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Need a Luxury Gaming PC for the Living Room?

by Justin Hubbell on Mon, 2009-06-22 00:30


MAINGEAR Axess HD Gamer

Look no further with MAINGEAR's Axess HD Gamer, a luxury gaming PC that brings high end gaming to the living room. Built into a sleek, low profile, aluminum HTPC form factor with an acrylic trim, the Axess HD was designed to integrate seamlessly into any home theater set up with existing A/V components.

The Axess HD comes equipped with a Core i7 processor and a pair of 9800 GT video cards in SLI to deliver a stunningly 1080p output.

MAINGEAR also teamed up with NVIDIA to integrate GeForce 3D Vision so that gamers with Mitsubishi DLP's or Samsung desktop LCDs can experience 3D gaming. MAINGEAR is the first company to offer the Phantom Lapboard, a unique keyboard that liberates users from desktop settings through an innovative 360-degree rotating design. Read more

Improving Video Quality: Even Old Content is One Click Away


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Technology moves so quickly that almost everyone has analog (tape) and digital video they want to save and enjoy. Even with today's low-cost, high quality cameras and ubiquitous camphones, the results are usually less than great viewing quality.

Unless you're carrying a bank of photo lights around, the video is usually a little on the dark side. And no matter how hard you try to hold the camera steady, the video is shaky. Often the focus is a little off and there are video noise artifacts that make the final movie a little "uncomfortable" to watch, especially when everyone expects to watch theater quality videos of the kids events, family activities and special moments.

If you're converting old family/friends videotapes to digital, the problem becomes even worse. You not only have to handle all of the issues listed above, you also have video quality that is…well…VHS quality. Ten to 20 years ago it was fine, but once DVD movies were introduced it was easy to see that the quality could be better…a lot better. Read more

AspireRevo: Acer's Tiny, NVIDIA Ion-Based PC

by jessica on Wed, 2009-04-08 10:29


Acer AspireRevo

Acer and NVIDIA just announced the world's first NVIDIA ION –based PC, the Acer AspireRevo.

This tiny PC (just 7.1- x 7.1- x 1.2-inches) is about the size of a hardcover book, yet is a full-fledged desktop that can handle HD video, gaming, digital photos, and of course, surfing the web. And get this…with NVIDIA ION graphics, the performance is 5-10 times faster than your regular PC with integrated graphics.

The AspireRevo includes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 250GB of HDD space, a 4-in-1 card reader, HDMI/VGA outputs, gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 sockets, audio in/out, and Windows Vista Home Premium (or Basic).

Pricing and availability have not been announced.

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