Computers

Are you sick of always having to plug-in and un-plug all your USB devices, monitor, and speakers every time you take your laptop somewhere? Now with Kensington’s Wireless USB Docking Station you wont have to. The Docking Station features; Five USB ports, Audio out, and DVI! All of this is connected via Wireless USB, as long as you are within the 15 foot range. Wireless USB adapters now readily available so expect to see more devices like this pop up.

The Pandora (not to be confused with Pandora) is a handheld that is following along the path of the GP2x, open source and runs Linux.  It was designed as an ultraportable open source computer with gaming controls.  Apparently they were attempting “to make to make the ultimate open source handheld device.”  And it seems they have, but we’ll see…

We have been reporting on SSDs for a while now. Its about time we get to let loose some good news for us consumers. OCZ has announced its new line of 2.5in Solid State Hard Drives which are the most affordable yet. They come in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB and retail for $169, $259 and $479 respectively. We can now get ten times the speed of traditional hard drives with a fraction of the power consumption.

On January 3, 2006 Phantom Entertainment (The people who were going to make the Phantom Game Console) announced the Phantom Lapboard ($130), which was originally meant to be a component of the Phantom Game Console. Phantom decided to scrap the game console but still offer the Lapboard component as an accessory for PC games. The Lapboard is designed to be held in the user’s lap instead of on a desk, and is a must have for PC gamers who want to take their games to the big screen. Read the rest of this entry.

The Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD packs a 30″ primary screen in the center of four 20.1″ perimeter screens. The center workspace has a resolution of 2560×1600 while the outer screens support 1200×1600. All combined make 73.2″ of multi-monitor goodness. If you are anything like this guy I’m sure you wouldn’t mind dropping the $4,799.

The new $500 MyMiniPC from Everex is powerful miniPC featuring a 1.86GHz Pentium T2130, 512MB RAM, 120GB drive, DVD±RW, firewire, four USB 2.0 ports, DVI, S-Video out. Gigabit Ethernet, media reader, and standard audio ins/outs The MyMiniPC is set to use a “space” version of the gOS operating system and it looks as if could be used as a simple yet highly useful HTPC.

Now it seems Asus will release their 8.9in version of the Eee laptop a month earlier than originally planned. The larger Eee is now set to be released in May instead of June. Unfortunately the slight change in releasing the notebook early will mean that Intel’s new Atom processor originally slated for the 8.9in Eee will not be used. However all other specs remain the same with both XP and linux version available, as well as various sizes of SSD’s up to 12gb. The price for the new 8.9in Eee is expected to start at $499

Yuno is a pc concept from designer Jason Farsai. It is small computer fitted inside a coffee cup wrapped with a touchscreen. The device is intended to give you all your necessary morning alerts such as Traffic, Weather, Stocks, Email,  and more. It is a neat concept and hopefully it will see production some day. Read the rest of this entry.

Well all know that Everex struggled to release the Cloudbook on time but now we have something new from Everex, the mini gOS Linux PC. The new Everex mini featues a small form factor with a 1.86GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Mobile Processor, 120GB Hard Disk Drive, 512MB DDR2 SDRAM, DVD+/-RW, Intel GMA950 and Realtek ALC268 Audio. In addition the Everex mini is loaded up with Everex gOS linux operating system and will retail for a price of $399

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As promised before, Dell has introduced their latest top of the line desktop. The Dell XPS 630 features support for Intel’s Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Extreme processors. It is also backed with a nForce 650i SLI chipset, making it ATI CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI-ready. Options include; 4GB of DDR2 RAM, 1TB of hard drive space, Blu-ray drive, and AGEIA PhysX accelerator. Get one right now starting at $1,249. You can also save 20% on all XPS 630 desktop purchases over $1699 (before tax, fees, shipping & handling). Coupon Code: 8$2$N24WDSFH1K Read the rest of this entry.

The Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display is an array of mounts that fit any size computer monitor. The rig supports 2 - 8 monitors in total. We don’t know the price yet but it should be pretty pricey, specially if you fix it up with a series of Dell E248WFP 24in LCDs. [via]

Today Nvidia released their newest budget oriented video card. The 9600GT features Nvidia’s newest core, the G94 which provides a 650mhz core clock and best of all a sub-$200 price tag. The new card performances seems to be on par with the 8800GT but should retail for a good deal less. For more information PC Perspective has a review of the 9600GT and the new G94 architecture. Specs After The Jump -