US computer giant HP (Hewlett-Packard) has agreed to buy Smartphone manufacturer Palm for $1bn. The deal is expected to be complete be July with HP stating that Palm’s webOS operating system would help the computer manufacturer expand into the highly lucrative Smartphone and mobile device market. Palm has struggled to compete with other Smartphone manufacturers [...]
PC Components Archive
12th July 2006
Shuttle XPC X100
Here at Techlounge we are big fans of the Shuttle systems and it is what we use in our offices. We were excited to hear that there will soon be a new Shuttle available called the XPC X100. This Shuttle XPC X100 sets new standards in the PC arena and is the smallest system that [...]
21st March 2006
ATI FireGL V7350, Graphics Accelerator with 1GB Memory
ATI Technologies have just released the PC industry’s very first workstation graphics accelerator card with 1GB of memory. The ATI FireGL V7350, has incorporated ATI’s Avivo display and video technology, giving better performance and image quality. The Avivo platform includes features like automatic gain control, gamma control and increased colour depth. Retailing for around £1,143 [...]
17th October 2005
Seagate 400GB External Hard Drive
400GB of portable storage is ideal for photos or music or even backing up your data. Firstly we would like to praise Seagate on the great back up software they have bundled in with this drive. It’s so easy to use and install. All you need to do is point it to the drive you [...]
17th October 2005
Logitech OEM Speaker S200
Cheap speakers you wouldn’t touch them right, especially when they’re under £15. We bought these speakers to prove that just because something’s cheap it doesn’t mean that performance or quality is affected. First of all these are Logitech speakers so there’s the stamp of quality. As soon as the box arrived with these speakers in [...]
3rd October 2005
Cooler Master Centurion
When you say budget cases you think of a cheap £20 case, that has flimsy side panels, and the metal inside is so sharp that you need to wear gloves just so you don’t cut your self. They also tend to have fans that are cheap and noisy and last all of 2 days. Here [...]
28th September 2005
GeForce 7800GTX Graphics Card
If you have around £600 burning a hole in your pocket and you want Battlefield 2 running like a dream, go SLi. We were so impressed with that one card, we could only imagine that we’d be in the battlefield if we had two of these beasts strapped together! So we stuck it in our [...]