April 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2004 · 0 comments

MacCentral has the skinny on the new features added to Apple’s popular MP3 service iTunes. The update brings it to version 4.5 and adds a new lossless audio codec, non DRM WMA to ACC conversion, and iMix which is designed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Flexbeta has a few supposed screenshots and a video from a leaked version of Windows Longhorn. The pictures claim to show the DirectX accelerated GUI and while it looks like the real deal OS hoaxes are not uncommon. Something to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Xbit labs has the goods on a motherboard by a company named IBASE Technology that’s able to run an Intel Pentium 4 processor in the mini-ITX format. The form factor has mainly been used by VIA, who pretty much designed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware took a look at ATI’s All In Wonder 9600XT, a mid-range video card with a TV and FM tuner built-in. It also tosses in various software and cables as well as a remote control which will turn any PC…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Forbes.com has some coverage of Palm’s latest PDAs, the Zire 72 and entry-level Zire 31. Both devices replace older models in the company’s product line with each getting some upgrades over the last model. The Zire 72 comes in with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica is starting a multi-part guide on how to properly configure Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 for usage in a small business. The first part covers some of the roles Server 2k3 can be host to an how to go…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech does what it’s good at and reviews the AMD Athlon 64 2800+, the least expensive 64-bit general computing processor they currently make. It manages to pump out some middle of the road numbers which isn’t bad considering its price…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Micron is having a tough time filling out customer memory orders and as a result other chip makers are cashing in on their minor stumble according to DigiTimes. Another in a long line of semi-bad news which just ends up…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has gathered four external hard drives, designed for home or small (very small) business needs, in their external disk roundup. They are rather small drives with the largest coming in at 160GB in size and none of them feature…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP took a look at a GeForceFX 5700Ultra that comes equipped with GDDR3 memory. GDDR is suited for graphics board applications which generally require faster clock rates, and GDDR3 is promising to reach even higher performances levels by the looks…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Digitimes brings news of AMD’s plan to launch an Athlon XP 32-bit chip for its socket 754 64-bit platform. This might make for an interesting generation of 32-bit CPUs as the processor will have to contain an on-die memory controller…

Read more K7 (in name only) on a K8 Platform