February 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has been busy watching tons of TV in order to bring you this article that compares six TV-Tuner cards. It’s nice to see a wider range of tuner cards out there as a few years ago you’d be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a story on Alienware landing a super computer deal. The company is primarily known for its extremly pricey gaming systems so it seems unorthodox for them to be building such a system but it isn’t such a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2004 · 0 comments

PCWorld got the chance to mess around with an interesting new mini portable PC called the FlipStart. What makes it interesting is its usage of WindowsXP and its cramming of a multitude of features in such a small package….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech’s coverage of the Intel Developer Forum starts here with the first day’s goings-ons. The conference is always packed with the newest technology and gear as well as a large number of new acronyms we’ll all be bombarded with….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a bit of a preview of ATI’s newly announced TV tuner card, the ATI HDTV Wonder. The card is supposed to come in at a lower price-point when compared to its competitors, hopefully they can deliver it at…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2004 · 0 comments

Ace’s Hardware has a great article on Intel’s move to mass market 64-bit processors. Considering the company’s derision of AMD for their move to 64-bit, whose technology they had to use, I’d imagine there’s quite a bit of crow eating…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 17, 2004 · 0 comments

Tech Seekers has a review up on VIA’s CL-10000 Mini-ITX board. The diminutive board sports an embedded VIA Eden 1GHz processor as well as a whole host of connectivity features. Perfect for those “silent” Media PCs that are all the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD is getting ready to launch new, low power, versions of its 64-bit Opteron processors. The HE (55 watt) and EE (30 watt) flavors are geared toward huge clusters and blade servers. Lower power usage means less heat so you…

Read more AMD Announces Low Power Opterons

by Rafael Hernandez on February 17, 2004 · 0 comments

internetnews.com ponders the question: Which Linux distribution is gaining users at a faster rate? There are a myriad of choices for different Linux flavors so it’s an interesting question….

Read more What's the Hot Distro?

by Rafael Hernandez on February 17, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report gathered together a few links and bits of info regarding the horrendous IBM Deskstar GXP line and the class-action lawsuit against the company. If you didn’t own one of these hard drives consider yourself lucky as they…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 16, 2004 · 0 comments

The Unreal Tournament 2004 demo was launched last week to some high praise from gamers and it just so happens they’ve released a 64-bit version of it for 64-bit AMD processors running 64-bit versions of the Linux OS. Yeah that’s…

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