Windows 8 Designing Explained by Sam Moreau

We have said that Windows 8 is a complete reimagination of the Windows operating system. Nothing has been left unexplored, including the Windows logo, to evaluate how it held up to modern PC sensibilities. The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark but when we stepped back and analyzed it, we realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect our Metro style design principles and we also felt there was an opportunity to reconnect with some of the powerful characteristics of previous incarnations.

AMD Showcases Alternative to Intel’s Thunderbolt

After a slow start Intel’s Thunderbolt (also known as Light Peak) technology is starting to gain popularity among the OEMs, with Apple being the first and biggest proponent of the technology so far. Now it seems AMD wants a piece of this action as well, so they have come up with their own variant of the technology, called Lightning Bolt.

Facebook Messenger is now available for Windows

Facebook has just released the Messenger app for Windows 7. It’s been available for iOS and Android for some time too

The app does exactly what it’s supposed to do – bring the Facebook chat outside Facebook. But there are a few more features too. 

Intel planning to bring Thunderbolt Technology to PCs by April 2012

The Thunderbolt technology, developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple, has great potential but so far has been limited to Apple’s computers. Soon, however, that will not be the case.

Digitimes is now reporting that Intel has notified its partners that the company will fully release the technology in April 2012, with several first-tier PC manufacturers already planning motherboards, notebook and desktop PCs to be released with Thunderbolt next year.

AMD’s $549 Radeon HD 7970 Launched & Benchmarked

 

The highly anticipated AMD 7xxx-series GPU are finally arriving and the first one out of the gate is the Radeon HD 7970. This is the first GPU to utilize the 28nm process technology and according to AMD is the fastest single-GPU graphics card in the market today.

Intel Unveils Android-running Medfield Phone & Slate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel has just revealed its latest smartphone and tablet reference platforms based on its Medfield chipset. The chip maker is dead set on grabbing a piece of the two markets under ARM's nose and obviously won't let the few unsuccessful previous attempts stop it.

AMD Radeon HD 6990 - World’s Fastest Graphics Card !?

AMD Radeon HD 6990

The new AMD Radeon HD 6990 is the World’s fastest graphics card powered by the Dual 2nd-gen DirectX 11 GPUs and 4GB GDDR5 memory .

AMD FX CPU OVERCLOCKED to 8.429 GHz

A desktop AMD FX CPU wins the Guiness overclocking world record, hits a staggering 8.429GHz.

Microsoft Unveils Windows 8

13th Sep, 2011, At its developer focused BUILD Conference Microsoft is showcasing the latest major release of its wide spread OS - dubbed Windows 8. It features a new UI- Metro Style, which looks like an overgrown version of its WP7 smartphones. There are several improvements on performance, security, privacy and reliability and more.

 Click the link below, to know WINDOWS 8 in 8 minutes;

http://youtu.be/d9AdL1aBp8w 

Samsung Series 7 laptop Has Quad-Core i7

Samsung showed off the Series 7 laptops, which will keep the Series 7 Slate PC company. The laptops come in 14″ and 15.6″ flavors and go up to quad-core Core i7 and to make sure the powerful CPU is busy, there’s an 8GB SSD cache for the hard drive.

Razer Announces Blade, Their 1st Ever Gaming Laptop

A few days back Razer had launched a website, pcgamingisnotdead.com, where they talked about how, well, PC gaming is not really dead and that it is superior to console gaming. They also put up a counter on their site that hinted at an upcoming product but it wasn’t clear what it would be. But we know now. 

Explorer in Windows 8 - Ribbons All Over

Microsoft has published a very detailed blog post about the new Explorer in Windows 8. It brings the ribbon interface well known from the latest MS Office packages. Many of you may not like it, but wait until you hear all about it.

Dell Precision M6600: BEAST LAPTOP

ONE OF THE World's most powerful 17” mobile workstation, the only one with 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme edition, NVIDIA Quadro® 4000M and 1600MHz system memory options. Powerful Intel® Core™ processors and AMD or NVIDIA® graphics that bring performance to a new level.