Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is six-cored, 12-threaded, and starting to show up in a lot of gaming rigs by some popular builders: More »
It’s obvious that Intel’s Arrandale-based Core i5 and Core i7 processors’ release is right around the corner, but Fudzilla is reporting that it’s happening in January. If true, this could mean that a MacBook Pro refresh would follow rather soon. More »
Gamers, could you handle this? An Aurora ALX with a Core i7 975 processor, X58 microATX motherboard and two ATI Radeon HD 5870′s in CrossFire. Is it fast? Pfft. Whaddyareckon? More »
Pioneer Computers Australia has announced what it claims is the most powerful 15.6-inch i7 laptop on the market with its DreamBook Power W86 i7.
The claim seems justified. We’re talking i7 Quad Core goodness and an nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB GDDR3 Video RAM on board, and that’s just to whet your appetite. All we want to know is can it handle Crysis? More »
Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded “desktop replacement” laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they’re reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is.
Here’s another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer.