We talked up nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks a while back — mainly because it gave a more robust graphics foundation to an already thin netbook platform. Where the Intel GMA integrated video fails, ION graphics gave netbooks a fighting chance for displaying better video resolutions, better gaming capabilities, high definition video, and (shock!)
Continue reading nVidia ION 2 is Here: Next-Gen Graphics for your Netbook/Nettop
The freaking thing hasn’t even shipped, and the Apple iPad has already divided the Internet community into believers and haters. We won’t join in that direction — as far as MacPCWiz is concerned, jury’s still out on whether in the Apple tablet is a “gadget to beat” or not.
Steve Jobs' newest baby – the
Continue reading The Netbook does, what the iPad can’t
Hehehey! MacPCWiz’s 2nd Gadget Update coming right at you. (boo yah!) In this issue we feature a couple of computers plus a few interesting gadgets for you. Hold on tight, enjoy the ride.
LG’s BD590 – First Blu-ray player with inegrated hard drive
The LG BD590 – Blu-ray player with hard drive storage
First up is LG’s
Continue reading Gadget Update: USB 3.0 is coming right at you
MacPCWiz is feeling pumped up for 2010, and so we’re introducing a new portion on this here blog: the MacPCWiz Weeky Gadget Update. (ta-dah!)
Here we feature NOT ONLY the newest, top-of-the-line, leading/bleeding edge gadgets — but anything at all that tickles our fancy, attention, anything that has cute and pretty models with it, or at
Continue reading Gadget Update: External Hard Drives, netbooks, and then some
Barely a week into 2010 and techies all over the world are already proclaiming the downfall of 2009’s favorite gadget — the netbook. Black Friday’s hottest item is going RIP, says all my fellow tech nerds while sipping their designer coffee and hunched over their work terminals. A blog at NYTimes.com says it this way:
Stuck
Continue reading 2010: The “death of the netbook” and the “year of the tablet”?
nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.
Continue reading nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook
(cue nostalgic music)… I remember the first PC I assembled by myself. It had 256MB of RAM, and AMD processor and a 10GB Hard Drive — you heard that right, a dinky 10GBs. Gone are those days, even netbooks today come with a 160GB HDD at the very least. But the way we consume, create,
Continue reading External Hard Drive: the perfect Netbook accessory
As the holiday season goes into full swing, you’ll be hearing more and more of this, the computer system of the year by far – the NETBOOK. The biggest shopping holiday of the year, Black Friday, has come and gone (that’s “when-Americans-get-into-an-irrational-buying-frenzy-every-end-of-November-and-buy-everything-they-see” to you non-US residents) and we here at MacPCWiz list down for you
Continue reading November’s Bestselling NETBOOKS
MacPCWiz now brings you these aborable little netbooks sporting Microsoft’s newly-launched Windows 7 OS. If you are looking for a netbook to tote around, get on FaceBook, type that odd book report — basically to be found looking cute and adorable with — get your Windows 7 netbook fix right here.
Read more on these netbooks from Mac PC Wiz after the break.