Precision Laptops to get Core i5 and USB 3.0

by skin on February 8, 2010

Dell’s Precision M6500 are a bout to get an upgrade to Intel’s new chipset, USB 3.0 and a handful of other goodies making it the first of Dell’s lappies to get the new USB port.

The model is already available with the new Quad- CPU(the “Value Package” as it’s known) but has a rather high price tag($2750) so by giving the option of the dual- it gives customers with a little less cash in the pocket more options to get a very good laptop at a lower price.

Other options supposedly listed for the M6500 include a 3.2MP webcam and the option of a 64GB SSD mini card. Put these in with the current options of 17” RGB LED Display,1GB FirePro M7740 graphics, standard 160GB HDD and up to 2GB DDR3 RAM, you’re getting some serious bang for your buck or pound!

The M6500 currently retails at the “Value” price of $2750 an “Advanced Package” starting at $2869 and the “Covet” starting at a whopping $4219 you can see why need to drop the price and we’re still waiting to see by how much the i5 CPU’s will drop it to.

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Latitude 13 Slim Laptop from Dell

by skin on February 8, 2010

Usually business-orientated tend not to please in the aesthetics department but one of Dell’s latest to hit the market will be appealing to the eye as well as built for rigours of today’s modern business user.

A few days ago Dell unveiled its new Latitude 13, similar in style to last years 13 but obviously improves on that model. “the world’s thinnest 13” commercial laptop” says and will measure a mere 0.65” thick.

No real hard evidence of what powers it though but expect in the ranges of 1.2GHz Celeron, a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo or 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo and probably with a X4500MHD integrated GPU to power the 13.3” screen. What we do know is it will sport eSATA, USB, SD and Expresscard slots and the usual Ethernet connectivity. Keep your eyes peeled on ’s website for more information in the next few weeks. We believe prices will start at around $500 for the US (£330 in the UK but as we usually pay more for this kind of thing around £400)

Latitude 13 Notebook

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“Thuban” & “Gulftown”, AMD & Intel 6 Cores

February 1, 2010

Quad core has been the front of CPU’s for a while now so it seems only logical that the next step was on the horizon. According to Digitimes friends in Taiwan have said that the CPU manufacturing giants will be releasing them later this year.
Intel’s Gulftown chipset should be with us first around the end [...]

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CES : Eyefinity and Eyefinity6

January 11, 2010

We touched on this before when it was in secret development stage but if you missed that Eyefinity is the name of a development from AMD which allows up to 6 monitors to be run off just one 5000 series ATI Radeon graphics card.
Shown at the current CES convention, Eyefinity allows three supported monitors to [...]

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Dell XPS 8100 Desktop

January 11, 2010

Dell in the US has just announced a new mass-market desktop PC to add to its XPS range. Like most it can be changed to suit your needs with prices starting at $649(will have to wait and see for exact UK pricing)
Specs : -

Intel Core i5 or i7 processor
Choose from ATI 4350 or Radeon [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

January 10, 2010

MSI Big Bang-FUZION Lucid Hydra turns out to be a massive failure. Shame http://bit.ly/7cvPGW #

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Dell Mini 10 – News from CES

January 7, 2010

With the CES convention currently ongoing there’s plenty of news coming out in the tech world. Dell are talking of releasing a beefed up version of its very popular Mini 10 Netbook.
With the same 10.1” screen, Atom processor powered, and 1GB RAM the newer version will be HD and have a TV Tuner. You’ll be [...]

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Alienware M11X

January 7, 2010

“The most powerful gaming laptop for its size” says Dell of the new Alienware M11X gaming laptop. At a mere 11.6 inches, this tiny baby packs some real power and some nifty specifications.
Firstly its obviously packed with all the top end stuff you only get with Alienware, but if you’re just surfing or doing a [...]

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OCZ Vertex 2 and ultraslim USB 3.0

January 6, 2010

OCZ is getting ready to show 2 very impressive products at CES this year.
First up is the hotly anticipated Vertex 2 line of MLC-based internal SSDs which utilise SATA 3.0 allowing it to write at up to 480MB/s and read around 550MB/s, depending on the size of the files.
Next up is a ultrathin USB [...]

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Nvidia to delay Fermi until March 2010

December 29, 2009

Nvidia’s next DirectX11 graphics base Fermi, which we discussed a couple of months back, was being delayed until January. Now it seems we’ll have to wait longer.
The Fermi GPU has hit a couple more problems and the release has been said(Digitimes Report) to have been put back till March 2010 after it was scheduled [...]

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