Computers

Computers

Camangi WebStation: 7 Inches Of Android Tablet

7:00AM Mark Wilson | The Camangi WebStation has been floating around for a few months now in little more than proof-of-concept form. Now, it’s on the cusp of being a real product, releasing in the US next month for $US400. More »
Computers

Asus Eee PC T91MT Appeases The Multitouch Faithful

10:00AM Nick Broughall | The original T91 from Asus wasn’t quite the touchscreen netbook we’d been hoping for thanks to the average tablet XP software and lack of multitouch. But Asus is never a company to sit on their hands, so they’ve updated the T91 to the T91MT, which adds Windows 7 and multitouch. More »
Computers

Dell Studio 17 Touch: Dell’s First Touchscreen Laptop From $US800

7:19AM Mark Wilson | While Dell has made tablets for years, their quietly announced Studio 17 Touch is their first touchscreen laptop, and it’s one big machine. More »
Computers

Asus Eee PC 1201N: A Great Deal, But Have We Been Had?

2:33AM Mark Wilson | On one hand, the Asus Eee 1201N, the first Ion-packing Eee, will arrive in December for $US500. That includes Win 7, a dual core Atom processor, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD and 12-inch (1366×768) display. But on the other… More »
Computers

Rumour: Apple Tablet Delayed For OLED Upgrade

10:17PM Danny Allen | That crazy DigiTimes — purveyors of always-failed-Apple rumours — now says that its manufacturer “sources” believe that there will be two Apple tablet models: a 9.7-incher with OLED screen made by LG, and the 10.6-inch version everyone has heard about. More »
Computers

Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks

12:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Lenovo’s new X100E ultrathin laptop just leaked out, and it’s looking pretty sweet: 11.6-inch screen, redesigned chiclet keyboard, a supposed starting price of less than $US500 and colours. Colours, you guys. On a ThinkPad. More »
Computers

Benchmarked: The QuadCore i7 iMac Is Super Fast

6:00AM Brian Lam and Don Nguyen | Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core2Duo chip inside, but we received the top of the line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2-3 times. More »
Science

Scientists Make First Programmable Quantum Processor

3:44AM Sean Fallon | In the future, quantum computers will accomplish in seconds what would take years with our best computers today. Physicists at NIST have made a significant leap towards this goal by demonstrating the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor. More »
Computers

Microsoft’s Bag-Based Computer Interface, For Poking

1:53AM John Herrman | Bag-based? Sack-based? Balloon-based? Balloon-boy-based? There’s no shortage of ways to describe Microsoft Research’s new tactile interface concept, which lets people interact with prods, pokes, massages and squeezes instead of clicks or taps. More »
Computers

The Asus G51J 3D Laptop Is ‘3D Done Right’

1:42AM Mark Wilson | We reviewed Acer’s 3D laptop not so long ago. We found it fun, but reeking of gen 1 quirks. Now Laptop Mag has played with a new 3D laptop by Asus and found it to be pretty fantastic. More »