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Personally I’d take a desktop over a laptop for gaming any day, but there are those who are constantly on the move and require the mobility, and for those gamers custom computer gaming manufacturer, CyberPower PC has debuted a new gaming laptop dubbed the Fang Taipan, a device which the company is proudly boasting to be the “most powerful customizable dual Nvidia GPU gaming laptop.” Whether it lives up to that claim remains to be seen, although with a base price of $1,819, we certainly hope that it will be able to deliver as it promises.

So what sort of specs are we looking at here? Well for starters, one of its highlights is its dual SLI GPU setup which uses two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680Ms in SLI mode. It will be powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs that users can choose from, which includes the rather speedy i7-3940XM 3.0GHz Extreme Edition Ivy Bridge Mobile Processor, support for up to 32GB of dual-channel DDR3 RAM, two detachable SATA-3 hard drives with hardware RAID 0/1 support, an illuminated keyboard where the colors can be changed depending on preference, an a 17.3” 16:9 LED-backlit 1080p display with an Onkyo sound system that features a built-in subwoofer. More details and the different configurations can be found at CyberPower PC’s website, where you can also place your order and expect it to ship on the 26^th of October.

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You could say that the advent of the MP3 format as well as Apple’s slick marketing (coupled with decent hardware, of course) of the iPod certainly fueled the boom of digital music, while signaling the death knell for the cassette Walkman and eventually, CD-toting Discman. Microsoft must have seen Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s Cloud Player to be a viable business to be in, hence they have announced a potential heavyweight in the department, calling their service the Xbox Music which will be available for their Xbox consoles from tomorrow onwards.

The Xbox Music service will be expanded to Windows-powered computers and tablets in due time, including the Windows 8 and Windows RT versions of the upcoming Surface tablet when October 26th rolls around to coincide with the Windows 8 operating system launch. Not only that, smartphones (definitely the ones running on Windows Phone 8) will also be getting the Xbox Music service as well. With Xbox users spending up to 60% of their time on entertainment services on the Xbox 360 console, Microsoft figured out that this is a good time to enter the fray with Xbox Music, which will continue where the ill-fated Zune service failed to take off. Microsoft will make Xbox Music available in 22 countries first, and hopes to deliver the service to iOS and Android-powered devices from 2013 onwards. [Press Release]

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A new desktop PC from Dospara is about to enter the market. Called the Magnate IM, the system will feature a 3.20GHz Intel Core i5-3470 processor, an Intel H77 Express Chipset, an Intel HD graphics 2500, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 350W power supply and run on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Magnate IM will start shipping from October 26th for 49,980 Yen (about $637). [Product Page]

MSI has come out with another ATX motherboard namely the FM2-A85XA-G65. Based on AMD A85X chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and features four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 32GB RAM), two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, three PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots and two PCI slots. Connectivity-wise, it has eight SATA 6.0 Gbps, two USB 3.0, four USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The FM2-A85XA-G65 will go on sale from October 24th for around 12,980 Yen (about $165). [Product Page]

Dell has certainly remembered that Windows 8 is going to be released at the end of this month, which is why it makes perfect sense to be prepared to receive the operating system. What better way to do so than to come up with a piece of hardware that will support Windows 8? This is where the interesting looking Dell XPS 12 hybrid tablet notebook comes in, where it is essentially two devices in a single form factor. You can opt to use it as a fully-featured, full-powered notebook when the situation calls for it, and should you need a tablet to get the job done, then the Dell XPS 12 can easily be transformed to suit the occasion, turning into a fully-featured touch-powered tablet. The hinge for the display does seem to look rather fragile – we sure hope it has been put through its paces beforehand!

Obviously, while in tablet format, you will not find some special nanotechnology at work that automatically trims down the size of the Dell XPS 12 to make it super thin, so this will be nowhere near the thinnest tablet claim. On the other hand, when it is in tablet mode, the display will ensure that the keyboard is completely covered to protect it from dirt and spills. You can pick up the Dell XPS 12 from $1,199.99 onwards. [Press Release]

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