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  • Apple finally releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

    Apple finally releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Finally, finally. Apple finally released MacBook Pros with Intel’s latest chips while updating nearly everything else, too. The just announced MBPs forgo the Core 2 Duo CPUs in favor of the faster and more efficient Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs — except for the 13-inch line. The 15-inch now rocks a i5 or i7 [...]

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  • MAINGEAR Quantum Shift workstation eats Adobe CS5 for breakfast

    MAINGEAR Quantum Shift workstation eats Adobe CS5 for breakfast

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Maingear announced their latest today, the Quantum Shift workstation. Designed more for the content developer then the gamer, the Quantum Shift definitely brings the heat. Of course, you customize exactly how much power the Quantum Shift is packing, but it's designed around Nvidia's Quadro FX GPU technology.

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  • More details about the ExoPC slate surface

    More details about the ExoPC slate surface

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    The ExoPC is shaping up to be a major contender in the tablet PC space with the iPad's good looks and an affair of ExoPC UI-Layer on top of Windows 7. And if these leaked capabilities are in fact coming, the HP Slate better look out. This guy will steal some of its thunder.

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  • Video demo: IE9 with NVIDIA Ion hardware acceleration

    Video demo: IE9 with NVIDIA Ion hardware acceleration

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    We'll soon live in an age when netbooks have both CPUs and GPUs and it will be grand. Unicorns and rainbows will dance off of our screens in harmony -- and Internet Explorer might become relevant again. The video after the jump shows what IE9 is capable of when a next-generation Nvidia Ion GPU is paired with an Intel Atom CPU verses a standard netbook with an Atom all by itself. The differences are obvious and makes a solid case for Internet Explorer. But most of us will probably visit the International Space Station before setting IE as our default browser even if it renders graphics faster.

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  • Dell is now taking orders for powerhouse Precision M4500 15.6-inch notebook

    Dell is now taking orders for powerhouse Precision M4500 15.6-inch notebook

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    The Dell Precision M4500 is serious. Seriously powerful and expensive that is with the Core i7-920XM Extreme CPU and an Nvidia Quadro FX 1800m GPU along with a max of 16GB of RAM and dual SSD hard drives. But even the base $1,549 model still offers enough power to get most any task done with CPU cycles to spare.

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  • Mac pricing leak? Perhaps updated Macs are inbound.

    Mac pricing leak? Perhaps updated Macs are inbound.

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you haven't noticed, the MacBook Pro line is starting to get a little stale with just a lowly Core 2 Duo CPU. Even the Mac Pro with it's Quad-Core Xeon isn't the fastest kid in town anymore with the six-core Core i7-980X making the rounds. Hopefully all this fuss concerning a supposed leak of new Mac pricing that's a bit higher than the current MSRPs foreshadows updates coming in the near future.

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  • AMD working on actual netbook chipset, not due until next year

    AMD working on actual netbook chipset, not due until next year

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    AMD is finally looking to get into the netbook game for real. Forget about the thin-and-light NEO chipset that’s been out for a while—we’re talking about an honest, netbook-specific chipset based on the company’s Fusion initiative that’ll blend power-sipping CPUs with ATI graphics. The platform will draw between 10 and 15 watts of power and will be designed for screens 12 inches and smaller.

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  • The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses

    The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    You might want to take a different approach when shopping for a 3D TV than a standard HDTV. Instead of just looking at the picture quality, you should also take a serious look at the brand's 3D glasses. Some show some clear advantages to purchase that brand's 3D TV and until there's a standard format for 3D glasses, each brand requires its own unique glasses, thereby locking you into that manufacturer's products. Yeah, it's a bit messy right now. Click through for details on all of them.

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  • NVIDIA’s ION 2 promises faster graphics and long battery life

    NVIDIA’s ION 2 promises faster graphics and long battery life

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    It's official. NVIDIA's ION 2 GPUs are coming. You’ll see them on more than 30 products come summer time. The company is promising “10x faster graphics and up to 10 hours of battery life.” So much for that whole power-versus-battery-life tradeoff.

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  • The Shuttle barebone XS35 HD is as thick as my granola bar is wide

    The Shuttle barebone XS35 HD is as thick as my granola bar is wide

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Don't be fooled by the size of this Shuttle computer. It has everything that you would fine in a larger rig but is barely larger than a convential 3.5-inch hard drive at 33mm wide. But you probably knew that. After all, it is 2010 and small form factor computers are nothing new.

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  • MSI rolls-out four mundane but still competent C Series notebooks

    MSI rolls-out four mundane but still competent C Series notebooks

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Just last week MSI announced Core i5 and i3 additions to its Classic Series. Today, the company announced four more affordable additions to that line with one packing a Core i5, two with Core i3s and one with just a lowly Dual-Core Pentium.

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  • Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video)

    Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video)

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    While Palm's Pre is many things to many people it still can't game. Oh sure, it'll play Magic Fortune Ball like a champ but when it comes to intensive 3D action the Pre is as helpless as a would-be terrorist trying to ignite his underwear. See, webOS and the Mojo SDK currently can't exploit the GPU the way other smartphone platforms can. Rewind a few weeks, however, and we're reminded of a video showing EA's Need for Speed Undercover running impossibly smooth on a Pre. At the time, the video and claims of the device running Flash were shot down as fake largely due to the accompanying screen caps of the purportedly new App Catalog. Well guess what? Those screen caps were vindicated today with the webOS 1.3.5 update that just so happened to launch a new App Catalog matching the leaked images, exactly. That lends credence to the video then doesn't it, while hinting at future apps and games with full OpenGL graphics support. Is that the big reveal at CES alongside enhanced Pre+ and Pixi+ handsets headed to Big Red? We'll find out shortly enough -- until then check the gameplay after the break.

    [Thanks, Brian K.]

    Continue reading Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video)

    Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Dell Mini 10 netbook line to get specs bumped in January

    Dell Mini 10 netbook line to get specs bumped in January

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Dell’s line of Mini 10 netbooks will be getting a few boosts here and there sometime next month. For starters, you’ll be able to get one outfitted with an Atom N450 CPU at 1.66GHz. The six-cell battery option will apparently provide up to 9.5 hours of battery life as well.

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  • Palm Pre WebOS 1.3.1 update available now

    Palm Pre WebOS 1.3.1 update available now

    Posted on November 14, 2009 | No Comments

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    webOS 1.3.1 was always destined to come alongside the launch of the Pixi, but it's surprised us by showing its face a day early. No app catalog bombshells here, but there are a slew of more minor fixes and updates that should make users experience a great deal smoother. Is this the update that finally unlocks access to the GPU and provides the speed boost Pre owners are waiting for / advances the iTunes chess match another step? We'll let you know once our unit reboots, for now here are a few highlights from Palm's list of changes:

    Update: Downloaded, applied and rebooted. iTunes still isn't spotting our Pre as a device to sync with, and at least for the moment there's no great speed increases to speak of, but we have noticed a few more key tweaks that owners are sure to like -- setting a specific ringtone for text messages is exactly what we've been looking for.
    • Yahoo! now appears as a Calendar/Contacts/instant messaging synchronization account.
    • You can forward a text or multimedia message by tapping the message > Forward.
    • A new option is available for restarting the phone: press and hold power > Power > Restart. The prior restart method (Device Info > Reset Options > Restart) is still available.
    • Widescreen videos (including YouTube) now display in widescreen mode on the phone by default, instead of being cropped.
    • If you tap to play a YouTube video embedded on a web page, the YouTube application launches and the video plays in the app.
    • You can select a unique ringtone for new message alerts: Open Messaging > application menu > Preferences & Accounts > Sound > Ringtone.
    • While listening to a song with album art displayed, you can tap the screen below the art to display a playback slider. Dragging the slider jumps forward or backward in the song.

    Palm Pre WebOS 1.3.1 update available now originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iBuyPower outs its first Core i7 gaming notebook, the Battalion 101 W870CU & M980NU

    iBuyPower outs its first Core i7 gaming notebook, the Battalion 101 W870CU & M980NU

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    IBuyPower is back with a good looking Core i7 gaming notebook. The 17.3-inch Battalion 101 W8u0CU packs just about everything you would expect from a top-tier notebook with the a price tag to match. Or you could opt for the M980NU and net a huge 18.4-inch 1080p LCD. That is, of course, if you don't ever plan on moving the damn thing.

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