Lenovo has recently launched a brand new touch screen PC at this year’s CES in Las Vegas.

The IdeaCentre Horizon, that Lenovo calls a Table PC, has a 27-inch screen and a thickness measuring just 1.1-inches.

While Lenovo’s ”interpersonal PC”, which it claims is a world first can function as a regular desktop, with an optional built in stand, it has the ability to collapse into a table top mode than can be shared among multiple users, for gaming for example that includes joysticks and an e-dice for just this purpose.

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HP today extends its business tablet portfolio to SA with the announcement of its next-generation convertible tablet, the HP EliteBook Revolve —a touch-enabled notebook that pivots to let users share their work and folds to go mobile as a tablet.

With the ability to transform to a convertible design, the HP EliteBook Revolve is designed for business customers who require both an ultrathin notebook and a touch-enabled tablet. Driven by a third-generation Intel Core processor and optimised for Windows 8, the HP EliteBook Revolve offers the performance and visuals of a full-power notebook alongside the flexibility to quickly switch to a tablet with a touch-enabled display.

HP also released a new HP Multi-Tablet Charging Module which quickly and easily charges and stores up to 10 tablet PCs with just one power outlet. Suitable for a range of different work environments, the module secures all docked tablets with a locking mechanism and a keyed lock on the fold-back doors.

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Personal Computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd. has reportedly said that it will be spending $800 million on a brand new research, development and production center for smartphones and tablets in China in order to expand beyond its PC business and become more competitive in the mobile device market.

The company broke ground on Monday at the new facility in Wuhan in the Hubei province, which it has said is expected to begin production in October 2013.

The company has also mentioned that the new facitlity will contribute to the creation of about 10, 000 jobs over the next few years of which several thousand employees will focus mainly on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices for China and global markets.

Lenovo also revealed that sales from the industrial base were projected to reach 10 billion yuan by 2014, and to rise to 50 billion yuan within the next five years.

Lenovo Group chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing explains that “We are aggressively moving forward into the PC Plus era  and are accelerating development in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile Internet terminal markets. We’re determined to firmly seize the tremendous opportunities for innovation in this market, so that Lenovo’s customers have even more opportunities to own our award-winning products, from PCs to mobile Internet devices.”

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After months of delays, Intel has finally officially launched its latest generation processors, called “Ivy Bridge”. The average PC-buying customer will still see the same Core i3, i5, and i7 branding, but the new 22nm manufacturing process ensures much better performance than the previous Sandy Bridge processors.

At first, Intel is initially focussing on quad core chips for desktops and laptops, but ultra low power dual core laptop processors will be rolling out in Q3 this year. The biggest advancement in these new generation processors is the 20% decrease in power usage, combined with 20% increase in performance, mainly because of the a new 3D-transistor manufacturing process and partly thanks to a much improved on-chip graphics processing unit. The new HD 4000 built in GPU promises much faster on the fly transcoding, and can also comfortably handle 4K video which is currently being used by high end video camera manufacturers like RED. Lower end Ivy Bridge processors will ship with HD 2500 GPU’s but the performance benchmarks have not yet been seen.

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At the official Apple TV and Apple iPad event that took place on Wednesday, Tim Cook announced in his address that “I’d like to get started by talking about the post-PC revolution” which according to Cook, Apple is at the forefront of leading. But what exactly does the Apple CEO mean by the “post-PC Revolution” particularly when the new iPad is looking more like a new kind of portable computer rather than a simple media player?

Cook offered a fair definition explaining that “We’re talking about a world where the PC is no longer the centre of your digital world, but just another device. The devices you use the most are more portable, more personal and dramatically easier to use than any PC has ever been.” So rather than the iPad and iPhone being an extension of or addition to your PC, they are now becoming, as a group of separate devices, the bulk of where your computing will occur.

For Apple “post-PC” as a device category mentioned above includes three of Apple’s product lines: The iPod, iPhone and iPad. Combined, these three devices make up a majority 76% of Apple’s enormous revenues. Interestingly enough if you take a look back to 2007 when Steve Jobs first spoke about “post-PC” as a device category, the exemplary device in this case was the iPod — a gadget no one would ever mistake for a personal computer. At the time, it was likely considered among consumers as simply a portal media playing device.

The iPad however is different in that it is most similar to those characteristics found on some mobile phones (the base operating system, interface design, long battery life, 4G internet), but it is really a new computing form factor allowing you to compose and send emails, edit photographs, search the internet and create documents.

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ExoPC has developed what could be the desk of the future  - a new 40-inch HD multi-touch desk on which the user’s monitor, keyboard and mouse can be placed, called the EXOdesk.

ExoPC who will officially be announcing the product at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, has uploaded a teaser video onto YouTube to showcase just a few of its features. The video shows a widget hub in the corner of the desk that can launch applications on the screen and the ability to pull down a timeline populated with news information, RSS feeds, tweets and other alerts from the top corner of the table. All applications can be easily swiped away out of sight and widgets and screen settings are all customisable.

While the EXOdesk isn’t the first in multi-touch desk technology with Samsung  having recently announced its Samsung SUR40, a 40-inch, 1080p multitouch table running Microsoft’s Surface software, the EXOdesk differentiates itself with its affordable price tag. The SUR40, designed primarily for business use and as a computer replacement, can be purchased for a staggering $8,400 (about R71, 990) while the EXOdesk, more of a computer supplement and desk replacement is offered at just $1,299 (about R11, 130), a bargain in comparison.

Watch the EXOdesk teaser video below:

source: Gizmag

Crytek has already boasted that Crysis 2 has “the best graphics you’ve ever seen“. But does it have the best trailer?

Nope, not quite. But this video does wet our appetites for what will undoubtedly be one of the most visually stunning titles of this year.

We understand that the shooter will be out this September for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. PC fans will no doubt feel a little betrayed – Crysis 1, a PC exclusive flew in the face of supposed console “superiority” and was, by miles, the best looking game on any platform when it came out. How things change.

See the yellow guy in the picture? Total badass. He, of course, is the star of Alien Hominid, a wondrous little flash game from 2002 that went on to become a fully flledged game on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and GameBoy Advance. (more…)