Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 now up for touchy-feely orders

May 22, 2012 No Comments

If you’ve been waiting to, literally, get your hands on the submissive A720 all-in-one from Lenovo, now you can. When we got our paws on it back at CES, it’s fair to say we were intrigued. Now, the 27-inch 10-point multitouch PC is up for your buying pleasure… Tweet This Post

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Linux kernel 3.4 is out: supports Trinity, Southern Islands, Kepler, Medfield and more

May 21, 2012 No Comments

Heavens, it’s already time for another Linux kernel refresh. We’re now looking at 3.4, which is available for download now. Whereas the last version was all about green robots, this update focuses on support for the latest processors and graphics cards, including AMD’s Trinity and Radeon HD 7000-series, NVIDIA’s Kepler stack, plus the graphical component [...]

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Intel wants to have conflict-free processors by the end of 2013

May 17, 2012 No Comments

Intel had already promised that it would avoid using conflict minerals, and now it’s giving itself a more concrete timetable for that to happen. It wants to have at least one processor that’s proven completely conflict-free across four key minerals — gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten — by the end of 2013… Tweet This Post

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Intel hopes the youngs will like its new mobile magazine

May 16, 2012 No Comments

Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, “iQ by Intel,” that aims to attract “a younger audience” through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories… Tweet This Post

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Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers

May 14, 2012 No Comments

Intel is pushing out that delicious Ivy Bridge update to server chips and, interestingly, it’s not focusing purely on the high end to start. In total, 28 new Xeon CPUs were introduced today, including the E5-4600 and 2400 families targeted at four and two socket systems, respectively… Tweet This Post

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AMD Launches Ultrabook-Ready Trinity Chips

May 14, 2012 No Comments

AMD just unveiled its latest processor, called Trinity. Meant for Ultrabooks, regular laptops and all-in-one designs, the new chip boasts better multimedia capabilities, at less power than the previous generation, Llano… Tweet This Post

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First Intel-Powered Windows 8 Tablets: Coming in November [REPORT]

May 14, 2012 No Comments

The first wave of Windows 8 tablets are getting a boost from Intel — and consumers should be able to buy them in November, a new report suggests. A slew of Windows 8 tablets will debut in the fall — when Microsoft is expected to officially release Windows 8 to the public — and they’ll [...]

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Intel sets sights on 5nm chip; already gearing up fabs for 14nm production

May 14, 2012 No Comments

Ivy Bridge, Intel’s first generation of chips to use the 22nm fabrication process, is hardly out of the gate, and yet talk has already turned to the company’s next manufacturing technologies. According to Xbit Labs, which got its hands on some telltale slides, Paul Otellini et al… Tweet This Post

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Intel caught out using cheap thermal paste in Ivy Bridge?

May 14, 2012 No Comments

For all the good stuff it brings, Ivy Bridge has also been running a little hotter than reviewers and overclockers might have liked — and that’s putting it mildly. A few weeks back, Overclockers.net discovered a possible culprit: regular thermal paste that sits between the CPU die and the outwardly-visible heatspreader plate… Tweet This Post

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MacBook Pro and iMac with Ivy Bridge processors crop up on benchmarks

May 14, 2012 No Comments

Yup, Apples are bound to flow beneath the Ivy Bridge at some point, but how much of a performance boost will they deliver? If you’re happy to hold onto a little skepticism, then two unexpected appearances on the Geekbench site could offer some early answers… Tweet This Post

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J&W announces M001 Cedar Trail nettop, to keep desks and ears happy

May 10, 2012 No Comments

If you like your computing to be neither seen, nor heard (or less seen and less heard), J&W has announced another bantam slab of nettop for your consideration. On the inside there’s a choice of Cedar Trail D2550, N2800 and N2600 dual-core options, with support for up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM… Tweet This Post

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Panasonic outs Let’s Note B11 laptop series in Japan, Ivy Bridge in tow

May 10, 2012 No Comments

Okay, it may not be one of the sleekest laptops we’ve seen of late, but Panasonic’s B11 is packing a hefty amount of horsepower underneath that beastly shell to make you forget its looks. This Let’s Note B11 is a worthy refresh to the B10 series we showed you a while back — although aesthetically [...]

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