If you are looking for a new long term career then it appears you should avoid Foxconn (Hon Hai Group), especially if the recent suicide toll is anything to go by. Foxconn supply components for many companies including Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard and each of these companies are opening …
Read More »Dell Ultrasharp U2410 Monitor review (A00)
Dell have always had a very strong range of panels available, from the strictly low end mass market TN panels for the budget aware audience to the high end 30 inch panels for the discerning designer and enthusiast. A few weeks ago we looked at their bargain SP2309W which we …
Read More »CoolerMaster unleash new HAF X chassis
CoolerMaster have just released another case in their popular HAF series, the HAF X. This sexy looking chassis is targeting a slightly different market however, aimed at overclocking gaming enthusiasts. Ultimate performance is clearly the focus point. The chassis measures 230x550x590mm and weighs a back breaking 14.36kg – which is …
Read More »2.3 Billion USB 3 Devices?
KitGuru takes a lot of photos and shoots a lot of video. We lament the lack of IEEE1394 on many new systems. USB2 is OK, but not quite what we need. We want something faster. And we want our friends to have it too. The wonderful folk at IDC have …
Read More »BBC iPlayer will run on iPad – flash not required
The BBC recently announced version 3 of the iPlayer catch up service for their viewers meaning people can stream shows for a week after their first airing – these can also be downloaded for up to 30 days on support platforms. The system currently does not support Apple devices, however …
Read More »Facebook enhance privacy settings – after pressure
Facebook have been under pressure lately to protect their users privacy and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed the issues on ‘growing pains'. Mark was keen to point out that engineers and designers have been working hard in the last three weeks to improve privacy settings. “We don't pretend that we …
Read More »Zotac GTX 480 Review
Last September we saw the AMD launch of the Radeon 5000 series and they spent the next six months leading the way in every price point. Sadly they also had to deal with shortages of stock due to 40nm yield issues with TSMC. The other downside for the consumer was …
Read More »nVidia announce the GTX 480M – DX11 on the move
nVidia have just officially announced their first Direct X 11 mobile chip, dubbed the GTX 480M. The card runs at 425mhz on the GPU core and 1200mhz for the memory which is linked to a 256bit memory bus. nVidia state that the 480m is SLI capable and features CUDA, physX, …
Read More »Pacman gobbles up $120,483,800
Very few readers will have missed the recent Pacman '30 year anniversary' game on the Google home page, but we have been updated on usage stats. Over 4.8 million hours have been logged with the game which averages out at 36 seconds per person. Someone was very handy with a …
Read More »Buying a mobile phone? Marketing maths you can’t live without
Phone shops only sell phones. Sounds obvious, right? You don’t need a KitGuru to tell you that. But once you have that in mind, it makes the act of stepping foot inside a phone shop a little more poignant. It’s a statement of intention. And the shop knows it. KitGuru …
Read More »Intel release new i3, i5, i7 CULV processors
Intel have announced a new range of ultra low voltage i3, i5 and i7 processors – something we mentioned last week on KitGuru. The announcement was made on Engadget and it seems as if the new dual core processors will be hitting retail in June and will sit alongside the …
Read More »Startech S25SLOTR 2.5″ Removable Hard Drive Rack Review
Hands up if you have a few spare 2.5 inch laptop drives sitting in a drawer gathering dust? I would say quite a few reading this have their grubby mitts in the air already … this article will be of particular interest to you all. Startech are probably not that …
Read More »Dell Streak with new touchscreen tablet
02 have just announced that they are stocking the Dell Streak from June onwards. The Streak has yet to get pricing confirmation and should also be offered at the CarPhone Warehouse. The Dell Streak is a five inch touchscreen toy and is being positioned in the same sector as a …
Read More »nVidia’s VP for CUDA and PhysX moves to AMD?
Word has reached KitGuru that Manju Hegde, nVidia’s VP for CUDA and PhysX, is moving to AMD. What can we infer from the situation, when Vidia’s own VPs seem to believe that Fusion is the Future? The former professor of electrical engineering for Washington and Louisiana State Universities, founded Ageia …
Read More »Asus EAH5750 Formula Radeon HD 5750 review
Asus are one of the largest and most successful technology companies on the planet right now – producing some of the finest motherboards known to man with particular emphasis on engineering and build quality. All these efforts do not go unnoticed by the enthusiast however as their annual turnover is …
Read More »Adobe Flash proven to ruin Google Android 2.2 performance
It has been hard to escape the recent news coverage detailing Apples contempt for Flash on mobile devices. Many enthusiasts have stated that Steve Jobs has been very unfair with his dismissal of Adobes media software within the mobile platform. Jobs has said it destroys battery life, reduces security and …
Read More »GIGABYTE First with USB 3.0 Mini-ITX Motherboard
GIGABYTE today announced the world’s first USB 3.0 mini-ITX form factor GA- H55N-USB3 motherboard, featuring SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0), HDMI interface, as well as a host of unique GIGABYTE features such as Ultra Durable 3, 3x USB Power, On/Off Charge. “The GIGABYTE GA-H55N-USB3 was designed specifically for users wanting to …
Read More »AMD Graphics Gain Share From Nvidia’s In Q1
AMD, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., gained 8.2 share points in the discrete graphics market in the first quarter of 2010, lifting the chip maker to a 42.1 percent overall share of that market. Nvidia lost 8.2 share points during that same period, according to the research firm. In mobile discrete …
Read More »Steve Jobs Keynote confirmed for WWDC 2010
Steve Jobs has been confirmed for the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2010. His keynote speeches keep the press occupied for days and this year we would expect the conversations to revolve around the incredible success of the iPad. The iPhone could well make up a portion of his speech, however …
Read More »AMD Vision powered Packard Bell netbook
Packard Bell have just announced the latest addition to their range of netbooks, which they call the DOT a. Simple and effective. This is a 11.6 inch ultra portable netbook powered by AMD and it weighs only 1.35kg and is less than 25mm thick. The machines can be configured with …
Read More »Alienware add Core i7 to netbooks
Alienware parent company Dell are about to unleash a new range of netbooks which will incorporate Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors. While this sounds like a rather unusual move it is certainly going to cause a stir with many tech sites who have always complained that the …
Read More »Thermaltake ToughPower XT 775w review
Thermaltake have a solid reputation for building capable and efficient power supplies and today we are looking at one of the four new units in their latest Toughpower XT Series – the 775. These range in output capacity from the entry level 575W to the high end 875W and they …
Read More »GTX 490 throws down to 5970
Behind closed doors at Computex, nVidia is likely to be showing its most important partners a very serious piece of new kit. The GTX490. Remember when the 7950 GX2 was considered power-hungry for pulling 110w in 3D testing? Looking back at that era, it seems that ATI and nVidia just …
Read More »Would you pay more than $50,000 for 3DMark 2011?
As the warm summer sun came up over the horizon this morning, KitGuru was in the garden, munching croissant and considering just how accurate the universe’s HDR engine was – when a ping on the laptop indicated that a new spy satellite image had just arrived from a military ‘sauce'. …
Read More »Buffalo nudges £19 barrier for N-class router
We’re not in the habit of flagging special offers on KitGuru. There are specialist places for this … they’re called shops. But UK reseller Dabs just pinged us with an offer that made KitGuru almost choke on the Saturday morning cornflakes. Have things really moved this far? (Move to black …
Read More »Michael Dell eating Apple humble pie
It seems impossible to avoid the Apple success story lately and news has just filtered in that Apple are in fact now worth eight times as much as computer giant Dell. In NASDAQ trading today, Apple gained $1.95 to $239.74 to hit a market value of $218.12 billion or more …
Read More »Noctua NH D14 Cooler review – The ‘Austrian Sandwich’
Noctua are an Austrian company well known in enthusiast circles for producing some of the finest fans on the market. I will hold my hand up – all of my systems at home incorporate their 120mm fans (NF12's) on one level or another, simply because they are class leading products. …
Read More »Free iPad for woman – Apple damage control
You would think that walking into an Apple store with a wad of cash would be enough to get you a shiny new iPad, however a woman was recently refused a purchase, even though they were in stock. When this was made public via a news network, Apple dramatically not …
Read More »New concerns emerge over Google privacy
Data Protection officials from France, Spain and the Czech Republic have announced plans to analyse Google's collection of data from wireless networks in their respective countries. This could well be the first step in regards to sanctions from European countries. Earlier this week Google made the statement that they had …
Read More »nVidia responds directly to KitGuru’s revelations
Over the past week or so, we have heard a lot of rumours about nVidia's products. As wizened KitGurus, you can trust us when we say that our sources are both plentiful and well placed. We report this kind of story when we have no reason to doubt a story. …
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