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Dell Inspiron 530, 531: Unbelievably cheap PCs

Crave Can we have some PCs that look half-decent now? Dell's colourful new Inspiron and XPS are the talk of the laptop world, but the company also has a few new desktops it would like you to crave. It's all part of the 'revamped' Inspiron consumer range...

Tags: dell, ram, hard drive, desktops

29 June 2007, 12:23

Commodore Gaming PCs: The desktop is trendy again

Crave We shed a small nostalgic tear this morning as we encountered Commodore's new range of gaming PCs. Commodore Gaming PCs are fitted with interchangeable 'C-Kin' panels so you can customise them to your heart's content.

Tags: ram, pcs, gaming, core

16 March 2007, 17:38

Acer Travelmate C200 convertible resurrects Tablet PCs

Crave There are two schools of thought when it comes to Tablet PCs. Some think they're the greatest invention since sliced bread, while others think they're the biggest waste of space since the Millennium Dome.

Tags: acer, tablet, tablet pc, tablet pcs

10 April 2006, 12:22

Fear and Loathing: Media Center PCs

Crave Media Center PCs are supposed to replace your home entertainment system. A sane man might then question why it's still so difficult to get the things working properly. While a recently born child could easily plug in a video recorder (and many do...

Tags: recorder, entertainment, plug, media center

27 April 2005, 11:03

Exclusive: Alienware Star Wars PCs

Crave Someone handed a Star Wars fan an airbrush and four Alienware PCs, sat them in a room with John William's famous soundtrack blaring at a hundred watts and screamed, "Paint little Star Wars fan, paint!

Tags: mac os, wallpaper, pcs, marketing

20 April 2005, 16:39

Round-up: PCs and laptops at CES

Crave Among the biggest news was Intel's move to reveal the exact specifications for PCs using its new Viiv (rhymes with 'jive') system, but not to be outdone, AMD launched its own rival (and rhyming) platform, known as Live.

Tags: intel, core, inch, dell

9 January 2006, 11:47

Eco-friendly PCs: An inconvenient upgrade path

Crave Look outside your window. See all that lightning, thunder and flooding? That's global warming in action, we tell you. It's supposed to be summer, but autumn has jumped the queue, hinting at a time when we'll all be under 30m of snow -- like that...

Tags: hard drive, film, cpu, processor

3 July 2007, 10:50

Photos: New Commodore XX gaming PCs LAN it up

Crave Our adventure began last night in Soho, London. Commodore invited us into an underground gaming crypt to check out its latest and greatest gaming machines. About a dozen Commodore XX machines were rigged up to a private LAN, all radiating their...

28 June 2007, 12:44

Shuttle XPC P 2500G: Gaming's mighty dwarf

Crave Crave is as big a fan of gaming PCs as the next blog. But one thing that really gets on our nerves is the common belief that gaming PCs have to be enormous 6m-tall 20kg monsters like the Alienware Aurora 7500.

Tags: shuttle, gaming, pcs, chassis

11 April 2006, 11:18

Elonex Artisan: a thing of beauty

Crave Just when we'd given up on Media Center PCs as a bad job, the Elonex Artisan parachuted in and made us think again. Have we changed our minds about Media Center PCs? Three seconds after opening the box, we had it up and running.

Tags: elonex, pcs, media center, media center pc

9 June 2005, 11:21

Dell takes aim at gamers in deal with HMV

Crave Dell will start selling PCs inside HMV in a dramatic u-turn of its online-only business model. It occupies 2,300 square feet, and features dozens of Dell-branded PCs -- including, but not limited to, the XPS range.

Tags: machines, gaming, store, pcs

11 December 2007, 10:38

PC evolution: Turion X2, GeForce 7900 and fuel cells

Crave The CeBIT show in Hanover was a good chance to take a look at the way PCs are evolving. If humans evolved as quickly as the PCs we saw in Germany, in a few years we'll all be telepathic beings with quad-core brains, respiratory systems that can...

Tags: range, core, pcs, battery

17 March 2006, 12:00

Mac Mini vs. Microsoft Media Center: Round 1

Crave Windows PCs, you won't have to turn up the volume to mask the sound of the small jet plane taking off inside. Noisy PCs with fans blaring don't really appeal to many of us. However, compared to the hair-pulling ceremonies we've held getting Window...

Tags: microsoft, mini, remote control, fans

10 March 2006, 12:20

Sony Giga Juke NAS-SC55PKE: Streaming made Japaneasy

Crave Both systems will rip your CD collections to their internal hard drives, will stream content from PCs hooked up to your home network, and hopefully sound pretty good, too. In addition to all this wireless jukebox stuff is an integrated Internet...

Tags: sony, radio, fi, streaming

11 March 2008, 10:11

Devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk: Stream media like electricity

Crave Get yourself a power line Ethernet adaptor -- they let you connect multiple PCs over the electrical cables that run through the walls in your home. Setup is quick and easy, and the system lets you transfer files, share an Internet connection...

Tags: fi, streaming, pcs, wi fi

20 October 2006, 11:11