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Mozilla are showcasing the next major version of their brilliant browser – CEO Mike Beltzner has webcast the plans for Firefox V4 and then he posted the presentation on his blog. Mike was keen to point out that these are just plans and that the end product could very well …

Lenovo have announced to the press that they are releasing a new range of laptop and desktop computers. The Ideapad Z565 will be offered with an AMD Phenom II (single, double, triple and quad will be offered) with ATI Mobility Radeon graphics. The 4200 integrated, HD 5470 512mb and 5470 …

Inno3d have just announced their new Fermi designed card which features a massive custom cooler – they are claiming reduced temperatures of up to 22c which is rather incredible if accurate. The Inno3d uses a cooler which devours a whopping 3 slots and uses two 80mm fans and a centered …

Apple recently (finally) released new Arrandale based MacBook Pros with battery life of up to 9-10 hours. With this release they also announced their own automatic graphics switching technology which toggles between the onboard Intel integrated graphics paired with the i5 and i7 processors and a discrete graphics processor. This …

KitGuru spoke to an industry insider a few hours ago who told us that the new Arrandale MacBook Air could be released within the next month. As followers of Apple will already know the new updated MacBook Air has yet to hit the market, even though the rest of Apple's …

A few years ago Coolit released the Domino cooler which at the time redefined liquid cooling for the ‘masses' – bringing it out of the basement of hardcore enthusiast users and firmly into the mainstream market. Everyone wanted a Domino, they were affordable, well built (although not without some issues …

Antec are well known for making quality products – and after speaking with them earlier today they informed me that their TPQ-1200 has reached 1700W continuous load – which is an incredible result. This also supports GTX 480 4-way SLI and Dual CPU mobo is also possible, which makes the …

The success of the iPad has been well documented by KitGuru as well as every other technology news site on the internet. Sales in the first month were around the 1 million mark in the USA alone and assuredly European sales will be high next month. Unfortunately in the USA …

Nintendo's latest financial records are very positive indeed with figures showing that the Wii console has just passed the 70 million mark sales figure. There were 20.53 million sales in the fiscal year which ended March 31st, 2010. 70.93 million means that Nintendo have around 49 percent of the home …

Later this year Seagate are aiming to launch their eye popping 3TB drive. Industry insiders say Seagate have had this 3TB drive in development for quite some time and there are unconfirmed rumours that the drive will be ‘variable speed' that can spin between 5,900 and 7,200 rpm – this …

Yesterday Apple have updated their online stores and are accepting preorders for both 3G and Wi-Fi models of the popular iPad – this is actually a day earlier than the announced launch date. These  pages went online a little early for the May 28th launch and they are being handled …

Word from the channel has reached KitGuru that Gigabyte is keen to increase its share of the Intel mainboard space for 2010, and it’s prepared to get aggressive on price to make it happen. Gigabyte is one of the only mainboard manufacturers that’s able to stand toe to toe with …

Enthusiasts have been waiting for Asus to deliver the Rampage III board to retail stores in the UK for a long time. Product finally landed on the shelves this weekend, so how well did it sell?  KitGuru investigated. The price of the Rampage III is enough to buy a netbook …

It has been a great opening week for KitGuru and we thank you all for helping us get onto our feet with such a warm welcome. Our first competition is a beauty and we have our very good friends AMD to thank for it. We have not one, but three …

As the tension continues to mount between Apple and Adobe the latest news emerges that Apple are developing an alternative technology to Flash. This new package is called “Gianduia” and was originally mentioned at Apple's World of WebObjected Developer Conference months ago. Gianduia apparently is a ‘client side, standards-based framework …

Nintendo have seen their first drop in profits for nearly six years and they seem to be marking Apple as their new nemesis. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told senior executives that the company has already beaten Sony and that Apple are now their ‘enemy of the future'. Nintendo's Wii has …

2010 has been a fantastic year for AMD with the release of their DX11 5xxx desktop series, but this success is also spilling over into the mobile marketplace. AMD have had a good focus on pricing over the last year and it is reaping dividends for them as their growth …

There has never been a better time for a gamer – even the modern day mid range cards are capable of delivering some incredible frame rates at high resolutions with eye candy cranked to the hilt. If you want to get the greatest and most immersive experience from your games …

Pricing a graphics card is a fine art. Too low and you lose profit. Too high and you wind up with a warehouse full of kit no guru wants. So what price has nVidia chosen for the GTX465?  KitGuru investigates. A company's product line up is called the stack. From …

Steam just released their Hardware Survey for April 2010 – with 26 million accounts being used as a basis for reference it is probably the most accurate system we currently have for analysing hardware trends. Valve are not resting on their laurels and have recently adopted Direct X 11 graphics …

Top brass at Activision are going to be cracking out the champagne as their Q1 profit reports are higher than expected. Their profit was a staggering $381 million USD which is even more impressive when you consider that the current economic climate has other high profile companies actually reporting losses. …

In a rather muted fashion nVidia have started to ship the Tesla C2050 – the first Fermi based Tesla cards. The C2050 has 448 cores and 3GB of GDDR5 memory onboard. While 3GB sounds a little lower than expected this is because they have modded the PCB to allow for …

Well its long overdue and USA Ebay sellers have been making huge mark ups selling at over the odds prices, but the iPad is finally coming to the UK. On Monday May 10th Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will be able to preorder from …

We managed to get our hands on some pictures of the hotly awaited (and rather sexy looking) new Asus Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard. There is little information on the board at this time, but it is based on the 890FX chipset and we have heard it overclocks like a mofo. …

Lian Li have announced the release of another HTPC chassis – called the PC-V352. This case supports micro-ATX and mini ITX motherboards and has a lot of features considering its diminutive size. As with the majority of Lian Li products the chassis is made from aluminium and weighs in at …

Intel has reacted very quickly to AMD's highly overclockable Phenom II X6 processors, by prepping the launch of 2 hugely overclockable parts at the end of May. In this space, pricing will be crucial. Dubbed the Core i5 665 and Core i7 875, these new chips ship with their metaphorical …

As interest slows in the GTX470, nVidia has been working to position its new chips to be significantly more competitive against ATI. While the GTX480 can claim the crown of being the fastest single GPU in the market, nVidia has struggled to find a good position for the GTX470. ATI's …

If you have been listening to the grapevine, you probably heard that Apple might soon get slapped with an Anti-Trust lawsuit. Being Apple fans, we can't help but wonder, what is up with that? The fact is, Apple is playing just nicely on the computer front. It is their mobile …

One of our favorite OSX monitoring apps has just hit version 3. Bringing to the table tools to monitor everything from battery usage to network traffic at a glance, Bjango's iStat Menus is a must for any OSX geek. To quote some of the features: Realtime CPU graphs and a …

Our sources in the Far East tell us that Taiwan based PSU makers are going to raise the price of PSU's by a whopping 10%. Delta Electronics CEO Yancey Hai has confirmed that the company has already raised prices to transfer some costs to the consumer. An Acbel spokesperson told …