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HP Mini 311: Netbooks get ION
The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA's ION platform. The question everyone's asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address....
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The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
anandtech.com — With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It's the fastest single card on the planet for $599, and quite overclockable out of the box. Goodbye GTX 295.... (more) The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the ...
vApus for Open Source: Creating a virtualized stress test
If you've been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab. As detailed in Johan's article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very ...
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AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
anandtech.com — Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe's prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally ... (more) AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
Core i7 Giveaway Winner, AT on Kindle, Site Redesign Preview and More
We have a winner! We've also got AnandTech offered on Amazon's Kindle and a preview of the new AnandTech site redesign. I hint about a call to writers and a potential reader meetup in India. ...
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AMD and Intel Settle Their Differences: AMD Gets To Go Fabless
AMD and Intel Settle Their Differences: AMD Gets To Go Fabless
anandtech.com — Today marks a monumental day in the CPU world, as AMD and Intel have settled their differences and dropped all suits against each other. The ramifications are monumental: AMD will officially go fabless... (more) AMD and Intel Settle Their Differences: AMD Gets To Go ...
AMD Unveils Bulldozer & Bobcat: 2011 Microachitectures
AMD Unveils Bulldozer & Bobcat: 2011 Microachitectures
anandtech.com — Could this be AMD's comeback? It sure looks bold at a high level...... (more) AMD Unveils Bulldozer & Bobcat: 2011 Microachitectures
AMD's 2010 - 2011 Roadmaps: ~1B Transistor Llano APU, Bobcat and Bulldozer
AMD's 2010 - 2011 Roadmaps: ~1B Transistor Llano APU, Bobcat and Bulldozer
anandtech.com — There's not much to talk about from a CPU standpoint with AMD in 2010, so AMD is heavily focused on 2011 and what it plans to do with its first on-die GPU in Llano. Bobcat and Bulldozer also make it back into the headlines as AMD is long overdue for ... (more) AMD's 2010 - 2011 Roadmaps: ~1B Transistor Llano APU, ...
Done for 2009: The Holiday MacBook Pro Roundup
Done for 2009: The Holiday MacBook Pro Roundup
anandtech.com — Over the summer we discovered that Apple's newly redesigned MacBook Pro offered battery life to die for. Approaching 8 hours of battery life on a single charge we were curious to see how the rest of the lineup fared. We won't see any new MacBook Pros ... (more) Done for 2009: The Holiday MacBook Pro Roundup
The Cable Chronicles: Win7 Digital Cable Advisor Released
The Cable Chronicles: Win7 Digital Cable Advisor Released
anandtech.com — As we mentioned in our previous edition of The Cable Chronicles, Microsoft and CableLabs have come to an agreement to allow the installation and use of CableCARDs on unapproved and non-OEM systems, allowing for the wider proliferation of CableCARD ... (more) The Cable Chronicles: Win7 Digital Cable Advisor Released
P55 Overclocking Showdown - ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA at the OC Corral
anandtech.com — Some of you asked us for scores and benchmarks showing just how far we managed to push the top P55 boards in our sub-zero cooled benchmarking (amidst socket failures) test suite. So we are here today to show how these boards fared against each other ... (more) P55 Overclocking Showdown - ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA at ...
Radeon 5800 Series: Prices Up, Supplies Down
It’s not often we write about prices going up. Last week there was a rumor going around that AMD intended to raise prices on the 5800 series. At the time we wrote this off as yet another highly-speculative rumor based on shaky evidence. Official price hikes are virtually unprecedented, ...
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Giveaway: Win a Lynnfield Core i7 System
Giveaway: Win a Lynnfield Core i7 System
anandtech.com — That's right, just in time for the holidays we've partnered up with Intel to give away a complete Lynnfield Core i7 System.... (more) Giveaway: Win a Lynnfield Core i7 System
Anand's Thoughts on the Kindle 2 and Marvell Making Affordable eBook Readers
A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more detail on one of its members: the 166E. Marvell hopes that the 166E will pave the way for affordable ebook readers in 2010....
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Choosing the right foundation: which hypervisor do you evaluate?
anandtech.com — First of all, we were pretty excited to see so many comments and votes (5000!) on our last IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. ... (more) Choosing the right foundation: which hypervisor do you ...
Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB: SATA 6Gb/s Performance Preview
Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB: SATA 6Gb/s Performance Preview
anandtech.com — We take Seagate's latest drive technology for a quick spin and wonder if SATA 6Gb/s technology will ever benefit desktop based hard drives.... (more) Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB: SATA 6Gb/s Performance Preview
DirectX11 Released For Windows Vista
DirectX11 Released For Windows Vista
anandtech.com — For those of you sticking with Vista, Microsoft has finally officially released DirectX 11 for Vista, after having spent the last couple of months in beta. This final release looks to be the same as the last beta released earlier this month. The ... (more) DirectX11 Released For Windows Vista
New Acer Timeline and Windows 7 Laptops
Acer recently launched some updated laptops with Windows 7. For that matter, just about every laptop manufacturer out there has new laptops sporting Windows 7, but we're going to start our coverage of mobile press releases with Acer since they were kind enough to send us the pertinent details. ...
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The SSD Improv: Intel & Indilinx get TRIM, Kingston Brings Intel Down to $115
The SSD Improv: Intel & Indilinx get TRIM, Kingston Brings Intel Down to $115
anandtech.com — Intel and Indilinx SSDs now have TRIM support - we put it to the test. At the same time Kingston helps Intel bring SSDs to the masses with a 40GB X25-M G2 based SSD priced at $115 or $85 after rebates.... (more) The SSD Improv: Intel & Indilinx get TRIM, Kingston ...
Windows 7 Performance Guide
Windows 7 Performance Guide
anandtech.com — After nearly a year of serious waiting, the next Windows is here. Its arrival puts a stake in Vista, and may finally be what Microsoft needs to put XP to bed.... (more) Windows 7 Performance Guide
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