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Crave TV: Toshiba Spurs Engine puts PS3 Cell chip in a laptop

Crave Ever wondered what would happen if you put the PlayStation 3's Cell processor into a laptop? The system was demonstrated in modified Qosmio G45 laptops, each of which uses a standard Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four 1.5GHz...

10 January 2008, 17:51

Steve Ballmer downplays Zune phone

Crave There's been much ado about the possibility of a Microsoft Zune cell phone lately and Crave has joined the chorus of musings with several posts of our own. While such comments obviously are open to interpretation, Ballmer went on to speculate about...

Tags: cell, windows mobile, device, cell phone

26 April 2007, 9:45

Nintendo DS: touching new games

Crave This year's line-up was a mix of updated GBA titles (Mario Kart DS and Advance Wars Dual Strike), home console conversions (Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Viewtiful Joe) and most interestingly, innovative takes on the touch-screen functionality...

Tags: nintendo, gameplay, multiplayer, lan

15 June 2005, 11:35

Toshiba Regza 40ZF575D: Improving bog-standard video

Crave Resolution+ is based on what Toshiba calls the 'Spurs Engine', which has surprisingly little to do with English football, and much more to do with the integration of the Cell processor into Toshiba's TVs.

Tags: tvs, definition, blu, blu ray

28 August 2008, 16:46

Lenovo IdeaPad S9 & S10: More netbooks to consider

Crave Lenovo's mini laptops will also benefit from a 1.3-megapixel webcam, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, and a three-cell battery promising 3 hours of battery life. A six-cell power cell is also available, which is said to last...

4 August 2008, 19:48

Hands-on with the Lenovo IdeaPad U110

Crave The sleek package that inspires oohs and aahs -- among even the most jaded Cravers -- depends in part on a tiny four-cell battery. And Lenovo smartly ships a larger seven-cell battery with the IdeaPad U110, though using it adds to the laptop's...

Tags: lenovo, battery, laptop, cell

8 May 2008, 11:25

MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos

Crave The Wind will also sport 1GB of RAM, an 80GB mechanical hard drive, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, three (count 'em) USB ports, a D-Sub video output, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, and a 3-cell battery with a claimed life of 3-4 hours.

29 May 2008, 11:51

Photos: HP 2133 'Eee killer' mini laptop is official

Crave There's a choice of either 3-cell or 6-cell batteries that deliver -- according to HP -- 2 hours 15 minutes, and 4 hours 30 minutes of power respectively. The race to the bottom has a new driver. HP has just announced its 2133 mini laptop -- its...

9 April 2008, 9:43

Dell multicolour laptops: XPS M1330, Inspiron 1520 and 1720

Crave It's wedge-shaped, so although the front edge may be the thinnest in the world, the back edge -- with the hefty nine-cell battery (four- and six-cell batteries are available) -- also makes it the bulkiest 13-inch laptop in the world.

Tags: dell, laptops, edge, inch

27 June 2007, 13:04

Photos: Dell's Latitude E series claims 19-hour battery life

Crave Don't go getting your hopes up too high, though -- there are several caveats.hours is only possible on E-series machines using a nine-cell battery and a 'battery slice' -- a thin battery that fits on to the bottom of the laptop.

13 August 2008, 15:32

FAQ: the next video game consoles?

Crave Sony -- Sony is promising a brave new world of computing with the multicore Cell processor, a joint project with IBM and Toshiba. The Cell will have nine independent processing units that can divide up complex computing tasks or loan processing...

18 April 2005, 19:17

PlayStation 3: What's with the watts?

Crave The culprit may be the new Cell processor the PS3 uses. Cell is based on a Power processing core, surrounded by several 'helper' processors. Sony is not a company renowned for its good table manners and self-restraint, but early reports suggest...

Tags: sony, console, intel, core

1 November 2006, 11:24

Slingbox to stream iTunes to your phone?

Crave Crave US: The release of Apple TV a few weeks ago has opened up an intriguing new possibility: streaming music from iTunes on your home computer to your cell phone. No, Apple TV does not stream over the Internet or across a cellular phone network...

Tags: streaming, itunes, windows mobile, iphone

11 April 2007, 11:44

Rebel assault: OS X on PlayStation 3

Crave Sony has casually announced that the PS3's cell processors will support a variety of operating systems "such as Linux or OS X Tiger". Could Mac OS X on the PlayStation 3 be the first manoeuvre in Sony's assault on the living room?

Tags: apple uk, os, processor, playstation

8 August 2005, 11:50

Casio Sea Pathfinder: Watch of all trades, master of none

Crave It even has a solar power cell so you can charge it up with the sun and a radio receiver so it can be automatically synchronised with the world's clocks. The Casio Sea Pathfinder SPW-1000 is a watch designed with watersports in mind.

Tags: casio, conditions, watch, radio

11 September 2006, 12:13