Hisense Vidaa Pad Tablet Is as Thin as the iPad Air 2 at 6.1 mm

The race to produce thinner and thinner tablets is on. It might not be in the open where everybody can see, but device makers are avidly trying to appease customers’ taste for slim, light devices that can be carried around effortlessly. As we have told you, Dell recently unveiled the Venue 8 7000 Series which currently holds the title as the thinnest tablet out there, being just 6 mm / 0.24 inches thick, thus beating Apple’s iPad Air 2 that comes in at 6.1 mm / 0.24 inches. It comes very close nevertheless. There are other skinny tablets on the market. For example, the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet is 6.4 mm / 0.25 inches while the Samsung Galaxy Tab S (10.5 and 8.4-inch) is 6.6 mm / 0.26 inches. China replicates the iPad Air 2 in thickness But...

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Elsa GeForce GTX 980 SAC, GeForce GTX 980 Graphics Card with Factory Overclock

We've written about plenty of products from NVIDIA's OEM partners, but not all the brands in that set are as well known as the others. Elsa is one of the less known companies that have a contract with NVIDIA for the making of custom graphics cards. That doesn't mean that the outfit is any less capable of customizing the reference graphics cards until they're unrecognizable though. Not that making them unrecognizable is ever the goal. Since NVIDIA's brand is ultimately the strongest, all OEMs know better than to remove it. Not that contractual obligations would ever allow them to do such a thing, but we digress. Basically, Elsa has formally released a GeForce-series graphics adapter. A GeForce GTX 980, to be precise. The Elsa GeForce...

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ECS Liva Mini PC with Windows 8.1 and Bing

If you ever told ECS that its Liva miniature personal computer looks like a NUC from Intel, it would probably vehemently deny it, and it could probably summon a whole set of reasons about the hardware not being quite the same and whatnot. However, no matter how true the argument would be, Elitegroup Computer System would have to concede that the Liva is actually similar to the Next Unit of Computing in terms of size and shape. Sure, it's black instead of white or blue, or whatever other color the makers of NUC cases like to play with every other month. In the end, though, the Liva looks a lot like it. Not that it's such a crime. No one can complain much when their PC is small enough to comfortably sit in the palm of their hand. The...

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