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AMD Has an Ace Up Its Sleeve
Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors. Six “hidden pins” on the processors and chipsets are the secret, which, our sources told us, will enable simple overclocking through the southbridge – and accelerate the current processors […]
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Eee PC Helps Asustek Become Sixth Largest PC Vendor, Says IDC
Asustek Computer shipped around 1.4 million notebooks in the first quarter of 2008 and ranked number eight in terms of market share. However, if Eee PC shipments of around 700,000 units are included, the company’s shipments jump to 2.1 million units, surpassing those of Fujitsu and Apple, to rank in sixth place, and closely trailing […]
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Psystar Back Online, First Mac Clones Ship Today
by Wolfgang Gruener - TGDaily
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Miami (FL) – So, is it a hoax or not? Mac clone builder Psystar has experienced in just one week all the good and bad today’s Internet has to offer: The possible availability of a cheap Mac clone spread like wildfire through the Internet last week, confusion about its […]
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AMD’s Radeon 4800 In Production
by Theo Valich - TGDaily
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Mountain House (CA) – Unlike the ATI that we knew before, it appears that AMD’s graphics division is running perfectly these days – and ahead of deadlines. Even though the graphics unit has posted an $8 million loss in the first quarter of this year – in an effort […]
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Apple Hopes To Kill Psystar’s $399 Mac
by Jason Mick - DailyTech
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Steve Jobs and Apple are not fans of cheaper Mac clones
The numbers look too good to be true for Apple Inc.’s Mac followers — A 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of DDR2 667 memory, a 250 GB hard drive, DVD, and Integrated Intel […]
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ASUS is Quickly Getting Away From Its Roots With The Eee PC
by Brandon Hill - Daily Tech
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More features means more $$$
It may seem like ages ago now, but when ASUS first announced the original Eee PC 701 4G in June 2007, it promised a retail price of $199. Many people were skeptical of such a low price and they were right […]
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