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May 9, 2008 3:52 pm by Sal Cangeloso
Looking for a low-cost ultraportable, but not sold on the Eee PC or the HP 2133 Mini-Note? Not a problem–MSI’s Wind might be just what you need. Up until recently we haven’t had the full story on this notebook, but details have been leaking in and now a retailer has finally posted the specs online.
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May 9, 2008 3:51 pm by RickGeek
NASA is looking to update its Ames Research Center’s supercomputer in Moffett Field, CA. The new plan will feature a petaflop machine by 2009, which is 1,000 trillion operations per second, and will be built in stages allowing for a maximum throughput of 10 petaflops by 2012. To put those numbers into perspective, […]
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May 9, 2008 1:47 pm by RickGeek
An announcement made just the other day by AMD indicates that their previous 8-core processor roadmap has now been pitched into the bin. The future holds a 12-core chip from AMD, coming in the second half of 2010. Dubbed Magny-Cours, the server world will see the benefits of what could easily be called […]
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May 8, 2008 11:01 am by Sal Cangeloso
So what exactly is cloud computing? We all have an idea what the cloud does and how we use it, but trying to define the larger concept of cloud computing can get tricky. It is a term that has come to mean many different things, from how webmail operates, to online storage tools, to Amazon’s […]
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May 7, 2008 12:17 pm by RickGeek
In the beginning was the 8086, and it was built on 10,000 nm a process technology, and it could handle 1 MB of memory using 24-bit addresses (16 bit offset + 8 bit base derived from something called “segmentation”). While this version of the computer chip was clunky, it did allow for […]
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May 7, 2008 11:12 am by Sal Cangeloso
HP’s tx2000z is something that we don’t actually see a whole lot of: a tablet designed for home users. Despite having been around for a few years now, tablet PCs have grown a more secure foothold in the business segment than the home one. We still see tablets aimed at students and creative home users, […]
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May 7, 2008 10:17 am by Sal Cangeloso
According to Hot Hardware pre-orders for the new 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 started… yesterday. They already have them in the UK and Hong Kong so if you are dying to pick up a low-cost Linux or Windows subnotebook, then this is your chance.
Retailers mentioned include Newegg.com, Pcmall.com, Tigerdirect.com, Amazon.com, and a few others, but after […]
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May 7, 2008 10:03 am by RickGeek
The 80286 introduced something into the x86 architecture called protected mode. Protected mode differed from the original mode of the 8086, which was later dubbed “real mode”, in that areas of memory could be physically isolated by the processor itself to prevent illegal writes to other programs running in memory at the same time. Prior […]
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May 7, 2008 8:59 am by Joel Evans
{ad}Tired of reading about people’s problems with Vista? Head on over to this article over at ZDNET. Apparently, things went from bad to worse for Chuck Freedman from the PowerPage Podcast since he installed 10.5.2 on his MacBook Pro. It’s really a great story that just keeps getting worse as he grabs the […]
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May 6, 2008 10:01 am by Joel Evans
In a lawsuit against Best Buy’s Geek Squad tech support, confessions from employees are detailing common practices by Geek Squad employees, including the use of flash drives to copy your personal files.
According to the confessions, “If you have any interesting pictures of yourself or others on your computer, then they — will — be — […]
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