desktops

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio SR Series (VGN-SR19VN)

Crave There are over the three customisable desktops, as mentioned earlier, giving you a total of 15 possible shortcuts. If you just can't decide whether you want a laptop for business or personal use, point your viewing spheres towards Sony's new Vaio...

16 July 2008, 14:52

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave With the world anxiously awaiting the Asus Eee Box, it's all too easy to overlook the company's other small form factor PCs. We've already seen the Nova P20 and now we have the privilege of showing you its younger, more attractive sibling, the Nova...

26 June 2008, 11:53

Photos: HP TouchSmart IQ500 all-in-one desktop slims down

Crave Compared with last year's clunky TouchSmart IQ770, HP's new TouchSmart design is a major leap forward. The new TouchSmart IQ504 and IQ506 models -- collectively, the IQ500 series -- now follow a more typical all-in-one design philosophy, featuring...

11 June 2008, 10:09

Nvidia GeForce 9M Series: Laptops get graphics boost

Crave Laptop gamers usually have a pretty serious case of desktop envy when it comes to their graphics cards, especially since even mid-price desktops can sport water-cooled SLI dual-card setups these days.

Tags: cards, category, gamers, nvidia

4 June 2008, 9:00

Asus to launch 10-inch Eee PC on Tuesday: Confirmed

Crave The processors promise to consume considerably less power than previous generations and Intel hopes they'll be used in everything from slim desktops to mobile phones. We've just been on the phone to a spokesperson for Asus, who confirmed that the...

Tags: intel, atom, eee, intel atom

29 May 2008, 9:18

Asus Ebox: Desktop Eee PC launches 3 June

Crave Hang on to your loins -- it is but seven days before the launch of the hotly anticipated Asus Ebox -- the desktop version of the Asus Eee PC. Are we excited? Does a bear do his business in the woods and clear up the mess with a fluffy, white rabbit?

Tags: cpu, asus, eee pc, nintendo wii

27 May 2008, 9:33

Acer Aspire Predator: Remorselessly hunting down Alienware

Crave Oi, PC gaming fanboys -- have a butcher's at this. Acer has just unveiled a new line of gaming PCs called Predator, and judging by their appearance, they're aimed squarely at Alienware's jugular. The systems have an attractive metallic copper...

Tags: acer, gaming, core, nvidia

22 May 2008, 11:07

Shuttle XPC G5 6801M: Media Center that swings both ways

Crave Shuttle is back with another Media Center PC, and this XPC G5 6801M is aimed at HD movie enthusiasts. Its major selling point is that it packs an LG Super Multi-Blue combi drive that can play Blu-ray movies and those dusty HD DVD discs too.

Tags: shuttle, hd, lg, hd dvd

7 May 2008, 9:57

New iMacs in 'getting latest CPUs again' shocker

Crave It's that time of year again. Apple has decided to catch up with the rest of the PC world by installing the latest CPUs and graphics cards in its iMacs. From this day forth, the uber-stylish all-in-ones will use 'Penryn'-type Core 2 Duo CPUs, the...

Tags: core, cpu, intel, hard drive

29 April 2008, 10:00

Wired2Fire Diablo Ultima: £699 gaming demon

Crave The demise of the desktop PC has long been foretold. The prophets say laptops will one day rule the Earth, feeding off the carcasses of old ATX boxes, belching  Iomega Zip drives as they go. The doom-mongers are probably right, but let's be clear...

Tags: laptops, graphics card, diablo, pci express

26 March 2008, 11:30

Shuttle KPC K45: £180 Linux desktop

Crave Shuttle piqued our interest recently when it announced the KPC -- a low-cost Linux desktop PC you'll be able to buy for a paltry €199 (£180 including VAT), or for €94 (£85) in K45 barebones form. You'd think a tiny Shuttle PC would be earmarked for...

Tags: cpu, intel, linux, hard drive

25 March 2008, 11:25

Vista Service Pack 1: Things Microsoft forgot to fix

Crave The ability to have multiple desktops or spaces, each themed with a specific set of application types can help improve productivity and reduce the amount of clutter. Multiple Desktops Some are saying SP1 improves Vista's general meh-diocrity, while...

Tags: desktops, hard drive, windows vista, flip

19 March 2008, 14:27

Dell XPS One: The most beautiful Dell ever. Don't laugh

Crave Michael Dell says the XPS One is "perhaps the most beautiful Dell ever", which is hardly extravagant praise, but he could be right. It certainly had a big enough pile of drool around it at CES 2008 to back up his claims -- and today you can drop...

Tags: dell, hard drive, cpu, ram

17 March 2008, 11:02

Linksys Media Center Extender 2200: The wait is over

Crave We've been waiting years for a streaming media device that actually works, but now we think we've found one. Linksys recently sent us its Media Center Extender 2200 -- and shock of all shocks -- it doesn't suck.

Tags: linksys, wireless, media center, wired

13 February 2008, 11:12

Asus P5E3 Premium motherboard: Surf without Windows

Crave Splashtop seems to have had a name changed to Express Gate en route to desktops, but it's essentially the same thing -- a Linux-based front end that runs independently of Windows. A few weeks ago we told you about Splashtop -- a technology that...

Tags: surf, gate, express, linux

5 February 2008, 11:10