Chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently that NVIDIA plans to release a new series video cards for laptops , the GeForce 8, in time for Intel’s Centrino Pro laptop platform launch.
“We are ramping production on our GeForce 8 family of laptop GPUs, the industry’s first DirectX 10 and high-definition video GPU [...]
AMD today introduced energy-efficient 65nm 45-watt Athlon 64 single-core processors 3500+ and 3800+, as same as AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 6000+. Prices for the 65nm energy-efficient Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ are $88 and $93, respectively for 1000-units. Pricing for the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is $464 in 1KU, the company announced.
AMD Athlon [...]
Intel says that they are ready to roll out the new Santa Rosa chipset with integrated HSDPA in April or May. Intel also has stated that the chipset will not only be built around the 64-bit dual-core Merom processor, but it will also carry the “Centrino Pro” branding.
Santa Rosa / Intel Centrino Pro Specifications
Last year, [...]
Dell has wasted no time selling Microsoft’s newest operating system and has been including Vista on most computer orders since Saturday says TGDaily. Windows Home Premium is now the standard option on most of the desktops and laptops with an update to Windows Vista Business edition costing from $100 to $200 more.
The choice in Vista operating systems [...]
ASUS Tek introduced the new A8JR series notebook which accommodates the increasing demand on better graphic performance for mobile computing. ASUS presents the A8Jr notebook series incorporated with the latest visual processing capabilities.
Hardware Zone reports that the slim and lightweight A8Jr will be based on the 64-bit Intel® Core2 Duo T5600 processors using Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology and [...]
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. The 6.2 release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features.
Some of the highlights:
freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
OpenBSM audit command line [...]
Dell has decided to tap the open source market with the Dimension N series which are powered by 64-bit Pentium D or AMD Athlon X2 processors and come with an unformatted hard drive so you can load the OS of your choice Linux, Free BSD, etc. and even Windows.
With the launch of the [...]
Panasonic has introduced the R6 range of laptops. The R6 range is meant for the tough and rugged or outdoor kind of people. It can withstand a fall from more than 70cms and can also withstand coffee spills amongst others.
The R6 semi-rugged laptops are powered by Windows Vista Business and feature a 1.06GHz Core Duo [...]
