Published June 19, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

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Published June 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

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Published June 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 18, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

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Published June 17, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 17, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 17, 2004 · 0 comments

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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Published June 17, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown grabbed a trio of ATI Radeon X800 Pros and ran them through a standard set of gaming tests we should all be familiar with. There isn’t a huge difference in the performance of each card so it all boils…

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Published June 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech played around with the 64-bit drivers both ATI and NVIDIA have released for their various graphics boards for the Windows XP64 OS. They tested both company’s latest high-end boards. Of course neither the drivers nor the OS are final…

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