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The year ahead promises a rash of new technologies, with touch tablets, new graphics cards from AMD and nVidia, and more fast PC processors on the way. Console upgrades and motion controllers from both Sony and Microsoft can also be expected sooner rather than later. Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz
We’re suitably impressed by the appearance of a Microsoft tablet with a full screen. (A split screen tablet may yet be on the way from Microsoft). We’re also far from surprised that the first full screen tablets will be expensive and lack certain features, (e.g. touch/ touch and pen is a key consideration [...] There hasn’t been any coverage of touch and/ or handheld gaming in earlier posts, as we’ve seen these technologies as being solely about solitary gameplay. In particular, the Nintendo DS has become the ‘distraction’ of choice for many parents: convenient, portable and isolating. Fortunately 2010 seems set to bring together a series [...] Keeping children occupied without sending them off on their own doesn’t need to be hard work. Our suggestions for kids of 7+ can fit in the living room and be as entertaining for adults as for kids. They also present plenty of opportunities to help children get started on an activity or to [...] The release of Windows 7 and the new Intel Core i5 chips brings some major changes to the PC market. Related developments include a new range of AMD graphics cards designed to be compatible with Windows 7’s DirectX 11. For business PCs the 4Gb memory limit on 32-bit systems is unnecessarily limiting. [...] Upgrading or replacing your PC to play better games can cause power supply problems. Especially when adding graphics cards. Outer Vision Extreme have a power supply calculator that lets you match processors, graphics cards and cooling options to find out what kind of power supply a PC needs to run your games properly. [...] The Wii’s success in shifting loads of consoles to new gamers is in no doubt. The Wii’s motion sensors have also changed the way many games are played, and a handful of Wii games offer great gameplay.
So far, so good. But how many of those Wii Fit’s have been [...] We’ve had a bit more time to play around with a HD 4770 and continue to be very impressed. We bought in at the £80/ $120 point with a Sapphire Radeon 512Mb. So far, we’ve no complaints. It runs cool, and runs WoW, Sims 3, Assassin’s Creed and the like with plenty of [...] Sub-£100 graphics cards are often a disappointment to gamers hoping to play the latest titles. New games may run on cheap cards but the chances are that a lot of effects are going to have to be switched off. Enter AMD’s Radeon HD 4770, a technologically advanced card that comes in at well [...] |
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