Hasta La Gadget!

These days, Shuttle’s particular brand of small form factor PC isn’t as exactly stunning as it once was, but it’s still fun to see just how much they can cram in there. Shuttle has taken its barebones SX58H7 Core i7 kit and is now offering it preconfigured with Core i7 Extreme processors, 6GB of RAM and GeForce GTX 285 graphics (With support for SLI or ATI CrossFireX). Unfortunately the base price for the H7 5800 is a silly high $2,149, and once you actually get to any of those previously mentioned trimmings, you’re looking at around $4k for a computer. It might be slight technical feat, but we can’t imagine Shuttle burning up the sales charts with this one. The barebones kit retails for $719.

Filed under: Desktops

Shuttle’s H7 5800 packs Core i7 and all the trimmings into a small form factor PC originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Iconoculture: Well-known Los Angeles chef Susan Feniger has opened Street, a restaurant that takes its inspiration from street vendors from across the globe.

The menu — a mix of small plates, medium-sized portions and proper entrées — features dishes from Singapore to India. Kaya toast, a common breakfast dish in Singapore, is two pieces of grilled white bread spread with sweet coconut jam and served with a soft-boiled egg. Indian-style fritters come topped with yogurt, mint sauce and tamarind chutney.

To complete the global adventure, Street offers beers from around the world, as well as exotic non-boozy options like Mexican-style aguas frescas (fruit juice drinks) and lassis (yogurt-based bevvies) from India.

Most consumers can’t afford an international vacation these days — but they can afford a Belgian brew and a few global snacks.

Street smarts: L.A. restaurant serves exotic nibbles from around the world [Iconoculture]

We’ve already gotten word of some of the specs for MSI’s new X-Slim X600 ultraportable, and gotten up close with the laptop itself, but those few remaining details has now finally been revealed in full, along with some fresh new pics of a hereto unseen black model. According to Notebook Italia, there will be two variations of the laptop available: one packing a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Solo processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive, and the other sporting a slower 1.2GHz Intel Celeron processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive — the latter also ditches the built-in Bluetooth. Otherwise, you’ll get ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics on each, along with HDMI out, three USB ports, a six-cell battery and, of course, that 15.6-inch 1,366 x 768 screen. Still no official word on a US release, unfortunately, but it looks like these will sell for €799 and €949 (or roughly $1,120 and $1,320) when they hit Europe at the end of June.

[Via Electronista]

Filed under: Laptops

MSI X-Slim X600 specs get detailed in full originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

We’d be careful about putting too much stock into an admittedly far off rumor, but the gang at 1UP claim they’ve heard from those in the know that Microsoft’s set to release a new Xbox console in Fall 2010, and that current media darling Project Natal is “the cornerstone” of that evolution. Specs-wise, it’s suggested we’re looking at only a marginal boost analogous to Nintendo’s GameCube-to-Wii transition — place your bets on how long it’ll take to “max out” this time — as well as a rebranding (Xbox Natal, anyone?) aimed at attracting the highly coveted, more mainstream / casual audience, before Mario and the crew catch a second wind with the oft-rumored Wii HD. There’s nothing unbelievable about these whispers, but again, Fall 2010 is quite a ways off and anything can happen in the meantime. First unveiling will allegedly be the 2010 Game Developers Conference in early March, so your best bet for now is to hold tight and keep a close eye on who gets a primetime slot among that event’s keynote speeches.

Filed under: Gaming

Project Natal basis for new Xbox console coming Fall 2010? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

This one’s been making the rounds in Europe for some time now, and finally passed through the FCC late last year, but it looks like Sonoro’s Eklipse iPod dock / CD player / clock radio has only just recently gotten fully official in the US, and given a price. Unfortunately, while it has dropped a bit compared to the Euro conversion, it is still a fairly hefty $550, which will buy you 7.5W of power output, a nice little OLED display, a compact remote, and an auxiliary jack in case the iPod dock and slot-load CD player aren’t enough options for you. There’s still no official word on a release date, however, but it looks like at least one retailer is now taking pre-orders for it.

[Via OhGizmo!]

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Sonoro Eklipse clock radio / iPod dock gets official, priced originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments