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Entries for May, 2008

Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review @HardwareLogic

Like many gamers, we anticipated a heated videocard war would take place this past year between Nvidia and AMD.  But instead of a knock-down, drag out fight between two heavyweight contenders, we instead witnessed Nvidia dancing around the ring with its 8800 series GPUs while the company formerly known as ATI nary made an attempt [...]

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Wii-like motion controllers coming to PC

Asustek Computer plans to bring Wii-like wireless gaming to PCs with the Eee Stick, two controllers that use motion sensors so people can bowl, slash swords, and play other games on a PC.

Initially, Asustek plans to bundle the controllers with its popular Eee PC low-cost laptops and the desktop Eee Box and will be available [...]

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Acer Aspire 6920G Full Review @InsideHW

Finally, we had tested Acer Aspire 6920G after Acer’s announcement for new Aspire Gemstone notebooks in March this year. Black cover in “piano” finish looks very elegant despite our first thought of greasy fingerprints all over it. At some point, I even thought that I am too subjective, so I asked my colleagues what they [...]

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AMD Ships Radeon 4850 Graphics Card

Exclusive - Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD’s graphics team has put the finishing touches at its new GPU generation and actually has begun shipping the new 4850 card to OEM partners and retailers: The new Radeon series will sell for prices between $199 and $499.
According to information we came across in Taiwan, AMD/ATI is gunning for [...]

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‘You Already Have MinWin’ news@osnews.com

We have learnt quite a lot about Windows 7 this week, and one of the things was that Windows 7 would not get a new kernel. The call for a new kernel has been made a few times on the internet, but anyone with a bit more insight into Windows’ kernel knows that there is [...]

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UK: PS3 lags behind Xbox 360 in spite of GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is an immensely popular title, but it still wasn’t enough to get the PS3 up to speed with the Xbox 360.

The launch of Grand Theft Auto IV created a boost in hardware sales all right, just not as much for the PlayStation 3 as it was for the Xbox 360.
This according [...]

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Windows Can Also Look Great, Too!

Some people say that Windows XP doesn’t look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system.
Here’s how the modified Ubuntu desktop looked like and the let’s see what we can do about [...]

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CodeLite IDE v1.0RC01 Available for Download

The CodeLite team is pleased to announce the CodeLite v1.0RC01 is available. This release includes a bundle app for MacOS 10.5.2
What is CodeLite?
CodeLite is an open source project that target itself to become the best open source IDE for C/C++.Here is a sneak peek at CodeLite functionlities:

Comes with two editor’s themes: BlackTheme and Default
Generic support [...]

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Cooler Master Introduces First Retail PSU to Receive 80 Plus Silver Certification

The 80 Plus Silver certification has only been awarded to three manufacturers
Efficiency has been a big issue in computers and power supplies for a while now with data centers and businesses trying to go green in an effort to help the environment. Businesses have realized that saving power in computer systems can equate to significant [...]

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Via Launches Nano Processor, Carves Out CPU Niche

Beijing (China) - Just in time for the opening of the Computex 2008 tradeshow, Via introduced its Nano processor, better known by his code-name Isaiah. The specifications of the chip indicate that Nano is a solid improvement over the C7 CPU and Via continues to its strategy to be different than AMD and Via by [...]

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