Currently, gaming and technology in general has been centered on mobility and notebooks, generally the desktop PC doesn’t get much attention. Lenovo however has introduced their new desktop, the IdeaCentre K430 gaming desktop. While most of us are too busy playing (Skyrim, Star Wars: The Old Republic, or all the other wicked games you choose to indulge in) to look away from the screen for a few minutes, the K430 came as a bit of a surprise among the showing of the new ultrabooks coming out.

The starting price for the K430 is $599, however that’s the bare minimum. Upgrades are always good, and Lenovo is doing just that. You can upgrade, adding AMD or Nvidia graphics cards. Memory can go up to a whopping 32GB. For hard drives itself, you’re looking at a 4TB storage god.

If you’re not a massive nerd like I am, the simplicity of the specifics of the K430 are definitely going to be something to look at.

Of course though, anyone who is generally a hardcore gamer would have already built their own computer. But not all of us know how to build a computer, and for the pre-assembled market, this is a computer to consider when looking for a new one.

SOURCE: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33372_1-57354541/gaming-pcs-not-dead-yet-says-lenovo/?tag=mncol

Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward has released a DLC screen shot of a new map called Park, which will be available January 24th to Call of Duty Elite subscribers. The DLC will be available first to Xbox 360 Elite subscribers, then to the rest of the Xbox 360 community; and then to the PS3 and PC gaming community. It’s not confirmed, but there may be other maps, including  Concrete, Italy, Overwatch and Morning Wood. The email that went out to Elite members also stated that an iOS and Android version of Call of Duty Elite will be released as well.

If you’re dying to get your hands on that DLC first and you haven’t already signed up for Elite, then you know what you got to do.

It might not be the belle of the ball any longer, but U.S. Cellular has approved an update for  the original 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, bringing it some Gingerbread live in the form of Android version 2.3.5.  While it’s not Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich, it is a vast improvement over the Froyo (Android 2.2) build the Tab shipped with, and should breathe new life into your faithful electronic companion.  Besides the advantages of Gingerbread itself, the change log has a few nice bullet points:

• VPN support
• Improved volume control when playing a video or movie while listening with a headset
• Google security patches:  DigiNotar certificate revocation; Libpng security update
• Remove auto accept of Bluetooth paring for Handsfree Profile (HFP). This vulnerability allows a nearby third-party to auto connect to Bluetooth HFP and potentially access contact data on the mobile device.

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist feature for 2011, highlighting some of the top trends in search during the year. As in previous years, Apple and its products appear in a number of contexts within this year’s results.

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Digitimes once again revives talk of a 7.85-Inch iPad. According to the site, Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to 4th quarter of 2012 in addition to a new iPad at the end of the 1st quarter. Apple reportedly is looking to take on the increasing number of competitors such as Android’s 7-inch Kindle Fire:

However, in order to cope with increasing market competition including the 7-inch Kindle Fire from Amazon and the launch of large-size smartphones from handset vendors, Apple has been persuaded into the development of 7.85-inch iPads, the sources indicated.

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A couple of months ago, the photo stream feature was introduced to allow the syncing of photos across iOS devices and desktop computers instead of the messy plug-and-play. The feature only supported images, not videos. Apple and the carriers probably don’t want people sending huge video files over their networks. With the iPhone4S now recording 1080p video, that would be a lot of data going over 3G.

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There you go — Microsoft has confirmed that they have remote kill switch installed in to Windows 8 apps. Using this access, they can disable and even remove an app entirely from a user’s device. This piece of information was released along with other details of the upcoming Windows Store for Windows 8.
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