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MacBook Airs Get Hit With A Thunderbolt

11:00PM July 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Apple’s brought both sizes of the MacBook Air line straight up to what you’d expect from a laptop in 2011, adding a Thunderbolt port, but more importantly some sweet Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 chips — and backlit keyboards. More »


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Fastest Mac Ever: Latest iMac Smokes High-End Mac Pros (Mostly)

5:15AM June 16, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The newest iMac to hit the market, with an Intel 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 256GB SSD option, is officially the fastest mac ever shipped. It even beat out a Mac Pro XEON 6-core. More »


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Delicious Overkill: The Gratuitously Overclocked 5Ghz i7 Monster

9:52AM January 8, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Sometimes a computer at CES is interesting because it’s functional and intuitive. Sometimes a computer is interesting because it’s the size of an air conditioner, filled with heinously tacky neon lights and overclocked to hell. Guess which one this is! More »


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Digital Storm’s New Gaming PCs Use Sub-Zero Liquid Cooling System For Insane Overclocks

10:20AM November 23, 2010 | Adrian Covert

>Digital Storm has unveiled their latest line of custom gaming PCs, which employs theSub-Zero Liquid Chilled System, allowing for Intel Core i7 processors to be overclocked at a blazing 4.6 gigahertz while remaining at an icy 0ÂșC. More »


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The Greenest Supercomputer On The Planet

10:00AM July 13, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

This is the Grape-DR, a supercomputer housed in the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo. It has 64 Intel Core i7-920 processors and an accelerator chip that can achieve 200 gigaflops with a lightbulb’s worth of power. More »


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Alienware M11x Adds Core i7 Power

10:22PM June 8, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Dell’s Alienware M11x already offered up some potent graphics, especially for a laptop of its size. Now – just a few months after release – the M11x is getting a Core i7 CPU upgrade that makes it a powerhouse in every sense. More »


Intel Shrinks Core i7 CPUs For Ultrathin Laptops

1:03AM May 25, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Intel expanded its processor family today with six new chips, each designed to make ultraportable notebooks thinner, lighter and more efficient. We’re talking laptops less than an inch thick with Core i7 inside. That’s just beautiful. More »


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Alienware’s 11-Inch M11x Netbook Getting Core i7 Upgrade Next Month?

7:47PM May 24, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Courtesy of a Dell representative who let a little too much information loose in a video interview with Shufflegazine, we now know that its gaming arm Alienware is readying an Intel Core i7 netbook next month. More »


New Intel Core i7 Quad Mobile, i5 Mobile Processors Spied In Service Manual

12:25AM May 10, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Some leaks happen in secret, on the phone or behind closed doors. Others, like this little HP one today, happen in service manuals. What we know: As the headline implies new Core i5 and Core i7 mobile processors are coming. More »


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Core i7 MacBook Pro Could Make Water Boil

11:37PM April 26, 2010 | Mark Wilson

PC Authority was putting their new 17-inch, Core i7 MacBook Pro through their typical battery of benchmarks. Then, the chassis grew hot, and then a series of strange series of errors began to occur. More »