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Toshiba Qosmio F20 Multimedia Notebook Review

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There are times when an ultra slim notebook just doesn?t cut it. Times when you wish it had more power and could do more, much more than what a regular Sony VAIO would let you do. The Qosmio F20 is an answer to just such a need, provided you are willing to turn a blind eye to its "slightly" bulky size and weight.
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Maxtor Launches Tiny Backup Drive

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Maxtor unveiled its new OneTouch III Mini Edition external hard drive today. The small device weighs a mere 7 ounces and sports a rugged design with rubber side panels, so you should be able to toss the OneTouch into bags without fearing damage. The little drive comes in 60GB and 100GB capacities.

PCMag.com
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AMD Developing Reverse Hyper-Threading?

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The info is about a potential new AMD processor. Allegedly, the green camp is developing a sort of "Anti-Hyperthreading," which would allow two (or multiple) physical cores to emulate one physical core.

Bit-Tech
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NVIDIA 2006 Core Logic Roadmap

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The latest NVIDIA roadmaps show what we had all expected -- a single package unified MCP and GPU: the MCP61. MCP61 is the codename for NVIDIA's upcoming AM2 IGP chipset.

DailyTech
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DFI BIOS Makes it Easy to Fake Memory Results

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just in case some readers here don't have their ear as tightly pressed to the ground as others, i will summarize and let you know what has happened that can make it very easy to fake memory overclocks...and i don't want any of our friends here buying bad memory because of this.
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Centrino Duo Mobile Platform Review

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Intel Centrino Duo platform has come out and the stores started offering notebooks with dual-core architecture. However, will the dual-core mobile architecture be as successful as in the desktop and server segments?
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Camera-Phone Danger

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Chances are, you don't think about the consequences of having a corporate cell phone, even if the phone contains a camera. Nowadays snapping shots on a cell phone has become quite popular and convenient; but what if employees use a company camera phone to snap indecent photos of themselves or others? Who would then be liable for illegal behavior?the phone carrier or the employer?

PCMag.com
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Apple's MacBook Pro: Using it as a Mac and a PC

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We take Apple's MacBook Pro for a spin and compare against the PowerBook G4 in OS X as well as its PC competitors in Windows XP. We also look at the two options for running Windows XP on the MacBook Pro and tell you how they perform.

AnandTech
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Playing around with a new video card from S3

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One of the things we have to do in the VIA Arena labs is to familiarize ourselves with VIA's new products as they come to market (and often beforehand). We plug them in, test their drivers, check out their features. As they get released we then keep an eye on issues that may be reported in the forums and then provide reports back to VIA engineers. We recently received the latest S27 cards from S3 and this guide provides an overview of the control panel options.
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LCDs with Persistent Images

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?Long live the Overdrive!?, game fanatics say. The only problem is that manufacturers have some trouble evacuating the charges induced. This is the phenomenon of ?marking? on monitors, a type of noticeable burn in of images that appears. Behardware.com called several manufacturers to find out whether if their warranty covers this type of problems. There were various responses and not all were positive.

LCDs with Persistent Images?
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ATI Radeon X1900 GT

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According to internal documents, ATI is set to release a single-slot Radeon X1900 GT with 36 pixel shaders. The card is in effect, a cut-down version of the Radeon X1900 XTX and is positioned to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's popular GeForce 7900 GT in performance and in price. CrossFire support can be enabled with an external cable connection to a Radeon X1900 512MB CrossFire Edition graphics card.

DailyTech
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AMD Socket-AM2 Performance Preview

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We've been testing AMD's Socket-AM2 platform since January and after several revisions we have what may end up being near-final performance numbers. Read on to find out how much you should expect from AM2.
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ATI R600 Details Revealed

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After convincingly taking away the performance crown from NVIDIA, ATI seems to be on a roll. The R580 was a smashing hit, but the R600 seems to be even more stunning. If our sources are to be believed, then the specifications sheet for the R600 will look something like this.
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NVIDIA G80 Delayed

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While we don?t know the exact schedule and launch dates for NVIDIA?s newest core, we have been able to find out a couple of interesting things. Obviously, we couldn?t get an official confirmation from NVIDIA, but the following points are interesting enough to share.
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Deeper with the GeForce 7900GTX

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we wanted to let you know we've uploaded a new review - this time we put the GeForce 7900GTX to the test. After spending some time with this card, even though it is just a 'faster GeForce 7800GTX', gamers everywhere should take a close look at the card. Personally, i'm just grateful we finally have a card that can provide playable frame rates with 4x transparency antialiasing at 1024 x 768.
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X1800 GTO Unlocked to 16 Pipelines

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The Chinese website HKEPC Hardware has discovered an interesting fact about ATI's Radeon X1800 GTO graphics card: while advertised as a 12 pipeline part, it's possible to unlock some cards to 16 pixel pipelines by flashing them with a Radeon X1800 XL BIOS. This is no surprise, since the X1800 GTO and X1800 XL both use the same R520 core, but such unlocking is not always successful.

The TechReport
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Apple: iMAC Windows Benchmarks Revealed

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We finally benchmarked the Apple PC in Windows successfully, thanks to the latest video driver release. It seems to struggle a bit in games with the level of detail increased, but it?s certainly not terrible, it?s about as good as a mid range notebook system.

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