Shuttle XPC Prima SX38P2 Pro

"Shuttle Launches a High Performance XPC: the SX38P2 Pro

Shuttle has been making small PCs for some time, and can virtually be credited with starting the small form factor (SFF) market. The company creates products as complete units or in a barebones format; the latter means only the case, motherboard and some accessories are included.… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on May 09, 2008 - 03:41 PM

Inno3D GeForce 9800 GX2 single-card and SLI Looking back at our review of the GeForce 9800 GX2, NVIDIA has used the guts of 18-month-old technology to architect the world's fastest desktop graphics card. Coupling two GeForce 8800 GTS 512-like GPUs on to one card, performance is undeniably good, but shouldn't there also be something new? The new, insofar as we can call it that, is the ability… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Apr 26, 2008 - 10:40 AM

XFX nForce 790i Ultra Motherboard Preview

"NVIDIA is no stranger to motherboard chipsets. The company has been engineering these chipsets for quite a while. And it is arguable as to just how truly successful it has been for them. This summer will mark its 7th year of being knee deep into motherboard chipsets, and certainly a lot has changed since 2001.

One thing is for sure, and… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:45 PM

Acer Plans to Develop “Open-Standard” Game Console.

", a leading maker of personal computers, said at a press conference recently that one of the projects that it was working on was an open-standard video game system. The company did not unveil any details about the potential product, but stressed that its device will compete against Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo Wii.

“If you look at… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:43 PM

Apple Captures 14% of U.S. Retail PC Market in February

"Notebook sales lead the charge in a great month for Apple


Apple appears to be on a roll these days. The company in recent years has become largely identified by its popular iPod music players. The iPod shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod touch dominate the music player market and the iTunes is second only to Wal-Mart… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:41 PM

KDE 4.1 to bring back Konqueror tree view, other goodies

"When I wrote about file managers in my review of KDE 4.0, I noted that several important features had been removed from Konqueror, including the tree-based detailed view. Many power users regard the tree view as the most effective mode for advanced file management and mourned the loss of this feature. Developer Peter Penz reports that the tree… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:40 PM

Nvidia Unveils New Dual-Chip Graphics Card for Enthusiasts.

"Nvidia Unveils New Dual-Chip Graphics Card for Enthusiasts.
Nvidia Quietly Announces GeForce 9800 GX2

Partners of Nvidia Corp., the world's largest supplier of discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), on Tuesday said they had begun shipments of Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, a new dual-chip product by Nvidia. The novelty… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:38 PM

Dell Leaks Latitude XT2 Tablet PC

"Dell shows off its second-generation Tablet PC

Dell's Latitude XT was met with great anticipation when specs for the device first leaked in May of 2007. Interest began to dwindle somewhat, however, when Dell announced the $2,499 starting price for its first entry into the Tablet PC arena.

The current generation Latitude… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:36 PM

Antec Sonata Plus 550 review

"Well I must say I was a bit worried when UPS delivered the Sonata Plus 550. It was the first Antec I have reviewed and I was expecting a retail box, however, that was not the case. The Sonata Plus 550 came in a brown generic box that was a bit over-sized and thin, however, it was packed well enough that it was undamaged in shipping.
0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 19, 2008 - 02:32 PM

AMD updates desktop CPU launch schedule

AMD is planning to launch B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 series CPUs including 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 within the next 1-2 weeks, however the top-end 9850 will only reach a core frequency of 2.5GHz, instead of the original goal of 2.6Ghz. The company expects to be able to deliver higher core frequencies in the third quarter this year,… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:30 PM

Shuttle Launches $199 KPC The low-cost system uses minimalist hardware and a free distribution of Linux to cut back on cost, but not quite to the $99 originally expected.

The so-called $99 PC that manufacturer Shuttle hyped up back in February finally began shipping on Monday, but not for the originally cited price point many expected. The stripped-down KPC, which… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:29 PM

Red Hat buys Amentra to bolster JBoss enterprise plan Red Hat has purchased Amentra, an IT consulting firm with open-source expertise, to sell its JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises as the basis for SOAs (service-oriented architectures).

Amentra, a privately held systems integrator that specializes in SOA and business process management, will continue business as usual as an independent… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:27 PM

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB Specs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB Specs

Looks as though NVIDIA's single core 9800 GTX is due to launch March 25th. Here is the breakdown:

Shader Units: 128
Core Clock: 675MHz
Shader Clock: 1688MHz
Memory Clock: 1100MHz
Memory Buffer: 512MB GDDR3
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Outputs: 2 X Dual-Link DVI… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:25 PM

Asus: alas poor Linux Eee PC we fare thee well?

"Question: Asus makes an innovative cheap little Linux computer that takes the world by storm but decides to fix what isn't broken and make it more expensive, why? The power of Microsoft of course! And so yet another attempt by a Linux purveyor to carve a niche in mainstream consumer computing looks set to fall to Windows. Or will it?"

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17164/1023/ 

… 0 Comments. Posted by tino on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:23 PM