The Clevo W110ER is a gaming laptop with an 11.6 inch display, Intel Ivy Bridge processor and NVIDIA Kepler graphics card. It’s one of the most powerful computers available in an 11.6 inch form factor — especially for gamers. Clevo is a Taiwanese PC manufacturer, but a handful of companies are slapping their names on the laptop and selling it…
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Computers designed for gaming tend to be big, heavy, and generally a pain to lug around. Notebooks with 11.6 inch displays, on the other hand, are typically aimed at folks that prioritize mobility over graphics performance. They tend to be thin, light, and easy to stuff in a bag. There hasn’t been a whole lot of overlap between these two computer categories….
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Origin PC has unveiled an 11.6 inch gaming laptop called the EON 11-S. If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s nearly identical to the Maingear Pulse 11 introduced a few days ago. Both laptops are manufactured by Taiwanese PC builder Clevo. The biggest difference is that the cheapest version of the EON 11-S will be $999, or about $100 less than…
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Dell may have decided that 11.6 inch gaming laptops aren’t as cool as they once were… but Maingear is ready to pick up where Dell left off when it decided to end the Alienware M11x line of ultraportable gaming rigs. Engadget reports that Maingear will launch the Pulse 11 notebook on June 3rd with prices starting at $1099. The laptop…
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French tablet maker Archos is preparing a new Android tablet aimed at gaming. Speaking to The New Ecomiste, the CEO of Archos said he sees traditional game consoles going away, with tablets taking their place. That doesn’t necessarily mean he envisions a future where all games are played on touchscreens — hardcore gamers will tell you how much fun that…
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Dell is based in Texas, where everything is allegedly bigger. So maybe it’s not surprising to see that the company is killing off its smallest Alienware gaming laptop. Dell has already largely pulled out of the US netbook, smartphone, and Android tablet space. Dell introduced the Alienware M11x gaming notebook with an 11.6 inch display a few years ago when…
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The OpenPandora project is an open source project to create a handheld gaming console using open source designs and open source software. The Pandora has an ARM-based processor, Linux-based operating system, and support for a wide range of game console emulators along with a QWERTY thumb keyboard and dual analog game controllers. It’s been about four years since the project…
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Video game retail chain Gamestop is now offering Android tablets through its website and in select US stores. As announced last month, Gamestop isn’t offering tablets under its own brand name, but instead sells a handful of popular tablets from well known companies. At launch, Gamestop is selling the Acer Iconia Tab A100 7 inch tablet, Asus Eee Pad Transformer,…
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The OCS9 tablet from OCosmos is a 10.1 inch Windows 7 slate PC with a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, and a solid state disk. The company started showing off the tablet in January, and it’s finally ready to go on sale next month in Korea, where it will be available for $700. The tablet’s claim to…
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The Raspberry Pi is designed to be a tiny, low cost computer for use in education. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to play video games. The team working to bring the $25 computer to market posted a video this weekend showing a prototype running Quake III. This is still a work in progress — the frame rate…
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Mobile processors such as the latest NVIDIA Tegra or Qualcomm Snapdragon chips already offer pretty impressive graphics performance. They can handle 1080p HD video playback and 3D graphics acceleration and companies are working on adding features like shadow-and-lighting effects. While there are some pretty impressive games available for mobile devices, they still don’t really hold a candle to the titles…
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Razer is showing off a new version of the Switchblade portable gaming concept powered by a new Intel Atom chip that Intel hasn’t actually gotten around to announcing yet. Razer has been showing off a prototypes of the Switchblade with a 7 inch display and customizable touch-sensitive buttons instead of a standard keyboard since CES in January. At the time,…
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