Computers

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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Western Digital Goes Full Bore With 300GB VelociRaptor

by Brandon Hill - DailyTech
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Western Digital takes the fight to SSDs with next generation VelociRaptor.
With all of the talk these days in the storage industry swirling around solid-state drives (SSDs), it’s easy to forget that advances are being made in the hard disk drive (HDD) market as well for consumers. […]

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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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AMD Posts $358M Loss for Q1, Announces Plans to Restructure

by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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AMD announces plans to toss out its dead weight.
The news coming out of AMD hasn’t been on the most positive note in the past few weeks. The company announced in early April that it will cut 1,600 jobs by the end of 2008 representing 10% […]

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AMD’s Chief Technology Officer Steps Down

by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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When it rains, it pours in Sunnyvale, CA.
Just when you thought it could not get any worse for AMD, someone throws another gallon of gasoline on the fire to stoke the flames. Earlier this week, DailyTech reported that AMD intends to cut 1,600 jobs by […]

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HP ships USB sticks with malware

by Liam Tung - CNET.com
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Hewlett-Packard has released a batch of USB keys for numerous Proliant server models which contain malware that could allow an attacker to take over an infected system.
The worms contained on the 256MB and 1GB USB drives have been identified as W32.Fakerecy and W32.SillyFDC. The worms […]

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