Corsair adds Indilinx drives to SSD lineup
Not content to put all its SSD eggs in one basket, Corsair has launched a new line of Extreme Series solid-state drives based on Indilinx's Barefoot controller. Corsair has previously only offered drives based on Samsung storage controllers, but it's apparently looking to diversify. Hedging makes sense...
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JPR: GPU shipments to plunge in '09, rebound in 2010
In the wake of an iSuppli report that predicted the PC market would suffer its first absolute decline in unit shipments in 2009 since the dreary days of the dot-com bust in 2001, Jon Peddie Research has released a new report on the state of the graphics...
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CloudBook maker Everex bails on U.S. market
A short report at PCMag.com notes that Everex, maker of the CloudBook and other low-cost systems, many based on Via processors and the Linux OS, has ceased operations in the U.S. The main source for the report appears to be Everex's own web site, which simply says,...
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Project Natal gesture recognition could be coming to Windows
Microsoft's Project Natal may be coming to the PC. The gesture and video recognition tech was developed by Redmond's research division and demoed on the Xbox 360 at this year's E3 expo as a control scheme for games. According to a CNet interview with Bill Gates,...
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LiveCD lets PCs run Android
Google's netbook-oriented Chrome operating system isn't expected to be available until late next year, but you can now sample the search giant's Android OS on x86 systems. Originally targeted at smartphones, Google's Android OS has already caught the eye of several netbook makers. ...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday PC market to suffer first decline in 2009 since dot-com bubble TG Daily reports sun sets on Sun Microsystems in prophet warning U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects additional patent claims that...
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EU fine leads to Intel second-quarter loss
That whopping $1.44 billion fine the EU levied against Intel for anticompetive practices officially took its toll today, as the firm announced its second-quarter results. Without the fine, Intel's non-GAAP results included "operating income of $1.4 billion, net income of $1.0 billion and EPS of 18 cents"...
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Marvell chip problems could sink SATA 6Gbps on P55 boards
According to a report over at PC Perspective, a problem with Marvell's 88SE9123 6Gbps SATA controller could tank the next-gen storage standard's expected arrival on P55-based motherboards. Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI had all planned to use the Marvell chip, but its performance apparently isn't up to speed. ...
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Seagate drops 600GB in new 15k-RPM Cheetah
Seagate has begun shipping a new addition to its family of enterprise-class SCSI drives. The 3.5" Cheetah 15K.7 spins its platters at a dizzying 15,000 RPM, yielding an average rotational latency of just two milliseconds. That's still much slower than a high-end SSD; Intel's server-grade X25-E...
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Bastille Day Shortbread
Bastille Day TG Daily reports Dell issues profit warning, sort of Fudzilla reports Sargas AMD single 45nm core this year and AMD quad Propus to arrive in September and AMD SB810 south bridge delayed Expreview reports Gigabyte takes P55 motherboard to microATX form factor Seagate releases world's fastest,...
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A sneak peek at a Gigabyte P55 motherboard
First spotted at Computex last month, Gigabyte's GA-EP55-UD4P has made its way to the Benchmarking Sweatshop. Although we can't say much about the board just yet, we snapped some nudies for your viewing pleasure: Yep, looks like a Gigabyte mobo
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Will flash cards replace optical storage?
I had more or less expected Blu-ray to supplant DVDs as the removable storage medium of choice in PCs, but after reading this little write-up about what Apple is doing with its MacBooks, I'm suddenly not so sure. Optical drives are awfully large and cumbersome for inclusion in...
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Netbook shipments could double in '09
If netbooks are a fad, they sure are a long-lasting and far-reaching one. Research firm DisplaySearch is now forecasting that netbook shipments could double from 2008 to 2009, when all is said and done, as PC World reports. Shipments of the little buggers could reach nearly 33...
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Etc.
After I posted a few TR writers' Twitter IDs yesterday, some of you asked if we had an official account that would update every time we posted something. I'm happy to report that we've successfully fed our RSS feed into a Twitter account, opening a stable vortex to the social...
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Business OS roll-out practices remain unchanged, make news
All over the web today, you'll see reports headlined like this one: "Six out of ten firms have no plans to roll out Windows 7." This attention-getting declaration is apparently intended to be bad news for Microsoft and, well, actual newsworthy information to you and me. But when you...
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