Friday, April 16, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 16/04/2010


InsideHW
ASUS Radeon HD 5870 overclocked to 1525 MHz
ASUS Radeon HD 5870 Matrix managed to get quite some fame rates and has proved that it is indeed an overclocking beast. Elmor and Kinc, the guys that are known well on XtremeSystems forums, managed to push the GPU of this card all the way from 894 MHz (850 MHz for the reference card) to a very impressive 1525 MHz.
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Toshiba announces Tecra M11 professional laptop
Toshiba rolled out the Tecra M11 as its key mid-range pro notebook. The 14-inch system now has a completely new design with a texture designed to reduce fingerprints. Inside, it gets much faster processors that start with a 2.13GHz Core i3 and scale up to a 2.4GHz Core i5; an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 2100M at the high end gives it dedicated workstation graphics.
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Intel releases Atom SoC for home tablets and cars
Intel on its Developer Forum unveiled a new system-on-a-chip version of the Atom. Named Tunnel Creek, it will be based on the upcoming Moorestown Atom chip but will target computing in home users' embedded spaces - Intel suggests home media and phone tablets or in-car entertainment and nav systems. It will incorporate not just the memory controller but the graphics core as well, and in many cases it may not need an external chipset to handle other tasks. The design will also allow companies to make a custom chipset that connects to the processor as long as it communicates using PCI Express.
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Apple drops support for iPhone 2G
Last week Apple showed off the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0, which includes multitasking, notable UI improvements, a social gaming network, and the opening of the iAd mobile advertising network. Notably missing from the supported hardware list for iPhone OS 4.0 is the original iPhone 2G.
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