Release roundup: Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, and LGA1366 gear
This week's release roundup is a doozy, with noteworthy announcements from Bigfoot Networks, Corsair, Gigabyte, Kingston, and Transcend. We've got an upgrade to Corsair's Obsidian cases, new external SSDs, and a new premium Wi-Fi controller for notebooks, among other fresh goodies. Let's start alphabetically: Bigfoot Networks...
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Bungie working on action MMO
During a panel discussion at this week's Game Developers Conference, Bungie network engineer David Aldridge revealed that the company is working on a "massively multiplayer action game." According to Shacknews, few details were presented. However, Aldridge did confirm that the game isn't designed to compete with MMOs...
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Deal of the week: The Pavilion dm1z, plus a smattering of other goodies
After reading Cyril's review of HP's Pavilion dm1z ultraportable, there's no doubt in my mind that it should be our deal of the week. The base model may not be discounted from its $449 asking price. However, HP is currently offering a free upgrade to 3GB...
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B3 Sandy Bridge mobos start showing up at Newegg
Sandy Bridge motherboards are back at last—well, some of them are, at least. Both Asus and Gigabyte publicly announced the resumption of Sandy Bridge motherboard shipments earlier this week, but believe it or not, it's MSI and Biostar boards that show up in a search for LGA1155...
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CUDA 4.0 toolkit release candidate coming today
Good news, GPU computing developers. Nvidia has announced that a release candidate of its CUDA 4.0 developer toolkit will be available later today. The new toolkit will include several interesting additions and, in Nvidia's words, "was designed to make parallel programming easier." Major new features will include:
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Musing on the state of motherboards
Manufacturers routinely ask us what we think of their current products and what we'd like to see from future ones. Sometimes, I get the impression that they're genuinely interested in our input. Other times, I feel like my girlfriend is asking me what she should wear. My...
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Steam to protect accounts with Sandy Bridge encryption
Many have donned tinfoil hats over the inclusion of hardware security features in Intel's latest processors. Could such features prove to be a blessing more than a curse? That may well be the case for Valve's Steam distribution platform. As Joystiq reports, Valve has announced Steam Guard, an account protection...
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HP's Pavilion dm1z Fusion-powered ultraportable
With a $450 starting price tag, an 11.6" display, and an AMD E-350 accelerated processing unit, this slick ultraportable looks to have a lot of the right ingredients. How does it fare in our test suite?
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24-bit audio may be coming to iTunes, other music services
Everyone's all about high-definition video these days. Standard-def content? Pfft. Call me when you've got a resolution of at least 720p. And yet everyone short of picky audiophiles (who are just as likely to prefer lo-fi vinyl recordings) seems to be perfectly happy with 16-bit, CD-quality...
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