Archive for March 15, 2007

Samsung Q2 Ultra Mobile PC Revealed (Pics and Specs!)

At last - a UMPC that looks like it isn’t going to suck. The new Samsung UMPC, labelled the Q2 sports a nice high resolution 1024×600 display, plenty of RAM and an Intel processor. It’s also got WiBro and a QWERTY keyboard. Pictures included!

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Top Ten Videos of Computers Getting Smashed

We’ve all felt the urge to put a foot, or worse, through our monitors. Live that experience vicariously through these videos.

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TiVo CEO promises lower-priced HD TiVo this year

Yeah, that Series3 HD recorder is great and all, but it’s about time TiVo started talking about an HD DVR with even a semblance of competitive pricing — $800 + service just isn’t cutting it anymore, especially with Windows Vista’s CableCARD support looking oh-so-promising.

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AMD brings Xbox 360 tech to handhelds

At GDC today, AMD announced a suite of tools for developing handheld gaming content for the company’s next-generation mobile graphics chips. These chips support the same Unified Shader Architecture as the Xbox 360’s ATI-designed GPU. Are phones the last stop here, or could the “Xboy” be on its way?

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Pictures: My Logitech Mouse.. Melted!?!

So put my mouse on the charger and went to work the other day and came back to THIS:

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PICTURE: OMG! Huge Monitors!

Now these are the Ultimate Monitors I dream about. “I want both of them! They are the Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD ($5,499) and Zenview Atlas 19S ($5,999). They are huge! How does the Atlas even stand!?”

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Laptops of the Future

Though some of these ideas may seem far fetched, it may not be too long until we actually see jet-powered, armored, or dual-touchscreen laptops.

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PhysX, GPUs, and the future of supercomputing

Ars analyzes the mysterious PhysX PPU from Ageia and reveals that it’s really a multicore architecture like IBM’s Cell. In the course of the article, Ars also explains how companies like Ageia, IBM, NVIDIA, and ATI would like to use economies of scale from the gaming market to break into the supercomputer market.

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Intel P35 “Bearlake” Chipset Performance Preview

Using an Intel P35 “Bearlake” motherboard, we test performance of 1333MHz FSB processors such as E6750 and E6850 on the new DDR-3 capable platform.

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Crazy Looking CPU Cooler That Uses Water and Peltiers - CoolIT Eliminator

Every seen a CPU Cooler uses multiple TECs (also called peltiers) to help chill the liquid coolant running through it? This eliminates the need for a radiator and increases thermal capacity and provides for faster heat absorption at the source. This thing cooled an Intel Core 2 Duo below air temperature during testing! (18C is damn cool for a CPU)

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