by Rafael Hernandez on February 14, 2006
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The Tech Report has a look at four S-ATA capable 2.5″ drives. That sized harddrive is usually found in notebook PCs and the like where any improvement in driver performance is welcomed. A good outing for one of the slower…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2006
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TrustedReviews has a look at the Acer Aspire 9504WSMi laptop PC. The notebook features a large 17″ display and mid-range graphics provided by an ATI x700 graphics chip along with some nifty features such as a bluetooth/voip phone and remote…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2006
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Hexus.net has a look at the ASUS W1 Carbon Fibre notebook PC. Its chassis isn’t completely made out of carbon fiber, just its lid, but its base makes use of the light-weight metal aluminum. A nice setup but with Intel…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2006
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Big Bruin has a look at the 160GB version of the Seagate Momentus drive. Notebook storage has lagged a bit recently but the company’s latest drive line has managed to squeeze more data on platters by going perpendicular. There isn’t…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 16, 2006
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HardwareZone ran some tests on MSI’s Geminium-Go concept graphics board. The card can take two MXM graphics modules usually found in notebook PCs with dedicated graphics. A very interesting take on SLI which has been getting quite a bit of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 5, 2006
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The Tech Report has a photo of an MSI creation that could have mobile graphics cards working SLI magic on a single board. The card has two slots for the MXM notebook graphics modules which usually feature enhanced power efficiency…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 5, 2006
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Laptop Logic has a review of the Asus A7G notebook PC. The laptop pairs the usual Intel Pentium M CPU with a large 17″ widescreen display and ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics chip. A competent portable gaming machine, and, its…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 10, 2005
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TrustedReviews has a look at the Alienware Area-51 m5500 notebook PC. The company is known for their high-end PCs that cater to gamers, which this one does as well, but its components aren’t as “extreme” as expected. A nice option…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2005
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X-bit labs has a look at the ATI X1600 Mobility Radeon graphics chip. They go one further by comparing it against a number of desktop cards where it showed promising results in today’s games but, as with most mobile video…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 6, 2005
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HotHardware has an early look at ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 in a well equipped Asus A7G notebook. It’s been a bit slow in coming with Nvidia next-gen GPUs in the notebook space already but it does well in the mobile…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2005
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AnandTech has an early look at the Intel “Yonah” dual-core CPU. The chip is based on their popular Pentium M mobile chip regularly found in Centrino notebooks but the added core gives it a nice kick in multi-threaded environments. It’s…
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