September 28, 2006 by Brad.

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

High Definition Television à is an international digital TV standard aired in 16:9 format (4:3 for normal TVs) and in Dolby Digital surround sound.Viewers get clear contoured shows with vibrant colors and a wider depth-of-field compared to normal systems.HDTV has up to five times the number of pixels on standard PALs used now.

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

“Roll-up laptop screens and e-newspapers may be a step closer, according to scientists.”

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

This document covers the general concept of how LAN switches work and the most common features that are available on a LAN switch. The document also covers the differences between bridging, switching, and routing.

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

DIGIT LIFE explores the next generation native quad core architecture from AMD, the K8L, based on one presentation made by Guiseppe Amato in Moscow. There are a few benchmark slides but most of the presentations seems to hover around the power to performance ratio which can turn quite dirty for Intel.

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

Micron is the second major DRAM manufacturer to announce sample shipments of next-generation DDR3 modules and claims to be the first company to ship 1 Gb devices with a capacity of up to 2 GB. DDR3 promises to double the speed of today’s DDR2 memory and is expected to become available on high-end desktop computers in late 2007.

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September 28, 2006 by Brad.

VisionTek’s PCI based RADEON X1300 256 MB graphics card is a unique product that fills a unique niche. Does this PCI graphics card stack up to the PCI-Express competition? What potentials does it hold beyond 3D gaming? The perfect affordable physics acceleration card?

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September 27, 2006 by Brad.

These guys look at the ten most expensive laptops, talk about what you really get for your money, and even have some good pics in there.

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September 27, 2006 by Brad.

This 160GB HDD matches Fujitsu’s MHW2160BH, but lacks the space found in Toshiba’s offering, though we’re certainly not ones to complain about more competition. The specs aren’t anything extraordinary, as it sports 8MB of cache, 150 MB/s transfer speeds,

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September 27, 2006 by Brad.

Thanks to a custom PCB, redesigned heatsinks, meticulously binned chips, a unique cooling apparatus and their patent-pending DHX Technology (Dual Path Heat Xchange), Corsair has created a 2GB memory kit that can run with tight 4-4-4-12-2T timings at an impressive 1.11GHz. This article details the tech and mechanisms at work in this impressive kit.

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