IDF: From The Show Floor
News The morning kicks off with a bullish keynote in which Intel's SVP of Ultra Mobility, Anand Chandrasekher. Day 2 in the Intel house, and we're onto the mobility keynotes. IDF - Day 2 - Gloves are Off Day 2 marks a change in direction for the '07 IDF.
[September 20, 2007, 18:00]
Ultra Mobile PCs Need Better Battery Life, Says Gartner
News Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) face the same problem as previous tablet PCs in that their battery life is not long enough at the moment for prolonged use, according to analyst house Gartner Group. The Ultra Mobile PC needs to have better battery life to...
[March 10, 2006, 15:55]
Samsung Q1: A First Look review
Reviews Samsung Q1: a first-generation Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC). The Origami codename became the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) platform; three manufacturers -- Samsung, Asus and Founder (a Chinese company) -- broke cover with UMPC hardware; and battery life was...
[March 9, 2006, 17:35]
Asus S1N review
Reviews The hard disk is a 40GB Ultra-ATA 100 unit with a rotational speed of 4,200rpm, which is pretty standard for this class of notebook. According to BatteryMark 4.01, you'll only get 2 hours and 15 minutes out of this machine in desktop mode -- hardly...
[July 29, 2003, 7:59]
Compaq Deskpro Workstation 300 review
Reviews The Workstation 300 comes with either an Ultra-ATA/100 or a SCSI hard disk. The unit we reviewed was fitted with an 18.4GB, 10,000rpm, Quantum Atlas 10K II Ultra 160 SCSI hard drive, which occupied one of the two 3.5in drive bays.
[November 19, 2000, 23:00]
Nuggets: Nikon CoolPix 990 Is A Top-class Challenger
News Nikon's 990 at a glance: megapixel CCD for ultra high definition 2,048 x 1536 pixel images Once you've worked out how the darned thing works, it takes great pictures which is what you want at the end of the day.right?
[December 22, 2000, 8:03]
Dell Latitude X1 review
Reviews The rest of the components are among the smallest and the most battery-friendly available: a 1.1GHz ultra-low-voltage Pentium M 733 processor; a 60GB hard drive running at a slow 4,200rpm; and 512MB of 400MHz DDR memory.
[May 13, 2005, 16:05]
Google Desktop 2 review
Reviews If you're ultra-conscientious about privacy, scrutinise the Preferences page via the Sidebar's top drop-down menu, which lets you choose what to hide or reveal to Google. Google says that Desktop 2 will reflect your surfing patterns within a day.
[November 7, 2005, 9:40]
Photos: Around CeBIT (part 2)
News Microsoft's small and unobtrusive Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) stand nevertheless does brisk business following the 'Origami' launch on the first day of CeBIT. If you've got a living room big enough to house Panasonic's 103-inch HD plasma screen, you'll...
[March 13, 2006, 8:30]
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection Beta review
Reviews Premiere and After Effects edit video — and unlike the previous version, this iteration of Premiere now runs on the Mac — while Ultra assists with chromakeying and Soundbooth edits audio. Ultra CS3 n/a ends
[March 27, 2007, 12:05]
Samsung X20 HVM 740 review
Reviews The hard drive is a 60GB Ultra-ATA/100 unit with a spin speed of 5,400rpm, while the optical drive is a TEAC DV-W28E multi-format DVD burner with 8X DVD writing and 4X rewriting speed. Battery life is adequate rather than spectacular, coming in at...
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
Apple Steps Up To G4 Macs
News They will include 1MB of Level-2 cache, three times the memory bandwidth and twice the PCI bus throughput of previous models, an AGP 2x bus, Ultra ATA hard drives and built-in FireWire. Moreover, the company ended last quarter with less than one...
[September 1, 1999, 8:44]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's established an R&D division outside the US to make exportable versions of its very popular American software -- as one must, these days -- and everyone will be bashing down the doors to get some of this very trustworthy, high performance...
[June 5, 2000, 8:01]
Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog This would allow us to double the electrical charge stored on todays ultra capacitors. Anyway, my point is this: one day I do really belive that you could have a load of very mineral rich soil and then send in preprogramed nano bots and watch...
[September 29, 2008, 9:25]
Intel Developer Forum - Going Mobile
Blog The keynote starts promisingly, with Dadi wandering past a line of vintage portable computers, starting with an Osborne Executive from 1981 - possibly the only computer on stage at an IDF without Intel Inside -- and finishing with the latest...
[September 20, 2007, 15:49]
Photos: CeBIT Day One review
Reviews Another Ultra Mobile PC Springtime for CeBIT CeBIT 2007 is kicking off in unprecedentedly clement weather for Hanover in mid-March — sunshine, gentle zephyrs, blossom on the trees. It's enough to put a spring in the collective step of the tech...
[March 14, 2007, 14:45]
Win A UBiQUiO 501 Pocket PC Phone review
Reviews An ultra-slim Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC phone with a QWERTY keyboard, the UBiQUiO 501 is the ideal device to keep you in touch with the office. Composing emails, texting, writing notes and documents, or performing spreadsheet calculations is...
[December 18, 2006, 7:06]
