Bidding war between Dell and HP
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 25. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
Dell is in a constant bidding war with Hewlett Packard over 3Par Inc which is a data storage company.
An offer by Dell of $1.13 billion has been upped by HP to $1.5 billion. Dell are determined to win the bidding war, so they may have to increase their bid even further.
Both companies are [...]
Exciting times ahead
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 16. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
Technology is evolving at a faster pace than ever before. Whereas, just a few years ago, we’d be lucky to have two ground breaking inventions released in one year, now there seem to be a couple a month.
With the iPad dominating the wish lists of most gadget enthusiasts and the new iPod generation as [...]
Channel 4 plans to work with Sony
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 06. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
According to reports, Channel 4 is planning to launch 4OD for the Play Station 3. The plans are only at discussion stage, but if they go ahead, this change will make it even quicker and easier for a lot of people to access television programmes that they may have missed.
If the deal happens between [...]
iPad starts to look less like a Giant IPhone
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 29. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
We still know reliably little about the iPad.. There have been a couple of screenshots of the app store, showing detailed categories, a propper interface and an emphasis on uploading and synching data with desktop versions of Apps on your local desktop or uploading data to webspace.
One of the things that would still really bug [...]
Alienware Area 51 Core i7-980x
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 24. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
I’m not a massive fan of Alienware.. I think their cases look needlessly hideous. But you can’t really fault their impeccable build quality.
The liquid cooling inside this machine is pretty amazing, you get all the usual flashy lights and horrible Alienware case shinanigans going on, but the really nice part is the Hard Drive bays [...]
EVGA’s W555 Motherboard holds up to 7 GPU’s
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 23. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
This beast even puts my i7 to shame.. Technically capable of holding up to 7 graphics cards in SLI (or rapidfire), up to 12 DDR3 Dimm memory sticks.
Taking the word “overkill” to extremes, you will need to know how to hack video card drivers to pieces to cram all that GPU power to one display [...]
