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Intel unveils 6-core i7-980X Gulftown

sylv3rblade — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:03:44 +0000

6 Cores, 12 threads and a thousand dollar price, that’s Intel’s latest flagship processor, the i7-980X. Unveiled at the Game Developers Conference, Intel previewed it’s latest Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, the fastest single chip processor on the consumer market (taking the...

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A Week with my Asus Eee PC 1005HA

maria — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:31:49 +0000

Asus Eee PC 1005HA Last week, I bought my first ever netbook. It’s my second personal computer but the first one was given as a gift. This one, I bought with my blogging earnings for 2009. As suggested, I bought an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA Seashell. It comes with a Windows 7 Starter operating system....

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Intel Atom N470 offers higher clock speed

teknoy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:56 +0000

Intel has just officially announced the newest addition to its Intel Atom Pinetrail family: the Atom N470. If you’re wondering what the N470 offers over its other Atom counterparts, well, it actually can provide a higher clock speed of 1.83GHz, with 512k of L2 cache. I know it’s really not...

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Asus Eee PC 701 tablet mod

teknoy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:08:44 +0000

Since Eee PC 701s are already practically out of commission, the next best thing to do with these… classic netbooks would be to mod them into something else. Well, better than throwing them away, you can just mod your old Asus Eee PC 701 netbooks into a tablet computer. That’s right folks....

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Macbook air clone runs OS X

teknoy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:03:24 +0000

Macbook air wannabees are probably a dime a dozen. Everytime I visit a computer shop, there seems to be another Macbook air knock-off that promises to be the thinnest and lightest computer I’ll ever use. Okay, then, good for you guys. But they’re all running Windows, so you know, it’s...

Source: My Asus Eee PC

Asus Eee Box EB1501 – unboxing video

teknoy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:14:48 +0000

We’ve all heard about the Asus Eee Box EB1501 before, but now there’s an unboxing video floating all around the net. You see, I’ve been looking for a great desktop computer that can replace my battered 7 year old machine, and it looks like the Eee Box EB1501 is a good contender. It’s...

Source: My Asus Eee PC

The iPad is a Giant iPhone

teknoy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:54:36 +0000

By now, you’ve already heard about Apple’s new tablet device, the iPad. You know it’ll run the iPhone OS, it’ll have a 9.7 inch multitouch LCD screen, it’ll have a ten-hour battery life, and it’ll cost $499 up. Like the iPhone, it’ll be locked into the iTunes...

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How to upgrade the Eee PC 1201N hard drive

teknoy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:22:55 +0000

Netbooks, particularly the Eee PC (duh), are great. You can take them everywhere, they’re relatively fast, and they’re good enough to allow you to finish your tasks without crashes. However, I’m not a big fan of their storage options. Either you get a really fast SSD that contains only...

Source: My Asus Eee PC

Asus on Android and Chrome smartbooks: we’re still thinking about it

teknoy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:53:01 +0000

Asus apparently has no plans yet to make a Google Chrome OS or even an Android smartbook. Back at CES, a lot of devices by different computer manufacturers were running Google Android, and somehow Asus isn’t one of them. Were they burned with the Xandros OS experience and now they’re not...

Source: My Asus Eee PC

AMD show off external discrete GPU enclosure

teknoy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:09:46 +0000

Is your old laptop lagging behind in the latest games? Wish you could upgrade it to catch up with the inevitable march of technology? A new AMD product called the ATI XGP could be the answer to this dilemma. The AMD 5000 Series Mobility External GPU would provide the power for a real 3D gaming [...]...

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