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Compaq goes for ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 in new Pentium 4 notebooks
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Compaq’s new EvoNotebook N800 and Presario 2800 notebooks will put Intel’s brand new Mobile Pentium 4 processors to work as well as ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics processor. the new notebooks will use the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4-M processor, 30 Gbytes hard drive, 15-inch SXGA+. It will have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and USB 2.0, 802.11b MultiPort support.
PNY says they’re first to market with GeForce 4 TI 4600
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The Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card from PNY Technologies is shipping to retail stores. In addition, PNY is including Star Wars Starfighter by LucasArts with the Verto GeForce Ti 4600; a pair of 3D glass from i-O Display with the GeForce4 Ti 4400; Ballistics by Grin with Verto GeForce Mx 440; and 10 multi-colored PNY brand CD-Rs with the Verto GeForce 4 MX 420. It’s a “while supplies last” kind of deal. The Parsippany, New Jersey based PNY sells Nvidia based graphics boards exclusively. Prices range from $79.99 to $399.99.
Tom’s Hardware announces Readers Choice Awards and partnership with The Register
Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2003 | Permalink
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Tom’s hardware has completed their Readers’ Choice survey and just as you might expect, Tom’s readers don’t always root for the front runner. The Athlon XP won for best processor while the ATI Radeon 8500 won for best high end graphics board. Nvidia won the best graphics chip category with the GeForce3 Ti series. When it comes to chipsets VIA scored a hit with Tom’s users who voted for the Apollo KT266A chipset. Asus won the nod for best motherboard supplier and the Maxstor DiamondMax Plus 60 won the award for best hard drive. In other news Tom’s Hardware is partnering…
Compaq goes for ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 in new Pentium 4 notebooks
Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2003 | Permalink
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Compaq’s new EvoNotebook N800 and Presario 2800 notebooks will put Intel’s brand new Mobile Pentium 4 processors to work as well as ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics processor. the new notebooks will use the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4-M processor, 30 Gbytes hard drive, 15-inch SXGA+. It will have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and USB 2.0, 802.11b MultiPort support.
PNY says they’re first to market with GeForce 4 TI 4600
Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2003 | Permalink
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The Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card from PNY Technologies is shipping to retail stores. In addition, PNY is including Star Wars Starfighter by LucasArts with the Verto GeForce Ti 4600; a pair of 3D glass from i-O Display with the GeForce4 Ti 4400; Ballistics by Grin with Verto GeForce Mx 440; and 10 multi-colored PNY brand CD-Rs with the Verto GeForce 4 MX 420. It’s a “while supplies last” kind of deal. The Parsippany, New Jersey based PNY sells Nvidia based graphics boards exclusively. Prices range from $79.99 to $399.99.
More on CD copy protection
Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2003 | Permalink
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As we reported, the legal battles over copy protection are just getting started and so far they seem to be going well for those who would like to see copy protected CDs clearly labeled (if the things have to be sold at all). As it turns out, copy protected disks are being Released in relatively large numbers but they’re not labeled as such. Hilary Rosen, President of the Recording Association of America, and a cheerleader for the most unyielding elements of the music industry was quoted in a New York Times story. “If technology can be used to pirate copyrighted content,…
The optical disk business gets tougher
Posted by Webmaster on July 7th 2003 | Permalink
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Reports from Taiwan indicate that high-end DVD vendors are going to see further price pressure. In 2002, Media-Tek gained considerable market share with its chips that integrated servo and MPEG-2 decoder. According to some estimates, MediaTek holds 50% of the worldwide DVD market and 70% of the market in China. ALi came up from be-hind with their own integrated solution and made significant gains in the market as well. The company just started shipping their integrated M3351 chip at the end of the year. It is predicted that ALi will ship over 200,000 units of its inte-grated chip in the second…
i-O Display shows off PRO SVGA compatible headset at SID 2003
Posted by Webmaster on July 7th 2003 | Permalink
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Are video headphones a practical idea? One of the longest, most tenacious companies in this business is i-O Display Systems, LLD. The company has pioneered wearable, semi-comfortable headsets that are designed to work with PCs and also with video. The company introduced the i-glasses HRV Pro in April 2003. The i-glasses SVGA Pro accepts VGA or higher input from any computer source and outputs images in 800 x 600 resolution with 1.44 million pixels per display. The company says the effect of wearing the glasses is similar to watching a 70-inch monitor from 13 feet. The glasses can be used in…
Creative Europe will stick with Nvidia
Posted by Webmaster on May 5th 2003 | Permalink
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According to an interview with Eoin Leyden, Creative’s European Brand Manager for Graphics, one of Europe’s largest graphics board vendors is going to stand pat with Nvidia-based boards rather than go with the P10 chips designed by Creative subsidiary 3Dlabs. If any more evidence were needed about the independence of Creative’s various divisions. This interview with Eoin Leyden of Creative Europe should put them to rest. Leyden describes his view of the differences between workstation graphics and consumer graphics as being the difference between accurate pixels and fast pixels. Companies like Nvidia specialize in fast pixels. Companies like 3DLabs have traditionally…
Micron demonstrates home brewed DDR/DDR-II at VIA Technology forum
Posted by Webmaster on May 5th 2003 | Permalink
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The memory business is headed towards the latest in a string of inflection points for the industry with the introduction of DDRII, DDR400, and DDR333 systems. At his keynote speech at VTF (VIA Technology Forum) Terry Lee, Micron’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Business development told attendees that the day of one size fits all in memory has long since passed. Lee described a new reality for system builders and memory manufacturers in which different applications place different demands on systems and new types of memory are coming online to support those applications. Micron, a comparatively conservative company when it…
