Nurture Your Green Self with the NEC Mate ME and Versa Pro VD

NEC has released two new PCs, the desktop Mate ME and the laptop Versa Pro VD, which are well equipped to reduce your carbon footprint and help you fight inefficiency. If that’s not enough, they also sport the latest CPUs from Intel.

The VersaPro VD notebook will come with Intel’s Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs. A Core i5 configuration will be available with a 64GB SSD, 1GB RAM, Intel’s new GMA HD graphics and Windows 7 Professional. On the green side, it comes with some handy preloaded software to help you monitor and control your energy use, which should already be low with the SSD and latest energy saving Intel hardware.

The Mate ME desktop sports the same low-energy hardware, from SSDs to Core i5/i7 CPUs to Intel’s GMA HD. Read more…

Lian-Li LanCool PC-K58W Computer Case

LanCool’s line of Dragon Lord computer cases offer two great advantages over many competitors. The first is the amount of customization they provide in choosing a stock model. Rather than simply providing one high end case and one low end case they provide options for several intermediate levels. The second advantage offered by LanCool is their tool-less designs. Many tool-less designs of the past have suffered from compatibility or usability problems. LanCool uses a fresh approach to alleviate the problems of the past while still providing the option to fall back on conventional installation. Benchmark Reviews recently reviewed the PC-K56W which offers snap-in hard drive assemblies. Read more…

15 most popular CES stories

We’ve alublished our Best of CES, which is our own take on what was cool at CES, but if we look at the top 15 stories (sorted by views) other themes bubble up: computers and phones are still extremely popular. If you have not looked at them yet, do it now. At CES 2010, the Alienware M11X has been the most viewed item in our CES coverage. <

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Why China Will Rule the Electronics World

With China providing over 95% of the earths supply of rare earth minerals to the rest of the world, theyre in a very good supply-control position.

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CES 2010: The Best And Worst Laptops

HP and Lenovo made the biggest splash in terms of notebooks during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Lenovo, makers of the ThinkPad line of business notebooks, are determined to grab a larger market share among consumers this year.

The new IdeaPad S10 Tablet is an Intel Atom-based netbook with a 10-inch touchscreen that rotates 180 degrees in either direction. Available with either a flush 3-cell battery or extended life 6-cell battery this netbook tablet looks like it will give the ASUS Eee PC T91 a run for the money. As we’ve come to expect with Lenovo notebooks, the keyboard on the new S10 Tablet is second to none in this form factor.

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