http://www.computershop.co.uk Computer News and Advice Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:29:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Novatech has started shipping GTX280 laptops (at last!). They were announced way back at the beginning of March at Cebit, but finally they seem to be hitting the shop floors in the UK. The X90 GTX 280 Clevo whitebox features a 17" display, three 500GB 7200RPM HDDs or three 64GB SSDs ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=143 Intel has embarked on a simplification of branding for its PC chips, saying it would phase out the Centrino name and consolidate desktop and laptop processors under the Core umbrella. In what apparently will create a smoother structure, Centrino will be dumped in favour of three processor levels - the Core ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=125 A Conservative MP from Devon has paid back nearly £400 he claimed on expenses for a designer leather carrying case for his laptop. Hugo Swire, MP for east Devon, paid £395 for the laptop bag from Mulberry – the luxury accessories company. Many of the brand's products are said to be ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=105 The economic crisis is even forcing Apple to open a summer sale that looks like it’s here to stay. The Californian electronics company recently cut prices from 5% to 15% on most MacBook laptops, from the 13-inch machine now dubbed MacBook Pro, to the slim MacBook Air. The revamped MacBooks ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=95 Tesco is going head to head with Carphone Warehouse, offering free laptops to customers who purchase many of its mobile broadband packages. The grocery and retail supermarket giant, which openly aspires to become the UK's leading telecoms player, is offering two free laptop models at 50 of its in-store phone shops ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=83 Gamers rejoice! Alienware reckon they have ‘pwned’ their competition with the unveiling of ‘the most powerful 17-inch gaming laptop in the world’, the M17x. Certainly an audacious claim, but it could well prove to be justified as the laptop hits the shop shelves in what is Alienware’s most important release ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=65 Remember how everyone used to wrap their school textbooks in funky gift-wrap or magazine pages to liven them up a bit? Well, with textbooks dying out and many schools now making their curriculum available online, it seems only right that students can continue to glam-up their work and now they ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=55 A popular broadband news and price comparison site vows that consumers can now get themselves a laptop in a new mobile broadband deal which works out cheaper than a cup of coffee in a high street café. By allowing consumers to spread their payments over a prolonged period of time, mobile ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=45 The Sony VAIO NW laptop seems set to start a portable price war, promising to deliver the best priced Blu-ray laptop available in the UK, bringing the technology within every household budget. The VAIO NW will hit the shop floors in the US next month with a starting price of $800 ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=33 In this day and age, it isn’t uncommon for children to be more au-fait with technology than their parents; many have grown up in tandem with a mobile phone or portable games console such as a Nintendo DS, so it comes as little surprise that Disney are now looking to ... http://www.computershop.co.uk/?p=15