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Via hangs tough but not a real contender

Via hangs tough but not a real contenderI use a VIA Chipset......and suffer every moment. It has patchy drivers for Windows, and it's Linux drivers are incompatible with any remotely-new distro, and even back then, they didn't properly function. The onboard GPU especially. That means everything falls on the CPU's...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Monitors & displays, ITX

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Intel shows pint-size server motherboard

Intel shows pint-size server motherboardWould this happen to be the 2MHz XP machine?That story can be found [url=http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34623]here.[/url]But what form factor??This is a good move by Intel. They have obviously seen the successes that Via has made with their ITX boards. With everything but the kitchen sink built...

Tags: server, motherboard, ITX, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Microsoft Studios Implements Affordable, End-to-End Control and Playout System

Microsoft Studios has production and post-production facilities that rival that of any other broadcast station. Despite its advanced systems, Microsoft Studios lacked a plausible way to deliver volumes of company communications to employees through a cable channel. The high cost of equipment was an impassable obstacle. But a revolutionary product...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Studios, iTX, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking

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AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard

Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...

Tags: Servers, MicroServer, server, Mini-ITX, Intel Corp., HP MediaSmart

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Podcast: Can Apple make the tablet PC cool?

Make?The tablet PC is ALREADY cool!They can certainly make it expensive.Sure, if it does appear it'll be Apple cool and a good segment of the Apple faithful will probably buy it and turn it into another quasi-religeous icon. It's high price and limited usefulness, however, will keep most people...

Tags: Tablets, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Smart phones, podcast, PC, Apple iPhone, tablet, netbook, eInk, Apple Inc., tablet PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Maingear Pulse

PC gamers demand speed, a pursuit that--at least with current technology--runs directly counter to the idea of saving energy. HP's Firebird struck a reasonable balance between the two earlier in the year, and had we reviewed Maingear's new Pulse six months ago, it would have given the Firebird stiff competition...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, PCI, Maingear, Firebird

Product reviews 2009-07-21

Pano Logic brings us closer to "The Screen"

Pano Logic brings us closer to "The Screen"I'm sorry but it still contains an operating systemA few years back at VMWorld I had a 'healthy' discussion with one of the stand techies since no matter what Pano Logic say if the device can boot and connect there is at least...

Tags: Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, Operating systems, NComputing, Mini-ITX, Pano Logic

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

OLPC drops AMD for Via chip

OLPC drops AMD for Via chipDoes anyone still really care about OLPC?Seriously.Intel/Via/AMD... first this platform... then that one.Get you s*** together decide on a platform, be it ARM or x86 or whatever, and stick to it.This is like a 3 ring circus with different generations of machines that will be...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, One Laptop Per Child project, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

How-to: Build a $300 DIY NAS device with Ikea

The crazy chaps at Indestructibles have cobbled together a how-to guide on building one's own network attached storage, or NAS, device. Using the stainless steel "Emu" box from IKEA ($7 per set), one Instructables user created a NAS system to be proud of. And since he went...

Tags: NAS, IKEA, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-10

CyberPower introduces Atom-powered Windows Home Server 100

CyberPower introduces Atom-powered Windows Home Server 100This is nothing newI've been selling the same thing since at least as far back as October. It's an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with an Atom 330 integrated (as in, soldered on) 1.60GHz dual-core + Hyperthreading CPU. It can run 2 threads per...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, motherboard, Windows Home Server 100, Cyberpower, server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

CyberPower introduces Atom-powered Windows Home Server 100

We already have both networking and storage companies flooding the market with network storage, but now it looks like boutique PC makers are getting into the act as well. CyberPower, best known for its gaming computers, has just announced a unit based on an Intel Atom processor and running Windows...

Tags: Cyberpower, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Should the Mac Mini die?

Should the Mac Mini die?Most everyone who owns one appears to really like it.Performance wise you're the first person I've seen who had anything less than favorable to say about it.RE: Should the Mac Mini die?I have a spare 19" LCD at home that is just waiting for the new...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Consumer electronics, current MacBook, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Micro-Mac, motherboard

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Intel D945GCLF2 Dual Core Mini-ITX Carputer Motherboard

The Intel D945GCLF2, based on the Intel Atom, is finally released. One of the key features that caught the author's eye was the dual core Atom processor. Not only is it dual core, but its power usage is outstanding. It's estimated to use 4 watts under load while consuming milliwatts...

Tags: Dual-core, Power Consumption, Motherboard, Intel Corp., IsYouGeekedUp.com, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-10-03

The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PC

The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PCThe cost of the OS is the issueWhen I bought my current system, 5 years ago, it was cheaper to buy a prebuilt system then build it myself if I wanted Windows.If I had wanted Linux, then it would have...

Tags: Desktops, Memory, Operating systems, PC, RAM, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

One Router to Connect Them All

One Router to Connect Them AllWives and out of townI have the same problem. I usually get infuriating phone calls where I have to talk her through the whole device reboot process each time, and she forgets how to do it.God awful from where I liveRead my "Harsh reality of...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Broadband Internet, router, cable, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip

One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...

Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Plat'Home OpenBlockS: Made in Japan

Plat'Home OpenBlockS: Made in JapanInterestingInteresting, but why so expensive? 500.00 for a really simple piece of hardware seems to be overpriced by a factor of 4 or 5 at least. You could easily build a single board computer for a fraction of the cost with much more processing...

Tags: Processors, Network technology, Plat'Home OpenBlockS, Linksys WRT54GL

Discussion threads 2008-08-03

Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?

Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?Considering Pico-itxConsidering Via has had a pico-itx spec out for almost a year, a Mac of that size could easily fit into a case like that with off the shelf components.Apple would just have to make an OSX build that supports the Via processor. No trick...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-06-09