Mac Pro, iMac, Mac mini get hardware upgrades
Without much fanfare or grandiose keynotes, Apple has refreshed its entire desktop lineup—from the Mac mini to the Mac Pro—with new, faster hardware. Pricing hasn't really changed, though, which makes the upgrades a little puzzling in light of current economic conditions and the push toward cheap nettops. Starting from the top,...
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Nvidia intros mobile GeForce GTX 200 GPUs... sort of
If you're excited about the prospect of newer, faster GeForce GPUs for notebooks, then you're in for a treat. But don't be fooled: the new GeForce GTX 280M and 260M aren't mobile flavors of Nvidia's desktop GeForce 200-series graphics cards. Rather than tweaking the...
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Nvidia's GeForce GTS 250 graphics card
The GeForce GTS 250 supplants the GeForce 9800 GTX+ with a smaller card, lower power draw, double the video memory, and a markedly lower price. But is it good enough to fend off the Radeon HD 4800-series competition?
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New Mobility Radeon HD 4860, 4830 have 40nm graphics chips
Notebook users had to wait six months for AMD to fashion Mobility parts out of its Radeon HD 4000-series desktop graphics processors. The company apparently decided not to impose a similar wait for that architecture's die shrink, because...
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AMD completes fab spin-off transaction
As expected, AMD announced the closing of its fab spin-off transaction earlier this afternoon. The company has finalized deals with ATIC and the Mubadala Development Company, and it says The Foundry Company will reveal its final name and logo later this week. As a result of the transaction, AMD comments...
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Windows 7 testers get GeForce drivers straight from Nvidia
Eager enthusiasts downloaded and installed the Windows 7 beta in droves last month, and Nvidia seems happy to serve them. The company has released a batch of drivers especially for the beta operating system, and it invites testers with GeForce GPUs to grab the update directly from its...
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Intel, TSMC partner up on Atom SoC production
Well, Intel isn't buying TSMC, nor is it asking the foundry to produce Larrabee discrete graphics processors. Rather, Intel plans to port the Atom processor core to TSMC's bulk silicon manufacturing process, a move Intel expects to "significantly broaden the market opportunities for its Intel Atom SoCs," or...
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Vista gains, Windows loses ground in Net Applications data
Windows Vista is slowly gaining more users, but an increasing number of folks are forgoing Windows entirely. That's the gist of Net Applications' freshly published operating system market share numbers for February 2009. Between February '08 and February '09, Vista purportedly gained almost 10 percentage points, climbing from a...
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3.2GHz Phenom II X4 will launch in April, report says
Back in January, we read that AMD was planning to launch a 3.1GHz Phenom II X4 950 processor in the mid-second-quarter. Today, HKPEC quotes sources at motherboard makers as saying AMD has cancelled that chipآ—and, because of better-than-expected yields, the company will instead release the 3.2GHz Phenom II...
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Shots of 'Core i5' mobos from Asus, MSI leak out
A day before the beginning of the CeBit trade show, German site PC Games Hardware has managed to snap photos of upcoming motherboards fresh from the Asus and MSI booths. The boards all have LGA1160 sockets, and as far as we can tell, they're meant to accommodate mainstream Core i7...
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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hits the terabyte mark using just two 500GB plattersآ—and it spins them at a full 7,200 RPM. Join us to see whether this combination of a high areal density and fast spindle speed makes the latest 'cuda a capable all-around performer.
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