General News

by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Seagate has been playing spoil sport recently with its entry into the micro hard drive market and now a 400GB, 7200RPM native Serial-ATA hard disk. They also toss in 16MB of buffer memory in this behemoth of a drive. Their…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2004 · 0 comments

ZDNet has the story of Texas Instruments flexible UDSL technology which is capable of high speed bandwidth at decent distances. The technology is able to scale speeds from ADSL quality service to VDSL’s 52Mbps closer to telco equipment and in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Fujitsu’s largest notebook drive is now hitting production and should be in many a manufacturer’s designs soon. The 100GB hard drives will be the largest available, although its spin speed, 4200RPM which is a bit of a standard, isn’t the…

Read more 100GB Notebook Drive Begins Production

by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has a review of the Sony PCG-X505/SP, a sleek sub notebook that packs a decent number of features and power into one of the thinnest profiles known to man. Impressive design and engineering in this Sony product although it…

Read more New Sony VAIO Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has more details on AMD’s upcoming Sempron processor line which is making old cores new again. Slick product plans by AMD, it will make for an easy transition to 64-bit land for most of its customers, cutting down cost…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

OverClock Intelligence Agency has a look at what is a pretty major design departure for Cooler Master. Their Centurion 5 case is basically a large sieve for air to flow through, with its included filters, it could work well as…

Read more Centurion 5 Chassis Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News has details on Seagate’s planned entrance into the micro hard drive market which had been, for the most part, the sole domain of Hitachi’s (formerly IBM’s) hard drive division. Competition spurs innovation and pricing pressure, a good thing…

Read more Seagate Moving in on Mini HD Market

by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Wireless: NewsFactor ponders if PDAs are a dead market. The current sales trends and lack of “excitement” would lead one to believe that it’s a slowly sinking ship. As they start piling on more powerful features I’m sure sales will…

Read more PDA Market in Trouble?

by Rafael Hernandez on June 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net messed around with the Corsair TwinX1024-3200XLPRO memory kit which includes two 512MB sticks of some sweet, sweet memory. The RAM is rated to run at 2-2-2-5 settings making it one of the few high performance choices available which the…

Read more Low Latency Memory Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on June 12, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has some info and pictures from the ACON4 gaming tournament, which is sponsored by Abit, that was held this past week. They also took some time after the tourny to take a tour around Abit’s manufacturing plants. These…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 11, 2004 · 0 comments

t-break had a grand-ol’ time with the Nu-Tech SBW-242 external combo drive which is capable of up to 24X CD burning speeds and 8X DVD read speeds. The device has a slick looking casing and, overall, performs admirably considering that…

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