Microsoft Corp’s Windows Vista is starting to see mass adoption from businesses nearly a year after it was released, the company said while predicting a strong first holiday season for the product. “We feel like Continue reading “Microsoft sees Windows Vista growth phase underway”.
Midway and Epic today announced that Unreal Tournament 3 has gone to gold master for the PC. Developed by the team behind the critically acclaimed video game Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 is currently Continue reading “Unreal Tournament 3 has gone to gold master for the PC”.
Western Digital Corp. today announced it is now shipping its new WD Scorpio 320 GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives for notebook computers and portable storage devices. This new drive is the highest capacity Continue reading “Western Digital Ships Industry First – 320GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive”.
Intel is shipping an updated version of its dual-core Itanium 2 server processor, called Montvale. But don’t expect to see a dramatic improvement in performance from the new chips, despite the addition of several new Continue reading “Intel shipping updated dual-core Itanium 2 – Montvale 9100 Series”.
Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp are supplying Libya’s government with 150,000 rugged laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to meet the needs of children in developing countries. Intel spokeswoman Agnes Kwan Continue reading “Intel, Microsoft sell 150,000 Classmate PC laptops to Libya”.
ASUS today announced its innovative C90S barebone notebook is now available through select system builders in North America as fully configurable desktop replacements. With support for current Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processors, the latest Continue reading “ASUS C90S 15.4 Notebook Now Available Through Specialty System Builders”.
Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of hard drives, said Monday it is shuttering one of two manufacturing facilities in Northern Ireland, resulting in a cut of 780 employees, about 1.5 percent of the company’s Continue reading “Seagate Shutting Down Northern Ireland Hard Drive Plant”.
Taiwan’s Asustek Computer complained on Tuesday of a shortage of Intel central processing units (CPUs) for laptop PCs, but said it didn’t expect the problem to affect its sales. “The biggest shortage in notebook components Continue reading “Asustek complains of Intel laptop processor shortage”.
Apple might be the flavor of the moment in the consumer PC world, but hundreds of thousands of customers every year continue to choose plain vanilla “white box” PCs. Those purchases go on as Hewlett-Packard Continue reading “Trouble on horizon for ‘white box’ PC makers”.
The notebook industry may see components shortages in the second quarter of 2008 if upstream suppliers fail to accelerate their expansion, according to industry sources. Sources indicated that serious shortages in the third quarter involved Continue reading “Notebook component shortage may hit notebook ODMs in 2Q 2008”.
GIGABYTE today announced the launch of their new graphics accelerator, the GV-NX88T512H-B, equipped with NVIDIAs latest GeForce 8800 GT graphics processor. GIGABYTE is also including the role-playing game, Neverwinter Nights 2 as part of the Continue reading “Gigabyte Releases GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card – GV-NX88T512H-B”.
NVIDIA has brought together the shading power of the GeForce 8800 with the enhanced texturing and video features of the GeForce 8600 and launched the GeForce 8800 GT graphics card today. The GeForce 8800 GT is also the world’s first consumer GPU to support PCI Express 2.0! Read on to see what the GeForce 8800 GT is all about in this preview!
Although recent market observations noted that the graphics card market is facing problems due to the trend of notebooks replacing desktop PCs, and IGP (integrated graphics processor) performance continuously improving, sources at first-tier graphics card Continue reading “Graphics card demand to boost in 2Q08”.
Over the weekend a RV670 DX10.1 whitepaper was leaked on an ATI fan site that spilled some of the secrets of the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 3800 series. It might be a little strange that it happened just before NVIDIA launched their GeForce 8800 GT, but it’s no real shocker in this industry. Read on to check out the DirectX 10.1 whitepaper!
Crysis hasn’t been out for more two days and a number of people have already found out that SLI technology doesn’t yet work on the new DirectX10 game title. Granted, Crysis is only in beta, Continue reading “Bad NVIDIA – SLI Doesn’t Work in Crysis!”.
