Said to be the world’s first flicker-free VA (Vertical Alignment) LED monitor, BenQ today has launched its brand new BenQ GW2760HS VA LED monitor here in Malaysia. While today is the first time that the new 27-inch 1920×1080 16:9 monitor been introduced to the members of the media, it was already available in our market since last month.

The secret of the flicker-free capability on the new BenQ GW2760HS VA LED monitor lies on its backlight circuit controller which is claimed to be able to remove LED backlight flickering from any brightness level. While the monitor is claimed to be the first in the world to feature such technology with more models to be released in the market soon by BenQ, the flicker-free technology somehow is not owned by BenQ themselves.

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Being one of three new Alienware laptops that Dell has unveiled at E3 2013, the exterior design of Alienware 17 is similar to the Alienware 14 that we have discussed yesterday. These identical elements include the new jet engines and stealth bombers inspired design, anodized aluminium shell, magnesium alloy body and the vast AlienFX lighting zones across the new gaming laptop.

Additionally, the Alienware 17 is also slightly thicker at 48.46mm as compared to its predecessor (the M17x-R4) which measures at 44.5mm. That being said, the laptop is around 100 grams lighter than M17x-14 at 4.15kg which nevertheless is still quite hefty. Hence, what really set the Alienware 17 and the smaller Alienware 14 apart are their size and the hardware that are packed into them.

 

Targeted for more hardcore users, the Alienware 17 is powered by the Haswell-based 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-4800MQ quad-core processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M GPU with 3GB of GDDR5 memory. We were told that customers are also able to choose either NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5 or GeForce GTX780M with 4GB GDDR5 as well but somehow, those options are not yet available on Dell Malaysia’s website at the time this article is published.

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Three years in the marking, the Alienware 14 is one of the three new gaming laptops that Dell (the parent company of Alienware) have introduced at E3 few days ago. Interestingly, it only takes few days for the Alienware 14 to be available in Malaysia alongside its bigger brother, the equally new Alienware 17.

Even though it took Dell such a long time to conceive it, the Alienware 14 is still quite bulky as per its predecessor, the Alienware M14x. In fact, the Alienware 14 is actually thicker than M14x at 41.70mm as compared to M14x’s height that is listed at 37.8mm. Surprising, huh?

Despite the thickness, the Alienware 14 is slightly lighter though at around 2.77kg while the M14x weights at around 2.92kg. Also, the new Alienware 14 does come with a completely new exterior design that was claimed to be inspired by jet engines and stealth bombers together with the use of anodized aluminium shell and magnesium alloy body. The keyboard on Alienware 14 is now fortified with a reinforced plate for more solid typing experience with its key travel and responsiveness have been tweaked to suit gamers.

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At WWDC 2013, amongst other things, Apple showed off their next iteration of the iOS mobile OS, iOS 7. There has been a whole lot of discussion on the topic both for and against it. At Lowyat.NET HQ, we are pretty excited about the complete overhaul of an OS that has been ageing quite ungraciously. We decided it would be cool to put iOS 7 on our devices and give it a go for ourselves while recording a video for you.

In the video we go through most of the features of the new OS and give a sort of Hands On with the developers copy of the OS.

Now a disclaimer, the copy of iOS 7 we have is a beta version and is definitely not stable. The experience is definitely not representative of what it should be in the end.

If you have any questions about iOS 7 and want us to test something out for you, go ahead and Tweet us @LowyatNET or leave a comment in the post or on Facebook and we’ll do another video once we get enough responses!

In its essence, NVIDIA Shield is an Android handheld gaming machine in the shape of a game controller with a built-in 5-inch 720p retinal-quality touch display and powered by NVIDIA’s own Tegra 4 SoC. However, it is not just a one-trick pony: the NVIDIA Shield is also able to stream PC games remotely from a PC that is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 graphics card or above via GeForce Experience software.

Here, we captured in action during our little session with the folks of NVIDIA at the recent Computex 2013:

Do note that this particular unit is a pre-production model (a.k.a the Project Shield) but NVIDIA assured us that the main functionalities and abilities that we captured here are identical to the final product. We will be talking more about the differences between both variants (hint: not much) very soon, so stay tuned.

Recently launched in Malaysia, the new Acer Aspire P3 is a dual-mode Windows 8 device that allows users to operate it either as a standard notebook or a tablet. This is made possible thanks to the bundled Acer Cover which is essentially a tablet cover with a built-in full size Bluetooth keyboard and a bracket to mount the Aspire P3 tablet unit.

As for the tablet unit itself, it is equipped with an 11.6-inch 1366×768 IPS display that supports up to 10 touch points simultaneously. While the Aspire P3 is available with either Hyper-Threading enabled 1.4GHz Intel Core i3-3229Y or the non-HT 1.1GHz Pentium 2129Y (both are dual-core processors), both specs comes with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and 60GB solid state drive. The Intel Core i5 version which will be made available sometime this month is equipped with slightly more RAM at 4GB although the rest of the specifications are yet to be known.

Equipped with a 720p front-facing and 5-megapixels rear-facing webcams, the I/O ports on Aspire P3 are limited to a single USB 3.0 port, mini HDMI and 3.5mm audio jack. While having only a handful of I/O ports is a normal trait for majority of the tablets out there, we have to say that we prefer to have more USB ports if possible rather than lugging around a USB hub to cater for our USB gears.

The new Acer Aspire P3 is priced at RM 1,999 with Core i3 while the Pentium variant is priced at RM 1,799. Not to forget, the Core i5 will be priced at RM 2,299 once it is available in our market this month. To learn more, head on to www.acer.com.my but before that, do check out our hands-on photos of the device right after the jump through the Read More link below.

There comes a time in every tech writer’s life that reviews get stale and going through the motions is the most attractive way to go. Since we are Lowyat.NET, we decided to go out and do what we do best and do a review of a product in a most “real world” scenario as possible. We decided (well, I decided and then forced Pang) to get up at 5am on a Saturday morning to attempt the famous Bukit Tabur. Armed with the Lowepro Flipside Sport 15L AW packed with 2 cameras and other random knick-knacks as well as our trusty guide/videographer/Post Production Specialst Amir, here’s the result of our labour.

Since we didn’t have the energy or frame of mind to record a conclusion head on over to the jump for what I thought of the bag.

Among the feature that Intel have managed to significantly improve on the new 4^th generation Core processors (a.k.a Haswell) over their predecessors is their graphics capability. As you might know, Intel Core processors line-up have been equipped with the integrated Intel HD Graphics since 2010 but it was never capable enough for heavy usage especially in gaming.

On the 4^th generation Intel Core processors, the Intel Iris and Iris Pro Graphics represented the higher tier of the newly improved integrated GPU for Intel Core processors. The company claimed that these new integrated GPUs are able to provide between two to three times 3D graphics performance improvement over Intel HD Graphics on 3^rd generation Intel Core processors (a.k.a Ivy Bridge).

However, not all 4^th generation Intel Core processors will be featuring them as Iris and Iris Pro Graphics are available only on selected SKUs which you can find out through Intel’s ARK database. Meanwhile, both GRID 2 demos are certainly impressive but we certainly would like to experience the power of these new Intel integrated GPUs on an end-user product before we can put our verdict on them for sure.