CNET News writes of Microsoft’s plan to boost the storage capacity of its Hotmail email service for both paying customers and free email users. The free service users will get a generous upgrade to 250MB of storage while users who…
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AnandTech has a look at the latest version of Intel’s popular, low-price CPU, the Celeron D. Intel’s architectural improvements give this updated version of the chip quite a performance boost, bumping it into a performance parity with AMD’s 32-bit Athlons….
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I Am Not A Geek has spent some time with Microsoft’s Service Pack 2, Release Candidate 2 for the Windows XP operating system. The pack will contain a huge number of fixes and security improvements which should make the web…
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HTPCNews has a review of the Maxtor DiamondMax 9 250GB Serial-ATA interface hard drive. The main consumer benefit, at the moment, for SATA drives is a reduction of clutter in a PC case, especially important when it comes to home…
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InfoWorld has the details on Intel’s launch of two new, “slower”, Pentium M processors which use their Dothan mobile core. The two chips come in at 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz clock speeds and feature the rather large 2MB of cache the…
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GideonTech has a review of the BuffaloTech FireStix PC4000 1GB memory kit. The product is a pair of 512MB DDR memory modules each clad in spicey red heatspreaders all designed to allow for some headroom when pushing a PC to…
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PC World writes of Intel’s plan to launch a 64-bit version of its Xeon processor line next week. The chip will be able to run both 32-bit and 64-bit code natively similar to the AMD Athlon64/Opteron line. Since it is…
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X-bit labs has a fiew details on Intel’s planned dual-core Itanium2 64-bit processor which was, apparently, demonstrated in Japan recently. The chip will feature 24MB of cache next to its dual CPU core attached to a quad-pumped 667MHz bus…the chip…
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eWeek has word of Fujitsu’s planned speed ramp up of its SPARC64 chips which are usually found in Sun Microsystems PCs and servers. The CPU is getting pushed to a peppy 1.9GHz clock rate with 3MB of L2 cache which…
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VR-Zone Hardware has a retail version of the Visiontek XTASY Radeon X800XT PE in their testing labs today, and boy does it perform. The X800XT PE is the current top product from ATI offering great speed and image quality along…
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AnandTech has a peek at ATI’s HDTV Wonder TV Tuner card. The card comes in at a somewhat hefty $200 price-point but when you consider other makers were charging $300 or more for their boards it’s something of a “bargain”….
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