With Windows 7 to be released tomorrow, this seemed like a perfect time to take a final look at how its performance compares with that of its much-maligned predecessor, Windows Vista. What we found probably won’t surprise you very much, if you’ve been following the progress of Windows 7 since folks first started getting their [...]
We received a response from AMD with regards to our recent story, “Lucid Hydra 200: Multi-GPU Made Simple?”, about Lucid’s new Hydra 200 chip, which may allow PC owners to obtain multiple-GPU performance with graphics cards that use different GPUs, or even that blend Nvidia and ATI technologies.
AMD and Nvidia have expressed skepticism about Lucid’s [...]
An Indian vendor uses her mobile phone to take customers orders at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Hyderabad in April 2009. India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign firms.
India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 is here and available for purchase, but even though Windows Vista can be annoying in some cases, tech support experts do not recommend to upgrade to the novelty straight away. Microsoft will find a way to make its new operating system even better in several months time and it may not make [...]
Dual-core central processing units (CPUs) were considered a breakthrough in the personal computer industry back in 2005. In 2010, dual-core chips, albeit powered by processors with different micro-architecture, are set to enter the market of mobile phones, according to ARM, a leading developer of processors for portable electronics.
“We don’t need silly GHz speeds. With our [...]
SanDisk, one of the leading suppliers of flash-based products, admitted that far not all solid-state drives (SSDs) that are on the market right now are really reliable, which is why many of them are never used inside branded personal computers. But Eli Harari, chief exec of SanDisk, claims that the company does know what to [...]
Somewhat shockingly for ourselves, this is going to be our first comparative review of hard disk drives with Serial Attached SCSI interface. As far back as 2004 we published an article on SAS technology and have kept silent on the issue since then. Our recent series of SAS [...]
The recent release of the ATI Cypress graphics processor (RV870) and the first Cypress-based graphics card Radeon HD 5870 has been more than successful. The new product has proved to be as fast as the dual-processor Radeon HD 4870 X2 (and even faster in some applications) but at [...]
To many, it’s still unclear how the internet tablet fits in the scheme of things but I think it will be going in the same direction as the popular iPod Touch. The Archos 5 Internet Tablet should fit the bill.
The Archos 5 Internet Tablet has some pretty nice specs:
4.8” TFT LCD @ 800×480 pixel resolution
8 [...]
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn (pictured in 2005) has resigned from his position on the Yahoo! board, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an “activist” director like him.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn resigned from his position on the Yahoo! board, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an “activist” director like him.
“I don’t believe [...]