Lenovo said to be planning $800 ThinkPad for next year
We already know Asus has some $600 ultrabooks lined up for next year. What do other PC makers have up their sleeves? The folks at The Verge claim to have gotten hold of a "secret" roadmap, and they say Lenovo will release an $800 ThinkPad ultrabook in May or June 2012.
The $800 machine, which The Verge describes it as a "mainstream" product, will have a 14" display. Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge processors are said to be part of the formula, just like with the cheaper Asus systems. Lenovo reportedly has another Ivy Bridge-infused ...
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The TR Podcast 100: The big 1-0-0
 | Date: November 14, 2011 Time: 1:50:11 Hosted by Jordan Drake Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Geoff Gasior, Cyril Kowaliski Download: MP3 (79.5MB) | M4A (108.4MB) Subscribe: RSS (MP3) | RSS (M4A) iTunes (MP3) | iTunes (M4A) |
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Three years, nine months and five days from the release of episode one of the TR Podcast, we have arrived at episode 100! We kick off this momentous show with a look back at our first episode published in February of 2008. We also read commentary and thoughts contributed by our ...
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Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI
Intel is in a unique position in the market for ultra-high-end desktop PCs: it essentially has no competition. AMD hasn't priced a desktop processor far north of $300 in years, while Intel has been selling six-core Gulftown CPUs at up to a grand a pop. With no one nipping at its heels, Intel has had the luxury of updating its flagship platform at what could charitably be described as a conservative pace.
When Gulftown made its debut with the Core i7-980X Extreme in early 2010, it breathed new life into an X58 Express platform that had been around since 2008. Only 133MHz has been added to Gulftown's top end ...
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Intel's Core i7-3960X processor
Truly high-end desktop PCs have been in a curious position for nearly a year now. Intel's X58 platform and the corresponding Core i7-900-series processors have reigned supreme in their segment for three successive years, with little real competition from AMD. Yet in the 11 months since the debut of Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, this high-end platform hasn't been unequivocally faster than the more affordable mid-range options. The source of the trouble is pretty simple: newer technology. The Core i7-900 series is based on the older Nehalem CPU microarchitecture, and the newer Sandy Bridge architecture delivers substantially more performance in every clock cycle. Even the thousand-dollar Core i7-990X, with six cores and three memory channels, can't distance itself too much from its quad-core Sandy Bridge cousin, the Core i7-2600K.
Thus, the X58's raison d'etre has largely been reduced to its utility as a vehicle for multi-GPU solutions. Since quad-core Sandy Bridge chips can only support dual eight-lane PCIe connections, the X58's more ample PCIe connectivity has been prized in certain circles. We can't say we've been part of those circles, though, ...
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Eight is Enough
- Mike Chambers: Clarifications on Flash Player for mobile
browsers, the Flash platform, and the future of Flash
- Mashable: Apple admits iOS 5.0.1 did not fix all battery issues
- Engadget reports Asus Transformer Prime already getting the hands-on treatment
- Fudzilla reports Tegra 3 costs more than $15
- VR-Zone: Asus P9X79WS makes a brief appearance ahead of launch
- TC Magazine: Colorful announces the über-customized iGame GTX 560 Ti Kudan
- VG24/7: MW3 sells 6.5 million units in US, UK within first 24 hours
- Bethesda on Skyrim texture scaling issues on Xbox 360
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Deal of the week: A 60GB super-fast SSD for $64.99—and more
Solid-state prices are going down, down, down, and the deals are getting hotter. This week, Newegg is selling OCZ's Agility 3 drive for $89.99 with free shipping and before a $25 mail-in rebate. In other words, you can nab the drive for a scant $64.99, provided you eventually get that rebate check in the mail. That's awfully close to a dollar a gigabyte for an SSD with such high read and write speed ratings—525MB/s and 475MB/s, respectively.
If you're not a fan of OCZ for whatever reason, Newegg sells a similar drive from Corsair: the 60GB Force Series 3, which is on sale for $99.99 shipped , or ...
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Kepler hitting production 'soon'; Tegra 3 Win8 tablets in the works
In a conference call following yesterday's quarterly results announcement, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spoke briefly about Kepler, his company's upcoming 28-nm GPU architecture. SeekingAlpha has a transcript of the conference call, in which Huang noted that Nvidia's "[K]epler generation GPU" will tape out "shortly" and has helped Nvidia secure a record number of notebook design wins. Huang also mentioned that Tegra 3-powered Windows 8 tablets are already in development:
At the GPU Technology Conference last year, Huang revealed that Kepler is designed to crank out almost three times as many double-precision FLOPS than the current Fermi architecture per watt. If Nvidia has secured so ...
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