CNET News writes of a movement by the caretakers of the Top500 Supercomputer list to move away from a single program that tests a large computer’s performance to a suite of apps that would test all sorts of performance characteristics…
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X-bit labs has some information on four new LCD displays Samsung will soon or has already launched. All of the displays have sleek enclosures and minimal footprints but vary wildly on features and response times. A nice look forward if…
Read more A Look at the Lastest Samsung LCD Models
Intel has been working on a few new products recently that will be in a position to make use of future technologies such as PCI Express and DDR-II memory. The company has also rolled out a new pin package for…
Read more Intel's Newest Chips Reviewed
X-bit labs spent some time with the Toshiba Portege M100, a sleek little notebook that won’t be winning any speed awards but handles most mobile tasks well with adecent amount of battery time. A useful laptop PC without all of…
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CoolTechZone has a look at a rather interesting product, the Actiontec Wireless Digital Media Center. The device is able to stream audio and video from a PC to your home theater. Unfortunately is looks to have a few design flaws,…
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LostCircuits risked a brand new, ATI based, ASUS Radeon X800 Pro in order to eek out some speed gains and test to see how a non-available (to them at any rate) XT PE would theoretically run. Interesting to see that…
Read more X800 Pro to XT Mod Results
modtown got around to compiling a list of the various products that Vantec was showing off at this year’s Computex. More fanbuses and accessories, of course, and now it appears that they’ve entered into the PC chassis market with the…
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Yahoo! News has word of a U.S. Congressional subcommitte’s approval of a bill that would force U.S. based software makers to inform people if spyware is being installed onto their system. The bill has a ways to go before it’s…
Read more Spyware Bill Movin' on Through
Designtechnica has a mini-guide with some information on how to secure your home/small business’ wireless network from all but the most persistent of “hackers”. The four easy steps shouldn’t take all that long to implement, although WEP keys have been…
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Microsoft has some anti-virus software in the works for its various Operating Systems, which it will sell separately from its OS products. On the one hand if it was bundled with Windows they’d be sued for anti-trust violations by other…
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kernelthread has a bit of BIOS history and a look forward to its successor: Extensible Firmware Interface, or EFI for short. This is a long overdue step forward which will make PC setup and trouble-shooting much easier and will hopefully…
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