The night before last my computer died. She had been experiencing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and congenital heart problems for some days prior, and though mentally alert until the very end, her decline was rapid. Indeed death came in a matter of seconds. R.I.P. No flowers, please. Having since then successfully navigated all five stages of the grieving process per Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I now find myself in the living hell of shopping for a new computer. It is not just that I do not... Read Full Story
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Drop five grand on a HP Blackbird yet? Good, that means you don't have to start crying right now, because HP just unveiled its "best of the best" alpha system, complete with a Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, for a cool $5,499. There's also a PhysX card inside, and Dual CrossFire ATI Radeon X2900 XT 1GB graphics, but you still have to spring a few more hundies if you want Vista Ultimate and 4GB of ram -- Home Premium and 2GB come standard. Oh, and you'll also be... Read Full Story
This industry's first quad-core processor for mainstream servers provides breakthrough performance and capabilities for the ultimate in powerful, dense and energy efficient servers. With the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor you get breakthrough performance - up to 50% greater than the industry-leading Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor in the same power envelope. Read Full Story
Intel will let go its first quad-core processor for notebooks next month, rounding out a extensive revise to its portable computing platform. "We're getting quad-core to itinerant in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran refused to reveal specifics of the quad-core chip, which will lug Intel's Core 2 Extreme moniker. Receiving a quad-core processor into a notebook is more about conceited rights than an indisputable boost in... Read Full Story
Australian PC manufacturer Pioneer Computers is captivating preorders for notebooks based on an unreleased quad-core mobile processor from the house of Intel, saying the chips are extremely close to being obtainable. Intel's 2.53GHz quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor is promoted as a A$1,449 (US$1,390) promote to Pioneer Computers' Dream Book Style 9008 notebook. Dazzling the chips expected location at the top end of Intel's mobile product line, the asking price of promote is more... Read Full Story
The upcoming Intel Nehalem CPU has been in the spotlight for months now. In contrast and despite the huge die size and 1.9 billion (!) transistors, the 6-core Xeon 74xx is a wallflower for both the public as Intel's marketing. However, if you've invested in the current Intel platform, the newly launched Intel 74xx series deserves a lot more attention. The Xeon 74xx, formerly known as Dunnington, is indeed a very interesting upgrade path for the older quad socket platform. All Xeon 74xx use... Read Full Story
Last week, Eurocom announced their quad-core Xeon based notebook and this week it is Xtreme Notebooks turn. This mobile server uses X3360 Xeon processor that has 12MB of L2 cache and 2.53GHz clock speed. Buyer can configure the notebook with Blu-ray burner, RAID 0/1/5 hard drive arrays, Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 and up to 4GB memory. Like the Eurocom D901C, this system will also be more than $3,000 and will be available through the companies website soon.
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AMD is releasing their new Barcelona Quad-Core Processor on Monday and Alexander Wolfe has a podcast (with textual summary) with Randy Allen, VP of AMD's Server and Workstation Division.
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Intel will be updating its CPU lineup this month. They will start by adding a 45nm quad core processor – Core 2 Quad Q8200 that will have 2.33GHz clock speed and will be priced $224. Intel will drop the price of this processor to $203 in October when it starts shipping processors based on Nehalem architecture. The company will also add a new dual-core Pentium E5200 CPU with clock speed of 2.5GHz for $84. The third CPU that Intel will add will be 65nm Conroe based Celeron 450 with 2.2GHz... Read Full Story
With a launch imminent for Intels new Nehalem chip architecture they have now reduced the prices of some quad-core processors, the new Nehalem architecture allows the chips to execute more tasks whilst drawing less power.
The price reductions are for the core2quad series of chips which include the Q9300, Q9400, Q8300, Q8400 and the low-power Q9400/Q8400 all of the previously mentioned chips have seen an approximate price cut of between 11%-14%.
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