Sixteen-inch laptops comprise a growing category, perhaps because they sit between the semiportable, 15-inch, mainstream systems and the heavy, 17- and 18-inch models that are essentially desk-bound machines with hinged screens.
The $1,249 Asus F50SV-A2 packs a Blu-ray drive and a new mainstream Nvidia graphics chip into a relatively on-the-go package that’s lighter than gaming beasts, [...]

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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to update its desktop computer platform with the release of the highly anticipated RD890 chipset, accompanied by the southbridge chip SB850. The details on these two products have been scarce but, thanks to a recently leaked roadmap of AMD’s future products, we now have a more general [...]

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A largely-ignored detail of Dell’s big server announcement this week is of its new desktop computer that can be upgraded to sport as much as 192GB of DDR3 RAM.
The Precision T7500 workstation sports, count ‘em, 12 memory slots, each of which can take a PC10600 stick of up to 16GB at 1333 MHz, reports Computerworld.
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Lenovo on Tuesday became the second major PC maker to announce workstations based on Intel’s upcoming quad-core Nehalem chips, which are due for release next week.
The high-end ThinkStation [...]

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Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can’t overcome certain hardware and programming challenges, participants at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara, California, said this week.
Most software today is still written for single-core chips [...]

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