Dell today officially unveiled the Inspiron Mini 9 in Singapore and is available now locally through Dell’s affiliated retail stores starting from S$ 599 in Obsidian Black or Alpine White colour. It weighs 2.28 lbs and comes with 8.9 inch glossy LED display (1024x600), SSD storage, Wi-Fi, Webcam, Bluetooth etc.

While Intel is gearing up for Core i7 launch in November, ASUS is probably one of the first manufacturer to get their X58 boards ready for the market. The ASUS P6T Deluxe boards have already started making way into hands of the reviewers and overclockers around the world so here are some eye candies first before we start testing out this board.

TUL introduces value segment VGAs, HD4550 and HD4350 Series. With all the latest features, the new series delivers superior high-definition experience to a new level at home, work and gaming. PowerColor HD4550 clocks at 600MHz core speed and 900MHz memory speed while HD4350 clocks at 600MHz and 400MHz respectively.

Lenovo powered Nico Rosberg's Formula One car to a second place finish at the debut of the first night race at the Singapore Grand Prix.

The Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte will be commercially available in Singapore from tomorrow, 27 September 2008 at the recommended retail price of S$ 2088 without operator subsidies. Engineered from carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel, the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte is for individuals who appreciate uncompromised high performance.

AMD has prepared a slide on the Radeon HD 4830 performance vs the GeForce 9800 GT with 6 games benchmarks. No words on the system configuration or drivers used for these tests. AMD is banking heavily on this card to outperform and to outsell the GeForce 9800 GT at the same price point. In another slide, it stated that the Radeon HD 4830 series delivers up to 1.6x the performance per watt of AMD’s previous generation GPUs. 6.73 GigaFLOPS per Watt vs 4.10 GigaFLOPS per Watt for the HD 3850.

Nvidia recently announced the support of SLI technology on selected non-Nvidia chipsets through a SLI certification program and seems like board makers are starting to send their boards to Nvidia for verification already. Firstly, the manufacturers will have to submit a certification package to NVIDIA that includes hardware to test with (such as board, CPU, and memory) and a self-certification checklist. Next, Nvidia will test the board using a special SLI-enabled driver and multiple GPU configurations to ensure compliance both electrically and physically. Read More

OCZ unveiled the “HydroFlow” HF-MK1 Waterblock for superior CPU watercooling. The triangular fins in the HF-MK1 provide the volume to surface ratio of any geometric shape for best dissipation possible, and this design also creates sufficient turbulence to eliminate the “skin” effect caused by laminar flow. The base block of the HydroFlow increases center contact with the processor core ensuring exchange and functionality between the waterblock and CPU. The HydroFlow HF-MK1 is priced at MSRP of $ 39.99

GlacialTech announced the launch of Altair A381 HTPC chassis in India. The brand new Glacialtech Altair A381 HTPC is an aluminum base HTPC chassis with remote control, available in black and white colors and supporting Microsoft Vista media centre applications, is provided along with the Altair 381 to manage all existing home theatre components including DVD player, TV, MP3 player etc.

ASUS today launched the ASUS Bamboo Series notebook, a groundbreaking bamboo-clad product that is truly green throughout every phase of its life – from its conception, production and use to its eventual recycling and disposal. The ultra slim ASUS Bamboo Series notebook is currently available in two versions: a 12.1” model that weighs 1.57kg and an 11.1” model that weighs a mere 1.25kg. Both house Intel® Core™2 Duo processors and are fitted with DDRII RAM.