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- ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (512MB)
- ATI's Radeon X1900 XTX leaves us feeling torn. On one hand, it's a forward-looking 3D card that posted the highest single-card scores on our most relevant benchmark. On the other, its dual-card CrossFire mode lags behind Nvidia's SLI, and in any configuration, it can't compete on Doom 3, which bodes...
- Tags: Half-Life 2, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, Lost Coast, ATI Radeon X1900, ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Product reviews 2006-04-28
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- ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide: Top desktops for any budget
- Desktops get little love these days as more and more users opt for notebook PCs. Laptops have closed the gap in recent years in terms of features and performance. But the fact remains that desktops deliver a lot more bang for buck. In fact, you can...
- Tags: Game, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., PC, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Quad-core System, Studio, Flash Memory, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?
- The assistant superintendent came to me on Thursday with a very sad laptop; it was malware city, population 1. Although it's his own laptop, he uses it all the time for school-related work, so I was happy to fix it up for him. Well, not happy, exactly, but...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Malware, Hardware, Microsoft Windows XP, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide
- There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- First Core i7 desktops from Dell, Alienware and Gateway
- Now that Intel has officially released its Core i7 processor, fresh desktops are arriving daily. Dell has released four systems with Core i7 processors, including one mainstream Studio XPS desktop and three gaming rigs. Gateway also announced two FX-series gaming systems. Notably absent is HP, which has yet to announce...
- Tags: Desktop, Alienware, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., Memory, Core, Gateway FX6800-01, Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Flash Memory, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Nvidia cutting prices to counter AMD gains?
- Has AMD's recent gains in GPU sales got Nvidia spooked? The latest rumors are that Nvidia has a GPU price cut planned. With AMD's recent gains in the discrete graphics card market, Nvidia is planning to cut its graphics card prices in an attempt to curb further loss of...
- Tags: Video Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Video Cards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Components, Sales, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...
- Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- AMD's 45nm Shanghai gets official
- AMD officially introduced its first 45nm processors today. Compared to its existing 65nm AMD Opterons, the new quad-core server processors code-named Shanghai, will offer better performance and use less power, and because they use the same socket and have the same thermal requirements, they will be available in more than...
- Tags: AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs
- Laptops using multiple GPUs aren't new, but they are becoming more widespread. Earlier this week AMD touted the first laptop "from a major manufacturer" with two ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, the Alienware M17. Not to be outdone, Nvidia announced yesterday that it was powering the first three-GPU laptop, the Toshiba...
- Tags: Alienware, Notebook, Nvidia GeForce, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., GPU, Toshiba Qosmio X305 Series, Alienware M1, Trade-off, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition)
- As it often does, Falcon Northwest has provided with an ultra-high-end PC as a showcase for Intel's latest high-end desktop CPU. This $8,028 Mach V comes with the latest and greatest of everything and provides a useful benchmark of the performance we can expect to see from boutique gaming PCs...
- Tags: Desktops, Games, Intel Core Microarchitecture, Falcon Northwest, PC, Intel Corp., hard drive, Mach V, game
- Product reviews 2008-11-06
- Alienware M17
- With Alienware's recent M17x laptop still relatively fresh, why would the Dell subsidiary launch a new model? The new M17 (minus the "x") system trades Nvidia graphics for ATI (including a multi-GPU CrossFireX option) and also includes optional Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme CPUs. Those new parts drive the price...
- Tags: Processors, Alienware M17, Alienware
- Product reviews 2008-11-06
- Asus X83VB-X1
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.We have tested and reviewed five retail laptops in the $800 to $1,000 range, and the Asus X83VB-X1 is the cheapest and most powerful...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Asus X83VB-X1, ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-11-05
- Gateway MC series: The best deal on a 16-inch notebook?
- Gateway announced its MC series notebook in late October, but so far it has received little coverage aside from Laptop Magazine's review. The MC series is one of several recent laptops with 16-inch widescreen displays geared toward entertainment. Like other Gateway notebooks and desktops, the MC series...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Series, Laptop Computer, MC Series, Gateway MC7801u, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Alienware launches 'world's first mobile quad-core' laptop
- Alienware launches 'world's first mobile quad-core' laptopnicei hate dell... but dam alienware is nice...comon mac fanboys what do you have to say about thisNot the firstLenovo was the first with the Thinkpad W700 released a couple months ago. Lenovo's website won't come up at work for some reason, but I...
- Tags: Branding, Notebooks, mobile, Alienware, Sager, brand name, brand, laptop computer, small company, NVidia Corp., quad-core
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Alienware launches 'world's first mobile quad-core' laptop
- Alienware, Dell's extreme-high performance computing arm, has announced the arrival of its M17 laptop, one of the first such machines powered by the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 (2.53 GHz, 12MB cache, 1066MHz FSB), the world's first mobile quad-core processor. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines....
- Tags: Alienware, Mobile, Quad-core, Storage, ATI Technologies Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, M17, Corporate Communications, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Gateway DX 4720-03 - Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5 GHz
- The Gateway DX4720-03 is a system perfect for shoppers with light wallets who are looking for versatility in an attractive case. The fast dual-core processor and a full 4GB of RAM will keep you happy in most applications, and an ample 640GB hard drive is enough to satiate aggressive downloaders....
- Tags: Modems, FireWire, Video cards, Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, Intel Pentium, Gateway Inc., Gateway DX4720-03
- Product reviews 2008-10-31
- HP dv4-1155se
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv4-1155se is sure to catch your eye as you stroll down the laptop aisle at your local big box electronics store,...
- Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-10-31
- HP Pavilion Elite m9402f
- We've never loved Hewlett-Packard's Pavilion Elite desktop chassis, largely due to their clunky design that shoehorns not one, but two bays into the system for non-included, proprietary HP removable hard drives. The Pavilion Elite m9402f is not different, but we're also down on this $819 system for its subpar features...
- Tags: Desktops, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, HP Pavilion Elite, RAM
- Product reviews 2008-10-31
- Toshiba L355D-S7825
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.By virtue of its broad, 17.1-inch display, the $699 Toshiba Satellite L355D-S7825 stands out among budget laptops (most of which feature 15.4-inch displays). And...
- Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, satellite, Satellite L355D-S7825, laptop computer, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-29
- Windows 7 Aero to take advantage of DirectX 10.1 ... where will this leave NVIDIA
- Windows 7 Aero to take advantage of DirectX 10.1 ... where will this leave NVIDIANobody's getting frozen out. It'll fall back to DX9 if it has to.The DWM won't *require* DX 10.1, but it'll be able to use it if its there. (Actually from what I read in the...
- Tags: Video cards, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate communications, TigerDirect, DirectX, DirectX 10.1, Microsoft Windows 7, Aero, video card, Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics, Microsoft Windows, NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
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