Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, Laptops
We've been hearing about ATI's external graphics schemes for years, but apparently XGP is finally ready to go. The platform houses an external graphics card -- ATI-branded, of course -- which connects to your laptop via a proprietary 4.0Gbps PCIe 2.0 connector. The new tech is being ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, LaptopsAMD's on a roll at Computex, and it's keeping the stream alive with two more decently important announcements. First off, the company is making the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 official, which is said to "triple top-of-the-line graphics performance in comparison to the previous generation ATI Mobility ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Filed under: StorageThe more cells you can pack onto a NAND chip, the cheaper the storage, so we're excited about Hynix's recent annoucement of triple-level-cell NAND flash. You might have noticed that MLC-based SSDs are cheaper than SLC units, and TLC keeps the trend alive -- Hynix says the cost ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Filed under: DesktopsAside from the obvious PR blitz, we can't really figure out what AMD is doing here. You see, its AMD LIVE! Home Cinema platform was actually introduced way back in January of 2007, yet it seems pretty confident that this stuff is brand new at Computex. Whatever the ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.
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