Recent Posts Tagged With 'hardware'

• Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for disks affected by firmware bug

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 01:57 in hardware

    After a ground-swell of angry Barracuda owners voiced concern over their failing disk drives, Seagate has fessed-to the issue. According to Seagate, a firmware bug in Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives cou...

• Sony battery recall hits 100,000 -- adds Acer to the list

  Posted on Saturday November 1st, 2008 at 15:10 in hardware

    Filed under: Laptops One day later and Sony's battery recall has already tripled in size. What started as a recall of 35,000, just hit 100,000 (75,000 of which are HP related) and now includes Li-ion batteries used in some Acer laptops a...

• Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops

  Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 06:22 in hardware

    Electronics firm Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops because of wiring faults that may cause overheating. Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptopsThu, 04 Sep 2008 14:14:47 GMT var addthis_pub = 'darren-mc';...

• The PS3 Laptop: from Ben Heck to Engadget with love

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 07:38 in hardware

    Filed under: Gaming, Laptops Rewind back to late 2006. The PS3 was launching alongside the Wii and geeky editors like ourselves were having a field day. We'd already managed to convince our good pal Ben Heck to build another Xbox 360 lap...

• Alpine's head unit supports iPods, DivX playback and everything else

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 07:37 in hardware

    Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation When you call your product a Mobile Multimedia Solution it had better offer up a pretty robust set of connectivity options; especially when it costs $1,100. In that manner, Alpine&#...

• Shuttle's AMD-powered XPC G5 6801M loves Blu-ray and HD DVD

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 07:36 in hardware

    Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs While Shuttle's KPC most certainly wasn't aimed at the enthusiast in the crowd, its newest XPC definitely is. The XPC G5 6801M gets going with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 3...