Published June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has some information on the Mobinote DVX-POD 7010 mobile media player and an interview with a company representative concerning their upcoming hard-drive base player. Slick little unit they have there, one of many media players that should be the…

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Published June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has reviewed the Creative GigaWorks S750, a 7.1 speaker system. The massive system has some impressive specifications, almost audiophile territory at a competitive price, considering the number of speakers and the control module that they throw in….

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Published June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

SystemCooling has a review of the Global WIN YCC-1102 MicroATX case which incorporates a few nice features in a sleek little package. The system contains an integrated LCD display which is capable of showing system temperatures and other assorted details….

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Published June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 22, 2004 · 0 comments

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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