Friday, August 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 21/08/2009



Site posts photos of purported AMD DirectX 11 card
AMD showed its DirectX 11 graphics hardware in action at QuakeCon last week, but it made a point to conceal the physical graphics card producing the eye candy on screen. Well, Chiphell now claims to have obtained several photos of a DirectX 11 card that may just be...
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Ion-powered IdeaPad S12 put on hold until October
Excited about Lenovo's Ion-powered IdeaPad S12? Well, get ready to wait a little longer for it. Lenovo originally said the netbook would be out "later this summer," but as Gizmodo reports, the system has been postponed until after Windows 7's retail release. You can already buy an IdeaPad...
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Gigabyte aims for microATX with P55 boards
Earlier this week, the folks at Gigabyte held an event to introduce the press to their lineup of P55 motherboards. I attended and got the skinny on a whole raft of upcoming products—11 different motherboard models, by my count, based on Intel's P55 chipset and intended for Lynnfield Core...
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Windows 7 can run un-activated for four months
Forget running the Windows 7 RC until October 22. If you can get your hands on the release-to-manufacturing version, you should be able to use it for up to four months without entering an activation key. ComputerWorld has confirmed this with Microsoft, which says the procedure is completely legal....
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Acer's Aspire Timeline 13.3-inch ultraportable notebook
Starting at just $600, Acer's new line of 13.3" ultraportable notebooks packs Core 2 processors, 1366x768 displays, 4GB of memory, full-size keyboards, and six-cell batteries. What's not to like? A few things, actually. But there's also plenty to love.
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