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OnLive Release Date & Price Announced
March 11, 2010
Remember the online gaming service we covered a few months ago called OnLive that moves your gaming to the cloud? Well it just got real. In case you missed it, OnLive aims to deliver over the air gaming to users in a similar way to general cloud computing.
Data and games are stored on OnLive servers and the images are beamed to gamers around the world who compete in an online environment. The Beta went up quite a while ago and it seems the waiting is almost at an end for US gamers, as the official OnLive launch date has been announced as 17th June 2010.
For $15 a month users will be able to access the OnLive community, however games themselves will cost that little bit extra which is a given considering developers are still going to want their money’s worth out of their games. However this does raise some concerns with potential gamers.
Continue reading »Alienware M11x Ultra-Portable Gaming Laptop Launched
February 3, 2010
The latest release from popular manufacturer Dell’s gaming branch, is the ultra-portable Alienware M11x compact gaming laptop which they recently showed off at a Dell-Alienware gaming event after it’s initial appearance at CES 2010.
This is an extremely eye catching machine as it’s really pushing the boundaries of gaming PC’s. Usually, when you consider a gaming machine, you tend to think of either a more bulky laptop with a full size 17 or 18” display (such as perhaps the Alienware M17x gaming laptop), or a bulky desktop roaring away underneath a neon lit desk. However, Dell is out to change that opinion with their latest Alienware branded 11” portable gaming laptop that weighs in at around 4.5lbs.
In terms of specification, this thing is far from a lightweight. Designed for gaming, you expect decent performance and that’s exactly what you get. The processor, just a standard Intel Core 2 Duo (1.3GHz). But the real power within comes when you dig a little deeper. Up to 8Gb of DDR3 memory clocked at 1066MHz will provide extremely good capabilities with regards to multitasking with power hungry applications.
Continue reading »Windows 7 Review – Part 5: File and Software Compatibility
October 23, 2009
The majority of testing I’ve been doing with Windows 7 has taken place on my Unibody Macbook. Every time I install Windows on one of my OS X machines, one of the first things I do is install Mac Drive so that I can read files from my OS X partition. You can imagine my surprise when on first boot, my ‘E’ drive, also known as ‘Snow Leopard’ was visible in Windows Explorer, with every file on the partition visible.
Functionality is limited, as from what I can tell from testing, you can only read from the HFS formatted partition – whenever I try to write to it, I receive an error message telling me that I don’t have the privileges to write to the drive. Even so, being able to read from my Mac’s partition without third party software in Windows is a very nice addition to Windows 7 for us Mac users!
Continue reading »Windows 7 Review – Part 4: Performance On Less Powerful Hardware
October 22, 2009
A lot of people are going to be upgrading from Windows XP straight to Windows 7 over the coming months, but not everyone’s going to get a brand new PC to go with their brand new operating system, so how will old hardware running an OS written 10 years ago cope with Windows 7?
According to Microsoft, the system requirements for 7 are a 1GHz processor capable of 32-bit or 64-bit; 1GB RAM if you’re installing the 32-bit version of Windows 7 or 2GB RAM if you’re installing the 64-bit version; 16GB hard drive space for 32-bit, or 20 for 64-bit and a DX9 graphics card. These requirements are almost identical to the stated requirements for Windows Vista, although if you wanted to keep your sanity when running Vista, you probably needed better specs than what Microsoft recommended…
Continue reading »New Alienware Area 51 Gaming Computers and Gaming Peripherals
September 27, 2009
Earlier this week we brought you three of the new Alienware M15x and Aurora gaming computers releases and now we’re back with six more – the Alienware Area-51 and Area-51 ALX Desktops, the Optx 21.5” monitor and Tactx Gaming mouse, headset and keyboard!
New Alienware M15x and Aurora Gaming Computers
September 24, 2009
Since they were established in 1996 Alienware have become pretty much synonymous with ‘high-end gaming systems’ and as this niche has grown so has the company to the point where they were acquired by Dell back in 2006 and you could say that they have now eclipsed the Dell XPS desktop gaming PC range.
Focusing on both ‘enthusiast’ and ‘hardcore’ gamers the systems that Alienware create have gained a reputation for being of both high quality and price, as well as distinctive – the sci-fi theme implied by their name runs through to the design of the machines which are always undeniably sleek and futuristic.
Continue reading »Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop Launched
June 2, 2009
Alienware have today launched their latest gaming laptop at E3, or perhaps we should say an update to already popular model, the Alienware M17x gaming laptop has undergone a re-design and been boosted with the inclusion of the very latest powerful components to give gamers on the move a true beast of a mobile gaming machine. Their choice of an Allpowerful.com marketing campaign to promote this release is perhaps quite appropriate!
Alienware was established in 1996 and have been building high performance gaming machines to provide the best PC gaming experience possible ever since. They were then bought by Dell in March 2006 but they have remained a distinctly separate from the rest of Dell, there aren’t even any Dell branding on their PCs unlike the Dell XPS desktop gaming PCs!
Continue reading »PC Wii Remote – Asus Eee Stick Announced
August 27, 2008
Asus have come up with the Eee Stick which is essentially a PC Wii remote. The PC’s answer to Nintendo’s impressive Wii Remote?
Asus will be selling the Eee Stick with certain models of their Eee Pc and Eee box, as well as some of the games that have been made for use with the Eee Stick.
There’s no news yet as to whether or not the Eee stick will be sold separately to be used with other PC’s.
Continue reading »Dell XPS 730 Desktop Gaming PC
May 29, 2008
If you look at the Dell XPS range and the XPS 730 Desktop Gaming PC in particular, both in terms of appearance and specifications you might wonder who would be the target market.
Given that these kind of machines are pre-built high-end gaming systems – I’m guessing that these customers must be the teenagers/students grown up and working (on decent salaries) who now have less time for assembling and tinkering with their computers and just want to get on with top-end gaming. These computers now typically come with custom cases, LEDs, water cooling and are already overclocked, plus have the ability to be easily overclocked further – sometimes even using a windows interface to do so.
I recently had the opportunity to attend a Dell media event which was held in Central London that was focussed on PC gaming, both from the point of view of system builders, component manufacturers and professional gamers.
Continue reading »Commodore Gaming PC
March 24, 2007
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the the forthcoming return of Commodore computers, since then the new Commodore-branded PCs were recently unveiled, so I thought I’d best do a follow-up piece.
The new PCs will certainly look different from the old Commodore computers, with the cases having various optional high quality customisable artwork or ’skins’, however the good old C= logo remains intact on them. Examples of this artwork can be seen at Kotaku.
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