Samsung's beautiful-but-pricey Series 5 Chromebook too rich for your blood? Fear not, cloud-dwellers. Acer just announced that its Chromebook, dubbed the AC700, will go on sale in the states this month for $349.99, to be followed by a 3G-equipped version later this summer. If you're part of the niche market that would happily live in Chrome OS in exchange for instant-on ...

We know you're going to be shocked -- shocked! -- to hear this, but NVIDIA's gone and refreshed its high-end line of GeForce GTX cards. The GTX 580M takes the place of the GTX 485M, and NVIDIA's bragging that it's the "fastest notebook GPU ever," capable, we're told, of besting the Radeon HD 6970M's tesselation performance by a factor of six. ...

Today marked the official launch of Office 365 with a New York City event hosted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The sultriness of the hot June day did not dampen the obvious enthusiasm Microsoft executives, engineers, and some partners all have for the global release of the product, but not everyone shares this enthusiasm. Real concerns exist for partners over profit, ...

Pros Record-fast throughput at the 5 GHz band. Multi-OS support. Stress-free setup. Has USB port for NAS functionality Cons USB support is limited only to storage devices. Lacks robust NAS capabilities. Bottom Line Netgear's N750 is a throughput thoroughbred in the 5 GHz band. Performance at the 2.4 GHz band is slightly above average with other top 2.4 GHz routers on the market. Advanced features and ...

Turns out those leaked shots we saw of Sony's new VAIO Z laptop were right on the money as the company showed it off officially today for the European press. The specs reveal a 13.1-inch "ultramobile" notebook that comes in at under 1.2kg with a 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 1600x900 screen and sheet battery borrowed from ...

AMD announced its share of the TOP500 supercomputer list has grown 15 percent in the past six months. The company credits industry trends, upgrade paths, and competitive pricing for the increase. Of the 68 Opteron-based systems on the list, more than half of them use the Opteron 6100 series processors. We covered the launch of Magny-Cours more than a year ago; ...

Pros Great performance in 3D gaming. Switchable graphics helped boost battery life to over 9 hours. USB 3.0 and Bluetooth. WiDi. Sleek metallic design. Beats Audio emphasizes bass makes in-ear music and movies sound great. Cons No Blu-ray. No True 1080p HD resolution. Bottom Line Those looking for a portable home entertainment solution need search no longer. The HP Pavilion dv7-6143cl is a media center laptop ...

Team Fortress 2 has gone free to play and will be freely available to anybody with a Steam account. Valve announced the change today. A free account will have limited inventory slots, reduced trading capability and will be limited in the type of weapons that can be crafted. A premium account will not have any of these restrictions and will be given ...

The MSI GT683 gaming laptop features the Intel Core i7-2630QM quad core processor, four DDR3 memory slots, the nVidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics card, accelerated dual hard disk technology and comes with a full HD screen. With the i7-2630QM, all four cores have a clock speed of 2.00GHz. The i7 also has the Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 which boosts the overall ...

Uglier, But Better than the Original Thermaltake’s original Level 10 chassis was a remarkable collaboration with BMW DesignWorks in which the companies fundamentally restructured the PC chassis into a series of isolated compartments suspended from a central load-bearing wall. It was stunning, cost $800, and wasn’t actually that practical to use. With the Level 10 GT, Thermaltake has taken the basic look ...