Budget Laptop Roundup. school tech shopping. Its almost time to go back to school. Don't despair: we've selected the best gear to help you both study hard and stay busy. Next up: Gear for Play.. By Barry Gerber All of these notebooks retail for under $800,...

652 FCBGA, 31 mm x 31 mm 609 FCBGA, 31 mm x 31 mm Supported ICH ICH7-M (GBM/GHM) ICH6-M PCI Masters 7 7 IDE / ATA ATA 100 (1 Ch.), SATA 150 (2 Ports) ATA 100 (1 Ch.), SATA 150 (2 Ports) USB 8 Ports USB 2.0...

HD Encoding Face-Off: WMV-HD vs. DivX-HD. hd encoding face off. HD files are biiig! Mike Baggaley compares two popular HD encoding methods and finds that beauty is in the eye of the encoder.. I recently reviewed SnapStream's Beyond TV 4.3, which among its...

Serial ATA interfaces, notebook drives still use UltraATA/100. This is not the fault of the drive manufacturers: we received some 2.5" drives with SATA interface last year. The issue here is the lack of available mobile platforms that support SATA, which has...

and, using some new benchmarks, the test results to help you make a thumbs-up or thumbs-down decision.. First let me make one thing perfectly clear. I am not trying to start any religious wars about AMD vs. Intel. I chose the Aspire 9500 only because it...

Sibling Rivalry: Dell vs. Alienware. sibling rivalry. Dell and Alienware are supposed to target different markets, but what happens when the parent company's gaming notebook takes on its similarly priced sibling? Dell's XPS M1730 vs. Alienware's Area-51 m9750.....

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13 March 2006: Infrant says that it runs the IT3107 processors in the NV at 280 MHz, vs. 240 MHz in the ReadyNAS 600 and X6. The IT3104 and 1004 look pretty similar with the main differences being a higher 280MHz clock speed (vs. 240) and 64 bit DDR-SDRAM interface...

DDR2 Memory In Dual-channel Mode Does (hardly) Anything In Practice. sonoma. Intel's new Sonoma platform increases the FSB clock speed of the Pentium M, and introduces a new chipset family with such features as SATA, PCIe, and DDR2 dual channel memory support....