Dell in Partnership with Intel Pakistan has opened its first official display center in Pakistan where customers will be able to have a hands-on experience with Dell related products including Laptops, Desktop PCs, Servers and accessories.

In addition, walk in customers will also find Intel products such as processors.

Inauguration ceremony was attended by Dell Pakistan’s Country Manager Mr. Shahzad Aslam Khan, Intel Pakistan Country Manager Mr. Naveed Siraj, General Manager Dell South Asia Developing Markets Mr. Harjeet Rekhi as well as local business partners and loyal customers.

“Today, we are changing the way customers buy their technology products. The new store offers a range of products and solutions that can meet each customer’s unique requirements, said Shahzad Aslam Khan.

Naveed Siraj said, “We are glad to see a store in Pakistan that offers customer the right advice and choice when buying a new PC. The new store provides easy access to advanced technologies, while strengthening overall customer confidence when purchasing a new computer”.

The experience store is the first major channel in building direct contact with our customers, while strengthening our brand among a wider consumer base in Pakistan”, said Harjeet Rekhi.

Although, official display centers are quite common to find in other countries but this trend has just been started to excel in Pakistan after we have experienced couple of concept shops getting opened by Samsung, LG and other manufacturers.

Address of Dell Experience Center

• 16/1-A, Eden Homes, Main Gulberg, Jail Road, Lahore

Computer Choppers h’ve been pretty busy coating their gadgets with gold and other metals, but it’s been a while since we checked in with the guys from Computer Choppers. Turns out their latest endeavor is a doozie – it’s a 27-inch iMac plated in shiny gold.

While they’ve previously taken a smaller 21.5-inch iMac and dipped it in rose gold plate, this monster is the mother of all computers for those with a taste for the finer things. This particular iMac has had its stock aluminum plated with polished 24 karat gold, and coated with a clear finish to ensure it remains shiny. It’s also got a matching gold keyboard, and Magic Trackpad – though I don’t see a golden magic mouse to go with.

At $599 and $699 for the 4 TB and 6 TB drives (RAID 0 setup), it’s clear they are, at least at first, marketing these towards the professional market. ~$700 clams is a lot to spend on a simple external hard drive. That said, the insanely fast 500+ MB/s read/write speeds and daisy chaining abilities are reason enough for us to plop down the necessary cash — if only we had it. Who’s ready to send 1′s and 0′s to and fro at 10 Gbps? Our wish: That Western Digital puts out some single drive options as well. While speed will obviously take a hit, having to worry about one drive failing is a lot less work than worrying about two as you do in striped (RAID 0) setups such as these.

German iOS hacker and jailbreaker, i0n1c, posted a trio of pictures a little while ago showing an iPad 2 running iOS 5.1 and most importantly, jailbroken. The fact that the iPad now has a working jailbreak means the iPhone 4S, which shares the same A5 silicon, could follow in the near future.

It’ll be interesting to see if this new exploit works on the iPad 3 .

We’ve seen some pretty decent/funny Grand Theft Auto re-enactments a time or two before. But this particular one put together by Electroulette is perhaps one of the better ones. The whole gist of this particular video: First person view whilst on foot and bike. It’s pretty short, it’s entertaining, and at times funny. Check it out below. Because let’s face it. We know all you’re really waiting for is GTA 5. Pass the time here instead.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Security company Secunia reports that Apple’s products more vulnerabilities than any other company. Oracle took the second place, Microsoft – the third.

Pakistan Air Force and Chinese engineers made “PACPAD 1″. The PAC-PAD 1 runs on Android 2.3 OS and the price is 15,500 Rs approx. The gadget comes with a 1 year warranty also. The engineers who have made the Pakistan’s first iPad says there main goal is to strengthen the national economy. “PACPAD 1″ is now available in market.

• Processor: 1 GHz ARM11
• Operating System: Android OS 2.3
• Memory: 256 MB RAM
• Storage: Card Extendible 4GB, 32GB, SD/TF support
• Flash: 2/4/8/16GB
• Dimensions: Height: 192 mm, Width: 128 mm, Depth: 13 mm
• Weight: 385 grams
• Display: 7″, 16:9 Touch screen Capacitive TFT display
• Camera: 0.3 MP
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g
• USB: USB 2.0
• HDMI: HDMI standard port mini port, support for HDMI 1.3, supports full screen output to HDMI devices
• Content Formats Supported MP3, WMA, AAC, 3GP, WAV, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, FLV
• Miscellaneous G-sensor, Internal 3d acceleration, 3.5mm Earphone Jack
• Browsers: Opera, UCWeb, Skyfire, Dolphin
• Software & Games: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, 3D games can be supported by internal 3D acceleration
• Supported Audio Formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV
• Supported video Formats: AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, FLV
• Supported Image Formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF highest support 4096 x4096
• Other Supported Formats: PDF, TXT
• Supported Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Chinese Simple, Chinese traditional.
• Sensor: G_Sensor
• Supports online games, online video streaming, online TV, online radio

A video of a conceptualized iPad 3 from Aatma Studios. It has cool features like an edge-to-edge screen, magnetic sensors with near field communications (for attaching more than one unit together so they can interact) and a 3D holographic display for multiplayer games. The real iPad 3? It’s gonna have a sharper display, a faster processor, a nicer camera, possibly 4G connectivity, and SIRI assistant.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

The Apple iPad 2 is a 1.3 pound tablet computer from Apple which has a 9.7″ display and comes in black or white. The new iPad has WiFi as well as options for 3G connections from AT&T and Verizon and comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes. The iPad 2 adds front and rear facing cameras, a faster dual core processor and several other improvements to the device that has set the standard for what consumers expect when they buy a tablet.

Performance:

The Apple iPad 2 has a new dual core A5 processor, essentially doubling the processing power of the tablet. Along with the new faster processor the graphics processor, which makes things look beautiful, has been upgraded to deliver 9 times the performance of the original iPad. The iPad 2 also gets an increase to 512MB.

All of these increases lead to an overall zippier iPad 2. You’ll notice that little things like opening apps and switching between apps seems snappier. Even loading webpages in Safari is faster and iBook page turns feel smoother. There are plenty of small places where you will feel the extra speed in normal use.

The RAM increase translates into a more enjoyable browsing experience. Common problems with the browsing experience on the original iPad were the wait for pages to load and the need to refresh a page after switching between tabs.

iPad 2 Audio:

The iPad 2 has a new larger speaker that graces the lower right back of the iPad 2. Unlike the somewhat hidden speaker on the original iPad, the new speaker has a much larger grill that is more on the back than on the bottom. While the speaker is still Mono, it is not blocked by cases and your hands as often as on the iPad. This means that you get louder sounds in many settings. We found that the new placement makes it easier to cup your hand near the speaker in order to direct sound towards you for louder, more directed, sound.

The audio won’t win best of show with audiophiles, but it will meet the needs of practically all other users. If you need stereo sound, plug in a decent pair of headphones or jack into some speakers to pump up the volume.

The iPad 2 retains a built in mic, moved to the center of the iPad 2, which can be used to chat, make FaceTime calls, record iMovie voice-overs and more. This mic will pick up background noise, but is usable in many settings. If you need a cleaner sound, grab a Bluetooth hands free headset.

iPad 2 Battery Life:

The iPad 2 maintains the stellar battery life which we have seen on the previous iPad. This is actually pretty impressive considering the smaller size and weight as well as the faster processors. In our usage test with the 32GB WiFi model we were able to hit the 10 hour mark during a full day of heavy use that included audio, gaming, web surfing and a lot of typing.

On the iPad 2 with 3G connectivity from AT&T our test showed that it doesn’t suffer too much even using the 3G cellular radio sparingly during the day, delivering just under 10 hours of battery life.

Web Browsing:

When you move between the iPad and the iPad 2, the browser is noticeably faster, loading pages so quickly that you often don’t need to look at the checkered gray background that was commonly displayed on the iPad. Below you’ll see the results of comparing the iPad to the iPad 2.