Intel shows off new laptop chip package to counter rival AMD - Yahoo! Canada News
Intel Corp. rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities, the company’s latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Both companies are posturing to capture the attention of [...]
Source: Nvidia, Via Prepare to Take On Intel
Nvidia, Via Prepare to Take On Intel
posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC
IconFor year now, the x86 microprocessor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD, and the rivalry between the two companies forced both to be innovative in order to gain a competitive advantage [...]
As some of you know I purchased a Canon SD750 that just didn’t want to play with Linux (any flavor) but if I went to my main linux box the card reader could see and download the pictures. So that sent me into a search for a linux compatible, portable card reader for a reasonable [...]
I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, but it is helpful if you would like to remain in a headache-free zone.
A good starter base of hardware to avoid for the new linux user, Baldy
Check on the [...]
Even since astronaut Dave Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000’s holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008.
Promising super-high density and excellent media flaw resistance, holographic storage has been an ever-receeding technology for years. You can buy nifty 3D skull and [...]
I never thought I would see the day when a hard drive manufacturer would go from indifferent to outright stupid all with one drive release. Apparently, it has happened. It seems that Seagate has opted to forgo compatibility for anyone other than Linux users and that’s a real shame, as I have always been a [...]
“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source project.
“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for almost three years and [...]
I found this while surfing around and if you are planning on a new Hard Drive in the near future you might want to check it out,Baldy
wtansill writes “Seagate’s Free Agent series of drives are not intended to be compatible with the Open Source operating system Linux. The Inquirer reports on the problem: an unhelpful [...]
Excuse us for a sec, OK? We’ll start the review momentarily but just need to switch into our Professional PC Critic Veteran Reviewer Voice Omigod! That is like the cutest thing EVER lemme see lemme see! Oh I so have to get one of these RIGHT NOW only two pounds could you DIE? Four C’s [...]
Better hardware support - this is something we would all like to see happen. And it seems that it could happen, thanks in part to a Dell supported project known as DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support).
Source: Mad Penguin
~LC
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