Cnet (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
AMD-ATI and Nvidia are preparing for the next graphics chip showdown. And there is already a good deal of information (and rumor) on the two chips due in June. The names of the two upcoming product families have been widely reported : The ATI line is branded as the Radeon HD ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Fast silicon is hitting a wall in game PCs, according to Alienware, which is looking for ways to boost game PC performance. Parent company Dell vowed on Tuesday to pour more resources into the game PC unit and invest in "product development, design, and engineering." Alienware Area-51 m9750 notebook (Credit: ...
dealwhiz.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Crutchfield.com offers Sony VGX-TP1 Living Room PC T5600 2GB 300GB DVD+-RW Tuner $980 after $20 coupon discount using coupon code 3A825 + Free Shipping. Deal Description: Sony VGX-TP1 Living Room PC T5600 2GB 300GB DVD+-RW Tuner with 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 5600, built-in 300GB hard drive, 2GB system RAM, Intel Graphics [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Intel's Atom processor was prominently displayed in systems at a conference in Japan. The chipmaker's next-generation X4500 graphics also made an appearance. Atom logo (Credit: Intel) Small systems and circuit boards using the Atom processor appeared on the Web site PC Watch , which highlighted designs at a "Systems ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former key executives of chipmaker Broadcom with backdating stock options. The SEC announced Wednesday it had filed a federal complaint against Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Henry Samueli and general counsel David Dull, as well as former Chief Executive ...
Carrypad UMPC feed (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
This must be a typo right? Buy.com are offering an Eee PC 900, SKU EEEPC900-W012X, with a 1.7Ghz Celeron processor. Click the image on the right to see the details. [Buy.com product link.] The same is also appearing at ZipZoomfly. I wonder if this is an attempt to sneak a high-end Eee PC 900 out [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Dell issued a statement Tuesday night, saying the XPS brand will live on but that more resources will go into Alienware. Part of Dell's statement takes issue with a Wall Street Journal report. "Dell XPS and Alienware are both great brands...and both will live on," Dell spokeswoman Anne ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jen-Hsun Huang doesn't pull his punches. And Intel is a favorite punching bag these days. I had a chance to sit down and talk with the Nvidia CEO as he described his company's philosophy and what sounds like the first volleys of a long battle with Intel. Nvidia ...
Daily Gadgets, Computer, and Electr (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Powered by a 1.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 processor, the NEC ShieldPRO FC-N22A tablet PC is a compact yet rugged machine for those who work mostly under extreme condition. It can stand the dust, accidental fall (up to 90cm), extreme temperature (between -20℃ to +50℃), and water (IP55). So there’s no need to worry [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
An analyst at CRT Capital Group says Nvidia may be treading on dangerous ground with its recent blitz of Intel taunts . While CRT Capital Group analyst Ashok Kumar readily concedes that Nvidia's graphics chip technology is far superior to Intel's, he also issued a warning to Nvidia in ...
BwT (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
I have HP Elite m9040n with the following specs... Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 ViiV Processor 2.40 GHz, 2x4MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz Front Side Bus 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 1.5TB HDD 7200RPM NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS Graphics Card (HDMI, DVI, S-Video) I want to upgrade my video card to something more powerful...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The MacBook Air, IdeaPad U110, and ThinkPad X300 are the three hottest ultraportables out there. They all sport unique styling outside. And Intel blue inside. The IdeaPad U110 like other ultraportables uses an Intel low-voltage processor (Credit: Lenovo) Styling and design are now so crucial in notebooks that when a ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Faster is almost always better, at least when it comes to computers. So what's the fastest way to open a word processor? You can create a keyboard shortcut to open Notepad, WordPad, Word, or any other word processor on your PC by right-clicking the program's shortcut on the ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
It was a search for the essence of things that lead to the memristor, says UC Berkeley professor Leon Chua. This week, HP Labs announced it had made a memristor, or memory resistor, a fundamental circuit element first theorized by Chua decades ago. If they become commercially practical to make, ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
It's the tale of the lost circuit. Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, mathematically theorized that scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit. Engineers were already familiar with resistors (which resist the flow of electricity), capacitors (which ...
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robertoms2003 | 02/17/2008
A Scanner is machine which recognizes optical characters. It has a computer processor, a scan head and an output device. The scan head is used to read images which in turn is translated by the computer and produced in a usable form. For example, a scanner is used to read invoices that have been returned with the payment checks by a direct-mail marketer. The code on the invoice is picked up by the...
