Tag Archive for 'pcs-and-mac'
AMD has announced an update for one of its ATI Radeon dual-head graphics cards, especially optimizing it for use with Apple’s Mac Pro system. The HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition has a 56-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer memory and 320 stream processors, together with two DVI outputs for plugging in some large-scale Cinema HD monitors.
Owners of computer components that use the PCI Express 2.0 standard will be pleased to hear that their existing hardware will still work once motherboards switch to the PCI Express 3.0 standard. At a recent press conference discussing the interface, SIG chairman Al Yanes disclosed more details about the upcoming connector, which has previously been [...]
Dell is taking the unexpected step of culling its XPS Gaming Desktops range in order to give its Alienware acquisition room to breathe. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move is intended to reinvigorate Alienware’s focus as well as streamline the company’s offerings as a whole. A “combined gaming design and development [...]
Data backup falls resolutely at the dreary end of the tech-task scale; periodically market researchers release stats showing how few people take the time to safely copy their accumulated files, usually prompting a guilty DVD burning session which never gets repeated. Apple’s Time Capsule, then, was welcomed with excited upon its announcement; with the [...]
Tech reviews are very much a snapshot process, making a decision after a relatively short period of time and of a single incarnation of the product. Useful, yes, but not an exact facsimile of living with something day in, day out that you’ve bought yourself. If you’re lucky - and assuming that no [...]
Back when I reviewed Linutop’s fanless Linux PC one of my final thoughts was how it might compare to Zonbu’s similarly Linux-based Zonbox. Both have cut-down specs and no hard-drive, but while the Linutop relies on a thumbdrive for storage, the Zonbox uses an online subscription service with a subsidised starting price ($99) and monthly fees [...]
Oh yeah, baby, you know what time it is! It’s another round “What’s my model motivation?” today courtesy of LG and their super-compact X820 desktop PC. So what’s this lovely lady thinking? Personally I’m leaning toward thinking that the X820 is in fact the size of a mid-90s IBM mainframe and the girl in pink [...]
Much to my shame, Linux is something of a mystery to me. Actually, I think they should teach at least the basics of it in school computing classes, alongside English and at least one foreign language (though don’t ask me about my French abilities either), but this is neither time nor place for my [...]
I’d seen photos of the Linutop diskless, silent computer before, but I hadn’t quite realised how small it was until seeing the image below; unless that’s a specially-constructed Giant Wallwart Of Death, the fanless PC is deliciously dinky. Based on a very low-power AMD Geode LX700 and external flash storage, it runs a customised version [...]
Environmentalists have long been complaining that most computers sold are far less than “green”, and while there have been ecologically-considered options before now they’ve been nowhere near mainstream. UK retailer PC World aims to change all that, or at least so their press release would have you believe, with a sustainable computer made from recycled [...]
