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  • Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (and more!) free for ATI, Nvidia gamers

    Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (and more!) free for ATI, Nvidia gamers

    Here's one for the road: if you have an ATI or Nvidia graphics card you can download Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast from Steam for free. Woo~!

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  • Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    What do you do with a laptop when you're done with it? That's an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is sitting in the closet, broken beyond repair. Now, if I had one of these new Asus laptops, I could, somehow, recycle them. Helping the Earth, one laptop at a time.

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  • HDMI coming to more netbooks in 2011

    HDMI coming to more netbooks in 2011

    HDMI can be found on a few netbooks right now, but it's set to become standard next year when Intel's Cedar Trail-M platform hits the tiny lappies. Most of the current netbooks with HDMI are built around Nvidia's ION GPU platform, which also drives up the cost. But by moving HDMI support to the CPU, it should come on nearly every netbook.

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  • Lenovo refreshes laptop line for 2010

    Lenovo refreshes laptop line for 2010

    Lenovo announced their latest models today, a whole slew of new laptops, all-in-one models, and desktops. We're going to talk about the latest laptops here, but make sure you check out our other coverage on their new products.

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  • Plex for Mac OS X adds hardware h.264 video decoding

    Plex for Mac OS X adds hardware h.264 video decoding

    Exciting news from Plex, the media center for Mac OS X that won my heart a long time ago. The devs have announced that they've integrated Apple's new video decode acceleration framework into the latest build. In English, that means all h.264-encoded video—and there's a lot of it out there—can be sent to your GPU for decoding, giving your CPU a bit more breathing room. It should make for significantly better 1080p video performance.

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  • Nvidia commits to simultaneous desktop-laptop driver releases

    Nvidia commits to simultaneous desktop-laptop driver releases

    Nvidia wants to help out you laptop gamers. How nice of them. From now on, the company will release both desktop and mobile drivers at the same time. This isn't such a big deal for desktop users, what with their fancy GTX 480s, but laptop users won't have to wait for the Dells and HPs of the world to release updated drivers. Nvidia's got you covered.

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  • PS3 Slim now ever more slimmer (and more efficient)

    PS3 Slim now ever more slimmer (and more efficient)

    Sony just can't seem to leave well enough alone, it turns out that they have managed to redesign the RSX GPU to make it even smaller and more efficient. A recent tear-down by Japanese fansite PocketNews showed off the fact that they Nvidia GPU used in all the PS3 Slim units has been reduced to an even smaller size since launch.

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  • MacBook Pro GPU is always on in Windows 7

    MacBook Pro GPU is always on in Windows 7

    MacBooks have great battery life for a few reasons, including, but not limited to, GPU switching. However, as Ubergizmo discovered, when you run Windows 7 in Bootcamp the GPU stays on all the time, essentially sucking down battery like a fiend. The 2009 MBP also had issues - the screen was too bright and the keyboard backlight was always on - but otherwise there wasn't much of a problem.

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  • Toshiba announces Tecra M11 notebook

    Toshiba announces Tecra M11 notebook

    It’s been a while since Toshiba unveiled their M10 and A10 computers in 2008, but Toshiba finally released the specs on their new M11 business notebook. The M11 features a 14-inch anti-glare display, Intel Core i3/i5 dual core processor, up to 3 GB DDR3 RAM and either Intel HD or an NVIDIA NVS 2100M graphics card. It also comes with a 320GB 7200RPM hard drive, a DVD Super-Multi drive, and Bluetooth/WiFi connectivity.

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  • Apple finally releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

    Apple finally releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

    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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  • Nvidia GTX 400 series trickling out a few days early

    Nvidia GTX 400 series trickling out a few days early

    Looks like the Nvidia GTX 400 series GPUs are starting to trickle onto various sites several days before the official release. Take that paycheck and pump it right into Direct X 11 goodness~!

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  • CrunchRumor: Alienware M11x to get updated Nvidia chipset?

    CrunchRumor: Alienware M11x to get updated Nvidia chipset?

    One question that has come up ever since the M11x was released was why didn’t Alienware use the Nvidia Optimus chipset. The chipset that Alienware did use makes switching between the integrated and discreet graphics rather awkward and jarring, and a less then ideal user experience. Well, the rumor rattling around the pipes today is [...]

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  • The Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 bring Core i5, Core i7, and discrete graphics

    The Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 bring Core i5, Core i7, and discrete graphics

    Dell has been building notebooks under the Latitude nameplate, well, forever, right? It seems that way, but the series keeps trucking on as the company continues to load the latest goods onto the platform. The E6410 and E6510 builds upon the success of the previous generation but ditches the 2009 specs for chips that are a bit more 2010.

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  • Don’t worry: The Intel Core i3 is just fine for gaming

    Don’t worry: The Intel Core i3 is just fine for gaming

    We've seen a few systems (mainly laptops) come with the Intel Core i3, a sort of entry level, dual core processor. The questions on everyone's mind is, is it a viable processor when it comes to gaming? Apparently so~!

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  • iPad runs circles around Snapdragon-powered Nexus One

    iPad runs circles around Snapdragon-powered Nexus One

    So, the iPad? I hear it's good, but again, it's not for me—don't cry. But what's indisputable? The fact that it's pretty damn fast. Even though the processor is nothing more than a stock Apple A4, it wallops the fancy Snapdragon, the 1GHz CPU found in the Nexus One (and others). The iPad: useful (to some), and quite quick. Neat.

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