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13th April 2006 Archive

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  • ATI updates Catalyst with Linux X1000 drivers

    Benchmark-friendly frame-rate boosting tweaks too

    ATI has posted the latest version of its Catalyst drivers. Release 6.4 incorporates Linux support for the chip maker's Radeon X1300, X1600, X1800 and X1900 GPUs, and tweaks video quality on Windows systems courtesy of a few adjustments to the Avivo engine. In particular, it's enhanced its edge-sharpening and noise-reduction …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Apr 2006, 09:02

  • iRiver E10 said to sport TV remote control

    Fast forward between channels?

    iRiver will ship its latest hard drive-based MP3 players, dubbed the E10, into the South Korean market later this month, pitching the machine's 6GB capacity, 1.5in colour screen and 32-hour playback period against Apple's iPod Nano. It's claimed the device also operates as a TV remote control. The company hasn't officially …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Apr 2006, 09:50

  • Sony preps PS2 price cut

    Down to $129 by the end of the month, analyst claims

    Sony is close to announcing PlayStation price cuts, in the US at the very least. Stateside, the price will fall from $149 to $129 before April is out, an industry analyst forecast yesterday. Citing "industry checks", Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian told clients the price-cut would be made to "bring the current- …

    Consoles 13 Apr 2006, 10:14

  • Averatec touts 3G, Wi-Fi UMPC

    Built-in keyboard too

    Notebook specialist Averatec will ship its take on the ultra-mobile PC concept this autumn, offering a handheld Windows XP Home Edition-based machine with a keyboard that sits underneath a slide-out 5in, 1,280 x 1,204 touch-sensitive screen. Dubbed the AHI, the handheld is based on an Intel Celeron M ultra-low voltage …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Apr 2006, 10:42

  • Samsung UMPC to ship worldwide 1 May

    Q1 expensive everywhere - even in Santa Fe...

    Samsung's upcoming ultra-mobile PC, the Q1, will be pricey enough when it hits the UK's shores, but buyers in the company's native land of South Korea will have to splash out even more if they want one. According to local reports, they will have to pay the best part of KRW2m - equivalent to $2,100/£1,198. They won't even …

    PCs 13 Apr 2006, 11:20

  • MiniDAB handheld digital radio to debut at £180

    You know Oono?

    UK digital radio company Oono will ship its first handheld offering, the iPod-esque MiniDAB, in June. The asking price? A mere £180, the company told Reg Hardware today. The MiniDAB sports a 2in, 160 x 96, six-line mono display. It's got 128MB of Flash memory on board, but you can boost its storage capacity by up to 2GB by …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Apr 2006, 11:49

  • Review round-up Reg Hardware's Critical Mass

    This week's no-holds-barred product assessments from around the web... Rock Xtreme SLI notebook "The limitations of notebook processors and motherboards are such that you're never going to get 100 per cent of desktop performance in a 'portable' system, but with this you really are getting about as close as is humanly …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Apr 2006, 13:48

  • Asus EAX1600XT SILENT passively-cooled graphics card

    Review Gaming performance without the noise?

    These days there isn’t much difference between one manufacturer’s graphics card and another’s, mainly because the standard reference designs from ATI and Nvidia work just fine. That leaves card makers scrambling around for differentiators, and with ever increasing concerns about noise, some manufacturers are trying to figure out …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Apr 2006, 15:02

  • Buffalo boosts home NAS box capacity to 2TB

    TeraStation Pro's storage space upped too

    Buffalo has upped the capacity of its TeraStation Pro network-attached storage (NAS) boxes to 2TB, an increase in data-archive space of 25 per cent. It also announced a 2TB version of its TeraStation Home Server (HS) unit, doubling the product's current capacity. The HS box is pitched at consumers looking to store all their …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Apr 2006, 15:37

  • DLO ships 'first' UI-on-a-TV iPod dock

    HomeDock Deluxes out ahead of Griffin's TuneCenter?

    iPod accessory specialist DLO has begun shipping what it claims is the first ever iPod dock that uses a TV screen to let you navigate through your player's music collection from a distance. In short, no more squinting at the iPod's screen. The HomeDock Deluxe provides bays not only for the iPod but also the accessory's …

    Media players 13 Apr 2006, 15:59