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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February 11, 2007 by Brad.

We have heard of U.S. soldiers taking a bullet for a fellow soldier, but now a new friend took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.

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February 11, 2007 by Brad.

The E-Book, Turntable Notebook, $336,557 Laptop, Steampunk Laptop, Duke Nukem Notebook, XBox 360 and Wii Laptop

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February 11, 2007 by Brad.

“Barcelona is a new CPU, not a doubling of cores and not extensions strapped on here and there. Get ready to be blown away long before its release, which is scheduled for midyear.” New power management scheme, 4 cores each with a dedicated L2 cache and new vector math unit. 80% speed up for floating point math.

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