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Lion-powered Mac Mini packs bigger punch

...Mac Mini range to include Sandy Bridge-based Intel Core processors, discrete graphics cards and the newest version of its Mac OS X operating, called... Read more

20 July, 2011
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Linux Mint's recent climb to the top of the DistroWatch rankings and strong reactions to Ubuntu's Unity shell have led to speculation that Ubuntu's glory days could be over. We examine these two popular distros to see where they came from, where they stand and where they may be headed. Read more

10 February, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...the early 1980s. However, the introduction in the early 1990s of VGA graphics cards and Sound Blaster audio cards killed this competitive advantage. Tandy even... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips set for launch

Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips set for launch

...much equivalent to entry level and pushing up into mid-level discrete [graphics cards]." The graphics side of the processor has been significantly overhauled and... Read more

23 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Premiere Pro CS6

Premiere Pro CS6

...also take advantage of the hardware acceleration provided by CUDA-compliant nVidia graphics cards and certain OpenCL-based AMD GPUs. Premiere Pro is in two... Read more

23 April, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight

Another Windows XP to Fedora 16 Linux migration

Recently I've had the pleasure of replacing yet another Windows XP computer with Fedora Linux (version 16). The user is... Read more

17 February, 2012
Photos: Dell Tech Camp 2011

Photos: Dell Tech Camp 2011

...workstation, equipped in this case with two high-end Nvidia Quadro 6000 graphics cards. Each of these beauties has 448 CUDA cores and comes with... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Charles McLellan
Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

...by enough distance to fit a pair of double-width SLI-enabled graphics cards, and the trio of PCI-E x1 slots. At the bottom... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Manek Dubash
BurnInTest Standard 7.0 build 1012

BurnInTest Standard 7.0 build 1012

...and formatted hard drives, tape/CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drives, sound and graphics cards, RAM, network connections and ports) can be tested at the same... Read more

8 May, 2012
BurnInTest Professional 7.0 build 1012

BurnInTest Professional 7.0 build 1012

...and formatted hard drives, tape/CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drives, sound and graphics cards, RAM, network connections and ports) can be tested at the same... Read more

8 May, 2012

2002 Ultrabooks & tablets, more memory for Windows 8?

Windows 8 won't run on every XP-era PC; watch out for PAE Looking for a PC in the office that still had Windows XP on... Read more

23 March, 2012

HP Z1 all-in-one workstation

...PCs). But consumer all-in-ones don't have powerful processors and graphics cards, because they're designed for casual gaming and multimedia, and they... Read more

21 March, 2012

AMD launches own-brand system memory line

...on distribution. "AMD has been supplying and validating memory for AMD Radeon graphics cards for several years, AMD GPU division chief Matt Skynner said in... Read more

29 November, 2011

Could Nouveau be the future for nVidia hardware?

...and GNU/Linux for their graphics chipsets. This has made the nVidia graphics cards, manufactured by a variety of vendors, very reliable for GNU/Linux... Read more

7 June, 2011

WebGL security flaws: Context responds

...s design flaws give "potentially malicious web pages low level access to graphics cards that could provide a ‘back door’ for hackers and compromise... Read more

12 May, 2011

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