Wii U has last-gen Radeon inside, still more advanced than PS3 and Xbox 360, CryEngine-built software is already close to fully running on Nintendo’s next-generation console. At its heart is a chip similar to the R770 found in AMD’s last-gen cards like the 4890 and the ustom core also supports Direct X 10.1 and also Eyefinity-like multi-display tech for up to four SD video streams………..
ASUS will be using an x86 processor from Intel or AMD’s ranges for the Windows 8 tablet or using Windows on ARM and picking something like a next-gen Tegra chip such as Kal-El and Android version of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 will be cheaper than its Windows 8 counterpart, but the grown up Microsoft OS will allow for more complex document creation and editing. While the Android version would cost the same as the existing one, the Windows model will carry a premium due partly to the cost of the operating system and it appears that both the Android and Windows 8 models are on track for a release at some point in 2012………….
Acer ships AMD-powered Revo RL100 HTPC to Americans and it’s have a sleek system with Blu-ray makes aggregating and also sharing digital data among home devices simple and seamless. The little guy has a 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon II K325 processor and NVIDIA ION graphics processor which offer 1080p HD video playback and responsive performance without drawing as much power as some other HD-capable chips, also has a wireless keyboard-and-touchpad combination device which lets you surf the web or search for media from your couch………….
Acer unveils new M and X Series value-priced desktops, 23-inch touch-screen LCD monitor and the outfit’s showing off gear for kids who’ve got a teensy bit more room in the dorms. Acer M series is a handsome all-black mid-tower PC that concentrates on the expansion crowd, leaving two open PCIe x1 and PCIe x16 slot open for users to configure and upgrade themselves later on and both owers have a staid black chassis with Acer’s clear.fi media streaming software on board. The M series is clearly for power users, with Core i3 and quad-core AMD Athlon II x4 processor options, 6GB of RAM, 1TB of hard drive space, optional discrete graphics and a storage tray on top housing four USB 2.0 sockets and headphone and mic ports………
Alienware’s new m17x10-1847DSB 17‐Inch Gaming Laptop now available in Amazon.com. Take control of your gaming with the Alienware M17X multimedia laptop, which features a thermally optimized case design with aggressive lines and an in-your-face attitude. It features a stunning, high-definition 17-inch display and a powerful Intel Core i7 processor–featuring four cores of intelligent processing power. ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics with 1 GB of video memory and CrossFireX capabilities. Taken together, this combination of high-performance technologies allow you to rip through the latest 3D games at lightning-fast frame-rates.
Microsoft talks Xbox Live integration in Windows 8, says service will be pervasive across devices and it will be the service where you get your entertainment. box Live will the pervasive media service across devices and Microsoft will have plenty more to show at next year’s E3……….
Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7 and the little fellow helped iPhone devs out a couple of months ago with an API mapping tool to make it easier to translate iPhone APIs to WP7 code. With the next version of Windows Phone Mango, bringing along with it a ton of new APIs, it looks like Microsoft won’t have to worry about the size of its Windows Marketplace…………
The Document Foundation said that there will be no merger of LibreOffice with OpenOffice, but that it would gladly accept any developers wishing to leave OpenOffice.org for LibreOffice, that means that OpenOffice will move forward as a community-driven project on its own. Microsoft developer Keith Curtis is raising some notable objections to Apache’s stewardship of OpenOffice and makes a number of good points about the onging development of OpenOffice, including some particularly good questions about its licensing. LibreOffice has won support from longtime open-source allies such as Red Hat, Novell, and Ubuntu and also the Document Foundation focuses on separating from its Oracle and Sun roots, the larger rival remains Microsoft Office and new challengers come in the form of cloud computing products such as Google Docs……..