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 Futuresource Consulting has recently released the results of a study it has carried out with regard to DVD consumer practices. 3,613 users in the U.S. and 1,718 in the U.K. were involved in the study; the conclusions are quite alarming, to say the least. As it turned out, about one third of the almost 5,500 users have the habit of making...
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 On Thursday, Apple did a rather surprising thing: it reduced the price of its MacBook Air from $3,098 to $2,598. Yes, your math is accurate, that’s $500. If you have had your eyes on the higher-end Air (1.8GHz with a 64GB solid-state flash drive replacing the traditional ATA hard drive), this may very well be your chance to get one.The...
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 On Monday, Lenovo Group Limited launched its IdeaCentre K210 computer in the US, thus making its debut in offering consumer desktops outside of China. Earlier this year, Lenovo also launched a series of notebooks outside of its home territory, starting with the US as well.One of the more unusual features of the IdeaCentre K210 consists...
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 The latest Gartner report shows that there are currently more than one billion PCs being used worldwide. From this point on, numbers can only go up, as a yearly increase of 12 percent is expected to be recorded over the following six years. By 2014, there will probably be more than two billion PCs installed.The reason for such...
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 On Wednesday, Western Digital (WD) released its new dual-drive storage system, perfect for ensuring the protection of data belonging to small-businesses or of personal media collections.What My Book Mirror Edition does, is it uses one of the drives for storing the data, while on the other drive, another copy of the information is sent....
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 On Monday, Nvidia presented its new GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors, which will be made available later on this month. According to Nvidia officials, with the GeForce GTX 200, gamers will experience a 50 percent speed increase, when comparing the new processor's performance to that of the GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU. This processor is...
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 Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled its new laptop called
Voodoo Envy, thus plunging in the race against Apple’s MacBook Air.
The Voodoo, only 0.70
inches thin and weighing less than 3.4 pounds, is to be made
available for the price of $2,099.
It comes with a 13.3" display and packs a Core 2 Duo
processor (customers...
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 On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy talked about the
world’s fastest computer, the Road Runner. The machine can make up to one
thousand trillion calculations (one petaflop) per second and it is to be used for
running virtual tests of U.S.
nuclear tests.
Up to this point, the number one...
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 On Wednesday, at a press conference in Taipei city, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled the Puma notebook platform, that features the AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core ‘Griffin’ mobile processors and ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics. According to AMD, the new technology will bring users "the ultimate HD visual performance and...
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 On Tuesday, at the Computex electronics show, Micro-Star International (MSI) launched the Wind mini-desktop PC and the Wind mini-laptop.When comparing the Wind desktop to a traditional PC, the former stands out with two major advantages: size and power consumption. Its dimensions are 300mm by 260mm by 65mm and, for running at full...
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