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  • Quo Computer set to open Mac clone shop in California

    Quo Computer set to open Mac clone shop in California

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    Mac clone maker Psystar may have finally ran up against a wall, but it looks like its tale hasn't dissuaded upstart Quo Computer, which is now planning to open a retail store in the Los Angeles area that'll sell some as yet unspecified Mac clones. While that'll apparently be a relatively small operation initially, the company's founder, Rashantha De Silva, does seems to have some fairly grand plans for it, with him telling CNET News that they are "trying to stay as close to Apple as we can with our products," and that he hopes Apple "sees the value in what we are doing." Of course, that's about as likely to happen as Woz staying awake during a Palm talk, and De Silva isn't completely unrealistic about the situation, adding that they'll "probably" get sued. Nevertheless, the store is supposedly set to open on June 1st, and the company is apparently aiming to have pricing start at less than $900.

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    Quo Computer set to open Mac clone shop in California originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 12:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Liquid helium trumps liquid nitrogen at AMD’s Phenom II overclocking love-in

    Liquid helium trumps liquid nitrogen at AMD’s Phenom II overclocking love-in

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Liquid helium trumps liquid nitrogen at AMD's Phenom II overclocking love-in
    Remember late last year, when AMD poured out the liquid nitrogen to boost its new Phenom II X4 to a ridiculous 5GHZ? The company's factory overclockers apparently had a lot of leftover LN2, so they invited a crew of others to come over and splash some around on a set of new Phenom II X4 955 Black processors. After burning through a ridiculous 80 gallons of the stuff they rolled out the even colder liquid helium, which led to a maximum benchmark of 6.89GHz -- more than twice the quad-core processor's 3.2GHz rated speed. In these tough economic times it's good to see that one company at least is still willing to take things to great excesses at the expense of Earth's natural resources.

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    Liquid helium trumps liquid nitrogen at AMD's Phenom II overclocking love-in originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 10:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Packard Bell intros Ion-based iMax mini nettop, non-Ion dot netbooks

    Packard Bell intros Ion-based iMax mini nettop, non-Ion dot netbooks

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments

    Packard Bell hit a bit of a rough patch with its netbook business earlier this year, but things now seem to be getting back into full swing, with the company not only finally pushing those "dot s" and "dot m" netbooks out the door, but a new Ion-based nettop as well. As you can see above, however, it didn't exactly have too much work to do on the latter (dubbed the iMax mini), which is apparently nothing more than a rebadged Acer AspireRevo. Those similarities also expectedly extend right down to the specs, which include the Ion-complementing Atom N230 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, six USB ports, and an HDMI port. It will interestingly come bundled with a gamepad, however, along with an unfortunately higher £249 price tag (or about $400 US). The two dot netbooks, on the other hand, remain unchanged since we last saw 'em, and should be in UK shops by July with a matching starting price of £249.

    Read - Pocketlint, "Packard Bell iMax mini launches"
    Read - Pocketlint, "Packard Bell officially launches dot s and m netbooks"

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    Packard Bell intros Ion-based iMax mini nettop, non-Ion dot netbooks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 04:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced

    New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments

    Intel's Core i7 has become somewhat of a mainstay in the most recent wave of gaming rigs, but it's been quite awhile (in processor years, anyway) since we've seen any new siblings join the launch gang. We'd heard faint whispers that a new crew was set to steal the stage on May 31st, and those rumors are looking all the more likely now that a few heretofore unheard of chips have appeared online. The 3.06GHz Core i7 950 is shown over at PCs For Everyone with 8MB of shared L3 cache and a $649 price tag, and it's expected that said chip will replace the aging Core i7 940. Moving on up, there's the luscious 3.33GHz Core i7 Extreme 975, which is also listed with 8MB of shared L3 cache but packs a staggering price tag well above the $1,100 mark. If all this pans out, this CPU will replace the Core i7 Extreme 965 as Intel fastest Core i7 product. Just a few more days to wait, right?

    [Via PCWorld]

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    New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Linpus set to debut first Moblin 2.0 distribution for end users

    Linpus set to debut first Moblin 2.0 distribution for end users

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments

    While we've been getting a pretty good look at Moblin 2.0 as of late, we haven't been hearing much about the end-user distributions that'll actually be winding up on netbooks and nettops as the Linux-based OS moves out of beta. Linpus now looks set to change that, however, with it announcing that it'll be showing off a Moblin version of its Linpus Linux Lite OS at Computex next week, which is apparently the first such end-user distribution to emerge. What's more, while the initial batch of screenshots don't exactly offer many surprises, Linpus says that it has indeed put its own touch on the interface, and that it's version will boot in just 15 seconds and give users access to a live desktop that'll let them quickly access a range of websites and applications. Not many more details beyond that, unfortunately, but we're sure this is just beginning of Moblin talk that'll emerge out of Computex.

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    Linpus set to debut first Moblin 2.0 distribution for end users originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • VIA Nano-powered Shuttle XS29F gets official

    VIA Nano-powered Shuttle XS29F gets official

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments

    Well, Computex Taipei still hasn't formally kicked off, but it looks like it's close enough for VIA and Shuttle, who have now gotten official with that Nano-based small form factor PC that first surfaced earlier this week. Now dubbed the Shuttle XS29F, this particular version comes equipped with the low-power combo of VIA's Nano U1700 CPU and VX800 media system processor, along with support for up to 4GB of RAM, your choice of SATA II storage options, both VGA and DVI ports, four USB 2.0 ports and, perhaps most importantly, a maximum power consumption of just 50 watts for the entire system. That, as VIA helpfully explains in the video after the break, means the system can ditch all the usual fans and heatsinks and remain nearly silent during operation, not to mention let you save you a bit on your energy bills. Still no word on a price, sadly, but we're hoping Shuttle will be a bit more talkative once Computex opens its doors.

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    VIA Nano-powered Shuttle XS29F gets official originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments

    Well, here's a wild new spin on the Android for netbooks debate: Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is creating an Android execution environment that would allow Android apps to run on Ubuntu and other desktop-style Linux distros, which seems like the best of both worlds for netbooks in most cases. Canonical already has a working prototype of the execution environment, and plans on making the necessary changes to the kernel in its next version of Ubuntu to give Android all the juice it needs at the core level and will open source the project soon. Things are still early, and there's a lot of work to do before this is going to really make the highly specialized Java-based Android apps actually usable on regular Linux -- they're currently working on granting Android access to the Ubuntu file system, for instance -- but we love where this is headed.

    [Thanks, Michael Y.; Image courtesy of Scott James Remnant]

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    Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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