Computers

HP announces Z1 G3 workstation, HP RGS remote session software for Mac

Announced this week, HP Inc. has released a new version of its HP Z1 Workstation system, a series of computers marketed as the “world’s…

Remix Mini Android-based PC launches in South Africa

The Remix Mini, a micro-computer built by Jide Technology and running Remix OS, is now available in South Africa. Launching today (7 March), the…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 coming in August: here’s what you should know

Nvidia’s 2015 graphics card onslaught is not done by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, it seems that the company is just about…

No fruit allowed: 8 powerful and versatile alternatives to the MacBook

Apple MacBooks are great machines. Arguably, they are singlehandedly reviving the laptop genre after the early decade’s tablet onslaught. They’re light, built with usability…

New Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake benchmarks appear, Haswell not dead yet

The PC gaming fraternity has been waiting quite a while for Intel‘s next processing chapter, and finally the world can get a glimpse of…

IBM-led consortium develops 7nm chip ahead of its time

In the intricate world of silicon, smaller is always better. That’s probably why an IBM-led consortium is making a big fuss about it’s latest…

Computex 2015 roundup: 7 products that left us very impressed

The annual Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan is one of the most impressive computer and technology expos in the world, and the 2015…

9 reasons why the new Retina display MacBook Pro sucks

Apple’s new MacBook Pro: a shining light in the murky world of high-end laptops or a US$2200 pile of unrepairable tosh? The Gear goes…

Presenting the new, beautiful Retina Display Macbook Pro

It started at 4pm CAT. The Apple store went down as it’s wont to do, only to be replaced with “we’ll be back.” But…

Toshiba enters the ultra-wide ultrabook era

Look at this picture. Stare deeply into it’s cavernous void. Notice something amiss? It’s a 21:9 aspect ration screen. Holy hell. For the uninitiated…

Acer Aspire S7 — a glassy, touchscreen, unibody ultrabook

The Acer Aspire S7 has been outed at Computex 2012 and it’s a stunner. There are two S7s, both touchscreen and raring to go…

The Apple-ish Google Chromebox

It’s quite uncanny how Applish the Google store is. The minimalism, the names of the products and, well, its ideas. That said, the new…

Chromebook’s back — welcome the Series 5

Like the headline says, Chromebook is back in action. Mighty Google, together with Samsung, has unleashed the Series 5 Chromebook on the world. There’s…

Dell’s XPS 27 — an iMac clone minus Apple’s shine

When we think of Dell, thoughts instantly cross over to “plain, boring, vanilla, office PCs” and so on. “Let’s make iMac’s instead of Dells”…

Worldwide PC shipments are slowing, still managed 1.9% growth in Q1

There’s life in the PC market yet, or is there? Research company Gartner says 89 million PCs were sold in the first quarter of…

Reminder: Windows 8 Consumer Preview dropping later today

We are mere hours away from getting a look at Microsoft’s Windows 8 “Consumer Preview” (or beta if you prefer). The wizards from Redmond…

Lulz hackers: self-confessed malicious vandals

Computer hackers who have hit the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony and others during a month-long rampage said Friday that they were…

Kinect SDK unleashed so users can gesture at PCs

Microsoft began letting software developers imbue computers with voice and motion-sensing technology from its Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 videogame console. A free…

A notebook as black as Vader’s heart

It would be easy to damn the Toshiba Satellite Pro L650 with faint praise. It’s alright. It’s a midmarket fairly powerful notebook with a…

Hackers aim ruse at Apple computer users

Hackers are out to trick Apple computer users into infecting Macintosh machines with malicious code pretending to be legitimate security software. Apple on Wednesday…

The quest for the perfect portable computer

An ideal product doesn’t exist in the device world. But in order to get close to “ideal”, the product would have to be able…

Vodacom to release ultra-cheap web-focused netbook

Vodacom, the South African subsidiary of worldwide mobile giant Vodafone, has been working on and is close to releasing a new, ultra-cheap internet-focused netbook…

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