The iMac has been clearly ruling the desktop category and its time for some competition. Dell and Gateway has entered this category with models of their own. It’s about time PC manufacturers catering to Windows customers get a piece of iMac glory. Introducing the Dell XPS One and Gateway One. Both of them feature great styling and also comes fully loaded.
The Dell XPS One displayed on the left boasts a 22-inch WSXGA screen with a max resolution of 1680 x 1050, flanked with stereo speakers and media buttons on its side. It comes with a range of Intel processors to choose from (one in the pictures from FCC is powered by a Intel 2.6 GHZ Core 2 Duo), 4GB of RAM, WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n ), Bluetooth and the usual set of connectors including S/PDIF and an optional TV tuner. Also watch Blu-Ray movies on its LCD screen powered by ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics or an Intel and packs up to 300GB of space. Input devices include a wireless mouse and keyboard, memory card reader and a webcam for video chat.
The Gateway One boasts a 19 inch screen at a resolution of 1440×990 cased in a sleek style with a piano black finish. Read the rest of this entry »
“ Which version of Vista do I go for? I use the PC only for the net and send/receive files over the home network. Meanwhile do you think this Vista Ultimate is the Ultimate version you can get your hands on? ”
Vista Basic, the name is self explanatory by itself. You probably will be pretty better off with Windows XP, a good anti virus program and a firewall. There is not much on the user interface point of view as well; you can get more using the Vista Transformation Pack on Windows XP.
To enjoy the true potential of Vista, it would be a better idea to go for the Vista Home Premium edition which would include the Aero desktop (glass and some 3D eyecandy), better multimedia features with media center and networking capabilities. The biggest bummer would be Read the rest of this entry »
Just when i thought Vista runs near to perfect with 2Gigs of memory under the hood, news comes in that there could be performance degradation when using the network interface and playing music at the same time. After a series of tests we have observed that the network throughput reduces by around 10% when the sound card is doing its business. Read the rest of this entry »
The VAIO® LT is Sony’s rival for the Apple’s iMac. It’s got all the bells and whistles of an iMac, bu runs on Windows, plus now, its offering more. It’s got a PC/TV combined and now loaded with a Blu-Ray drive. Of course Apple promises to equip its iMacs with the Blu-Ray eventually but Sony seems to have beat them to it. Meanwhile lets see what Sony has got to offer with the Vaio LT. Read the rest of this entry »
With major hardware vendors shipping systems preinstalled with Ubuntu, and the extremely hassle free Ubuntu installer, more users have, if not started mainstream usage, atleast experimenting with this flavor of Linux. Here are some open source (read: free) stuff that will get you started with Ubuntu 7.04.
1. Amarok Amarokis a unix/linux music player with a nice interface, playlist manager, 10 band equalizer and also automatically fetches your album cover art.
sudo apt-get install amarok
2. VLC
With your music needs sorted out with the above, now to your videos. You needn’t look any further than VLC, by far the best cross platform media player. You could also install the VLC plugins and use it as a streaming server.
The last month was a period of experiments with my computer, starting with the fact that I was running on a ‘going to break’ HDD and the DST short test was failing repeatedly. So before anything, I backed up all my data (which also includes my windows partition) after running openSUSE in recovery mode; and trust me it was quite a breeze, reinforcing my crush on Linux. Later that day I called DELL support and they promptly shipped me a replacement hard drive one working day later, but the OEM OS that id also asked them to ship was going to take a few days longer as the package which includes WinXP, device drivers, sonic, win backup and a few others were flying in from Netherlands. Nevertheless I was happy with their prompt and ‘no questions asked’ service, afterall I guess ive already paid them quite a sum when I took the 3 yr complete care support for my inspiron 6400. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night Steve Jobs unveiled the all new iMac. If you were amazed with the wide 24″ iMacs that came some time back, you’re in for a treat with the new iMac.
Logitech recently announced its Wave keyboard with contoured wave shaped key design. This would already have got you thinking, “hey, that’s the same old Micorsoft’s keyboard thingy”, but no, this better brother does not mandate you to position your hands in weird angles, but instead has subtle changes that indeed make typing more comfortable. And apart from the extremely functional easy access keys, it comes with a nice cushioned, contoured palm rest setting it a class apart from the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
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