February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Quote: “OCZ has come out with what I consider one of the most innovative products to hit the market in a long time. The FlexXLC (Xtreme Liquid Convention) copper / aluminum heatsink has the “flex”ability to function as a passive air cooler or as a liquid cooled solution. The ability to watercool the memory right out of the box will allow you to…”

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

A Canadian company with substantial venture capital backing claims to have built a “quantum computer” that will ultimately solve problems beyond the power of conventional systems - and will demonstrate it over a live link next week.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

New info on this Intel project shows actual CPU design including floating point units, networking logic and even clock speeds and power consumption data.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

NVIDIA’s third GeForce 8 series GPU is ready to be added to their lineup, and this time at a very attractive price point that should appeal to a lot of people. We
’ll test the new BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB against the competition as well as its older sibling to see exactly what the better value is, prepare for some shocking results.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Great notebook computers exist out there for under $1,000, having become more and more of a reality as prices on components like processors, RAM and hard drives continue to fall. While not all computers in this price range will have Windows Vista installed on them, some are ready to update when you are.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Today, IBM’s neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies will announce that their new type of memory will “triple” the amount of memory stored on computer chips while doubling the performance of processors. How you say? It’s the SRAM, man. IBM’s new eDRAM is faster than that scandalous DRAM — nearly as fast as SRAM while taking up less space.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Meet Buffalo’s new 3TB (yeah, 3,000GB) TeraStation PRO storage solution for your home network. It’s still the same ol’ box — RAID 1/5/10 (across 4x disks), 38MB/s transfer rate (Raid 5), gigabit Ethernet, Active Directory integration, integrated UPS and 2x USB 2.0 jacks to swing even more disk from.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

According to InfoWorld (via Yahoo News), contract manufacturer Quanta Computer has confirmed that they’ve received orders for one million of the long-awaited OLPC XO laptops anticipated by children and geeks alike, with orders expected to further increase throughout the rest of the year

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

A decade ago, a girl hypothesizes in a newsgroup that one day computers will have gigabytes of memory. Look at the response she gets!

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Toshiba’s 0.85 inch 8Gb hard drive weighs in at only 2 grams.

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