The iPad has generated a lot of fans. Perhaps coincidentally, many of those fans reside on the boards of other companies. Since its inception it has been copied ad nauseum. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing as that’s how innovation becomes mainstream. However, I think that for all the competition has tried, they have yet to copy the most important aspect of the machine. When the iPad...
British retailer Clove.co.uk has ceased sales of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet until further notice due to "complaints of faults." The tablet is the first device to ship with NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 processor, but it has been plagued by issues with W-Fi and GPS performance, as well as random reboots under the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Asus has been working to correct...
Following the swirling controversy amongst the Android rooting community, Asus has opted to issue an official statement as to why it chose to lock the Transformer Prime bootloader. As we reported this morning, there was growing controversy over the locked and encrypted status of the Transformer Prime's bootloader. A petition had already been started in regards to the matter and the...
They say true beauty lies within. To that, I say, “Bah!” We know a good-looking device when we see one. Sure, there are workhorse gadgets out there that forego form for function, but if anything has the potential to make us forget about our spec snobbery, it’s a sexy design paired with head-turning functionality. This is not a “best” list, but a “sexy” list. The distinction? A “best of...
As with any new device that hits, we’re always eager to see how it stacks up against the competition. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is no exception. Ever since the tablet was unveiled, we’ve been waiting to see if the quad core Tegra 3-powered device is as fast as its specs would suggest. Asus claims it’ll get five times the performance of the original Transformer. So just how fast...
It must be November 9 in some part of the world, because Asus has made good on their promise and officially unveiled the world’s first Tegra 3 powered tablet computer, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Packing a quad-core CPU backed by a fifth “companion core” and a 12-core GeForce GPU, Transformer Prime is essentially a newer, faster, all around badder version of the Eee Pad Transformer...
Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia officially took the wraps off of their next-generation mobile processors tonight. Originally announced back in February, the Tegra 3 processor – aka “Project Kal-El” – actually sports five cores, including a fifth “companion core” for low-power applications. Nvidia claims Tegra 3 will offer up to three times the graphic performance of current Tegra 2 dual...
As the name would suggest, there is much more than meets the eye with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. The tablet’s spec sheet reads nearly identical to its biggest Android-powered competitor, the Motorola Xoom. Both are powered by NVIDIA’s incredibly capable dual-core Tegra 2 processor, augmented with 1GB of RAM, and enter the market amidst significant hype. That, however, is where the...
Netbooks are everywhere. A lot are pretty mediocre, but these 5 are worth a look.
In todays 'Top 5', we take a look at the Top 5 laptops available today for under $1000.