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Photos: Apple iMacs through the ages

News Apple's iMacs now come in three sizes: a 17-inch, a 20-inch and a new 24-inch. The new iMacs included 700MHz or 800MHz G4 processors and a new swing arm that attached the 15-inch LCD monitor to the base.

7 September 2006, 10:28

Small hard drives faster than ever

News Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market.

17 January 2007, 9:22

PowerBook screen riles Apple customers

News Some Apple users are complaining that, although the new 15-inch PowerBook packs in more pixels, the screen also displays unwanted horizontal lines. Both the 15-inch and 17-inch models were updated with new, higher-resolution screens.

19 December 2005, 8:38

New Samsung slimline panel TV screen

News Samsung has devised a 40-inch panel that could lead to television sets that are little more than 25mm thick. Next week the South Korean electronics giant is expected to show off a prototype 40-inch panel made from a single-sheet organic light...

20 May 2005, 9:14

Bigger Toshiba minidrive may boost iPod capacity

News Toshiba said on Wednesday that it plans to release a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard drive, potentially paving the way for higher capacity iPods. Apple historically has used 1.8-inch drives from Toshiba in its iPods but uses 1-inch, 4GB hard...

3 June 2004, 11:50

Texas company demos carbon nanotube TV

News Texas-based Applied Nanotech, in conjunction with six Japanese electronics firms, has created a prototype of a 25-inch TV that is brighter and crisper than the ones available today, thanks to carbon nanotubes.

8 September 2005, 9:21

Apple brings consumer chic to MacBooks

News Billed as a replacement to the 12-inch PowerBook, the 13-inch widescreen MacBook, which is on sale now, starts at £749 for a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with a 60GB hard drive. According to press materials from Apple, they're also equipped...

17 May 2006, 10:37

Alienware adds Airgo chips to new laptops

News Alienware's 17-inch Aurora m9700 and 19-inch Aurora mALX laptops are equipped with the Airgo's Gen3 True MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), the companies are expected to announce during the E3 Expo, a massive conference in Los Angeles...

10 May 2006, 9:35

Perpendicular drives hit the market

News The MK4007GAL 1.8-inch drive packs 40GB on a single platter, which is the most for a 1.8-inch diameter hard drive platter to date. Next year, the Japanese giant will insert perpendicular drives into its mini 0.85-inch diameter drives.

17 August 2005, 8:48

Samsung LCD TV tech goes mobile

News The company is applying several tricks it learned making those 40-inch and 82-inch LCD flat-panel screens, as well as those jaw-dropping 102-inch plasma televisions -- to handheld displays that measure 51mm (2 inches) on average.

14 November 2005, 11:18

Seagate cranks up laptop drives to 160GB

News The Momentus 5400.3 is a 2.5-inch diameter hard drive, shown off last year, designed for laptops that hold 160GB of storage, the equivalent of 40,000 songs or nearly three hours of video from a high-definition camcorder.

17 January 2006, 9:06

Fujitsu Siemens lines up 3G laptops

News The Esprimo series of laptops, which will go on sale beginning in August, includes three models, ranging from the ultra-portable 12.1-inch U9200 to the 15.4-inch D9500 desktop replacement model. Fujitsu Siemens has introduced a new range of...

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10 July 2007, 8:54

US retail gets a holiday boost

News Some retail stores cut prices on 17-inch monitors to $150 (£86), while 19-inch monitors could be had for as low as $169 (£97), Christian Dias, an analyst at Current Analysis, said on Thursday. Promotional pricing on LCD monitors caused unit sales...

9 December 2005, 9:37

LCD TVs to get carbon nanotube boost?

News The backlight on a 37-inch LCD currently represents 38 per cent of the device's cost, and 50 per cent of the cost for a 40-inch LCD, Han said. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the laboratory arm of the South Korean industrial giant...

8 November 2006, 11:06

Photos: Cameras aplenty at Photokina

News Kodak, for its part, announced the Kodak Z710, a 7.1-megapixel camera with a 51mm (2-inch) LCD. The FinePix S5 Pro digital SLR unveiled at Photokina on Monday takes Nikon F-mount lenses and has a metal alloy body and a 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD.

26 September 2006, 10:07