THE DESPERATION AT Nvidia has reached silly proportions, with the paper launch of the GTX580 pulled in from ‘Cayman Day’ to ‘Investor Conference Call Day’, both holidays in November. I wonder how many reviewers will overlook the fact that there won’t be cards this year?
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ACER HAS ANNOUNCED yet another Android handset and this time it’s a model called Liquid Metal, but sadly it’s got a stainless steel back, rather than one actually made from liquid metal. The overall design is actually quite similar to Acer’s first Android handset, the Liquid 500, although today’s announced is of a much more refined, slimmer and better looking handset.
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GIGABYTE SHOWED OFF a couple of P67 boards back at IDF in September. Now the company has released details of three more LGA-1155 boards, although this time it’s more the mid-range boards, despite the feature set being better than your average mid-range motherboard. Many of the details remain unannounced – perhaps due to Intel NDA’s we presume – but most of the good bits are there to keep us excited until Intel decides it’s time to deliver.
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THE FIRST REVODRIVE from OCZ impressed in terms of performance relative to value for money. However, it had one major flaw, you couldn’t boot from it. OCZ has now corrected this slight problem with its second generation RevoDrive X2 which is not only bootable, but is faster and available in larger capacities.
UPDATED: 1 November 2010
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INTEL HAS ALWAYS spent a lot of its money on various product development projects, be it in-house or with the help of various partners around the world. Earlier today at a press conference in Taipei, the company announced that it’s launching a new collaboration program based around cloud computing on multiple levels in Taiwan.
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WE DID EXPECT to see some third party SSD upgrades for Apple’s new MacBook Air, but we didn’t expect it to come from Taiwanese PhotoFast. In all fairness, the company has shifted some of its focus towards becoming an Apple accessory company, and its GM2 SFV1 Air upgrade kit (for the MacBook Air) falls nicely in-between this and its SSD product line.
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THE LONG RUMORED PlayStation phone appears to finally have become reality. If the pictures of an early prototype are anything to go by, this might be Sony Ericsson’s biggest hit ever. The fact that it’s running Android is quite a surprise, at least if you consider how proprietary Sony is as a company. Since this is a Sony Ericsson handset, it seems like anything is possible.
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CURRENTLY THERE IS NO shortage of digital media players that you attach to your shiny new HD TV. For those that want a little bit more than a streaming player with a USB port, the new WD TV Live Hub from Western Digital might just be what you’ve been waiting for. It’s far from the most compact player on the market, but considering it comes with 1TB of internal storage, this might be forgiven.
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FOR THOSE OF you that are looking for something a bit exotic – in terms of your next graphics card upgrade – then Zotac’s dual GeForce GTX 460 card might be what you’ve been waiting for. This dual GF104 card isn’t Nvidia’s rumoured GTX 490, by any means, but this is all a custom design by Zotac.
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INTEL’S UPCOMING LGA-1155Sandy Bridge processors have already been criticized for being bad overclockers, but judging by some screenshots (over at a Taiwanese forum) the K-series of unlocked processors does hold some promise. The bad news is that in this early attempt, the bus speed hasn’t been pushed a single MHz.
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WI-FI IS POSSIBLY the most common wireless interface on notebooks, smartphones and a few other gadgets and accessories. It’s set to become a whole lot more useful thanks the announcement of Wi-Fi Direct. The Wi-Fi Alliance said that it has started certifying devices supporting the new Wi-Fi standard today, although the word is mum as to when we’ll see devices with Wi-Fi Direct support.
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AMD TOOK THE worst possible route in naming their new 68×0 cards, and the explanations for it only make things worse. No, scratch that, it isn’t the worst possible route, but it does destroy a long standing and well thought out convention.
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OPERA MIGHT NOT be the most popular desktop web browser out there, but the company is doing well in the mobile market and continues to push out new features for its desktop browser. The company has announced a beta version of Opera 11 which is available for download from today and it brings with it a fair few new features, but the most significant one is support for extensions based on the W3C widget specification.
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DELL HAS ANNOUNCED a return of its XPS series of notebooks, although the brand has been around as a performance moniker on some of its other notebook ranges, it will once again return as Dell’s performance notebook brand. The company has announced three new models with varying specifications; including features such as GeForce 400M series graphics, Skype HD certified webcams standard, and JBL speakers.
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TODAY, AMD IS launching two new cards from it’s Northern Islands family of GPUs, the HD6850 and HD6870. These cards, based on the ‘Barts’ chip are both mid-range players that will redefine mainstream performance and devastate Nvidia’s margins.
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