carry a full load of media around the house using the power grid? Short answer: No, not really.. Of this article’s two authors, Ed was excited when he first learned about PowerLine AV. That’s because, owing to a specification snafu with the builder of his...

as its rivals, but, along with the Nikon, it has some of the best definition qualities. It would be even better if the colors weren't made too bright, which can lead you astray when using it. However, it is very readable, owing to its fast-reacting crystals....

they get from a Mobility Radeon 7500/9000 von ATI , for example, or NVIDIA's Geforce4 Go440/Go460 chips. Summary: Half-Speed In Battery Mode Owing to the really lavish configuration, Dell's SmartStep 250N could be considered a real bargain. A closer look, however,...

this Centrino notebook stack up against the competition?. Thanks to its fast PC2700 DDR memory and the latest top-of-the-range 1.7 GHz Pentium-M, the S5200N more or less clearly outstrips the competition. Owing to its 8 MB cache, its 60 GB Hitachi hard drive...

interface VIA Technologies Inc.: K8T890 with PCIe x16 graphics interface, K8T800 with AGP 8x graphics interface, K8M800 with AGP 8x graphics interface, with integrated graphics core S3 UniChrome Pro IGP, supported with up to 64 MB shared DDR-Memory Owing...

• -Mobile Sempron: A Celeron M-Killer?

scale up when faster RAM is installed. Even the Pentium M system can't really do itself justice here. In the 3DMark 2005 CPU test, AMD's Turion takes the lead by a nose, owing to its fast, integrated memory controller, particularly when DDR 400 RAM is installed....

• -Mobile Sempron Test System, Continued

PC3200), DDR200/266 should provide adequate performance, since the Xilinx FPGA sets the pace for all data access. Furthermore, there's no speed benefit for RAM with tight timings, as the FPGA can't be tweaked to exploit them. The i-RAM maxes out at 4 GB, owing...

orders for Centrino Duo platform CPUs and chipsets by 30% to 50%. Among the reasons for this sudden move, Digitimes reported, was that these companies were sitting on large parts inventories owing to an unexpected drop in market demand in the first-quarter...