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Asus all-in-one PC: touch-screen, pre-order, England-only

Touch me: Asus Eee all-in-one PC features 15.6-inch touch-screen display.(Credit: Play.com)

Touch-screens are coming to Eee PC netbooks next year, but you only need to wait until next month whether you require a touch-screen on an Asus all-in-one PC…

eMachines intros new slim tower PC

The eMachines EL1200 pursues the path of HP’s Pavilion SlimLine and Dell’s Inspiron 530s desktops. These are not quite Shuttle-style small design factor desktops, but generally the trim profile gives you a bit more upgrade flexibility that the even s…

Breathe easy with Antec’s open-air PC case

Antec's Skeleton open-air PC case lets the sun shine in.(Credit: Antec )

I’ve always maintained that PC case mods are strictly a geek guy thing. Case in point, so to speak: can you see a tech chick digging that Toilet PC with (faux?) um, stuff, …

Core i7 motherboard sticker threatens overclockers

A RAM slot sticker threatens permanent CPU damage.(Credit: XFastest.com)

Both the Inquirer and CustomPC have confirmed with Asus that Intel has recommended motherboard vendors warn society off from overclocking the memory on motherboards using Intel…

Review: Shuttle Linux PC prices itself out

Shuttle’s KPC K-4800.(Credit: CNET)
We covered Shuttle’s bargain-basement KPC K-4500 a few months back and were quite happy with it. We can’t say the same about the beefier model, the KPC K-4800. Beefy is extremely relative here, as we’re still talki…

LaCie 2big Dual: Big and heavy are in style

I got my hands on LaCie’s new external hard drive, the 2big Dual, and it’s not just big, but heavy too.

The 2big Dual features a tool-less hard-drive bay for easy access and maintenance.(Credit: LaCie)

In fact, it’s arguably the heaviest two-bay ex…

D-Link networks routers’ USB ports

I reviewed D-Link’s DIR-855 wireless router recently, and complained that it didn’t offer NAS or print-serving capability. On Wednesday, the company fixed that by introducing the Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit DIR-825.

(Credit: D-Link)

Like the DIR-855…

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