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Shuttle KPC K-4800

We liked Shuttle's $230 KPC K-4500 PC mostly because it was one of the cheapest complete desktops around. This higher-end model is a different story. We should qualify "higher end," because the Shuttle KPC K-4800 still starts at $299. But at that price, it's closing in on standard Windows PC...

Tags: Shuttle, K-4800, Shuttle KPC K-4800, KPC K-4500

Product reviews 2008-10-06

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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

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

HP Compaq Presario SR5610f

The low cost Presario SR5610f is in Compaq's budget "SR" line of prebuilt PCs. The no frills chassis echoes our excitement about the internal components; the system features a 2.5GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 CPU, 3GB of RAM, an integrated Nvidia graphics chip, a single 320GB hard drive, and...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Semiconductors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Presario, Presario SR5610f

Product reviews 2008-10-24

eMachines ET1161-03

The eMachines ET1161-03 is a low-maintenance desktop PC for light users with a budget on the brain. The $400 price tag will net you get a dual-core AMD Athlon processor with integrated audio and video, 3GB of RAM, a single 320GB hard drive, and 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium. Unfortunately,...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, Semiconductors, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), exterior, eMachines ET1161-03, eMachines Inc., AMD Athlon

Product reviews 2008-10-22

Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics

The cost of good graphics is going down fast. AMD plans to release new versions of its ATI Radeon 4000-series graphics processing units GPUs for entry-level graphics cards, according to the site TGDaily. The new cards are a response to Nvdia's new 9400 GT, which was announced...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, Tom, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Review roundup: AMD's Radeon 4870 X2 delivers

AMD has been on a roll lately with its Radeon 4800 series GPUs, and with the official introduction of the Radeon 4870 X2, it can now claim the world's fastest 3D gaming card. The Radeon 4870 X2 combines two of AMD's fastest GPU, the RV770, each clocked...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, Radeon 4870 X2, Games, Video Cards, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-12

NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide

NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...

Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Asus ENGTX280

Editor's note: After retesting their initial findings, our colleagues at GameSpot found that the GeForce 9800 GX 2 had better scores on "Call of Duty 4" and "Crysis" than was first reported. With that new information, we have found that the GTX280 has a smaller performance advantage over Nvidia's previous...

Tags: Semiconductors, Video cards, ASUS, GeForce GTX280, NVidia Corp., Nvidia GeForce

Product reviews 2008-06-16

NVIDIA launches the 'best performing GPU on the planet'

NVIDIA launches the 'best performing GPU on the planet'Think ATI?Precisely why I'm waiting for the 4800 series. 55nm and lower price is what won me over. I think ATI's gamble is starting to pay off.Even higher clock would worry me though, seeing that they're already using dual slot cooler for...

Tags: R700, GPU, card, ATI Technologies Inc., shader, NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory

AMD has conformed that its next-generation Radeon HD 4800 GPU series will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory. Here's what Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Product Group at AMD, had to say: "The days of monolithic mega-chips are gone....

Tags: Memory, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radeon, GPU, GDDR5, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU

More details on Nvidia's new GTX 200 series GPUs, which are set to launch sometime next month, courtesy of the site TGDaily. The new chip will reportedly be massive, measuring 576 square millimeters, due to the increased number of processing units and a 512-bit memory controller. All...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Series, Chip, GPU, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-21

News to know: Microsoft-Yahoo talks (again); OLPC; Gmail themes; Firefox 3.0

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works? BoomTown: Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business? NYT: In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes...

Tags: Google Gmail, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200

Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200still boycotting AMD/ATIWhat good are the chips when they refuse to write drivers? Still waiting for Vista drivers for All-In-Wonder 9600 graphics cards. Over a year later and they won't supply drivers, nor will they actually admit that they have no intention...

Tags: AMD/ATi, card, AMD Radeon 4800, Nvidia GTX 200, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., hardware, NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200

The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...

Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Expand Networks Accelerates Traffic Over the Wan

Leader in the lift-truck manufacturing industry, Fenwick counts 2000 employees in France, divided between the headquarters, a factory and several branch offices all around the French territory. Fenwick's network's traffic is organised via a 256 Kbit/s Frame relay transmission. The IT department started a SAP project, which changed the network's...

Tags: Expand Networks Inc., Fenwick, Frame Relay, Network Technology, Networking, WANs

Case studies 2008-04-01

Putting perspective on the "30ò0of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA" reports

Putting perspective on the "30ò0of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA" reportsnVidia lives up to the 30% figure on my systemI too have a video driver vertical sync problem in Vista. I remain at driver 158.18 as other newer drivers cause Steam games to fail. Every new driver causes an immediate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Monitors & displays, Microsoft Windows XP, Sad Thing, Microsoft Windows Vista, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-28

Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux

Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux...Like Windows... ignorance continues to perpetuate itself. ]:)I think that eventually people will start to look elsewhere. It's a matter of edumacation! While I am many others have been doing our part to educate the masses, we don't have...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, PC, stupid tube, edumacation, Linux, tube, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

SaaS Goes IPO (again): SuccessFactors Files, and Now the Questions Begin

SuccessFactors, the latest poster-child for SaaS, is now headed for the IPO market, following NetSuite, and everyone's archetype SaaS IPO (if you're an investor), Salesforce.com. SuccessFactors' S-1 filing was first pointed out to me by fellow Enterprise Irregular Jason Corsello, who has blogged on this IPO and Successfactors in general...

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Blog posts 2007-07-23