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Will cheaper-chips help Intel dominate Wi-Fi?
News It will follow with an 802.11a/b/g chip in the second half, according to Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of the mobile computing products group at Intel. Design issues can affect performance, range, power-consumption and security.
[March 14, 2003, 12:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback As alternative personal computing gadgets emerge, become affordable, and a consensus emerges as to features need to be in them, the traditional PC will still be around, but will become more and more the sort of "big expensive tool" that only the...
[September 3, 2004, 18:57]
Real stories of virtualisation
News On the one hand, it is seen as an important means of boosting computing efficiency due to its ability to boost server utilisation. Grid-based systems comprise disparate IT resources that have been networked together using middleware to create a...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Red Hat beats analysts' estimates
News In the third quarter, the company earned significant revenue from the market for non-PC "embedded" computing devices. Among other deals, Red Hat won a $1m contract to translate programming software to the Samsung Calm line of low-power chips.
[December 15, 2000, 13:52]
Intel bets wireless is ready for lift-off
News The spread of computing is limited by manual labour," said Andy Grove, Intel's chairman. The Pentium-M, which comes out of Intel's labs in Israel, seeks to solve one of the historical problems with Pentium notebooks: power consumption.
[March 10, 2003, 13:37]
Inside Intel's Sonoma review
Reviews The 915 chipset also includes a power-managed Serial ATA disk interface, and PCI Express, which is advertised at being up to twice as fast for I/O and four times as fast for graphics. Power requirements range from 5 watts for the 753 to 27 for the...
[January 19, 2005, 8:40]
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX41P review
Reviews This 0.13-micron part has 512KB of on-die Level 2 cache and features Enhanced SpeedStep power-saving technology that can dynamically switch between performance- and battery-optimised modes as required.
[March 25, 2002, 23:00]
AMD: I want my MTV PC
News Computing devices that are branded to appeal to a specific market have not fared very well, however. MTV is building what it considers the perfect PC for 18- to 24-year-olds: a machine that has a built-in TV and radio tuner, DVD player and CD burner.
[January 10, 2002, 8:56]
Transmeta climbs into embedded market
News The Crusoe SE line runs at 667MHz to 933MHz, faster than most ARM chips, but consumes less power than competing Intel and AMD chips, thereby eliminating the need for internal cooling fans. At each speed grade there will be a regular and low-power...
[January 6, 2003, 7:50]
Tablet PC productivity tips review
Reviews Download the free Dictionary Tool Power Toy, which customises your Tablet PC's dictionary to your handwriting. Microsoft offers a handful of applets -- similar to Apple's dashboard widgets -- called Power Toys, for tablets.
[December 8, 2005, 12:00]
Windows XP: Hungry for power
News PC enthusiasts looking to grab an early copy of Windows XP may be in for a big surprise: many will need more computing horsepower to run the operating system. I'm not doing anything power-user-like," he said.
[March 28, 2001, 8:53]
Symbol adds wireless WAN to PDAs
News Symbol Technologies announced plans Tuesday to integrate wireless wide area network (WAN) capabilities into its line of mobile computing devices, which include the Palm OS-based SPT 1700, the Pocket PC-based PPT 2700 and the Windows CE-based PDT...
[October 4, 2000, 15:24]
Apple warned over 'misleading' Power Mac speed claim
Talkback Thats in the home computing market. Whats the point of being fast if you are not "road legal", with a PC I could play any game or application. Athlon 64 processor? Quite a few commercially available home PCs are multi processor.
[June 16, 2004, 11:30]
VIA launches 'carbon free' computing
News The C7-D processor can be used instead of AMD or Intel processors, using a fraction of the power required by its more famous competitors. Less power means less carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.
[October 12, 2006, 9:15]
Apple MacBook Pro (15.4in., 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) review
Reviews Opening the lid, you'll find only a power button, a full-size keyboard, stereo speakers, a sizable touch pad with a single mouse button and a built-in iSight camera that sits above the display. With Boot Camp, the utility that allows users to run a...
[November 6, 2006, 10:53]
IBM combination technique speeds PC chips
News Since the beginning of the decade, chip designers have had to rethink many of the basic assumptions of their craft because of a growing conflict between power consumption and performance. Not only is it extremely difficult to get power rapidly to...
[September 9, 2003, 16:55]
Apple's 'fastest PC' claim scrutinised
News The controversy highlights the notoriously thorny issue of computing benchmarks, which have long been criticised for not measuring typical performance and not providing an accurate basis for comparison.
[June 25, 2003, 7:33]
Motion Computing J3400 review
Reviews If you need a rugged tablet PC that can do a full day's work in the field, Motion Computing's wide-screen J3400 will do the job very satisfactorily. The Motion Computing J3400 has a 12.1in.by-800-pixel LED-backlit touch-screen display.
[March 16, 2009, 10:51]
Dell boosts performance with latest PowerEdge servers
News The launches are Dell's latest effort to gain respect, as well as market share, in enterprise computing. But while Dell was making no secret of its ambitions for enterprise computing at the conference to mark the event in Monte Carlo, it also made...
[June 7, 2006, 10:25]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P7010 review
Reviews On the left-hand side, there’s the power jack, a Type II PC Card slot, a CompactFlash slot and a (flap-protected) modem port. Set into the mesh is a metal strip containing the power button, which lights blue if the machine is on, and a couple of...
[August 16, 2004, 10:35]
