by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2008
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The recent spat of failures centering around some of the mobile GPUs Apple has relied on in several of their MacBook Pro notebook models is entirely Nvidia’s fault, or so says their knowledge base support article TS2377. Here’s the gist…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 8, 2008
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Every month or so ATI and Nvidia push out the latest and greatest drivers for their graphics chips all the while claiming to improve on the performance of earlier versions. Tom’s Hardware wonders if these claims are appropriate and compares…
Read more Driver Performance Improvements, Are They Real?
by Rafael Hernandez on October 6, 2008
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Blizzard’s two day convention, aptly dubbed BlizzCon, kicks off this Friday. It promises a whole lot of Wizard of Warcraft’ness as well as a healthy dosage of Diablo III and who knows, there may even be some StarCraft related…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2008
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There’s no doubt that solid state disk drives are the future of storage devices for our computers, promising improved speeds and increased durability. It’s also the perfect technology for companies to attempt tweaking the heck out of. Fusion-io is prepping…
Read more Fusion-io SSD, Ultimate WoW Drive (also fast at other things)
by Pedro Hernandez on October 3, 2008
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Apple had a busy week and a little scare. Apple Rolls Out iTunes and Apple TV Updates Apple Avoids iTunes Shutdown, Users Rejoice Apple’s iPhone 2.1 Firmware a Miracle Worker? New Nintendo DS! But you can’t get one in the…
Read more Tech ETA Week in Review – Friday Oct 3, 2008
by Rafael Hernandez on October 1, 2008
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The Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell Broadband Engine had long been promised to extend beyond the console world (see Sony PlayStation 3) into much more important roles. The chip has seen use in supercomputers and a modified version has been see in select…
Read more SpursEngine Headed to the Desktop
by Rafael Hernandez on September 30, 2008
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It’s not all about the massive framerates and insane resolutions with your fancy pants anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing, sometimes you just need a simple graphics card for web browsing and watching your Blu-rays. ATi’s new Radeon HD 4550 has many…
Read more ATi Radeon HD 4550, Targeting the Low-End
by Pedro Hernandez on September 30, 2008
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New budget cards from ATI offer hope for gamers on a budget, as long as you don’t push them too hard (the cards, not the gamers). Both go on sale in October, with Direct X 10.1 support and with the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2008
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Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is finally joining the GPU processing club. The update to the professional graphics editing suite now includes an OpenGL acceleration option. Here’s what it means for all you pixelsmiths, from APC: For instance, with the…
Read more Photoshop Finally Puts GPUs to Use