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Nvidia revamps chipset line
News Graphics chip leader Nvidia launched the next generation of its nForce chipsets on Tuesday, including support for several technologies expected to become basic PC components in the near future. As previously reported, nForce2 continues Nvidia's...
[July 17, 2002, 6:57]
Vista rating tool is tweaked
News The tool is designed to help consumers make sense of Vista's fairly complicated needs when it comes to memory, graphics performance and other internal components. Dodd said ATI's main concern is that the score will represent an accurate reflection...
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
Intel's Timna is targeted for even lower cost PCs
News Intel says this level of integration will allow PC makers to eliminate extra components, such as graphics boards and memory controller chips, to achieve lower cost. The way Intel intends to reduce the price of a PC is to cut the cost of its...
[February 16, 2000, 15:18]
ReportLab Toolkit
Downloads This library implements a flexible layout engine named Platypus that builds documents from components like headlines, paragraphs, fonts, tables, bitmap images, vector graphics, etc. Different renderers can be used to create vector graphics (in fact...
[September 13, 2008, 1:01]
Nvidia to phase out GeForce3
News The downside of this, however, is that other components such as memory may end up forming a bottleneck within the graphics card itself, Nvidia said. The dedicated hardware means the load on other components of the processor, such as the pixel...
[February 7, 2002, 13:08]
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
News The scalable performance level components may include a processor, memory, graphics controller, etc. A computer with scalable performance level components and selectable software and service options has a user interface that allows individual...
[December 29, 2008, 11:12]
Intel rivals aim to trump its conference
News Chipsets are crucial components in any computer as they connect the processor to other elements such as memory, graphics and networks. These chipsets are designed to be compatible with today's hardware components, and allow for a seamless...
[February 22, 2002, 17:20]
Compaq to launch new Deskpros worldwide
News Most major PC makers plan to release systems with the chip set and supporting components, such as AGP-enabled graphics processors and controllers, UltraDMA hard drives, and networking components that support ACPI for remote power-on.
[July 9, 1997, 14:08]
Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer
News According to the director of the centre, Professor Dr Heinz-Gerd Hegering, its Silicon Graphics (SGI) computer was designed from scratch and built with an eye to repeated upgrading of the main components as supercomputing technology improved.
[January 22, 2007, 14:11]
PlayStation 3 chip nears completion
News It's like a beehive -- cell components can also be ganged together," he said. Or, it could use Cell in its components business; Toshiba sells a wide range of components for set-top boxes and other consumer electronics products.
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
Macromedia Studio 8: a first look review
Reviews Return to ZDNet for our full reviews and ratings of Studio 8 and its components, once the final package hits the market. Macromedia Studio 8 components Web design professionals may pounce on Flash 8's ability to lay video on top of video, to handle...
[August 9, 2005, 10:25]
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.26GHz Xeon, 2009) review
Reviews The interior is segmented into distinct zones for the various hardware components. With Windows PC makers largely reliant on industry standards for motherboards and other components, few, if any, of Apple's competitors are as well-positioned to...
[March 23, 2009, 12:09]
Acer widens notebook screen
News Acer will offer four versions of the Aspire 1710, some of which include components that are new to notebooks. Although Acer simply dipped into the desktop PC parts bin to get the two components, the Aspire 1710 is still among the first notebooks to...
[March 3, 2004, 10:35]
Red Hat releases Fedora 7
News Fedora 7, as expected, unifies what had been two separate software components: Red Hat-built Core and community-built Extras. Shortly before the final version was released, the project also switched to a new open system called Koji for housing and...
[June 4, 2007, 9:37]
Sun shares a portion of Java
News Sun also will announce two other open-source projects: The JDesktop Network Components to make it easier to build programs that use charts, tables and forms; and the JDesktop Integration Components to make it possible to link Java desktop software...
[June 28, 2004, 8:40]
Intel plan: New chip sets, faster PCs
News Chip sets exist to aid a computer's processor, performing jobs such as delivering data and controlling system components. The system bus provides a data pipeline between the processor and system memory, among other components.
[June 2, 2000, 9:26]
Running Mac OS X on standard PCs review
Reviews For the Intel platform, the closer the components are to those in a real Mac, the greater the chances of success. Success is most likely if both components use a Serial ATA (SATA) interface. With the right hardware components, a standard PC running...
[May 14, 2008, 7:46]
Desktops for your business review
Reviews Not only will you get a discount, you'll have interchangeable components when something falls apart down the road. The components are designed so that you can swap them out quickly and easily. In addition to lots of memory, you'll want a larger...
[July 8, 2003, 13:19]
1GHz: A new standard
News But whether this translates into real-world system performance depends, as always, on the capabilities of other system components and the types of tasks you call on a PC to perform. In fact, we've received better Business Winstone scores from an...
[March 7, 2000, 9:51]
Dell Dimension 4300 review
Reviews The Dimension 4300 uses Dell's new case design, which opens out like a clamshell to allow access to the internal components. All of these are good-quality components. Graphics are handled with aplomb by a 64MB nVidia GeForce3 graphics card, while...
[October 31, 2001, 23:00]
