Dave Altavilla
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Ever really wonder just how far storage has come? Think about this the next time you strap on your 8GB iPod Nano. IBM's RAMAC or "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control" had a whole 5MB of disk space on it's 24" platters and hey, it only weighed a little over a ton... "IBM introduced the 305...
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It's easy to sit back and say "he was a good boy -- he took it on the chin like a man", or so to speak, as the good folks at Intel would like to say about their rivals at Advanced Micro Devices. Conversely, you might quickly discover the error of your ways, if...
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This year's DigitalLife show in New York City seemed to be just a bit more festive, a bit more "real-deal", or perhaps we should just say a bit more well-attended from both an exhibitor and audience perspective? In fact, since Ziff Davis picked up the gig, it has...
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Three little letters separate "bye" and "die". Happy Saturday night folks. We thought we would share with you one of our personal favorite episodes of "Ask A Ninja". Here we get a good ol' fashion history lesson on the number "3". Why is it the magic number anyway?...
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Intel moved in on a quiet little investment of a UK-based company against the backdrop of IDF the other day. And if you weren't maniacally focused on some of these things, as we are around here at HH, it would have...
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Intel gave access to quad-core Kentsfield-based systems to select members of the press yesterday at IDF. Today the embargo has been lifted on a preview of performance numbers with the new 2.66GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700...
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Astek sends word of their new "Low Cost Liquid Cooling" solutions targeted at the Digital Home SSF PC... Digital Home PC made silent by new OEM liquid cooling solution Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco, September 26th, 2006. Despite the arrival of multi-core CPUs with lower...
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AMD Opens New North American Chip Design Center SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Sep. 28, 2006 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the opening of an advanced microprocessor development facility in Fort Collins, CO. Dubbed the "Mile High Design Center" (MHDC), the facility is the latest in...
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Some of you we're aware have issues with audible instruction and are much more-so the visual learning type. If you fall into this camp and have previously struggled with something as simple as an airline safety announcement before take-off, have no fear. Chris P is at the ready...
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Rambus Showcases Silicon Verified Demo Compliant with Gen2 Revision 0.5 Specification for PCI Express Seamlessly integrated digital controller and PHY solution for next generation PC and peripheral interconnect... Los Altos, California, United States - 09/25/2006 ...
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The folks at Warner Bros seem to have their thinking caps on, while the major-league industry powers behind Sony and Toshiba battle on DVD standard formats like bad Betamax and 8-Track re-treads... "In fact, just last week the studio's Warner Home Video unit released "The Lake House," a time-travel romance starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra...
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We've got a few tid-bits from around the scene for you here this morning, to go with those Huevos Rancheros and java-juice... Steve at HardwareReview.net is on the case this morning -- the CoolerMaster IT930 to be exact. Looks pretty spiff and Steve's new site design ain't bad either. Cute kid, just don't let him play...
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Now this is just too cool for words but also pretty far off in space. Roll-up keyboards have been around for a while but these folks are taking it one step further. "Roll-up laptop displays and keyboards for more portable computing are just two of the proposed applications for a new "shape shifting" technology for solid structures developed...
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NVIDIA sent word today of their wins on the iMac platform, if that kind of machine is your sort of flava... "On Sept 6th Apple announced their flagship 24" iMac (http://www.apple.com/imac/), powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics processing unit (GPU) as the standard configuration and the GeForce 7600 GT GPU as a configure-to-order...
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Gainward weighs in this evening with their own offering of GeForce 7950GT cards. There are two flavors, a standard 512MB version with RAM at 1.4GHz and a 256MB version with RAM clocked in at 1.2GHz. Both look to have pretty swank cooling solutions... Gainward BLISS 7950GT 512MB TV-out Dual DVI BLISS 7950GT 256MB...
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Just when you thought they couldn't get any bigger, cheaper or faster, Seagate steps out and says, think again... Imagine a RAID 0 array with a pair of 2.5TB drives. That ought to be enough room for your 80s-Music-Flock-of-Seagulls collection... "Seagate Technology, citing...
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Our buds at ZipZoomFly let us know that ATI Radeon X1950s have hit the store shelves. ATI branded cards are available for $499 and Connect3D's offering weighs in at $449. Still no word of CrossFire versions but the transmission says "coming soon". ...
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The call of most computing enthusiasts or workstation professionals has always been "more power, more bandwidth and more features, please". The advent of serial PCI Express-based computer architectures was the foundation of an enabling technology that provided a much needed solution to the bottleneck problems...
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In the immortal words of the world-famous Popeye The Sailor, I-yam-what-I-yam... No, wait, not yams, spinach, that's what made Pops all cut-up and beefy right? It seems Pops wasn't too far off the mark either. Spinach, the high-tech food product? "The work has immediate implications for basic science research, as the configuration...
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Who doesn't like a good ol' fashioned video card round-up? The dudes at GameSpot have been punchin' doggies and pixels it seems lately in this quick-take look at all the big bulls in graphics. Now, we know you prefer a bit more in-depth analysis ala HH-style but GS does cover the basics pretty well here. "You should...
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A little bored with life at the moment? Need something to occupy your brain-waves? Feeling somewhat unchallenged by every-day thought process? Yeah, we feel your pain. Why just the other day we were all sitting around the test bench thinking "dang, we're just too...
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Albatron let us know their GeForce 7950GT is ready to roll. We imagine these cards will be showing up in retail shortly. The 7950GT is PCI Express compliant and is also capable of SLI functionality. The engine's core frequency is set to 550 MHz and contains 24 highly efficient pipelines. The DDR III memory on this card...
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