Netbooks makers may forgo free Windows 7 upgrades
Planning to go out netbook-shopping soon? Well, when Windows 7 shows up, you may have to pay for the upgrade out of your own pocket. DigiTimes writes that netbook makers could opt not to offer free upgrades to the new OS on machines with Atom N270 and N280 processors. That's...
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65W Phenom II X4 appears in Europe, Canada
Remember last month's rumors about energy-efficient Phenom IIs? Well, AMD quietly added a quad-core Phenom II with a 65W power envelope to its price list last week, and a number of online retailers in Europe and Canada have now started to put up listings for it. We see...
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Friday Shortbread
Friday DailyTech reports AT&T, Apple set guidelines for June 19 iPhone 3G S launch GAO on broadband: Please listen to us. For once. Please. Ars Technica reports cable group turns net neutrality around over ISP access fees Betanews claims the DMCA is endangering American security Yahoo
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Microsoft preps beta of free antivirus tool
You may soon be able to take Microsoft's free anti-virus app for a spin. According to PC World, Microsoft is readying a public beta of Morro for users of Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Service Pack 3. Haven't heard about Morro before? If not, that's probably because Microsoft...
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Battle of the elements: air vs. water CPU cooler showdown
Water cooling is typically complicated and expensive, but you can now buy factory-sealed, all-in-one kits for little more than a high-end air cooler. Join us to see how CoolIT's Domino ALC water cooler stacks up against more traditional air towers from Noctua and Kingwin.
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AMD squashes Radeon HD 4870, 4850 prices
Maybe it's next-gen DirectX 11 GPUs on the horizon, or maybe AMD just wants to catch the back-to-school shopping rush early. Either way, the firm has just dropped us a line to say its partners are "offering fantastic deals on ATI Radeon HD 48XX class GPUS." Translation: price cuts. A...
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French Constitutional Council neuters piracy law
France's "three strikes and you're out" piracy law will be dead on arrival. Well, mostly. Although both chambers of the nation's parliament approved the bill in May, the French Constitutional Council has destroyed some of its core elements, ruling them unconstitutional. According to Le Figaro, the Council took issue...
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iPhone 3G S could be a powerful gaming device
Apple claims the new iPhone 3G S is up to twice as fast as the regular iPhone 3G, but it hasn't gone into a whole lot of detail about why that is. In his latest piece, Anand Lal Shimpi from Anandtech has dug into the new iPhone's hardware specs...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday DSLReports: Did AT&T's bad week kill their iPhone exclusivity extension? C|Net reports French court strikes down 'three strikes' piracy law Ars Technica reports lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole" DigiTimes reports...
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MSI brings SLI to all of its X58 mobos
SLI is becoming increasingly accessible in the Core i7 world. MSI tells us it now features support for the Nvidia multi-GPU technology across its entire line of X58 motherboards, allowing even folks with the relatively affordable X58 Pro-E to run multiple GeForces in SLI. Other supported boards include the
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Cooler Master preps fancy twin-laser gaming mouse
When enthusiasts hear the Cooler Master name, they're probably more likely to think about enclosures like the Cosmos 1000 than gaming peripherals. Be that as it may, Cooler Master showed us a surprisingly elaborate gaming mouse when we visited its Computex suite last week. The Sentinel Advance has twin laser...
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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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