General News

by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

TheTechLounge took a look at the Seagate ST3160023AS, a 160GB, 7200RPM hard drive that uses the Serial ATA interface. The SATA connection offers a few advantages over the old Parallel ATA setup speed wise but, for the moment, its greatest…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA and a large number of notebook motherboard manufacturers have come up with a mini PCI Express interface for laptops according to DesignTechnica. It gives notebooks a fast connection to graphics chips and may allow for “card” upgrades to become…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004 · 0 comments

ARM has a nifty core design up its sleeve with the “MPCore” embedded processor which sports two processor cores in a single package. The chip is used in gadgets such as PDAs and the like so we should see some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Plextor 712A, a 12X DVD+R burner which sets a new speed standard. It’s a Plextor drive so it supports most standards and should work right out of the box, you wouldn’t expect any less…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2004 · 0 comments

EETimes writes of Sony plans to extend its VAIO name into other somewhat related markets. They plan to release gadgets such as a portable video player and audio products which will sport wireless connectivity among other things. The only question…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Gaming Illustrated has their thoughts and some information gleened from day 2 of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This seems to have been one of the more “quality” shows, this year, with tons of great gear and games being announced and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 14, 2004 · 0 comments

ZDNet does a bit of coverage on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 which will bring a whole bunch of new and tweaked security measures to the OS. Previous service packs haven’t gotten this much attention before so perhaps…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Techware Labs has a review of the Streamzap PC Remote control. It’s a simple enough looking product with software that will allow you to control applications and your mouse cursor from a distance but it suffers from some hideous designing….

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