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15.6-Inch Dell Ultra-thin Laptop Rising From The Ashes Of The Adamo

2:00AM May 15, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Back on February 9, we reported that the Adamo, Dell’s sexy-yet-lacking ultrathin laptop, was no more. That didn’t mean Dell was done with the genre, however, as it seems there’s a new sexy, svelte model on the horizon. More »


Hello! Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Starting To Show Up

2:06PM March 17, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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 »


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Netbook Tablets Get Capacitive Multitouch With The IdeaPad S10-3t

4:01PM January 5, 2010 | Brian Barrett

A convertible netbook tablet that sports a capacitive multitouch screen has been a long time coming. Now it’s here, and at a surprisingly competitive price. More »


Core i5 And Core i7 Rumored To Arrive In January

8:54AM December 2, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

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 »


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Mac OS 10.6.2 Leaks New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros?

11:54PM October 26, 2009 | Mark Wilson

It’d be the most obvious leak in history, but the 10C531 build of OS 10.6.2 references the “MacBook Pro 6.1 and the MacBook Pro 6.1b”. All current Macbooks are strictly “5″ status. More »


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Raw. Power. Aurora ALX Benchmarked

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9:30AM September 25, 2009 | Chris Oaten

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 »


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Pioneer Offers More Power To You

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10:00AM September 21, 2009 | Chris Oaten

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 »


Intel Core i5, i7 Chips: Nehalem Superpowers Cheaper Than Ever

12:40AM September 9, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The long and short of the new Lynnfield-based Intel Core i7 and Core i5 desktop chips: Nehalem power for cheaper than ever, and all you’re losing is triple-channel memory (in new i7 and i5) and hyperthreading (in i5). [Anandtech]


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Manufacturers Mercilessly Cram Intel i7 Nehalem Processors Into Laptops

9:12PM May 28, 2009 | John Herrman

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.

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Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

4:00AM January 6, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

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.

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