Dell Inspiron Zino HD aspires to sit in the living room

When we first saw Dell's new Inspiron Zino HD, our thought was that when Dell brought this thing to market it would be introducing the affordable living room PC of our dreams. It's small, it's cheap, it has HDMI, and it supports Blu-ray and 802.11n Wi-Fi.
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Acer announces Windows 7 All-In-One

Joining Sony, HP and its own subsidiary Gateway, Acer has announced a new Windows 7-based All-In-One, complete with a multitouch display. The Acer Aspire Z5610 will go for US$899 in the US (Asian availability still pending) when it goes on sale "this holiday season" (according to the press release), making it one of the most affordable all-in-ones we know of with an expansive 23-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 display.
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Sony launches Windows 7 All-In-One

Sony announced its own multitouch-capable all-in-one by way of the Vaio L Series. Starting at US$1,300, the 24-inch Vaio L is a continuation of the Vaio LV series that impressed us earlier this year. Sony will offer plenty of options for this system, including Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional when the system goes on sale in November.
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Microsoft adds touch to mouse prototypes

In spite of its novelty factor, Windows 7's multitouch capability faces some major hurdles to mass adoption. Touchscreen displays aren't exactly ubiquitous, and few serious PC users would consider reaching out across a desk to touch their displays for any real length of time. It seems Microsoft is tackling both issues with a series of prototype touch-capable mice it unveiled today.

The five mice prototypes come from Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group, which will be presenting a paper on the mice at the User Interface Software and Technology Conference in British Columbia, Canada. Microsoft already announced a pressure-sensitive keyboard at the UIST back in August.
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Nvidia introduces its next-gen Fermi GPU

We wish we could provide you with information like clock speeds, shipping dates, and prices for 3D cards using Nvidia's new graphics architecture, code-named "Fermi." Instead, all we've been able to garner from the various reports around the Web from Nvidia's preview event is that Nvidia is pushing the parallel computing capabilities of its new chip harder than ever.

If you really want to get into the dirty architectural details, Anandtech, PC Perspective, and the Tech Report each have multipage stories that dig into the information Nvidia unveiled so far. From a gaming perspective, the most significant features Nvidia mentioned are that Fermi will indeed support DirectX 11, and that it will use GDDR5 memory. Those features answer two of AMD's most obvious advantages with its new Radeon HD 5800-series cards, but Nvidia hasn't provided information on availability, which remains AMD's most important edge.
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