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Netbook Shoppers Need to Know Their Wi-Fi All netbooks come with Wi-Fi, but 802.11g or 802.11n? is not created equal. We give you the lay of the wireless land on the most popular brands of netbooks. Thursday , July 09, 2009 06:37:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: AMD's Six-Core Comeback? As AMD shows off a six-core Opteron processor, IT managers dream of cost-effective server upgrades and desktop performance freaks dream of six-core supremacy. Add a full slate of new Phenom II CPUs, and the underdog chipmaker might have a terrific 2009. So what's the deal with propping up the aging Athlon? Sunday , March 01, 2009 07:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: AM3 At Last Remember those Phenom II processors AMD introduced a month ago? They're history, as the chipmaker introduces triple- and quad-cores that plug into either existing Socket AM2 or new AM3 motherboards loaded with DDR2 or -- welcome to the present tense -- DDR3 memory, respectively. Intel Core i7 killers? Nope. Core 2 Duo and Quad challengers? Abso-plug-in-lutely. Monday , February 16, 2009 04:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Hard Drives Get Bigger, Faster, and Greener A couple of years ago, the advent of perpendicular magnetic recording kicked the storage industry's race for ever-higher capacity into overdrive, but Western Digital's cramming two terabytes into one desktop drive is still an eyebrow-raiser. So is the growing sophistication of the hard disk market, with lower noise and power consumption starting to count as much as size and speed. Sunday , February 01, 2009 05:45:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: The GeForce GTX Gets a Facelift It took longer than hardcore fans expected, but Nvidia has rallied to reclaim the gaming graphics card crown from archrival AMD and the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The secret? Revitalizing the GeForce GTX 200 series with a die shrink and some careful shuffling of clock speeds -- and, Vince Freeman adds, some very clever positioning of the company's dual-GPU card versus its dual-card SLI platform. Monday , January 19, 2009 06:15:00 PM |
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Tons To See in 2- and 3-D: Report From CES 2009 Even a frowning economy and drop in attendance couldn't dampen -- well, not totally dampen -- the annual industry epic that is the Consumer Electronics Show. HardwareCentral was on hand to check out expected news from Microsoft, an unexpected star turn by Palm, strong performances by AMD, and everything from an outbreak of 3D gaming mania to a faceoff between netbooks and netbook alternatives. Tuesday , January 13, 2009 05:05:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Intel's Mainstream Mobile Core 2 Quad Quad-core processors have filtered down from elite to mainstream status in the desktop PC market. It was inevitable that the same thing would happen for notebooks, but -- like notebooks passing desktops in overall sales for the first time -- it's come sooner than anyone expected. Wednesday, January 07, 2009 05:15:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: AMD's Phenom-enal New Athlon You've got to draw the line somewhere, and AMD has drawn it between dual- and triple-core processors: While its newest dual-core has the same DNA as the chipmaker's Phenom X3 and X4, it carries the older Athlon name instead of the prestigious Phenom moniker. But while it's the new top of the Athlon line, it isn't the fastest. In other words, what gives? Friday , December 19, 2008 03:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Breeding Like ... Netbooks Do you have your netbook yet? The compact, low-priced laptops have jolted the mobile PC market to the tune of 14 million sales in their first full year; brought Linux to a new audience; and struck sparks for online applications and storage. But should you opt for an 9-inch, 10-inch, or 12-inch screen? How small is too small when it comes to keyboards? And will the sleek but no-frills minis help or hurt the traditional notebook segment? Monday , December 08, 2008 11:35:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: Intel's Core i7: Quad-Core of Solace It's not true that every new Intel processor brings a different new motherboard socket to dash upgrade hopes: The Core i7 brings two. Even so, Vince Freeman says, the new CPU shows such a combination of brute force and flair it might be called the i007. Here's a look under the hood, with some thoughts about why the Core i7 needs more than one chipset and why AMD might be more competitive than you think. Friday , November 21, 2008 05:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Taking the X58 Express to the Future Friday , November 07, 2008 05:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Nvidia and AMD Take Graphics in Different Directions Tuesday , October 28, 2008 11:10:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: AMD's Entry-Entry-Level Graphics Processor Tuesday , October 14, 2008 10:00:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: Nehalem Set to Fly with the X58 Sunday , September 28, 2008 06:30:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: AMD's Most Affordable R700s Sunday , September 14, 2008 10:15:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: Budget GPUs Galore Sunday , August 31, 2008 06:00:00 PM |
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Platform Trends: Intel Gets Up and Atom Sunday , August 17, 2008 11:15:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: Nvidia Reseeds its Mainstream Line Monday , August 04, 2008 11:35:00 AM |
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Platform Trends: The Year of Serious Storage Saturday , July 19, 2008 04:30:00 PM |
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Montevina Mania: Intel Unveils Centrino 2 Notebook Platform Tuesday , July 15, 2008 02:05:00 PM |
