The market of compact desktops rapidly expanding. Their innovations punctually announce leaders like Gigabyte, Intel, and Zotac.

Other companies also do not sit idle. MSI recently introduced an interesting model called Cubi.
Advance orders of the mini-PC can already draw. Basic version will cost $ 150.

MSI engineers have come up with not one, but three versions. All are equipped with 64-bit Intel chips based on the architecture Broadwell. Processors created on 14 nm technology.

The junior version is based on the Celeron 3205U with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. “Average” assembly (200 USD) Pentium 3805U uses 1.9 GHz.

Over 280 “American Presidents” can get the prompt decision issuing the order of 2 GHz (due to the Core i3-5005U).

Cubi allows you to install up to 8 GB of RAM and connect the 2.5-inch drive. Support mSATA available. There is Wi-Fi 802.11 at, Bluetooth 4.0, RJ45 LAN, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, outputs for microphone and headphones. Plus 4-port USB 3.0 (two on the rear panel and two on the front).

As OS features Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Linux.

Source: Geeky-Gadgets

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Gigabyte has officially unveiled its gaming laptop Ultraforce P35W v2 with just a crazy performance. It collected all the most powerful, including cool graphics processor NVIDIA and Intel.

In order not to lose time, go straight to its technical data. Processor is installed Intel Core i7 (though not reported what specific model). But about the graphical component has been known for more: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M with 6 GB of internal memory GDDR5.

Naturally there will be several complete sets. For example, the user can select the type of memory installed inside, there is a variant with 4 SSD 512 GB (it is for you to understand, “a lot of terabytes” supersonic speed) or 2 disk mSATA (512 GB each) plus two hard drives 1.5 TB. On the amount of RAM does not say anything, but you will realize that it is clearly not about 2GB of RAM.

Screen here too, deserves special attention. Ultraforce P35W v2 owners will delight 15.6 inch display with Full HD resolution. But if you zadrot level 80, you can connect your laptop to the big screen via miniDP and increase the enjoyment of the games exactly 3 times.

The thickness of this monster is only 21 mm, and weight – 2.16 kg (this is with the battery). How cool bonus – backlit keyboard. But the cost, release date and other details of information yet.

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In the segment of gaming peripherals users already hard to surprise. Highly sensitive sensors, software functionality and thoughtful approach to the ergonomics of the device – all this has long been a mandatory attribute upscale gamepad. Gigabyte has decided to go a slightly different way, presenting a wireless gaming mouse Gigabyte Aivia Uranium, a set of information display, built-in dock. Let’s look at it needed an accessory GamePad and how good the rest of the new product.

Options

Gigabyte positioning line gaming peripherals Aivia as premium, which resulted primarily in packaging and packaging model Uranium. The device comes in a large package, you will find that opening case of high quality cardboard, foam where the form is a manipulator, a docking station and a small box with two AA batteries, with a capacity of 2100 mAh, removable Teflon feet, wiping cloth and documentation. 

Design

Uranium manipulator design can not be considered extravagant, we have the usual matte gray plastic, no frills. On the top panel there are two customizable keys under the index finger, and in the hollow behind the scroll wheel shift lever sensitivity and two keys, responsible for working with the mouse settings. Thumb – the traditional “Next” and “Back”. All the keys are short and sharp turn, use them conveniently. Except wheel has vertical and horizontal scrolling still happy and informative way, and not rubberized coating allows the finger to slip during operation. 

Ergonomics

Dimensions Gigabyte Aivia Uranium – 130 × 78 × 40 mm, asymmetrical design. Mouse suitable for large male hands, but, unfortunately, the case can not be named because of the absence of any uhvatistym hooks for fingers. Manipulator weight with batteries is installed weight of 170 grams, the battery compartment is at the rear of the chassis. Weight Uranium is not a record, although close to it, but in such dimensions, I would like to see a more balanced design. Given the placement of the battery, the rear portion of the manipulator turned noticeably heavier, which adversely affects the balance and ease of use. The center of mass of the mouse shifted back to the right and left sensor forward, as a result we get an increased inertia and large angular shift even under normal movements of the controller. Hull form with such balance and weight is not very conducive to comfortable prolonged use. But the build quality of Uranium no claims. 

Docking Station

The main highlight of Aivia Uranium is a docking station equipped with a built-in OLED-display – Ghost Macro Station. Miniature screen to display information about the current settings of the mouse, such as indicator dpi, the selected profile, sampling rate and the battery level. And the controls are located on the mouse can help you configure the above parameters on the fly, without the distraction of switching between game and software. Moreover, Ghost Macro Station allows you to override the functionality of additional keys and save the settings in one of the five available profiles. On the dock are two buttons with which you can adjust the display brightness. Have the ability and inclination to change it. 

In addition to displaying information about the parameters of the controller, Ghost Macro Station serves as a receiver, running at 2.4 GHz. Also included is the ability to charge the mouse via an exhaust micro-USB cable. During the tests, no problems with both wired and wireless connection have arisen. For full dock requires two free USB-port.

Functionality

Ghost Macro Station, with all its functionality, can not completely eliminate the use of proprietary software Ghost Engine. The program not only provides the same capabilities as the Ghost Macro Station, but also the function of creating macros and customize the dock. The disadvantages include the Ghost Engine lurid appearance and poor quality localization. 

For tracking movements Gigabyte Aivia Uranium responsible sensor with laser illumination Philips Twin Eye with a maximum resolution of 5600 dpi and a sampling rate of 1000 Hz. Sensor settings not dazzling, nevertheless, during the test no problem with it arose.

Unambiguous plus manipulator is autonomy. The manufacturer claims Aivia Uranium for 50 hours in the game mode with maximum performance, which is not surprising, given the total capacity of the battery package. In practice, the controller of the week shown on a single charge in a mixed mode at 8-10 hours of use per day.

Results

Gigabayte Aivia Uranium – mouse with an interesting idea, but not very successful implementation. Novelty be taken as a conceptual product, reflecting the company’s search for new ideas in the segment of game controllers. The main drawbacks of the manipulator – flaws in ergonomics, bad balance and a high price, which at the time of testing was about 960 USD.

Liked

+ Concept Information Display
+ Runtime

Dislike

– Too simple body materials
– Not the most ideal ergonomics
– Unsuccessful balance
– Price

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More on the exhibition Computex 2013 , Gigabyte showed a new line of smart phones, including smartphones was presented and the hero of this review – Gigabyte Gsmart Sierra S1 . This smartphone is based on the CPU MediaTek MT6589T c 1 GB of RAM, IPS display has a diagonal of 5 inches and a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, as well as the main camera with a resolution of 13 MP.

Scope of delivery

In addition to the smartphone user will find in the box AC charger, USB-cable, headset and various documents. The box in which the device is made qualitatively. After its discovery you will be pleased with the fact that the smartphone is surrounded by foam cushions on all sides, indicating that caring for the device by the manufacturer.

Design and ergonomics

Many times we have heard and seen directly, as Chinese manufacturers almost completely copied the design of smart phones known manufacturers. That’s my smartphone Sierra S1 is very similar to a well-known iPhone 4s in white body, but increased somewhat in size. On this idea tempting location of the speakers, rear camera, and the location of the camera button on the site of the key switch modes.

Dimensions smartphone unpleasantly surprised, especially the length of 145 mm, which is a lot like a smartphone with a five-inch screen, and the width is 72.5 mm too big, but pleasantly pleased thickness – 8.9 mm very good indicator. Smartphone weighs 168 grams, which is quite a lot. Comfortable to use with one hand can not all.

Regarding the location of the keys and interfaces, at the top of the front panel is a front-facing camera, voice speaker, light sensor and proximity. Located at the bottom of the front panel microphone and touch function keys with backlight. Along the perimeter of the housing encloses silver rim that is similar in appearance to the metal, but is made of plastic. At the ends of the smartphone is microUSB and 3.5mm (top), the lattice dynamics of the media and another grille (below), the volume rocker, power button, and an indentation to remove the cover (right) and the camera activation key (on the left). On the back cover is a camera lens, flash, and the manufacturer’s logo. By the way, the back cover is securely locked. It is made of thin plastic with a textured aluminum, through which fingerprints on it are not visible. Under the hood is located two slots for SIM-cards and a slot for memory cards microSD.

In terms of ergonomics is both pleasant and not very moments. All mechanical keys have one feature that they are very recessed into the body, which has a negative impact on the use of smart phone “blindly”. Key to activate the camera starts it only when the device is unlocked, and indeed it is located in an inconvenient place. Therefore, the device should be kept upside down, as in this embodiment, the camera is at the bottom, in which is easy to overlap with a hand held phone. Another key has a tight course and does not have a shutter for pre-focusing. Because this key is in most cases will be useless. If, for location from above microUSB can be used, then looking at the pseudo lattice multimedia speakers, you enter into a stupor. Since it is not clear why it is here, except for the sake of symmetry and pseudo iPhone-style. Highlighting hardware touch keys are not uniform, and does not look very pretty. The benefit can turn it off.

The positive aspect of ergonomics, first of all, it was the location of the multimedia speaker that not only are vociferous, so more and in most cases will not be covered. The second positive point is the location of the power button on the right side of the face.

The operating system and shell

Smartphone running the operating system Android 4.2.1, and that is very good, has a standard envelope. In general I am very pleased that the majority is not well-known manufacturers use the “net» Android, probably due to this fact, even in smart phones with a small amount of memory is no problem with its lack.

Another right step on the part of the manufacturer has a small amount of pre-installed applications. Among the applications, it is worth noting the large number of applications from Google. The surprise was to see the official device having such programs as: Play Magazines, Play Books and Play Movies. These services are not available to Ukrainians, as you will be informed when the application runs on a smartphone. A very interesting application that will OOBE, which in a few points will help you quickly configure the basic functions of a smartphone. Do not stint on the manufacturer and the presence of the keyboard, which has acted as TouchPal-keyboard. It has a large number of options and the possibility of replacing the cover, there is a spell checker, errata, and the technology TouchPal Curve, which is a symbiosis swipe and predictive input.

Hardware Platform

The smartphone is based on the popular SoC MT6589T from the company MediaTek. Capabilities of this solution is sufficient for most tasks. SoC MT6589T – a variation of the MT6589, which raised the clock speed of the processor from 1.2 GHz to 1.5 GHz. The chipset includes a quad-core Cortex-A7, graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX544 MP, and 1 GB of RAM. The amount of internal storage is 4 GB, of which the user can use a little less than 1 GB. Under normal conditions of free RAM 450 MB, which is pretty good.

Playing a Video

I think that a lot of people would agree that is not always the number of processor cores and make the smooth operation of the interface in this context does not disappoint Sierra S1, it has a smooth and fast interface. With the launch of heavy modern games device does well. Riptide GP2 and Real Racing 3 show a comfortable amount of fps, even at the highest settings, and Asphalt 8 – at low settings. If we talk about the speed of launching applications, it is very good. Applications launched quickly, and did not fly out of memory.

The volume and sound quality of the speakers is decent. Microphone good speech, but there is no noise reduction features. Complete the headphones are not pleased with the sound quality. The important point is that not all headsets are suitable for this smartphone. Even the headset adapted to the Android device, so if you decide to replace a full-time headset for something better, I recommend you check the availability and quality of sound. In my case, the sound quality was good only when you pressed the call on the headset. Otherwise, there is an echo effect. When you connect headphones sound is transmitted without distortion.

The smartphone supports two SIM-cards, but it has one radio module, which makes it impossible to accept a call to a second SIM-card while talking on the first one. Phonebook, messages and call logs are standard. There is a standard menu Association SIM-cards.

Like most modern smartphones Gigabyte Gsmart Sierra S1 is heated during heavy loads, such as three-dimensional game. Heating is not great and there near the camera on the back side of the case.

Data transmission on the WiFi-network is fast and breaks the connection has not been noticed. Working with GPS on devices with a chipset from MediaTek has always been a lot of questions. So this smartphone is no exception. During cold starts, compared with chipsets from Qualcomm satellites are searched long enough.

In terms of autonomy Sierra S1 was not surprised, because it contains the battery pack of 2000 mAh and despite the fact that the display has a diagonal of 5 inches and IPS matrix with HD resolution. In the mean load smartphone is capable to hold the daylight hours. As for such a thin device is the average. Below you can see the results, and see the next opponents on the basis of screen diagonal.

To listen to the music we used a standard player, the volume on the value of 12 out of 15, the MP3 files with a bitrate of 320 kbit / s. In the read mode disables all wireless communications, including data transmission in a mobile network, and the display brightness set to 50%. When playing a video display brightness set to 50%, the volume level on level 12 of a possible 15. A video file format MKV, resolution 1024h448 points, frame 25. When playing video from Youtube display brightness set to 50%, the volume level at 12 out of 15 possible levels.

Display and Camera

More and more smart phones are entering the market are equipped with high-quality displays. That test Sierra S1 is no exception. The screen is a 5-inch HD resolution looks good, though somewhat faded in the sun. Individual pixels are not visible to the naked eye. There is automatic brightness sensor that works correctly, it changes the brightness smoothly and on time. The screen supports multi-touch and recognizes up to five simultaneous key presses. The sensitivity of the sensor is excellent. The smartphone has an air gap. Minimum brightness – 41 cd/m2, the average -178 cd/m2, maximum – 347 cd/m2. The display deserves a good rating. Gamma curve is linear and relatively close to the value 2.2 – this means that the dark and light colors displayed correctly. The color gamut is only slightly wider s RGB. Chart color temperature confirms the subjective impression of a little more than cool colors.

The smartphone is equipped with two cameras at 13MP and 2MP. Calling the camera can, is, as the menu and pressing the camera key, which I spoke earlier.

The menu interface is standard camera with the exception of settings where you can adjust the sharpness, hue, saturation, brightness and contrast. These settings greatly affect the final result. It is also worth noting the presence of the regime HDR, however, it seemed to me, it does not work in the best way and only adds a bit of shadow detail. In low light conditions the camera noticeably blurs images.

Video recording is in 720p, there is video stabilization and auto focus.
Subjectively, the quality of photos and video are good.

The results

Smartphone Gigabyte Gsmart Sierra S1 – a typical representative of modern Chinese smartphones.

High-quality large display and assembly, camera, support for two SIM-cards – its main advantages. Short battery life, size and weight – something with which will have to be reconciled.

Liked

+ Build Quality
+ Camera
+ Android 4.2.1
+ Screen
+ Hardware Platform
+ Support for two SIM-cards

Do not like it

– Design
– Small battery life
– Uneven illumination hardware softkeys

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At the Intel Developer Forum exhibition of Gigabyte was shown a prototype of a gaming computer BRIX. The device is based on the fourth-generation Haswell processor, and is responsible for the quality of graphics chip Iris Pro. To work with peripheral devices using ports HDMI, Ethernet, four USB 3.0 port and the headset, as well as modules Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi. Price of the device is not yet named, but the count is valued at around $ 500, though for the money you will not get the hard drive, RAM and gamepads that have to be bought separately, based on their preferences and requirements.

Source: Engadget

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The company ASBIS (official distributor in Russia GSmart smartphones) has announced the withdrawal of the Russian smartphone market GIGABYTE GSmart MAYA M1 (v2). The device differs from its predecessor in a more powerful processor (4 cores at 1.2 GHz instead of 2 cores at 1 GHz) and “grown-up» Android, which gave the flagship line of GSmart all the innovations version 4.2 (previously 4.1).

According to the manufacturer, loading web pages was faster gaming capabilities have increased and decreased power consumption. Now with the same capacity battery 1700 mAh Talk time will be at 4:00 as it was before, and 4.5 hours. In standby MAYA M1 (v2) will hold up to 500 hours – 200 hours is greater than the first version of the smartphone.

Due to improved component device has become lighter (147 grams compared with 150 grams), having earlier 67x136x9.7 mm dimensions. The screen also has not changed: 4.5 inch IPS matrix and the expansion of 960 × 540 pixels.

2-megapixel front-facing camera enables video calls from the comfort of exercise. Face recognition software will make it possible to put a self-portrait as a password to unlock the screen. The main 8 megapixel camera boasts autofocus, flash and panorama shooting.

Like many smart phones GSmart, MAYA M1 (v2) supports two SIM-card selection function for each task. New on sale in September 2013.

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GIGABYTE has announced the launch of Russian smartphone sales GIGABYTE GSmart AKU A1. NEW mid-range with support for two SIM-cards has a powerful quad-core processor MediaTek MT6589M with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz and an ergonomic design.

The new smartphone from the GIGABYTE has touch screen TFT-screen with a resolution of 854 × 480 pixels and the size of 4.5 inches. Gadget size 136x67x12.35 mm fits comfortably in the hand and has a streamlined shape. Smartphone have a simple sporty style and enclosed in a casing in matt black and white colors.

GSmart AKU A1 runs on OS Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, has 1GB of RAM and 4 GB internal, expandable by another 32 GB with the help of maps micro SD. Lithium-ion battery capacity of 2000 mAh battery life will last up to 300 hours of standby time.

The main 5-megapixel camera has autofocus and LED flash, video call can be made with the front 0.3 megapixel camera. Smartphone can shoot video at a modest resolution VGA (640 × 480).

Among other features worth mentioning modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS, FM-radio support, proximity and light, G-sensor, electronic compass. Smartphone GIGABYTE GSmart AKU A1 will be available in August for a suggested retail price of 7,990 rubles (about 2,000 hryvnia).

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Today has become the new model is available from the company GIGABYTE – ultrabook U2442T. This computer has a high performance and compact size.

GIGABYTE U2442T Ultrabook features a powerful processor Intel Core i5-3230M (2,6-3,2 GHz) and RAM from 4 to 8 GB. Depending on the modification of the device may have a dual storage system – high-m-SSD-drive to 256 GB and volume HDD-drive with up to 1TB of memory.

Discrete graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M (2 GB of dedicated video memory) is perfect for running games and other demanding graphics subsystem applications, and support for NVIDIA Optimus technology allows you to switch to the integrated graphics processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 integrated to save battery lithium polymer battery.

Novelty was touch LED-display with a diagonal of 14 inches, a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels and supports multi-touch detection (multi-touch) to complete the work with the operating system Microsoft Windows 8.

Despite the use of a powerful processor and a discrete graphics card, ultrabook is compact, the front panel is made of brushed aluminum. U2442T thickness not exceeding 2.25 cm and its weight of 1.7-1.8 kg (depending on version).

Dual ventilation system effectively cools the computer and makes ultrabook virtually silent.

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