CNET News is reporting on a pair of recently announced flaws that affect Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. The past few months have seen a few flaws for their rather robust OS, nothing near the number that affect MS…
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May 2004
VIA has sent out a PR with details on its C5J Esther core design. It’s impressive that they’ve managed to steer clear of ramping up clock speeds for performance’s sake and have kept their fanless CPU design goals. Home theater…
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Google’s Gmail email service set up a few beta user accounts with a terabyte of storage, 1000 times the touted 1GB they plan on offering. Perhaps it’s just a glitch or publicity stunt since there’s no way they’d currently be…
Read more GMail Ponders Terabyte Storage?
t-break takes a look ahead at Intel’s upcoming 915/ICH chipset combo for its Socket 755 processors. The chipset will support a large number of “new” technologies such as PCI-Express and the new Azalia audio standard, which Intel just happened to…
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It seems the U.S. FCC has agreed to allow wireless gear to use the frequencies between TV stations in rural areas. This could mean easier deployment for wireless broadband and a larger range of coverage. Beyond The Headlines has more…
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Designtechnica has a review of the over-the-top Hy-Tek Tek Panel 300 which merges a high power PC and 30″ LCD widescreen into a custom aluminum case. The likelihood of purchasing such a behemoth is rather low but it’s nice to…
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The Tech Report has a review of two new chips from AMD, the Opteron 150 and 250. The CPUs both feature a faster 2.4GHz clock rate which is a small step up from their previous Opteron chips with the 150…
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Alienware has concocted a technology that would utilize the upcoming PCI-Express bus as well as some proprietary hardware and software to push graphics performance to new extremes. It is an interesting approach but I don’t think many will adopt such…
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InfoWorld brings some news on AMD’s dual core Opteron processor line which should pop up right around the time Intel will be releasing its own dual core solutions next year. Interesting system choices coming up next year, hopefully both companies…
Read more AMD's Dual Core Plans
GamePC has reviewed the Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro 256MB, one of the first next-generation video cards to hit the market. It’s quite a performer but their review is limited to currenly available video cards so that leave NVIDIA’s newest offerings…
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The leak of Cisco’s large scale router operating system is being investigated by the company according to CNET News. They’ll try and figure out how much of their code was pilfered and are probably running themselves ragged patching holes in…
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