Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2010) Reviewed: Shaking the CPU/GPU Balance
Earlier this year Apple updated its entire MacBook Pro lineup. The update wasn't cosmetic, the 2nd generation unibody design carried over from 2009. Instead the 15-inch and 17-inch notebooks...
93 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/9/2010Son of Intel Employee Missing, AT Reader Help Requested
A friend of mine who works at Intel emailed me asking for my help in this. Kyron Horman, the son of an Intel employee, has gone missing. The report...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2010Acer Ferrari One: An AMD Ultraportable
Acer's latest Ferrari-branded laptop looks to compete in the crowded CULV ultraportable market. Packing an X2 L310 processor and HD 3200 graphics, on paper at least the Ferrari One...
40 by Vivek Gowri on 6/8/2010Mac OS X Steam Performance: Half Life 2 Episode 2, Still Slower than Windows
Last month Ryan Smith published his findings on OS X Portal performance. While we're all glad that Valve ported the Steam engine to OS X, we weren't very happy...
97 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2010AVADirect's Clevo W860CU: Mobility 5870 vs. GTX 285M
Who makes the fastest mobile GPUs right now? That question can be a bit tricky to answer, since getting identical laptops other than the GPU is difficult at best...
32 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/3/20102010 Value SSD (~$100) Roundup: Kingston and OCZ take on Intel
Two years ago the best SSD you could buy was made by Intel and it cost $7.44 per GB of MLC NAND. Today Intel is actually the value leader...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2010HP Launches New Consumer LCDs
Following the launch of their budget range of LCDs, HP has now launched some more premium models for those in need of better specifications. There are four new models...
14 by Balraj Sandhu on 6/3/2010ASRock X58 Extreme3: An Enthusiast X58 Motherboard at a Budget Price?
Today, we take a look at an X58 motherboard from ASRock, the Extreme3. The Extreme3 is the next iteration up from the ASRock X58 Extreme, with the notable...
36 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2010More ASUS Eee Pad Details, No MKV Support on 10" Model
At the start of Computex ASUS unveiled its two tiered approach to an iPad competitor: the 12" Eee Pad running Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel CULV Core...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2010A New 30" Contender: HP ZR30w Review
Recently, HP’s performance ZR series of LCD displays have attracted quite a bit of attention. We’ve heard your comments and pleas for reviews of the 22” and 24” ZR...
95 by Brian Klug on 6/1/2010Computex 2010: New ASUS Notebooks
Tagging along with the launch of the Eee Pad and Eee Tablet at Computex 2010, ASUS has also unveiled a range of new notebooks. Amongst the new releases are...
7 by Balraj Sandhu on 6/1/2010ASUS U30Jc Revisited: Adding an SSD
Last week we looked at the ASUS U30Jc and found a lot to like… so much that we awarded it a Bronze Editors' Choice. The stock configuration comes with...
35 by Jarred Walton on 6/1/2010Moorestown Won’t Run Windows, but Oaktrail Will
ARM gained a lot of confidence thanks to its success in smartphones, and as such it’s looking up in the food chain a bit at netbooks. The Cortex A9...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2010GlobalFoundries Plans to Expand Dresden and NY Fabs in Anticipation of 28/22nm
Only a year has passed since AMD officially spun off its manufacturing division with the help of ATIC. The resulting GlobalFoundries have been busy getting its ducks in a...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010Intel MIC: 22nm, 50+ Cores, Larrabee for HPC Announced
Last week Intel announced the scrapping of its plans to bring Larrabee to a discrete graphics card. While the announcement was open ended enough to allow for the restart...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010OCZ Announces SandForce Based PCIe RevoDrive SSD
PCIe based SSDs have been reserved for enterprise use ever since their introduction. Generally limited by pricing, even OCZ's own forays into the PCIe SSD market have been targeted...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010ASUS Pursues the "Open-Apple" Dream with Eee Pad at Computex 2010
Aside from wanting to be the 3rd largest notebook manufacturer in the next 2 years, ASUS also wants to be the more open alternative to Apple. That means no...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010Computex 2010: ASUS Announces eReader/digital note taker Eee Tablet
It's Computex time, and what better way to kick off our coverage than with some ASUS info. The Eee Tablet is ASUS' combination eReader and digital note taker, not...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
Hot off the heels of launch of the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, NVIDIA is launching the next card in the Fermi family. Based on the same GF100...
71 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2010NVIDIA Forceware 257 & Heterogeneous GPU PhysX: It's a Bug, Not a Feature
Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest...
54 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2010