2008 08:50

Tags: powershell, virtualisation

Three cheap business laptops

The stock market's a mess, your company's balance sheet looks like a sea of red ink and your budget for outfitting 50 employees with new notebooks has been slashed to the bone. What's a poor buyer to do?

By Brian Nadel | 23 October, 2008 10:05

Tags: laptops

Apple's MacBook -- The case of the new machine

Whenever Apple releases newly designed products -- meaning hardware offering more than just a speed bump -- the greater question is, "What does it mean?" That is, are the new features mere anomalies, or are they something truly new that will set the shape, material and design of the future?

By Dan Turner | 17 October, 2008 09:40

Tags: macbook

HP c3000 BladeSystem enclosure

There has been a dearth of conveniently packaged servers for the midsize market. HP decided to try to change that with the introduction of the HP BladeSystem c3000. I recently tested a well-equipped unit, and overall, my impressions are positive.

By Jonathan Hassell | 08 September, 2008 09:01

Tags: HP c-class BladeSystem c3000

Three power plug meters help you save money and energy

With the ever-rising cost of electricity, we're all getting increasingly sensitive about how much power our computers, televisions, appliances and other doohickeys are using -- not just when we're using them, but also when they're allegedly turned off.

Dive deep with 3 underwater cameras

While your current digital camera may be OK for ordinary photos and videos, do you have an underwater camcorder to capture your kids swimming with dolphins or to take snapshots of those beautiful coral reefs that you're snorkeling through?

The Asus Eee 1000 -- more power, still portable

It often takes high-tech vendors three tries to get a product right. Microsoft is the best example of this rule of three. (Think of how buggy and insecure Windows XP was until 1Service Pack 2 came out. Upstart mini-laptop maker Asustek Computer, it turns out, is another.

Apple's newest iMac packs a wallop

When Apple recently sent along one of its new iMacs -- a sweet 24-inch model with a 2.8GHz Penryn processor -- I agreed to take it home and give it a dose of family testing at the Finnie household. And with three kids aged 3, 6, and 16, that's saying something.

Sun's X4150 shows the beef

Sun has developed a 1U chassis design that can handle an impressive number of drives, yet also provide for a standard two-socket Intel-based mainboard and the company's signature four gigabit Ethernet interfaces, not to mention a relatively advanced Lights-Out Management coprocessor. The Intel-based Sun Fire X4150, AMD-based X4140, and SPARC-based T5120 and T5140 servers all look identical to the casual observer, but each offers a different take on the purpose of the ubiquitous 1U server.

Review: Satellite Pro notebook protects itself with faces instead of fingerprints

It's not just fingerprints -- the shape, contours and lines of your face are also as unique as you are. Toshiba's Face Recognition software (which is available as a standard feature on the Satellite Pro U400, M300, A300 and P300 models) attempts to replace tedious passwords and uncertain finger swipes with identification gleaned from images of you smiling at your computer's webcam.