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HP Announces the ‘Folio’ Business Ultrabook
With its recent decision to remain in the PC business, HP proves today that it hasn’t been resting over the course of the past few months. The company just announced some interesting notebook models, but perhaps the most noteworthy is the Folio ‘Ultrabook’ that breaks away a bit from tradition. It’s not the thinnest Ultrabook…
Are We Soon to See a Death of the Spec?
At Techgage, we deal a lot with product specs. Gigabytes, RPMs, DPI, resolution, IOPS, megahertz, cores, bits and so on. For a lot of people, these things matter. A 7200 RPM hard drive is going to perform better than a 5400 RPM one, and a CPU with 6 cores is likely to be more capable than one with 4. But regardless of that – is a “death…
Consumers Prefer Tablets More than Laptops this Holiday Season
This will likely come as a surprise to no one, but according to a recent survey performed by PriceGrabber, a vast majority of consumers this holiday season would rather receive a tablet as a gift than a laptop. Details of the survey also reveal that the iPad will still be the tablet to get, while many expect that tablets will replace the…
Intel Celebrates 40th Anniversary of First CPU: 4004
According to its Wikipedia article, the first public mention of the first-ever complete design CPU occurred on November 15, 1971, making today its 40th anniversary. That chip was Intel’s 4004, sporting a 4-bit architecture, a 16-pin package (compare that to Sandy Bridge-E’s 2011 pins) and a blazing-fast speed of 0.740MHz. Sure…
Intel Kicks Off ’32-in-32′ Contest
To help celebrate the launch of its Sandy Bridge-E processors and X79 Express chipset, Intel is holding a contest called ’32-in-32′ where you have a chance to win the ultimate Intel enthusiast PC. Oh, and I should mention that you’d be flown straight to Newegg’s headquarters to handpick your parts. There are weekly prizes as well…
Corsair & Kingston Announce Quad-Channel Memory Kits
No CPU architecture launch from either AMD or Intel is ever left devoid of memory kits designed for the respective platform, and the launch of Intel’s X79 Express chipset and Sandy Bridge-E processors is no exception. Both Corsair and Kingston have unveiled a bevvy of quad-channel kits today, catering to a wide-range of needs…
Futuremark Announces 3DMark for Windows 8
Futuremark has today announced the next version of its 3DMark benchmark, tentatively titled, “3DMark for Windows 8″. At this time, specific details are scarce, and as the benchmark isn’t slated to launch until after Windows 8, that’s to be expected. The reason Futuremark wanted to get the word out so soon has to do with the fact that…
Intel Releases Sandy Bridge-E Processors & X79 Express Chipset
Last spring, Intel launched its first ever six-core processor, capable of producing “sick scores” (get it?). Based on the Gulftown architecture, those offerings were unparalleled in the performance offered, and as such they became a no-brainer to those needing to build a power PC for whatever reason. As powerful as the chips were though…
Intel Sandy Bridge-E CPU & X79 Motherboard Launch Roundup
Processor Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – AnandTech Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – Bjorn3D Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – eTeknix Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – hardCOREware Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – [H]ard|OCP Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – Hardware Canucks Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition – Hi-Tech Legion…..
Kingston Launches V200 Series Entry-Level SSDs
Kingston has recently announced the replacement of the SSDNow V100 Series SSDs, aptly named SSDNow V200. Kingston makes a point to state the V200 promises to deliver “nearly twice the performance, up to 20% lower price than the V100”, and as such the V200 comes readily equipped with a SATA 6Gb/s interface.
Steam Databases Compromised; Password Changes Recommended
If you have an account over at Steam or are a member of the forums there, consider this a PSA. On Sunday, the Steam forums were compromised by a group known as ‘Fkn0wned’, and announcements were altered to link back to their website. At the same time, the group used vBulletin’s built-in mass-mailer feature and sent spam…
NVIDIA Releases BF3-improved & Skyrim-ready GeForce 285.79 Beta
NVIDIA has today released another notable beta GeForce driver; this one versioned 285.79. Battlefield 3 continues to receive some love here with both performance improvements and bug fixes – that latter including many specific to DX10 GPUs but also helps remedy stuttering issues seen on…
Linux Mint 12 to Introduce Customizable GNOME 3
Things are looking good for Linux Mint, the popular distro based off of Ubuntu. Often referred to as “UbuntuDone Right”, Linux Mint has enjoyed a recent surge of new users – many of who feel alienated by their currentdistro of choice, be it Ubuntu with its Unity interface or any distro using GNOME 3. Neither are traditional desktops…
Adobe Premiere Pro & HandBrake Added to Our CPU Test Suite
I posted earlier this week about the introduction of SPEC’s CPU2006 benchmark to our CPU test suite, and today, I’d like to talk a bit about two other entries: Adobe Premiere Pro and HandBrake. In the past, we used both TMPGEnc Xpress and ProShow Gold as our video creation / encoding benchmarks, but for a couple of…
OCZ Technology Launches the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS Edition
What could possibly be better than 1.5GB/s throughput from a PCIe-based solid-state drive? How about 1.9GB/s and even more IOPS? OCZ Technology is announcing the expansion of its Max IOPS branding to its already compelling RevoDrive 3 family. As with the Vertex lineup of SSDs, the Max IOPS editions will utilize premium…
Thieves Make Off with 6,000 Copies of CoD: MW3 After Armed Robbery
I posted earlier about the art of breaking into a prison from the outside, so it seems appropriate to shift the topic to hijacking and robbery. This story has to do with a game, but surprisingly has nothing to do with the gameplay. Rather, this real-life crime saw two thugs equipped with knives crash into a delivery truck, tear gas the…
Researchers Prove it’s Possible to Control Prison Systems from the Outside
Feel the need to break someone out of prison? We’re not talking Prison Break here, but real-life. It’s been proven possible, but not in a way you’d expect. A trio of researchers talked about some of their findings at a recent security conference in Miami, and stated that from the outside world, you can access certain prisons online and…
Apple Requiring Devs to Sandbox Mac App Store Software by March 2012
In an attempt to make its OS more secure, Apple has given developers a hard deadline of March 2012 to make sure their applications available through the Mac App Store are properly sandboxed – a rule not unlike one that mobile App Store developers have to adhere to. Sandboxing is in essence a technique of keeping…
Ubuntu 12.04 Brings a 750MB ISO Size; 64-bit Edition ‘Recommended’
At Ubuntu’s Developer Summit held last week, there was much discussion about the next version of the OS, to be released in April. Codenamed “Precise Pangolin“, 12.04 is bringing some interesting things to the table – though I admit the most interesting changes to me are simple things being done under the hood, or outside of the…
SPEC’s CPU2006 Added to Our CPU Test Suite
Alongside Intel’s launch of its Sandy Bridge-E processors next week, we’ll be unveiling something of our own – an overhauled CPU test suite. Our last major update occurred in late 2008, so we had quite a bit to tweak, add, remove, or replace with the latest iteration. Over the course of the coming week, I’ll be making a few posts in our…
EVGA Packs Dual GTX 560 Ti’s in its ‘2Win’ Graphics Card
In the market for a GeForce GTX 580 graphics card? Interested in spending just $20 more for 30% more performance? If so, then EVGA’s just-released GTX 560 Ti “2Win” is for you. The card is essentially an SLI configuration designed to fit in a dual-slot card, and with EVGA’s slight overclock on each GPU, a single…
AMD Lays Off 10% of Global Workforce
AMD yesterday announced its biggest “optimization” ever, and unfortunately, it has nothing to do with a CPU or GPU. One of the first major decisions made by new CEO Rory Read was to lay-off 10% of AMD’s global workforce, a move that’s designed to save the company $200 million and allow a more efficient re-focus through 2012.
What Caused the Death of Microsoft’s Courier?
Remember the Microsoft Courier? Given how it came and went within the span of a few months, I doubt many would fault you if you didn’t. What the Courier was, though, was one of the most innovative-looking products we ever saw come out of Microsoft. A tablet unlike any other, designed not solely for content consumption, but content creation.
Amazon’s $79 Kindle is Good, But Not Great
Just over a month ago, Amazon unveiled four Kindles that either replaced or added to the company’s line-up. Of them all, it was the tablet-based Kindle Fire that garnered most of the attention, but what if $199 is too much to justify if all you want to do is read books? Ars has taken a look at the base model Kindle to try to…
Internet Explorer Usage Falls Below 50% for First Time in Decade
For most of the Internet’s life, Microsoft has dominated the Web browser market with Internet Explorer. In 2004, the height of its popularity was reached with a staggering market share of 95%. But with the advent of alternative browsers, or at least the introduction of some more compelling options, the future for IE has been questionable.