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Hardware
Ion 2 GPU Benchmarked As Slower Than Its Predecessor
1:58AM Brian Barrett | The first Nvidia Ion 2 netbook has been benchmarked, and the early results are disappointing: the Acer Aspire One 532G’s next-gen GPU managed to underperform the older Ion LE. More »
Hardware
How Fast Are The New Intel Arrandale And Clarkdale?
8:26PM Jesus Diaz | The reviews and benchmarks on the new Intel 32nm flagship chips are here: Arrandale – Core i5 Mobile and Core i3 Mobile for notebooks – and Clarkdale – Core i5 661 for desktops – are fast, fast, fast. More »
Networks
Our 2009 12-City 3G Data Mega Test: AT&T Won
8:30AM Wilson Rothman | Given carrier reputation and our own iPhone call drops, we were pretty surprised to discover, through careful testing in 12 markets, that AT&T’s has pretty consistently the fastest 3G network nationwide, followed closely – in downloads at least – by Verizon Wireless. More »
Hardware
Intel’s New “Pineview” Atom Processors Benchmarked
11:30AM Dan Nosowitz | The new Atom D410 and D510 processors were just given preliminary benchmarking tests, and the scores actually came out pretty disappointing. The older Nvidia Ion configuration actually beat the Pineview procs in most tests – not what we’d call encouraging. More »
Software
Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Ubuntu And Moblin
3:10AM Danny Allen | Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. More »
Computers
Why It’s Gotten Straight Stupid To Buy A Mac Pro
8:00AM Mark Wilson | Never before has it been so apparent that a power tower – pretty much the laziest design in the computer industry – is being sold by a design-centric company with neither design nor power. More »
Hardware
Intel Core i9 Benched: Six Cores Of Pure Joy
6:22AM John Herrman | On paper, the Core i9 might not sound that exciting: It’s a lot like the Core i7, except built with a 32nm fabrication process and two extra cores, for a total of six. Early benchmarks, though, say it flies. Sometimes. More »
Computers
6:00AM Brian Lam and Don Nguyen | Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core2Duo chip inside, but we received the top of the line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2-3 times. More »
Benchmarked: The QuadCore i7 iMac Is Super Fast
6:00AM Brian Lam and Don Nguyen | Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core2Duo chip inside, but we received the top of the line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2-3 times. More »
Computers
11:09PM Danny Allen | The Core i5 iMacs are fast, but early benchmarks of the Core i7 model suggest a 35 per cent performance boost, even though upgrade only costs $US200 extra. Timon-Royer’s telling graph uses results from the Geekbench Website. [Timon-Royer via MacRumors]
27-inch iMac Benchmarks: Core i7 Vs. Core i5
11:09PM Danny Allen | The Core i5 iMacs are fast, but early benchmarks of the Core i7 model suggest a 35 per cent performance boost, even though upgrade only costs $US200 extra. Timon-Royer’s telling graph uses results from the Geekbench Website. [Timon-Royer via MacRumors]
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