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Last month Intel introduced its first desktop 6-core CPU, the 32nm Gulftown Core i7 980X. Running at 3.33GHz we loved the fact that it is quite possibly the first Extreme Edition part that is able to justify its price. For $999 you get six cores and better performance all in the same power envelope as [...]

First things first: The iPad is fast. Web browsing is fast, games are fast, app switching is also fast, especially compared to the iPhone. But if you think there are some crazy specs under the hood, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise. Doing a little coding, we’ve discovered that iPad apps only have [...]

Hope you did not just pull the trigger on a new Origin PC Genesis, else you will be forced to know that your rig was made obsolete in record time. There is precisely no doubt that you would rather be rocking a new Fermi card than whatever you have got now. NVIDIA has launched its [...]

When you think about the market for a pre-built, proverbial “Killer Gaming Rig,” you have to consider the class of consumer that would have interest in this type of system. For the most part, the average do-it-yourselfer isn’t going to take much interest here, save for perhaps the appreciation of all the bleeding-edge technology and [...]

Provantage of North Canton is featuring a number of 12-core AMD Opteron processors on its retail website. Obviously, this is well-ahead of the launch, and subject to the usual caveats, but if you are a chip-head the info is rather interesting nonetheless. The most expensive of the lot, the Opteron X12 6176 SE is a [...]

The HP EliteBooks have always been, well, elite and the new 17-inch 8740w cements that claim even more. Graphic designers, CAD users, video dudes, HP made this one for professionals like you. An array of Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs are available with the 1.73GHz 820QM as the top-tier option while either a 1GB  [...]

We have got to hand it to iBUYPOWER. They know how to release the computer that just look  fun to use. The Paladin series, announced today, is no difference. This is one of those products that we just want to touch. Sure, it doesn’t hurt that the innards of these things make us want to [...]

Details of Acer’s first Calpella-based ultraportable have emerged, ahead of the notebook’s expected announcement in the last week of this month.  The 11-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T eschews the CULV CPUs of its predecessors and instead reaches for Intel’s Core i5-520UM, with a basic clock speed of 1.06GHz but the potential for 1.86GHz with Turbo [...]

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While AMD is still in the unhappy position of being unable to release any high-performance CPUs, due to its lack of a successor for the aging K10 core design, Intel is forging ahead with faster and more powerful designs. Therefore, even though the LGA1366 Core i7 series doesn’t have any competition, Intel has just released [...]

I’m getting tips in from sources who claim that Apple is set to revamp its high-end Mac Pro line, adding a ‘hexacore’ Core i7-980x model to the line up. All information points to this happening next Tuesday, March 16th. The Core i7-980x is Intel’s first six-core part. Here’s the spec: 3.33GHz (TurboBoost to 3.6GHz) 6 [...]

Intel is preparing to upgrade its Celeron notebook processors aimed at the value market segment. Most of them are based on the company’s Montevina platform, but as of Q2 2010, Intel plans to release an Arrandale 32nm-based Celeron P4500. The P4500 has two 1.86GHz clocked cores and graphics clocked at 500MHz. Since it’s a Celeron [...]