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Dell on AMD by September?

Dell has refrained from using AMD chips for years, but just last month announced it would start using AMD processors in its servers. Now Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung says Dell will offer an AMD-based desktop in September: https://gizmodo.com/dell-in-open-marriage-to-intel-looking-151197 “Citigroup Investment Research has confirmed from industry sources that Dell will offer an AMD based desktop in…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 14

UMPCs Suck Hard

It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the UMPC is just a baby tablet and, like the tablet, will soon end up smeared in blood in an ER rather than smeared with peanut butter on your coffee table. The folks at the Inquirer headed out to Computex and tried out a few UMPCs and found that…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 12

Intel Gets More Aggressive, Pentium Prices to Plummet

Chip giant Intel Corp. took the gloves off yesterday, announcing that it’s going to be able to cut prices on its older chips faster because of its implementation of more-efficient manufacturing technologies. As Intel moves into a fourth factory it’s built, it will be easier for the company to quickly ramp up to more 65-nanometer…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 9

Rumor: Next Samsung UMPC to Run AMD?

An unnamed Samsung insider says that the company may abandon Intel’s Celeron M 353 processor for an AMD chip for its Q1 UMPC. The company is looking for ways to lower the cost of the overpriced and slow-selling Q1, hoping to roll out the next-generation model this Fall at around $780 instead of the $1337…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 5

Intel Core 2 Extreme Running at 3.5GHz

Intel’s Core 2 Extreme processor has lots of headroom, proven today by Intel which plans to launch the chip at 2.93GHz but showed it already running at an overclocked 3.5GHz. Could this mean that the gigahertz race isn’t over after all? Sure, there are a lot of other factors that contribute to chip speed, but…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1

Sony VAIO TX800 Ultraportable Gets FCC Nod

Here’s an 11″ Sony VAIO notebook that just received FCC approval, the VGN TX800 which will start out with an Intel Core Solo ULV (ultra-low-voltage) 1.06GHz or 1.2GHz processor, eventually to be upgraded to the Intel Core Duo U2500. Not much else is known about the TX800, but we thought all the other manufacturers had…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 1

Intel to Ship Core 2 Duo Chips July 23

The chip wars are heating up with Intel planning the release of its Conroe processors for July 23. They’ll be called Core 2 Duo and there will be five different versions. The Core 2 Duo processors for the mainstream market will be numbered 6300 and 6400 and will run at clock speeds of 1.86GHz and…

Tech News Charlie White May 30

Sonica Audio Labs VHPextreme Workstation: Mac Pro Foreshadowing?

This is one badass PC tower, the VHPextreme that was just unveiled by Sonica Audio Labs. It’s configured for pro audio but would work on just about anything you throw at it, with its two dual-core 64-bit 3.7GHz Pentium D965 Extreme processors, 2GB of RAM, 680GB of SATA II storage, quad-monitor (two DVI ports) graphics…

Tech News Charlie White May 26

Skype for Mac Now a Universal Binary

You Mac users are a demanding bunch, so it’s nice to see companies support the new Intel-based Macs, even if it took them several months to get with the program. Skype is showing new Intel Mac users some love today with the release of version 1.4.0.49 (at least it’s an easy to remember numbering convention)…

Tech News Gizloco May 11

Intel Names Next-Gen Chips: Core 2 Duo

Intel has decided to name its next-generation processor Core 2 Duo, so we can throw away those weird-sounding meaningless codenames such as Conroe (the desktop version) and Merom (the notebook version), and get on with the next version of Intel’s dual core chips. Keeping with this numerical naming scheme, Intel will also call its next…

Tech News Charlie White May 8

Eduwise Laptop: You Know, For Kids

While this should have been done years ago—I guess there wasn’t much of a market in children’s education in the developing world—Intel has announced a reference model for the lil nippers called the Eduwise. It seems that, unlike the UMPC, Intel will actually be producing these $400 laptops en masse and they will run Windows…

Tech News Johnb May 4

TiVo Releases Mac Universal Binary Desktop Software

TiVo-using Mac heads should feel pretty confident about the future of the DVR company’s support for the computer that Jobs (or Woz, depending on whom you talk to) built since they just released a Universal binary of their Desktop software for Macs. The bump to version 1.9.3 doesn’t really bring any other sorely missed features…

Tech News Gizloco May 3

Intel Launches vPro Line

The goslings over at Intel just won’t give up with the hardware lines starting with V. After Viiv kind of went vlop, especially with the high-end audio/video folks, they’re going to launch another pro-line called vPro—which rhymes with… escrow? Ski pro? The line will include enchanced management features and will enable IT folks to check…

Tech News Johnb Apr 24

Laptops Hotter Than a $2 Pistol: What Now?

As notebooks get smaller and thinner and specs run to ever-higher numbers, the memory inside is getting as hot as a June bride in a feather bed. The newest thin-and-light notebooks are using DDR2-667 SO-DIMMs these days, and even though they’re not exactly hot enough to fry an egg, they can almost boil water, reaching…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 18

Intel to Ship Numerous Quad-Core Chips

This is turning out to be a banner year for chips, and the next two years will be even better. Analysts in the know are saying that Intel is fighting its way off the ropes with its Core architecture, and analyst Jim McGregor says that Intel may be planning… “a significantly different microarchitecture in the…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 17

MacIntel vs. Wintel

Now that the average Joe—you know who you are—can load XP on their Macs, let the benchmarking begin. Macologist ran about five million tests on similar and disparate machines and the MacBooks and iMacs consistently kept their heads above water. They didn’t really run a summary paragraph, but all the numbers are there. While the…

Tech News Johnb Apr 14

Asus-Lamborghini VX1 Notebook: Costly Style, Second-Tier Performance

We told you about the partnership announcement between Intel and Lamborghini, and now that’s come to fruition with the Asus-Lamborghini VX1 notebook. The VX1 has a 2GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 chip and Intel’s Centrino technology with a WiFi adapter built in. Alongside that there’s a gig of RAM and 120GB hard drive, as well…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 13

XP Gaming on a Mac (Verdict: ZOMG It Works!)

Amidst all of this bootcamp mumbo-jumbo it was only a matter of time before the Intel-powered Mac got a true test of strength: gaming. The guys at 1up installed Windows XP on a MacBook Pro and then installed Half-Life 2, Oblivion and F.E.A.R. for a test to see how much oomph these machines really have.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 7

Intel-Packing iBooks in June?

Now that we’ve seen Intel inside the Mac mini, iMac and MacBook Pro, what about the iBook (current G4 versions shown above)? We got a sneak peek into what might be happening in a report published by the Commercial Times, saying Taiwan’s Austek signed a contract with Apple to manufacture 1.2 million of the upcoming…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 5

Intel Edu-Wise: Cheap Laptops For All

Hot on the tail of the $100 laptop, Intel is looking to get itself a piece of hot third-world action by creating the Edu-Wise, a $400 laptop for developing nations. The original article was in Portuguese, but Google was able to tell us this about the project: “It, however, said that the project of the…

Tech News Johnb Mar 31

Dell on AMD by September?

UMPCs Suck Hard

Intel Gets More Aggressive, Pentium Prices to Plummet

Rumor: Next Samsung UMPC to Run AMD?

Intel Core 2 Extreme Running at 3.5GHz

Sony VAIO TX800 Ultraportable Gets FCC Nod

Intel to Ship Core 2 Duo Chips July 23

Sonica Audio Labs VHPextreme Workstation: Mac Pro Foreshadowing?

Skype for Mac Now a Universal Binary

Intel Names Next-Gen Chips: Core 2 Duo

Eduwise Laptop: You Know, For Kids

TiVo Releases Mac Universal Binary Desktop Software

Intel Launches vPro Line

Laptops Hotter Than a $2 Pistol: What Now?

Intel to Ship Numerous Quad-Core Chips

MacIntel vs. Wintel

Asus-Lamborghini VX1 Notebook: Costly Style, Second-Tier Performance

XP Gaming on a Mac (Verdict: ZOMG It Works!)

Intel-Packing iBooks in June?

Intel Edu-Wise: Cheap Laptops For All

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