Published June 14, 2004
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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…
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Published June 14, 2004
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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
Published June 14, 2004
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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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Published June 14, 2004
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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
Published June 14, 2004
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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
Published June 13, 2004
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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?
Published June 12, 2004
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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
Published June 12, 2004
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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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Published June 11, 2004
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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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Published June 11, 2004
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EE Times writes of a research project, at the University of Rhode Island, that has produced highly efficient antennas. The “distributed load monopole” design allows for shortened antenna lengths while maintaining the same signal strength, a boon to cell towers…
Read more Small Antenna, Large Potential
Published June 11, 2004
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Reuters has word that there have been arrests in a few countries in relation to the hacking/theft of the Half Life 2 source code last year which supposedly delayed the game’s release. So far there’s no mention of who or…
Read more HL2 Source Theft Arrests