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  • How to Upgrade Notebook Graphics Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:38AMFrom almost as soon as you purchase your new notebook, it is generally doomed to a life of obsolescence. Unlike desktop computers, notebooks have certain components that can't be upgraded or replaced. On most laptops this includes the motherboard, graphics card, display, and sometimes even the processor. In this review we take a look at an external graphics card solution for notebooks called the ...
  • ATI to be re-branded as AMD Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 11:19PMThe first products that will contain the consolidated brand will be introduced late this year.
  • AMD Image Quality Beats Competition By Up To 87 Percent in HQV 2.0 Image Quality Benchmark Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 11:14PMEvery minute, more than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube indicating that image quality is an increasingly important part of the PC experience. 1 With this in mind, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced improvements to its ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 driver suite that further strengthen the company’s leadership position in image quality as measured by the HQV ® Benchmark, Version 2.0. AMD scored 48 ...
  • AMD Image Quality Beats Competition By Up To 87 Percent in HQV 2.0 Image Quality Benchmark Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 11:01PMSUNNYVALE, Calif.----Every minute, more than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube indicating that image quality is an increasingly important part of the PC experience.1 With this in mind, AMD today announced improvements to its ATI Catalyst™ 10.6 driver suite that further strengthen the company’s leadership position in image quality as measured by the HQV® Benchmark, Version 2.0.
  • XFX HD 5570 Review Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 11:50PMEntry-level graphics cards might not draw the same level of excitement as their high-end counterparts, but don't let that fool you. More mainstream products are sold day to day than the high-end gear, making these products very important to a companies bottom line.
  • Ubuntu Lucid ordeal Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 1:59AMMUCH as it pains me to say this, installing Ubuntu 10.4 on my desktop PC was a nightmare. For the last three years, I have been a firm supporter and dedicated user of Ubuntu, a user-friendly distribution of Linux that seemed to get better and better with each new release.
  • Nvidia to synch up notebook driver updates with desktop GPU driver updates Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 6:04PMWhile everyone looks at benchmarks for new graphics cards when they're first released, a lot can change as ATI and Nvidia update their drivers. Not only can performance be improved, but more features can be added as well. Unfortunately, there's big a wide gulf between desktop driver updates and laptop...
  • XFX HD 5970 Auctioned on eBay for $10,499 Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 1:51PMA limited edition ATI HD 5970 card was supposedly stolen and auctioned off on ebay. EBay - Auction - ATI Technologies - Shopping - Servers
  • Ubuntu GNU/Linux Claims 12 Million Users, Rising Friday, April 9, 2010 @ 1:41PMUbuntu Linux may grab more users once Lucid Lynx enters the scene. Ubuntu - List of Ubuntu releases - Lucid Lynx - Operating system - Linux
  • ATI FirePro V8800: most powerful pro graphics to date Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 3:09AMAMD have outed their latest graphics card, and the ATI FirePro V8800 has set its sights on your workstation. Described as “the most powerful professional graphics card ever created”, the V8800’s 1600 stream processors offer 2.6 teraflops of power with 147.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth; a single card can drive four 30-inch displays and – if paired with the ATI FirePro S400 Synchronization Module ...
  • AMD tempts gamers with multi-monitor Eye candy Thursday, April 1, 2010 @ 1:04AMOne card, six displays, one billion pixels AMD has announced a new graphics card that can fill six displays with over 1 billion pixels per second to provide what the company unblushingly claims to be "the ultimate in entertainment and productivity."…
  • Compatibility of 64-bit Windows 7 and your PC Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 5:28AMQAs soon as my copy of Windows 7 Home Premium arrives, I plan to do a fresh install of the 64-bit version onto a brand new 1TB Samsung F1 hard disk . At the moment I’m using 32-bit Windows Vista with 4GB of DDR2 memory but since I use demanding software and games, I may need more memory in the future.
  • HP Expands Workstation Series to Include Desk-side, Mobile and Small Form Factor Models Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 11:10PMHP (NYSE: HPQ) today unveiled workstation ...
  • HP Expands Workstation Series to Include Desk-side, Mobile and Small Form Factor Models Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 11:01PMPALO ALTO, Calif.----HP today unveiled workstation offerings that include the first small form factor workstation to be available in every region of the world, multicore processor updates to its Z Workstation series and a mobile workstation with DreamColor display technology.
  • HP Unveils Ultra-Thin, Touch-Enabled Convertible Tablet and Notebook PCs for Small and Midsize Businesses Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 11:10PMHP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced its first multitouch-enabled tablet for business users as well as notebook PCs tailored for both enterprise ...
  • HP Unveils Ultra-Thin, Touch-Enabled Convertible Tablet and Notebook PCs for Small and Midsize Businesses Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 11:01PMPALO ALTO, Calif.----HP today introduced its first multitouch-enabled tablet for business users as well as notebook PCs tailored for both enterprise and small and midsize businesses .
  • Nvidia Reports Positive Q4 Results on GPU Sales Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:51PMStill making money! Graphics processing unit - Nvidia - Business - Marketing and Advertising - Personal computer
  • AMD releases updated Catalyst drivers Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 8:22AMNick Farrell THE INQUIRER Technical goodness but not for the average punter yet
  • ATI Introduces Radeon HD 5570, Targets Small Desktop PCs Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 4:19AMFollowing up the recent launch of its Radeon HD 5450, ATI today announced the Radeon HD 5570. This new card supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2, and is designed with small-form-factor desktop PCs in mind.
  • Nvidia transforms switchable graphics with Optimus Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 8:12AMIan Williams THE INQUIRER Ready for prime time
  • Sapphire HD 5570 1GB Review Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 11:27PMWith the recent introduction of ATI's mainstream graphics cards, more users will be able to take advantage of features such as DX 11 and Eyefinity, but the question is do these budget-friendly graphics cards have enough power to utilize all of the features they come equipped with?
  • After missing '09 deadline, Apple updates Boot Camp Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 1:25PMApple yesterday updated its Boot Camp software to officially support Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system.
  • Valve release end of decade Steam Hardware Survey Monday, January 4, 2010 @ 8:43AMWe are well and truly into the new decade now. The festive season is behind us and that usually means a dry period for gaming. That is not the case for 2010, however, as most publishers got so worried about big releases like Modern Warfare 2 dominating Christmas sales they moved games back to January [...]
  • Apple apologizes for 27-inch iMac shipping delays Monday, December 14, 2009 @ 10:20AMApple this weekend apologized to customers for ongoing shipping delays of its recently introduced 27-inch iMac computer. by Andrew Nusca
  • ATI and Nvidia come out with new graphics card drivers Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 8:10PMFiled under: Downloads , Hardware It's a double whammy of graphics card update goodness today. AMD 's ATI unit has just released their official Catalyst 9.11 drivers for their Radeon based video cards. The release notes have all the details about the new drivers which include some bug fixes for games like Tom Clancy's HAWX , Wolfenstein and World in Conflict . Not to be outdone, ATI's main rival ...
  • Tweaking Ubuntu Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 12:56AMONE of the cool things about using Linux is the degree to which you can customize your system. If you want to make it look and act like a Mac, you can. Want the Windows 7 or Vista glassy look? No problem. You can do that, too.
  • Sony introduces limited edition VAIO Nebula FW laptop Monday, November 2, 2009 @ 8:26PMSony's done plenty of limited edition " Signature Collection " laptops before, but it sure does seem to be particularly excited about its new VAIO Nebula FW model -- how else can you explains such imaginative advertising copy as the blurb above? Better still, the laptop demands a relatively non-premium starting price of $809.99, and packs some more than respectable specs across the board ...
  • Tests: Snow Leopard overall faster than Windows 7 Friday, October 16, 2009 @ 10:16AMA comparison test today revealed that Mac OS X Snow Leopard is faster than Windows 7 in common tasks. Benchmarks run on a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro by CNET show that Apple's own operating system is about 38.5 percent faster in multitasking with media apps than Microsoft's platform and is also more responsive as a whole, taking less time to start up or shut down. iTunes audio encoding is also faster ...
  • AMD Changes the Game with ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11-compliant Graphics Cards, Harnessing the Most Powerful ... Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 2:30AMAMD (NYSE: AMD) launched the most powerful processor ever created1, found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX
  • Blog: Giving ATI a second glance Wednesday, August 5, 2009 @ 9:11PMFor those of us running Linux desktops, a graphics card decision can make or break a system in ways no commercial OS user can fathom.
  • Nvidia counters dodgy benchmark claim Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 2:31AMSylvie Barak THE INQUIRER Green goblin strikes back
  • The HP Pavilion dv2 - A vacation from my Macs Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 8:37PMThis entry is part 1 of 2 in the series A week with the HP Pavilion dv2 - A vacation from my Macs Ok friends, it’s honesty time. I have a secret to let you all in on and it’s a kinda big and I’m more than a little ashamed to admit it. But I feel [...] Filed in categories: Gear Diary Tagged: Blu-ray , Laptop , Vista The HP Pavilion dv2 - A vacation from my Macs originally appeared on The ...
  • PuffyTron recommends OpenBSD 4.5 Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 10:47AMOpenBSD 4.5 was release on May 1st. I had the privilege to collect some q&a with multiple developers about new features and improvements included in this release.
  • New ATI Catalyst drivers released for June 2009 Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 7:13PMFiled under: Downloads , Hardware ATI Radeon graphics card users can rest easy; their regular monthly refresh of their Catalyst graphics card drivers is now out and about on AMD's PC game web site. The 9.6 version drivers are available in Windows XP, Windows Vista and (for those of you who have it installed) the release candidate for Windows 7. The release notes , as always, give out more info ...
  • Stereoscopic 3D Monitor From iZ3D: Passive Glasses and Polarized Screens Sunday, June 7, 2009 @ 11:12PMAs a company who has been making stereo drivers for a while, iZ3D offers a hardware solution that in many ways gives NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision some competition. But does it really have what it takes?...
  • AMD demos world’s first DirectX 11 GPU Wednesday, June 3, 2009 @ 5:03PMToday at Computex 2009, AMD demonstrated the world’s first DirectX 11 graphics processor on new 40nm silicon. The series of demonstrations showed off some of the features in the upcoming DirectX 11 API, along with its functional application in silicon. DirectX 11 (and OpenGL 3.0) provide access not only to enhanced support in hardware for common [...]
  • Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition is a big surprise Monday, June 1, 2009 @ 12:01AMPaul Taylor the inquirer Updated Extreme unlocking with AMD Overdrive
  • iZ3D Wins 2009 Display of the Year Silver Award from the Society for Information Display Monday, May 18, 2009 @ 2:19PMSan Diego, Calif.,
  • MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first Monday, May 18, 2009 @ 8:47AMMacDailyNews is your source for daily news about Apple, Mac OS and the Macintosh platform. MacDailyNews features news, links, tips, and opinions. Where Mac News Comes First.
  • Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack Thursday, May 14, 2009 @ 7:16AMPhoronix: "... but AMD is putting forth its own notable effort as well. They have multiple full time employees working on open-source support and have released specifications and programming documentation for their entire range of chips. The past few months have seen a flurry of activity in graphics related development, and a fair amount of this is centered around AMD hardware."
  • Mac OS X 10.5.7 adds Radeon HD 4870 support Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 12:41PMMac OS X 10.5.7 has drivers
  • NVIDIA Produces More Beta Drivers Monday, May 4, 2009 @ 7:53PMDrivers tend to confirm either a hit or a miss in the world of graphics. ATI seems to have bad performing drivers from one time or another, and NVIDIA it seems keeps their drivers mostly stable in performance and stability, though everyone has different stories. The green graphics card manufacturer has released a new set of beta drivers, known as the GeForce 185.81 beta drivers , to the public. ...