Sometimes it escapes our attention that people are still buying huge numbers of PCs these days. Intel's quarterly profit announcement reminded everyone of that today with news that the chip maker had record profits of $2.9 billion [......]
A roll-your-own hybrid drive option for people who don't want to reinstall Windows Hybrid drives that combine NAND flash and mechanical hard drives are making a comeback. But what if you could make your own hybrid drive, with as much capacity as you want? [......]
We've seen a number of notebook releases carrying the 'gaming' moniker without the hardware to back it up. MSI's GT660 isn't one of them. The most subtle thing about the GT660 is its name[......]
Well here's something we didn't expect to see, at least not yet. [......]
Bitten by the summer upgrade bug? Your timing is spot on, as Intel is gearing up to launch several new desktop processors in the third quarter of 2010[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Two major Linux-based mobile operating system efforts, Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin were combined earlier this year into a new project going by the name of MeeGo which will ultimately support a wide range of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, set top boxes, and more. In March, the core MeeGo distribution infrastructure and OS base were made available to developers so the two code bases, teams, and projects could be combined into a single Linux distribution. MeeGo version 1.0 for Netbooks was released in May, and today, the baseline source code of MeeGo for handsets has been released as a developer preview. [......]
Asus has managed to squeeze about as much performance as currently possible into its new netbook, the Eee PC 1215N . [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Late last year, chipmaker Intel became the subject of sweeping antitrust investigations from the European Commission, the state of New York, and the US Federal Trade Commission. Today, lawyers for both Intel and the FTC have filed a motion to suspend the trial while both parties consider potential settlement of the case, which was filed in December of 2009 [......]
We're not real big on playing the waiting game when it comes to building, buying, or upgrading a PC, though every once awhile, we can be swayed. [......]
Intel's first-gen Atom processors had a nice run and single-handedly kept both the processor market and PC shipment sector in the black during a worldwide tech recession that rocked 2009, but the dated chips are finally up for retirement . According to Fudzilla, Intel will pull the plug on Atom 230 and 330 processor sales by the end of this month[......]
Toshiba over the past few days has been busy launching a bunch of notebooks in the Taiwan market, including the 10-inch NB250 netbook, 13-inch to 15-inch Satellite L series notebooks for mainstream folks, high-end Satellite A series, and a pair of ultra-thin Portege models, one built around Intel's Pentium U5400 processor and the other sporting a Core i3 330UM chip. All of these are expected to ship stateside starting later this month[......]
It wasn't that long ago that a high-end gaming notebook would set you back several thousand dollars, and while you can still choose to spend that much if you look hard enough, there are plenty of potent mobile gaming PCs to be had on a sensible budget. Count MSI's GX740 notebook as one of them[......]
System builders -- both OEM and the DIY variety -- will soon have a new Intel processor to play with. [......]
We already know about the new Arrandale-based Celeron P4500, a 1.86GHz dual-core part with 2MB of cache and aimed at the value sector. According to Fudzilla, there's at least one more mobile Celeron chip on tap for 2010 , the faster clocked P4600[......]
ARM thinks it will be powering half of all tablets (if not the vast majority of them) by 2011, while Intel already has a processor roadmap in place for this emerging market. And what about AMD? Well, they're not as gung-ho as the other major chip makers, and instead will wait until market demand picks up, says Rich Bergman , AMD senior vice president and general manager of Products Group. [......]
