Samsung unveils 840 EVO solid-state drive family
There's a new lineup of Samsung solid-state drives on the way. This one seems poised to supplant the budget-focused 840 Series, and it claims to deliver both better write performance and higher-capacity options.
Known simply as the Samsung 840 EVO, the new drive will arrive early next month in 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB flavors. Samsung has based the 840 EVO on new 128Gb NAND flash dies, which it has been mass-producing since April ...
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Intel posts second-quarter results, cuts 2013 forecast
Times are tough in the PC industry—and as one of the most prominent members of that industry, Intel isn't immune to the inauspicious market conditions. The chipmaker posted its second-quarter results this afternoon, showing modest sequential revenue and gross-margin growth but declining figures everywhere else. The chipmaker has cut its forecast for the second half of the year, as well.
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I choose to be spied on
I choose to trust Google.
I choose to trust Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. I choose to give those companies access to all my data—every picture I take, every e-mail I send, and every document I save online. They ...
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IDC analyst: PC shipments may have peaked in 2011
Ready for more doom and gloom about the PC industry? Okay, then how's this: an IDC researcher quoted by ComputerWorld believes PC shipments may have peaked... two years ago.
As the site points out, global PC shipments reached 96.1 million units in the third quarter of 2011. Since then, they've done nothing but ...
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HP intros 13'' Windows 8 convertible tablet
There's a new Windows 8 convertible in HP's lineup. In addition to the 11.6", Atom-powered Envy x2, the company now offers the Split x2, a larger device with a 13-inch screen and an Ivy Bridge-based Core i3 processor.
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IC Insights: Memory prices to level off next quarter
Bad news: memory prices are still going up. Good news: according to IC Insights, the continued rise in PC DRAM prices will taper off in the fourth quarter of this year.
The market research firm says average selling prices for PC memory jumped from $1.97 in the first quarter to $2.42 in the second quarter. (There's no mention of what these ASPs ...
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Tuesday Shortbread
7 Up
- WSJ's Q&A: Lenovo still sees promise in PCs
- Bloomberg: AT&T offers monthly smartphones plan in nod to T-Mobile
- TorrentFreak: HBO asks Google to take down "infringing" VLC media player
- C|Net UK: Microsoft readies Surface smart watch to rival Apple iWatch
- Analyst: Apple iPhone 5S production to begin this month - PCMag
- CPU World: AMD FX-9370 and FX-9590 CPUs are now available
- Polygon: Competitive gaming recognized in U.S. as a pro sport
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One of the strangest things about my job is running a test lab full of the latest hardware. New things are coming in all of the time. As the months pass, Damage Labs becomes an increasingly crowded space that's also brimming with the not-so-latest hardware. I have to keep some amount of older GPUs, CPUs, and supporting motherboards, memory, PSUs, and the like on hand for use in future comparative testing.
Strange person that I am, I also like to retain some examples of each generation of CPU and GPU hardware for the long term. This means, yes, I have Pentium III processors and 3dfx Voodoo cards in storage. Every so often, I'll dust off an old bit of hardware ...
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