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Lenovo C200 brings NVIDIA Ion 2 stateside for $499

If you’ve been patiently waiting on a low-cost NVIDIA Ion 2 system it looks like today is your lucky day since it looks like Lenovo has scored an early lead in unleashing the wrath of the new Atom / GeForce combo. Available sometime this month, the 18.5-inch C200 all-in-one isn’t going to replace that Core i7 rig for ripping [...]

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ASUS’s 20-inch ET2010 EeeTop models with Ion power detailed

We’ve been hearing about the ET2010 model since CES, then got another glimpse at CeBIT a few weeks ago, and now the all-in-one machine is making its international debut — and ASUS has more than one to share with us. The five models range from the ET2010AG, with an AMD Athlon II processor, up to [...]

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Moneual pulls a 360 with its MiNEW M11 desktop

Some of Moneual’s HTPCs may have gone unchanged in almost three years — save for an unforgettable gold-plated, jewel-laden model at this year’s CES — but the company has now at least churned out a fairly eye-catching, if somewhat familiar-looking desktop with its new MiNEW M11 model. Unfortunately, while the M11 does slim things down [...]

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Origin PC stuffs 4.4GHz Core i7-980X, Fermi-based GTX 470 and 480 into Genesis desktop

Hope you didn’t just pull the trigger on a new Origin PC Genesis, else you’ll be forced to know that your rig was made obsolete in record time. Okay, maybe not obsolete, but there’s precisely no doubt that you’d rather be rocking a new Fermi card than whatever you’ve got now. Right on cue, NVIDIA [...]

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iBuyPower crams Core i7-980X Extreme Edition into Paladin desktop line

If you somehow held off on buying a Core i7 rig as soon as they popped out last year, you’re in luck — and your poor Pentium II system is flat out of it. Just about everyone has updated their gaming desktop lines this week with an option to splurge on Intel’s 3.33GHz (or more) [...]

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Shuttle’s X50V2 all-in-one barebones PC gets passively cooled, passively hits online retail

When you’ve got an entire desktop PC inches from your eardrums, it helps if the machine is dead silent… or as close to that dream as possible. That’s why we’re pleased that Shuttle’s new XPC X50V2 — last spotted wearing a toga — is now on sale with a completely fanless design for silent cooling. [...]

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Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme Edition hits a slew of new gaming desktops

Intel’s six-core, twelve-threaded Core i7-980X Extreme Edition has turned the hardcore gaming community on its head, and just about everyone is scrounging around in a (mostly futile) attempt to locate $999. For those in dire need of an entire system replacement, it seems that today’s the day to start looking. Shortly after we heard that [...]

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Alienware sneaks Core i7-980X Extreme Edition into Area-51 ALX desktop

We heard at Intel’s GDC press event that Alienware would be one of the first PC manufacturers to ship systems with the newest six-core consumer processor, but neither company’s representatives would confess to “when.” Now, we’ve our answer… sort of. Hot Hardware has received a shiny new Alienware Area-51 ALX, complete with twin ATI Radeon [...]

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MSI and ASUS show off 3D all-in-ones at CeBIT

There’s no escaping that 3D trend, that’s for sure. Both ASUS and MSI are demoing 3D versions of their respective all-in-one PCs here at CeBIT, though both companies say they are just concept models at this point. ASUS’ 3D Eee Top wasn’t up and running, but there was a pair of NVIDIA-branded glasses next to [...]

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HP MediaSmart EX470 and EX480 getting 3.0 software upgrade option this week

The wild world of rapid-fire phone software updates has spoiled us all, but HP’s bringing just a smidgen of that to the world of home servers. This week owners of the last-gen EX470 and EX480 series MediaSmart Servers will be able to nab a DVD that updates their servers to the new 3.0 software currently [...]

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