As smartphones grow more and more powerful, they've come to resemble miniature computers more than the rotary phones of our past. In fact, smartphones and tablets are becoming so powerful...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:8 PC News

Nvidia Releases WHQL-Certified 295.73 GeForce Drivers

Good news if you're the proud owner of a Nvidia GeForce graphics card: after a flood of beta drivers, the first WHQL-certified drivers from the Release 295 family are ready...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:12 PC Gaming

Sapphire Unveils AMD E450-Powered Edge-HD3 Mini PC

Not too long ago, Sapphire rolled out the diminutive Edge-HD Mini PC, which was hailed as the teeny-tiniest PC in all the land. (The company also oddly claimed the PC's...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:10 PC News

It's Official: Barnes & Noble Rolls Out 8GB Nook Tablet for $199

Barnes & Noble on Tuesday officially introduced a previously rumored 8GB version of its low price Nook Tablet. By cutting internal storage in half from 16GB and reducing the amount...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:9 PC News

Origin PC's EON17-X3D is First 3D Laptop with Dual Graphics Cards

Three-dimensional laptop displays have been done before, and so have dual graphics cards configured in SLI. According to the boutique system builders at Origin PC, they've just never been done...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:9 PC News

Lenovo IdeaPad U300e Ultrabook Now Up for Pre-order

There seems to be something new on the ultrabook front almost everyday, with the ultrabook models that were announced at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show now hitting store shelves one...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:8 PC News

Analyst: Chip Sales Off to a Slow Start in 2012

A perfect storm of contributing factors led to disappointing chip sales in January, which fell 15 percent globally compared to the same period one year prior, according to Bruce Diesen,...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:9 PC News

Intel's Ultrabook initiative might have been met with early skepticism, some of which still remains, but by and large, the light and powerful form factor is proving popular. It's also...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:10 PC News

If you're currently imagining a dystopic future in which we all nervously salute guards clad in Combine outfits while texting on our Steam-powered phones and breathing the Steam-branded air, calm...

VETTAHEAD 21 Feb 2012 Hits:9 PC Gaming

Intel Mashes Wi-Fi And CPU Together, Working On Solar-Powered Chips

When it comes to mobile technology, the push to make things better, faster and smaller is non-stop and all consuming. The more functions you can cram onto a single chip,...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:15 PC News

Details of AMD's Mid-range 'Pitcairn' GPU Exposed to the Web

In the coming weeks, AMD will flesh out its Radeon HD 7000 lineup with its mid-range 7800 Series based on the Sunnyvale chip maker's Pitcairn GPU. Pitcairn slips neatly in...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:13 PC News

Researchers: 'Bleak Future' Awaits Flash-based Solid State Drives

The average selling price of mechanical hard drives has risen ever since severe floods in Thailand wreaked havoc on HDD manufacturing plants, and on the opposite end of the storage...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:13 PC News

Next Generation Chromebooks Will Run Faster, Be More Secure, Google Says

Google tried to change the way we think about computing when it launched its Chromebook platform. These devices are the result of a three-way between a laptop, netbook, and the...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:14 PC News

Barnes & Noble Reportedly Prepping 8GB Nook Tablet with Lower Price Tag

Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet costs $249 while Amazon's Kindle Fire sells for $199. There are other differences between these two competing 7-inch tablets, of course, but for many consumers,...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:12 PC News

Asus Warranty Doesn't Cover Damage Caused by 'Space Invasions'

A couple of years back, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking caused quite a stir around the globe when he advised mankind against contacting aliens, for it could lead to a highly...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:12 PC News

Samsung Series 9 Ultra-Thin and Light Notebook Now Available for Pre-Order

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show saw a deluge of ultrabooks. Samsung was one of the vendors that unveiled their ultrabook contenders at the event. But not only did it unveil...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:13 PC News

Demand for Linux Skills on the Rise, Along With Wages

Young enthusiasts who are looking for a future in IT might well decide to specialize on Microsoft, but before you do here is an interesting point to consider. Linux developers...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:14 PC News

Apple Grants ABC Reporters Full Access to Foxconn in China

Apple news rarely makes the headlines around here because, well, we love our PC’s. iOS devices on the other hand is a completely different story. Since the vast majority of...

VETTAHEAD 20 Feb 2012 Hits:12 PC News

Black Ops 2 Gives Treyarch the Chance to Own Call of Duty

Look up the word "workmanlike" in the dictionary and you might see a boxshot of Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War. The game earned good, if not astounding, ratings...

VETTAHEAD 19 Feb 2012 Hits:9 ps3

With 25GB of absolutely no strings attached free storage, SkyDrive has always been an amazing value. Of course that’s not to say its best in class, far from it actually...

VETTAHEAD 19 Feb 2012 Hits:12 PC News