PC in a briefcase

Portable computers are great whether they are PDAs or laptops but sometimes you just need access to your home PC. Well one industrious chap has decided to make his machine very mobile indeed. Known only as 'Lanjunky', this fellow has put the insides of his beloved PC into a snazzy looking aluminium case, the type that you'd use for storing camera equipment. ...more

iSuppli: Reckoning the Xbox bill of materials

It's not news that Microsoft and Sony don't make money on console hardware, but iSupply have provided the exact figures in a 'teardown' analysis of the latest Xbox 360 console. The research company calculates that Microsoft does indeed price the product well below the total bill-of-material (BOM) costs of the components. Specifically, the total cost for the Xbox 360 Premium reaches $525, which is well above the retail price of $399. ...more

The Athlon XP, in mobile form

AMD brings its high-performance XP processor to notebooks. Using the 'Thoroughbred' core, four models will be available: 1400+, 1500+, 1600+ and 1700+. Converting these labels to clock speeds - these new processors run at 1. ...more

Two in the Palm

Two new top of the range offerings for Palm's m100 and m500 series. Colour has traditionally put a PDA out of reach for the consumer pocket. But Palm's new m130 (pictured right) offers just that, in the form of a backlit 16-bit colour STN LCD screen, for ?229. ...more

AMD fanfares new Sempron chip range

AMD has announced that the replacement for its ageing Duron range is going to be named the Sempron. The company says that it will start shipping the new range, aimed at the budget-conscious user, in the second half of this year. The company says that for desktop and notebook computing, it sees the 64-bit Athlon processors filling the top of the range with the Athlon XP and Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 32-bit chips filling the mid range. ...more