Published March 10, 2006
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PCWorld has details on a laptop that Samsung demoed at Cebit which uses a solid-state disk. Instead of a hard-drive storing data a large number of flash chips perform the same function but provide benefits such as faster data transfers…
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Published March 9, 2006
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HotHardware has a review of the ATI Radeon X1800GTO graphics card. The GPU has more in common with the X1800 line than the newer X1900, which seems a bit odd for a newer card, but it still performs well in…
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Published March 9, 2006
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Microsoft has unveiled its Origami/UMPC concept which should be hitting store shelves over the coming months from your favorite OEMs. The super-PDA/mini tablet should have some interesting uses with all of the media rich tools and applications people use today….
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Published March 9, 2006
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Legit Reviews has some snapshots of Nvidia’s mobile SLI experiment based on the GeForce Go. The two GPUs do their thing without the need of a bridge adapter. An interesting go but it’s unlikely these will be found in anything…
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Published March 9, 2006
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A new batch of graphics cards means a deluge of reviews. The Nvidia 7900GT/GTX appears to be a die-shrink of the 7800 series but that die shrink allows for some much nicer clock speeds while the 7600 comes in with…
Read more GeForce 7900/7600 Series Launched
Published March 8, 2006
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The Firing Squad has a look at 7 LCD displays that support the dreaded HDCP standard. HDCP will require you to own a capable monitor and graphics card if you want to view high def content, at full resolution, on…
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Published March 8, 2006
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ATI has released the latest version of their graphics drivers. Catalyst 6.3 has a number of bug fixes and some minor speed improvements but, most notably, they include ATI’s video transcoder. There’s also a new set of linux drivers available…
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Published March 8, 2006
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Hexus.net has its own benchmark numbers out of an Intel Conroe core CPU. It’s tested against AMD’s FX-60 and the results are in Intel’s favor this go as well. An impressive showing but it’d be nice to see the product…
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Published March 7, 2006
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PC Perspective has the early information out of the Intel Developer Forum. Some architecture info as well as details on the CPU cores that they’ll be releasing later this year can be found. An exciting batch of news coming from…
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Published March 7, 2006
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GamePC has a look at the dual-core, dual-cpu capable AMD Opteron 285 CPU. Four highly clocked cores working away on your multi-threaded applications is, of course, a great benefit and it shows their current Opteron chips are still capable of…
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Published March 7, 2006
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AnandTech has some early numbers from the Intel Developers Forum on the company’s latest CPU core code-named “Conroe”. The chip performed well (a little too well) on Intel supplied systems compared to the AMD, we’ll all just have to wait…
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