Archive for September, 2011

ZTE Smart Tab10

ZTE, a Chinese tablet and smartphone manufacture is all set to make its debut in US with its two tablets, Smart Tab7 and the new Smart Tab10. The Smart Tab 10 features Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2GHz dual core processor and runs Android 3.2 operating system.

Asus Eee PC Ubuntu Linux Overclocking, Underclocking

Jupiter is an amazing utility that is extremely useful for changing the clock speeds of your Asus Eee PC netbook’s CPU so that you are able to squeeze better battery runtimes out of it. While it used to work like a charm on the earlier versions of Ubuntu Linux, it does not works out of [...]

Toshiba Mini MB505

Toshiba has rolled out a new netbook called Mini MB505 which will possibly use the new Cedar Trail processors (Atom N2600, N2800). However, the highlighted feature is the easy grip finish that will be loved by people who have slippery hands. Hard specifications are not available yet but Toshiba has made it clear that they [...]

ZTE T98

ZTE, popular computer hardware manufacture has launched a new 7 inch Android tablet – T98. The T98 is powered by the new Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset that has five cores and runs the latest Android 3.2 operating system.

Acer 522 with AMD C60

Looks like Acer is updating all of its AMD powered netbooks with the new AMD C60 processor. Earlier, we saw Acer silently updating the AO 722 with C60 and now, the same upgrade has been given to the AO 522 (c6dkk model). Compared to the earlier chip, AMD C50, the new C60 comes with Turbo [...]

Asus TF201

We have just come to know the Transformer 2 will be called Asus Pad Transformer TF201. The TF201 will use the 5 core Kal-El, which is most likely Nvidia Tegra 3. While there might some other minor cosmetic improvements over the TF101, the major jump will be there in the performance department as Tegra 3 [...]

Windows 8 Metro UI not working

Windows 8 features a brand new UI called Metro UI which is geared for tablets use. That said, you need not have a touchscreen on your notebook just to use it. All you need is a notebook with more than 1024 x 768 pixels to get it automatically activated. It does not works with most [...]

Acer 722 with AMD C60

Acer has been spotted selling AO 722 netbook with the new AMD C60 processor. This new APU from AMD features turbo core and a slightly more powerful GPU that should deliver a noticeable bump in performance when doing processor and GPU intensive tasks. The Acer Aspire 722 with AMD C60 comes with 500GB of hard [...]

Asus X101 and Windows 7

Back when we reviewed Asus Eee PC X101H, we complained how immature MeeGo operating system really is. Installing Windows 7 on X101h is simple and painful as there the innards are similar to other netbooks. However, the major bottleneck in case of X101 is its small SSD which has mere 8GB storage. related queries: asus [...]

Windows 8 Pre Beta on a Macbook Pro, Air

Being a Macbook Pro user, I was tempted to try out the just released Windows 8 Pre Beta on my Macbook Pro and I can confirm that it does work, after you follow the steps given below. Before installing it via Boot Camp, get hold of the latest Bootcamp drivers from Apple’s website. related queries: [...]