One more day till Asustek’s EeePC hits the market

We’ve been waiting for it, tomorrow it will happen: the small beauty from Asustek, Eee PC is to hit the Taiwan market with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering [...]

Mac Nano: The contradictions and do we really need one anyway?

There has been lots of speculation over the weekend about an up coming Apple Mac model called the Mac Nano. In brief the Mac Nano is supposed to be a smaller version of the Mac Mini. The original post on [...]

Delay of EeePc shipment by Asustek

We announced already the imminent availability of one of the worlds smallest notebooks, which was due at the end of September, beginning of October. Now we learn that changes are made to the time line of the release. According to [...]

Asus Eee PC – good news about one of the smallest!

Have you ever played with the thought of owning one of the worlds smallest and yet usable notebooks? You must have at least heard about Asus’s Eee PC. You probably know that it will not make the $100 price limit, [...]

Professor builds 6th fastest supercomputer for only $1256 (if we lived in 1993)

Professor Joel Adams and his student Tim Brom have built a personal, portable Beowulf cluster, named Microwulf, which (if we lived in 1993) would be the 6th fastest computer on the planet. Maybe that doesn’t impress you? But when you [...]

Why do computers suck (part 1)

In a comment to my post You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow? Peter (another one of our great squad members) left a couple of touche type comments about the Mac. They are funny because they are [...]

New Sleek Aluminum iMacs

This week Apple unveiled two new iMacs. The first is with a gorgeous 20- inch widescreen display (1680 by 1050 pixels) encased in aluminum. The second is a sweet 24-inch with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels. Both feature [...]