HP offers dual-core Athlon Neo in new Pavilion dv2z
After the Pavilion dv2, say hello to the Pavilion dv2z. HP has released a new version of its low-cost ultraportable, which starts at a lower price and can be customized with new dual-core Athlon Neo X2 and Turion Neo X2 processors from AMD. In its base configuration, the Pavilion dv2z...
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Report: Pine Trail may launch as early as October
At Computex last week, Intel gave attendees a sneak peek at upcoming netbooks based on the Pine Trail platform. Today, DigiTimes reports that the first Pine Trail chips will launch in October "at the earliest." Pine Trail integrates a microprocessor core, graphics processor, and north bridge functionality into a...
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GeForce GTX 285 heads to the Mac Pro with EVGA
The Mac Pro may have been the first workstation system out with Intel's Xeon 5500 processors, but high-end GPU options for it have been few and far between. Thanks to EVGA, however, Mac Pro users can now upgrade to a shiny new GeForce GTX 285 for the low-low price...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday As expected, the workstation market tanks in Q1’09 - But it’s not all bad news, reports JPR io9 on 3 recent breakthroughs that will change your computer forever ComputerWorld reports Acer to build laptop with 3-D...
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Intel lost CPU revenue share to AMD last quarter
Last month, we saw preliminary Mercury Research numbers that said AMD's share of x86 microprocessor shipments had grown substantially last quarter. What about AMD's slice of global microprocessor revenue? Rival market research firm iSuppli has now released revenue share numbers for the first quarter, and they, too, show...
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Asus sets its sights on Apple
Could Asus be the next Apple? Steve Jobs would probably snort at the notion, but Apple's Taiwanese rival certainly seems to have high aspirations. Asus Vice Chairman Jonathan Tsang told the New York Times' Bits blog, "Our goal is to provide products that are better than Apple's." Tsang also believes...
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Fab 2 is a go for GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries hadn't yet broken ground when we visited the site of its future New York fab last month. Today, the firm says it has sent a "formal commitment letter" to the State of New York, and it now intends to kick off site development on June 15. "Official...
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Asus cooks up 11.6-inch Eee PCs
Typical netbook form factors may be cute and compact, but trying to do actual work on a 1024x600 display can prove cumbersome. Luckily, while taking a tour of Asus' Computex booth last week, we spotted an upcoming Eee PC with a higher-resolution, 11.6-inch display.
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Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday The Register reports Rambus drops (some) Nvidia allegations Ars Technica reports reformers, ISPs clash on national broadband plan DigiTimes reports PCMCIA announces ExpressCard standard 2.0 now available Fudzilla reports Nvidia CEO denies x86 plans TG Daily on AMD's Atom smasher - Notebooks not netbooks and not yet Expreview...
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Gigabyte gets fancy with BIOS features
Making a great motherboard may be largely about making great hardware, but Gigabyte is paying an increasing amount of attention to the software side of thingsآ—namely, BIOS features. The company's latest and upcoming X58 and P55 motherboards feature BIOS chips with 16MB capacities (up from the previous 8MB), which leaves...
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A bevy of new desktop processors arrives
AMD and Intel have deluged us with new CPUs. The result? An enormous roundup of 26 different types of processors, including five brand-new ones. We've poked, prodded, tested for performance, measured power efficiency, overclocked, and considered the value propositions for CPUs from $87 to $999.
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Enermax brings 80 Plus Gold to lower wattages
COMPUTEX — We saw a handful of 80 Plus Gold-certified power supplies at the show last week (including Seasonic and OCZ models), but they all had relatively high wattage ratings—usually 650W and up. Enermax was the only firm we saw with 450W and 550W "Gold" PSUs in the...
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Apple cuts iPhone 3G, MacBook Pro prices, intros iPhone 3G S
The $99 iPhone has finally come—but not as the cut-down, 3G-less device some analysts expected. Rather, Apple has brought the existing iPhone 3G down to $99, and it's introduced a new-and-improved iPhone 3G S to fill in at $199 and $299. Apple claims the
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Synaptics brings buttonless clicking to netbook touchpads
COMPUTEX — How do you make a netbook as compact as possible without turning the touchpad into an unusable strip of plastic? Synaptics believes it has a solution: the ClickPad. At Computex last week, we got to try the new pointing device in a customized concept system based on HP's...
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We get a peek inside Thermaltake's Level 10 case
COMPUTEX — Our initial description of Thermaltake's Level 10 may not have been the most flattering. While it does look a little like a school lunch tray, the BMW-designed PC enclosure has more in common with a sports car engine cover or some sort of sci-fi skyscraper. And at Computex...
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