September 6, 2006 by Brad.

Apple Computer has upgraded its entire iMac desktop line with Intel’s new Core 2 Duo processors, which were released just last month. The Core 2 Duo chips offer substantial performance and energy consumption advantages over their predecessors.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

The number of people buying laptops in stores now is 56 percent of buyers as opposed to 50 percent two years ago. Why are buyers trending away from online outlets?

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

The second article in a series about getting the most out of your battery.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

Here’s a list of the most popular laptops from August. El cheapo Toshiba takes the #1 spot as notebooks hit the mass market hard.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

Two new GPUs aimed squarely at the more mainstream price segments of the gaming community. Here, we find the GeForce 7900 GS coming to market with an MSRP of $199 and the GeForce 7950 GT which carries an MSRP of $299. With these two GPUs, NVIDIA is providing the market with a direct response to ATI’s recently announced…

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

The new chips can also lower the brightness when the screens are indoors, which can save battery life by up to 30%.Samsung’s mobile display driver integrated chip changes the light output depending on the brightness of the ambient light. The light is detected by a photosensor which divides the light into 32 levels.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

The Metropolis-series laptop will feature an overclocked Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor functioning at 3.37GHz. It will be based on Intel P965-series chipset, and equipped with up to 4GB of PC2-6400 (DDR2 800MHz) memory. Also featuring four GeForce Go 7900 graphics chips in quad SLI mode accompanied by 19inch monitor with 1920×1200 res.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

The bottom line is that the PS3 is going to be just as hard to obtain this holiday season as the Xbox 360 was last year (assuming, that is, that Sony can still make the November deadline)

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

A guide to how much hard drive space you need.

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September 6, 2006 by Brad.

A Toshiba representative explains the SED screen technology. It’s gonna be mass produced within a year. They were showing a 36″ prototype at this years IFA consumer electronics show. Only for invited guests, engineers from competing companies were not welcome. This is the first time the SED screen has been filmed and released on the Internet.

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