HP announced it’s most powerful notebook to date: the Elitebook 8730W Mobile Workstation. This 17-inch, 6.5 pound beast is aimed squarely at the workstation market dominated by content creators, engineers, scientists and photographers. I had a chance to interview HP’s Brian Allen, North American Product Manager for Performance Notebooks regarding the new Elitebook 8730W...
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Archive for August 13th, 2008
Interview with Brian Allen, HP Product Manager – Performance Series Notebooks
CoolerMaster UCP 1100 PSU Evaluation
In the past few years, many companies have been reinventing themselves. Making the attempt at going from entry level to high performance manufacturer all in an attempt at the gamer and enthusiasts wallet and seemingly never ending desire to buy whatever is the newest or best. CoolerMaster is one of these companies. They have...
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nVidia posts a whopping 121 Million (that’s with an M) dollar loss.
nVidia released its Q2 fillings the other day and things look bad for the GPU giant. Blaming a costly replacement bill for failed Mobile GPUs and MCPs (which they do not even like to admit are broken) nVidia showed a first of its kind loss. Year to year revenue comparison shows nVidia down for...
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Intel Unveils Extensible Host Controller Interface Draft Specification to Support USB 3.0 Architectu
Intel Unveils Extensible Host Controller Interface Draft Specification to Support USB 3.0 Architecture SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 13, 2008 – Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft...
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ASUS Announces World’s Fastest EAH4870X2 Series
Taipei, Taiwan; (Aug 8th, 2008) ASUS Announces World’s Fastest EAH4870X2 Series – ASUS EAH4870X2 Series Comes Equipped with Double GPUs and Massive 2G Memory for Extreme Graphics — Graphics cards with high performance and exceptional speeds are never far from the gamer’s mind. That is why ASUS, producer of top quality graphic solutions, has...
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