Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers today, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared from the inventory of PC makers such as Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., consumers who can't live without the old operating system on their new machine will have to buy Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally “downgrade” to XP. Microsoft will still allow smaller mom-a (more…)
Antec today announced the Signature Series, its newest and most advanced
family of power supply units. Available in 850 Watts and 650 Watts, the Signature Series features several cutting-edge innovations that set it above the competition, several of which have never been offered in a consumer power supply. The Signature 650 and Signature 850 are available now and will retail for
estimated street prices of $249.00 and $299.00, respectively.
The Signature Series utilizes active DC-to-DC voltage regulation as opposed to the standard passive magnetic ampl (more…)
The Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook will be released in mid-July and is already making ripples in the industry ever since it was announced and posted on the Toshiba website. The graphics on the Qismio x305 will be powered by the yet to be announced NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX graphics card, which has 1GB of video memory. NVIDIA hasn't said much about this un-released graphics card, but they did have the Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook on display at a Microsoft event this week called the Games for Windows Presents: The Big Picture.
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After our GT200 review went live we got up with Elemental’s CEO and asked a few questions about their GPU accelerated H.264 video encoder. Due out for release in Q3, BadaBOOM promises to revolutionize the way we encode video…. (more…)
Last week we showed that AMD offered the best $199 GPU on the market. Today we’re able to show you that AMD has the best $299 GPU as well. And we’re able to reveal the architecture that enabled AMD to do that…. (more…)
