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Intel will aim its upcoming dual-core, 32-nm Clarkdale processors at the mid-range and mainstream markets, but that doesn't mean matching motherboards have to be dull and boring. We already caught a gander at an enthusiast-oriented H57 motherboard from Asus earlier his week, and now, the guys at ...
Displays
Intel
PCI Express
FireWire
HDMI
DisplayPort
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current ...
OS
Internet Explorer
Apple
Mozilla
Black Friday isn't here quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't find any good bargains around—you might just need to look a little harder than usual. For instance, Newegg is currently selling a 13.3" Aspire Timeline 3810 consumer...
CPUs
Atom
Hewlett-Packard
Name Your PC Day
AMD stock upgraded to 'buy'
The Register reports Dell is beat by The Street
State of Mozilla and 2008 financial statements
Will AOL's implosion ever end?
TechFlash reports shareholders quiz Ballmer about Macs, Windows, mobile phones
BJ court (in China) rules against...
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Microsoft
Eager to try Chrome OS, but don't feel like going through the trouble of building a usable version of the operating system from the publicly available source code? Well, good news: as TechCrunch reports, a kind soul has gone through the motions and uploaded a convenient VMware image...
OS
Chrome
Atom-based home servers are ganging up on shoppers this holiday season, promising perks like centralized data storage, automated backups, and media streaming at bargain prices. According to the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft will add icing to the cake next week by patching in full Windows 7 ...
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Windows 7
Microsoft
Atom
If you have one of Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives and are waiting on TRIM firmware that doesn't brick your drive, good news. Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group has posted an update on the Intel Support Community forums, promising a fixed firmware update will be...
Motherboards and Memory
Intel
X25-M
Windows 7
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As planned, Google showed Chrome OS to the
world for the first time earlier today. The unveiling
came hand-in-hand with the release of the operating system's source code under the Chromium OS project, which allows anyone to grab the code, modify it, ...
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Google pulls the curtain off Chrome OS, releases source
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So, rumor has it Lenovo is cooking up a $449, 11.6" ThinkPad ultraportable based on AMD hardware. That's not the whole story, though: apparently, the firm also intends to grace us with a $549 ThinkPad ultraportable outfitted with a 13.3" display and a choice of Intel and AMD dual-core...
Motherboards and Memory
Lenovo
AMD
Intel
Finally, a DirectX 11 benchmark based on an actual game. Shacknews writes that GSC Game World has released a freely downloadable benchmarking tool based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat, its upcoming post-apocalyptic survival shooter.
The benchmark takes you on several flights through a ...
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DirectX 11
Thursday
TechCrunch reports the Google phone is very real. And it's coming soon.
Fudzilla reports ARM promises dual-core mobile phones in 2010
C|Net reports Best Buy starts Black Friday craze a week early
Acer,...
OS
The Taiwanese rumor mill has more news about Apple's mysterious yet eagerly anticipated tablet product. This time, DigiTimes has heard from its sources at component makers that Apple will delay the tablet's launch from next March to the second half of 2010.
Why the delay? Word is that the Mac...
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Apple
OLED
LCD
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Remember those dubious-looking spy photos of a strange
ThinkPad netbook we saw earlier this month? They weren't
fake. Well, either that, or a prankster has masterfully crafted a whole batch of very authentic-looking PR photos and sent them to the ...
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ThinkPad 'netbook' seems to be real, AMD-based
If spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations get you all hot and bothered, then you might be happy to know that Microsoft has released a public beta of its upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite. You can grab the beta right now from the official download page; just click "Get It Now"...
OS
Microsoft
Windows Live
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
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CrossFire on a stick goes to the next
level in the Radeon HD 5970, the new fastest
graphics card on the planet. This one is extreme in more ways than one, though. Read on to see what we mean.
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AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card
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Following in the footsteps of HP and Acer,
Asus has announced a small-form-factor Windows Home Server machine
based on Intel Atom hardware. The new Asus TS mini is debuting at an affordable $349.99, and with dimensions of...
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Asus hops on the Atom home server bandwagon
With the surge of new and exciting games coming out this season, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, demos aren't an extinct species just yet. As Shacknews reports, Codemasters has just released a demo of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, its tactical military first-person shooter that ...
Other
Codemasters
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Ever felt like spending almost two large on
a really thin laptop with a weird hinge design?
Well, now you can. After revealing the Adamo XPS to bemused onlookers last month, Dell has begun taking orders for the premium notebook. The 0.39-inch-thin ...
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Funny-looking Adamo XPS laptop goes up for sale
In case you missed the big news, Nvidia announced its first Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for high-performance computing apps yesterday. So as not to disappoint GeForce fans longing for some DirectX 11 goodness, the company has now posted a photo of a Fermi-based GeForce in action on its Facebook profile.
Video Cards
Memory prices have sure swelled up over the past couple of months. In September, 4GB DDR2-800 kits were selling for as little as 40 bucks, but today, the cheapest ones go for almost $90. No wonder memory vendors are finally hopeful about recovery in this long-troubled market.
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