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 Psystar, a small company in Miami, Florida is offering OpenMac, a Mac clone with Leopard pre-installed for $399. The computer comes with a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 250 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM), 2 GB DDR2 667 RAM, Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics, DVD+/-R Optical Drive, 4 USB ports. For an additional $110 the NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT...
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 On Tuesday Hewlett Packard announced the launch of its new Mini-Note PC. Its shipping is set to begin sometime next week. The 2133 Mini-Note, starting at a base price of $500, has a nine-inch screen with 1280x768 resolution, weighs about 2 1/2 pounds and comes with an aluminum case and an optional webcam. The computer was outfitted with...
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 The popular Japanese company Sony
announced on Thursday that it would update PlayStation 3’s Blu-ray technology
in a move that would add nice interactive features to movies played in the high
def format and not only. Thanks to the new upgrade people will also become able
to download games, video content and even ring tones to their...
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 The format war between HD DVD and
Blu-ray has eventually ended, but who won in fact? Blu-ray won the war, but
what is people’s opinion after all?
First of all, despite the fact
that HD DVD eventually lost the battle, this high def format had its fans. What
happened to these fans? They lost money, of course! Secondly, we have...
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 Intel announced
yesterday that its upcoming chip micro-architecture, called Nehalem, would also
be scaled down for laptops. However, the brand new high tech chips would come
first for servers and high-end desktop computers.
According to Pat
Gelsinger, Intel’s senior vice president and general manager of the digital
enterprise...
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 We’ve always
feared viruses and all kinds of malware systems; we’ve made a habit from
downloading stuff only from web sites we trust and so on. But, watch out,
viruses might come also pre-installed!
According to a
recent study conducted by security researchers, it seems that some of today’s
most popular gadgets might feature...
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 Although the HD
DVD video format was pronounced dead less than four weeks ago and Blu-ray has
no other rival on the market, Blu-ray players’ prices have started to rise just
like that. In February, the month when HD DVD’s main supporter, Toshiba,
announced that it would no longer produce HD DVD players and recorders, the...
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 Apple announced
on Tuesday brand new updates to its popular MacBook and MacBook Pro computers.
Practically, MacBook Air’s Multi-Touch trackpad will be added also to Apple’s MacBook
Pro older computer, while the MacBook line will get a significant speed bump.
The Multi-Touch
feature, which Apple first introduced on the MacBook...
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 The PR battle
has already started, although Dunnington is still being developed at the
moment. Thanks to a presentation authored by Sun Microsystems, we have found
out a few more details about Dunnington, Intel’s upcoming six cores
microprocessor. The “leaked” presentation has the merit to shed the necessary light
on Intel’s...
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 A Princeton University computer security researcher and his team have found that encrypting information stored on hard disk drives is not as safe as previously thought. Retrieving the encryption key is relatively easy for a person with the right skills.Although from the encrypted data itself is practically impossible to find out the key,...
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