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17th May 2006 Archive

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  • Sony pitches Blu-ray Vaio desktop for HD content creation

    RC204 to support 50GB BD-R/RE media

    Sony has followed yesterday's announcement of a Blu-ray Disc drive-equipped Vaio notebook by touting a desktop fitted with the same next-generation optical disc system capable of reading and writing 50GB dual-layer BDs. The Vaio RC204 also contains a 3.2GHz Pentium D 940, a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT with 256MB of graphics memory …

    PCs 17 May 2006, 08:42

  • AMD unveils four dual-core Turion CPUs

    Digital Media XPress vs Intel's Digital Media Boost

    AMD has launched its dual-core Turion 64 X2 notebook-oriented microprocessor line, as expected. Today's introduction saw the arrival of four of the chips aggressively priced to match what AMD is already charging for its top-of-the-line single-core Turions. The four new CPUs - aka 'Taylor' - are the TL-50, TL-52, TL-56 and TL- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 May 2006, 09:06

  • ECS tips wink to ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

    Unannounced Socket AM2 chipset... announced

    Motherboard maker ECS - aka Elitegroup - has posted details of its first Socket AM2 mobo, a product based on ATI's as-yet-unannounced Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset. AMD is not expected to announced Socket AM2 until 23 May, when presumably ATI and Nvidia will unveil supporting chipsets. The ATI product comprises the company's …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 May 2006, 09:45

  • Samsung ships first HSDPA phone you can buy

    Only in Korea, for now

    Samsung has claimed to have shipped the world's first handset to support the HSDPA 'Super 3G' speed-boost technology, though for now the phone's only available in South Korea, where SK Telecom has just upgraded its CMDA2000 3G network to the new spec. In addition to allowing data to be downloaded at up to 1.8Mbps, the SCH- …

    Phones 17 May 2006, 10:17

  • Xbox 360 plus HD DVD drive to beat Blu-ray PS3 on price?

    So say some retailers

    Microsoft is reported to have been dropping hints it will price the Xbox 360 and the console's upcoming HD DVD drive to ensure the two packages together come in at less than Sony will charge for the PlayStation 3. According to GamesIndustry.biz, UK retail moles claim Microsoft has suggested it wants its offering to be the …

    Consoles 17 May 2006, 10:36

  • Shure E3g sound-isolating earphones

    Review A word in your ear...

    Where other headphone makers have pushed noise cancellation, using electronics to generate a sound wave that erases background noises, Shure has focused on the more basic approach of simply blocking out external sound, not to cancel noise but to isolate you and your music from it... Shure reckons this technique makes for …

    Gadgets 17 May 2006, 14:05

  • ATI unveils Radeon Xpress 1100 mobile chipset

    Faster graphics than the Xpress 200M

    ATI today announced its Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset family, pitching the part at notebook PCs designed around AMD's new dual-core Turion 64 X2 mobile processor and promising a 33 per cent performance boost over the chipset's predecessor, the Radeon Xpress 200M. The chipset supports pretty much any of AMD'S 64-bit mobile …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 May 2006, 14:29

  • Mitsubishi presses play on iPod-inspired auto

    Hard drive?

    First the iMac, then the iPod now the iCar, a glossy white motor produced by Mitsubishi for the Japanese market and entirely compatible with the iconic digital music player - well, with the iPod Nano, at any rate. Yes, the central portion of the i car's dashboard features a handly horizontally aligned slot with a dock …

    Media players 17 May 2006, 14:55

  • Apple yanks key x86 Mac OS X open source code

    Compile-your-own kernels a PowerPC-only affair

    Apple has pulled the source code the underpins key components of the x86 version of Mac OS X's 'Darwin' foundation. The PowerPC versions are still available for download from the Mac maker's open source software website. News of the shift was broken by Infoworld columnist Tom Yager, who revealed this week that Darwin's …

    Mac 17 May 2006, 15:43