TR's April 2009 system guide
Thanks to continually declining hardware prices, we've been able to concoct some amazingly affordable builds in our latest system guide. The star of this edition is undoubtedly the Utility Player, which now packs a triple-core Phenom II, a GeForce GTX 260, and four gigs of RAM for less than...
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OCZ's Neutrino DIY netbook
OCZ has brought its DIY initiative to the netbook market with the Neutrino. Is this just another entry in the growing list of me-too netbooks, or is OCZ on to something?
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Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows XP
Windows XP is still going strong in netbooks and as an alternative for some pre-built PCs, but make no mistake: it's reaching the end of the line. Today, as scheduled, Microsoft has ended the mainstream support phase for the nearly eight-year-old operating system. What does that mean? In a nutshell,...
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Kingston, OCZ intro laptop memory with Intel Extreme profiles
You don't need a desktop PC to run low-latency DDR3 memory tweaked with Intel's Extreme Memory Profiles. As it happens, both Kingston and OCZ have announced Intel XMP-certified 4GB DDR3-1066 kits with Intel's mobile Core 2 Extreme processors in mind. Let's start with Kingston. The firm's KHX8500S3ULK2/4GX memory kit features two...
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Internet Explorer 8 to hit Automatic Update this month
Barely a month has passed since Microsoft unleashed the full version of Internet Explorer 8 upon the masses, and already, the company plans a more aggressive rollout through Windows' Automatic Update feature. In a post on the official IE blog, Microsoft's Eric Hebenstreit reveals that users running beta versions of...
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'Core i5' launch might be postponed until October
Officially, Intel says mainstream derivatives of its Core i7 processors will be out in the second half of this year. The rumor mill previously hinted that associated P55 motherboards could ship as early as July, but Fudzilla now claims Intel may have pushed back the release all...
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Intel firmware addresses X25-M, X18-M SSD slowdowns
Good news, users of Intel X25-M and X18-M solid-state drives. Intel has released a firmware update that addresses (and apparently resolves) a performance problem caused by internal fragmentation. Here's the skinny, in Intel's words: This update implements several continuous improvements and optimizations to the drive algorithms including a resolution...
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Report: few businesses to adopt Windows 7 in 2010
Even in its beta form, Windows 7 seems to be generating considerably more positive feedback than Windows Vista. However, a survey quoted by InformationWeek suggests the hype machine hasn't done much to woo enterprise users. Diamond Research quizzed over 1,100 "IT professionals" as part of the survey, and it concluded...
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Time Warner Cable to raise bandwidth quotas in trials
The COO of Time Warner Cable has addressed criticism about the firm's bandwidth quota trials in an open statement on Twitter-related site Long Reply. As you might recall, we learned earlier this month that Time Warner Cable's quota trials will roll out to more cities in Texas, New...
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Monday Shortbread
Monday VR-Zone has Computex Taipei 2009 pre-show highlights Expreview reports Intel P55 chipset postponed to October and GeForce GTX 275 cards sell poorly due to GTX 260 TechFlash reports touch-screen Zune all but certain, based on leaked device images and ruling delivers a big blow to Windows...
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Latest Microsoft ad pimps Blu-ray, gaming
Meet Lisa and 11-year-old Jackson, the stars of Microsoft's latest Laptop Hunters ad. You probably know the drill by now: Microsoft films actors stepping into a big electronics chain store, shopping around, turning down Macs for whatever reason, and settling with a PC notebook that fits their needs perfectly...
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Four Socket AM3 motherboards collide
A wave of new Socket AM3 motherboards has arrived, capable of combining the latest Phenom II processors with surprisingly inexpensive DDR3 memory. We've collected four boards from Asus, Gigabyte, Jetway, and MSI to see which offers the best basis for a Phenom II system.
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