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Model: ASUS N53J Manufacturer: ASUS Price: £750 or below Availabilty: Available Now! If you’ve been paying attention recently, you’ll understand that we at Sporkings love laptops. We’ve reviewed the very top end (price wise) of the spectrum, so we thought next we should take a look at something slightly more affordable. The ASUS N53J sets out to prove that quality can be purchased [...]

Model: AlienWare M17xR3 Manufacturer: Dell/Alienware Price: Starting at £1799 Availability: Currently unavailable* In concept, a laptop is the best thing since sliced bread. However, to get one to meet your every demand quite often you’ll have to pay the earth for one, and even then it’ll let you down somehow, usually when it comes to the battery life or overall power. The Alienware M17xR3 [...]

Model: Inspiron One 2310 Desktop Manufacturer: Dell Price: £550-700 Availability: Out Now The personal computer market is, to put it kindly, a competitive one. With tablets garnering a lot of praise and having the ability to wirelessly connect to printers, browse the internet and play all manner of games, it’s understandable that people might be drawn by the swagger of these devices. Being able [...]

Popular on-demand HD content streaming service VUDU has been available on Boxee desktop software since December. Today Boxee announced an updated firmware which brings VUDU to the Boxee Box. The VUDU app will give users access to the largest library of HD content in full HD with 5.1 surround sound.  In addition to a custom VUDU application, VUDU movies will be integrated into Boxee’s [...]

Trion have today announced that the fifth closed beta event for MMORPG title “Rift” will kick off on the 25th of January. Entitled “Battle of the Ascended”, this beta will include a raised level cap (up to 30), access to the Scarlet Gorge Zone and the opening of the Foul Cascade dungeon.

At Sporkings.com, we pride ourselves in providing our readers with run-downs of the best accessories available for your beloved gadgets. As an update to our iPad accessories article at the iPad launch last year, we thought it was about time to not only give you an update, but to also provide the netbook fans out there something to carry their devices around with style. We’ve done some shopping [...]

Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to a Ubisoft Games Day in London, where we were given the chance to try out Your Shape. The idea behind Your Shape is that you can get fit while having fun, the mantra is “Fitness Evolved” and after playing the game for a couple of hours, I can’t think of a more fitting phrase for this game. There are three main game times in Your [...]

Nokia N8 is all about entertainment. You can browse the whole web and watch flash videos online, store your favourite HD movies on the 16GB internal memory or on a microSD card (up to 32GB), and even enjoy on-demand Web TV, on your mobile phone! The exclusively customised BBC iPlayer app lets you catch up on your favourite BBC shows, and you can access TV channels online, from CNN to Paramount, and [...]

Because we can’t all have The Knowledge, Nokia have made Sat Nav free for everyone Nokia’s new navigation optimised phones include Ovi Maps with free voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation, and an in-car holder for an even better and easier navigation experience. We have even added an in-car charger for selected models so that your phone is fully charged when you get to your destination. All [...]

With today’s launch on the iPad in the UK, we thought we’d save you the trouble of looking around for the right accessories. We’ve had the pleasure of trying our some of the nicest accessories available for the device and here are our thoughts; Advanced Screen Protector – they may have been nice to have on the iPhone to avoid pocket-scratches, but these things are an absolute [...]