Computers-Plus

Desktop PCs have come to a point where your digital experience will be limited to the capability of your monitor. With high end Core 2 Duo CPUs and decent HD capable video cards priced around $100, there is no reason to be viewing the digital world on low resolution screens. If you are, then it is time to step up and upgrade to an HD Monitor. The question is: is the Samsung SyncMaster P2350 a worthy upgrade? Benchmark Review takes a look at this 23-inch LCD Widescreen monitor and see if it’s a good buy. Due to Sony’s dominance in the digital sector lately, 1080p (1920×1080 pixels) has become the next standard for high definition. Read more…

ASUS has been making laptops for quite some time; our first review of ASUS laptops was circa 2002, and I got my first hands-on experience three years ago. While there have been many interesting laptops from the company over the years, few have managed to truly set themselves apart from the crowd. (Okay, sure, there’s the whole Eee PC netbook market they essentially created, but that’s not a traditional laptop.) That changes today with our review of the UL80Vt.

At its heart, the UL80Vt is a thin and light notebook that’s capable of delivering stellar battery life while at the same time providing sufficient performance to handle virtually any task – yes, including gaming.

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New Evidence.com Cloud Service Analyzes and Securely Preserves “Chain of Evidence” Video Data; Cisco UCS Delivers Cost Reduction, High Performance, and Scalability

Cisco Unified Computing System 5108 with B-Series Blades

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dec. 17, 2009 – Cisco today announced that TASER International®, the market leader in electronic control devices (ECDs), has deployed the Cisco® Unified Computing System to support its innovative new service called Evidence.com. Developed specifically for law enforcement agencies worldwide, Evidence.com is a massive cloud-based virtual data warehouse hosted by TASER that is available via a secure Internet connection. Evi

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We’ve seen a lot of stories this week about Intel’s announcement that it would not be shipping a version of its “Larrabee” processor as a graphics chip in the next few months, as the company had previously announced. Instead, Intel says it will ship this processor only as a development platform for now, while continuing to work on it. While some have taken this as the “death” of Larrabee, I see it mostly as a continuing indication of just how hard it is to bring the theory of parallel processing into the practice of the real world.

I’m certain Intel will continue to work on many of the concepts within Larrabee, because the overall directions of both the CPU and the GPU markets require it.

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