Worried about the transition to an older operating system to Microsoft Windows 7? Have no fear the management over at Dell has a few new services to help you out! Dell and Microsoft are tightly integrated and continue to work together throughout the development and testing of Windows 7. As a result, Dell services are tuned to address specific IT pain points of OS transitions. Dell is helping early adopters transition efficiently and cost-effectively to beta versions of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.

Dell is already helping customers realize the benefits of upgrading to Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Many customers fear that migrating to a new OS can be time-consuming and complicated, requiring armies of consultants. It is our job to take as much pain out of the process as possible with a complete portfolio of fixed-scoped services. We have one of the tightest integrations with Microsoft and have spent literally thousands of engineering hours to help develop and test Windows 7 on the Dell platform. Larry Baldachin, Director of Microsoft Consulting Services, Dell Inc.

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, announces a new series of products that is environmentally friendly and power efficient for the consumer. The PowerColor Go! Green series offers the HD4670, HD4650 and HD4350 Silent Cooling Solution (SCS), featuring stealth like silence and low power consumption, providing a cost efficient and silent gaming and entertainment solution.

The PowerColor Go! Green series consumes up to 38% less power than competing graphics cards and performs up to 36% better in benchmark tests. The products in the series offer an environmentally friendly solution to help consumers cut costs without compromising great performance for their home theater PCs and gaming rigs. The Go! Green series was designed with todays consumers in mind, says Ted Chen, TUL CEO. The products in the Go! Green series are proven performers with the added benefit of low power consumption and silent cooling.

One of the iPhone 3GS’s new features is hardware encryption. This should make it more suitable for business, but as its purportedly in hardware, it’s unavailable to other iPhone models. It can also be cracked in two minutes, using nothing more than freeware, according to Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and hacker. Zdziarski said:”It is kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret decoder ring. I don’t think any of us [developers] have ever seen encryption implemented so poorly

Sonic Solutions, best known for its CinemaNow movie venture, has just teamed up with Widevine in order to bring Hollywood hits to a place they’ve never been before: USB flash drives. Mind you, we’ve seen major motion pictures show up on flash cards of all sizes, but this is the first time a respected outfit has announced plans to launch films on flash drive.The self-contained CinemaNow USB Movie Drives will include an integrated media player as well as the necessary video codecs to enable instant high-quality

Look, 91% of anything is worthy of praise, but the figure in question here really shouldn’t be all that surprising. According to new research from NPD, nine out of every ten personal computers sold with a price tag of $1000 or more were Apple machines. We know, that sounds crazy, but we’ll explain in a bit why it’s really not terribly shocking. The exact figure is 91%; 91% of the PC market in the $1000+ sector belongs to Apple, leaving just 9% to split between Windows, Linux and…um, Solaris or something. Back

Even though the formal release of the AMD 785G chipset is not set to occur until some time in August, the first 785G motherboards have been shipping to retailers for weeks and one managed to find its way to our front door here at Legit Reviews. Today, we have the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard to take a peak at.

With Blu-ray sales on the rise, there’s hardly been a better time than now for Sony to introduce its most spacious BD changer yet. The BDP-CX7000ES MegaChanger holds more Blu-ray Discs than have even been made to date: 400. Of course, the slots not filled by Blu-ray Discs can handle DVDs and CDs just fine, but unless you’ve got tons of time to spend on movies, we guess you’ll have a mighty tough time justifying the staggering $1900 price tag. This changer also doubles as a pretty special player, with Full HD

The first ASUS Eee PC 1004DN netbook reviews are out and it seems this netbook actually has a few features that will make it stand out from the crowd. The ASUS Eee PC 1004DN has optical drive and the new Intel GN40 chipset with X4500M integrated graphics card. That means that the ASUS Eee PC 1004DN that should be faster than the GMA950 that can be found in most netbooks when it comes to at least video oriented benchmarks. The Asus 1004DN makes use of the Super Hybrid Engine which reduces power consumption and extends battery life to over 5.5 hours though, so it still has decent battery life.

What makes ASUS Eee PC 1004DN different is new Intel chipset: GN40. Interestingly, there is not too much information on Intels site about this product. What we know is that it has integrated graphics X4500M and support for HD video reproduction. We can only guess that is it successor of GL40 chipset. Although Windows XP isnt best solution for GN40 and its advanced features, we managed to play HD video successfully on Windows XP SP3 that was preinstalled on our ASUS Eee PC 1004DN. Windows Vista (or Windows 7) is much better solution. Nevertheless we managed to play 720p HD video with ease and 1080p after some tweaking. We always had a sense that problem isnt in Atom CPU because it never reached 100% load during HD video playback.

Intel has moved to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its leading NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products and the results are spectacular. Read on to see how the Intel X25-M Mainstream 160GB Generation 2 SATA SSD does against more than a dozen other 2.5″ SATA drives!

Intel informed us that while many specifications have been improved, that they do not expect many noticeable gains on application-based benchmarks. Targeted drive benchmarks and tests will show the differences however. It should noted that the X25-M will also support Microsoft Windows 7 when it becomes available. At that time, Intel plans to deliver a firmware update to allow support of the Windows 7 Trim command, along with an end user tool, to allow users to optimize the performance of their SSD on Windows XP and Vista operating systems.

In a move that will make consumers happy, OCZ has announced that they plan on slashing prices on many of their SSDs that use Indilinx controllers. That means that the OCZ Vertex, Agility and Colossus solid-state drives will be seeing some rather nice price reductions here in the near future. Anand Lal Shimpi broke the news today and said that the OCZ Vertex 128GB SSD will soon be down to around $290, which is a big move as it is currently $385 shipped before a $30 rebate at Newegg.

“It has always been our intention to make SSDs more affordable for consumers and we have achieved some greater economies of scale now that we can reduce some prices without making any changes to the product and performance. It isnt all about pricing however, while our goal is to put SSD technology into the reach of everyday consumers we are also accelerating development of cutting edge solutions and have a slew of new products coming down the pipe, and while these may not be as aggressively priced they will still represent an excellent total cost of ownership for our customers.” Commented Alex Mei, CMO of the OCZ technology Group, in regards to the pricing direction.