Recalls. Don’t ya love ‘em? Today’s featured recall is rather large, affecting up to 500,000 Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold since January 2010. Apparently a “thermal defect” is preventing the laptops in question from being unable to properly cool themselves, resulting in warped laptops and burned appendages. According to Sony, downloading a simple patch can make random melting issues cease to exist. Or, you can have Sony come pick...
A bit skeptical? So am I. I know tuned drivers can make a pretty big difference in certain situations, but there’s only so much a software developer can eek out of a mid-grade graphics card. But aften looking over a few comments by a claimed Valve employee, things could be at least getting a minor boost in the near term. Specifically: Performance is going to improve as drivers are updated,” rbarris writes. “I would expect modest improvements in short...
Generally speaking, gaming laptops tend to be overhyped in my opinion. I mean, ya, if I’m on the go, a gaming laptop would help that gaming itch. But at what cost? Even some of the top of the line, $3,000+ gaming laptops have issues running modern games even at low to medium settings. That’s not how I want to game… Enter the MSI GT660. Featuring Core i7 processors, support for up to 12GB of RAM, an Nvidia GT285m, 500GB hard drive, and slew of USB 3.0...
What could it be…a trackpad? A giant trackpad? With all the momentum behind gesture-based computing and Apple’s reliance on such technology, it only seems right that they’d super size said technology for desktop use. The trackpad you see here is supposedly a new Apple product that’s set to be unveiled later today at WWDC 2010. One thing’s for sure, whether it’s real or not, today is going to be a jam packed day. Looks like...
I’ve never been a fan of netbooks. I find them underpowered useless pieces of junk. Likewise, “special edition” gadgets branded with some expensive logo also irk me. Usually it’s because those big name logos often forget to include any real hardware muscle. One such laptop/netbook that was affected by this was the Lamborghini-branded line of devices. The new Asus VX6 is still a “Lambo” netbook, but has a bit more power under the hood...
