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27th November 2006 Archive

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  • Palm ships Treo 680 in UK

    Debuts at under £300, just

    Palm has formally announced the availability of the Palm OS-based Treo 680 smart phone in the UK. The handset will go on sale today for around £299 - £30 less than the company recently began taking pre-orders for. The handset sports the usual 320 x 320, 65,536-colour display, 312MHz PXA270 processor, 64MB of Flash memory, …

    Phones 27 Nov 2006, 10:11

  • AMD's 65nm dual-core Athlons to debut 5 December?

    Remedy for recent shortages, it's suggested

    AMD will ship its 65nm dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors a week on Tuesday, it has been claimed. If correct, the 5 December debut apparently marks an acceleration of AMD's anticipated 65nm roll-out schedule. AMD has been expected for some time to be preparing to ship the 65nm X2s, codenamed 'Brisbane', next month, with …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Nov 2006, 10:34

  • AMD 'R600' DirectX 10 GPU spied on web

    Bigger than R580 despite smaller fabrication process?

    AMD's anticipated upcoming ATI-branded, DirectX 10-supporting graphics chip, the R600, appears to have made an unscheduled and ahead-of-time stop on the web, revealing itself to be a rather larger part than its predecessor, the R580. The pics appear in a story on Chinese-language site Zol.com.cn, which claims the chip will …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Nov 2006, 11:02

  • LaCie ships 2TB RAID-able desktop drive

    On-board drive controller for speed

    LaCie has begun shipping its 2TB Biggest FW800 storage box, a unit that packs in four lock-in-place hot-swappable 500GB SATA drives and a dinky LCD status panel. Despite the FW800 in its name, the Biggest FW800 can also connect by USB 2.0 and FireWire 400. The system can be set to combine the four drives as a single, large …

    Storage 27 Nov 2006, 12:43

  • Samsung pitches 30in panel at content creators

    Gamers too?

    Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome Samsung's CX305T, the company's latest 30in monitor aimed at content creators. With a native resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 and a 1000:1 contrast ratio, the tilt-and-swivel screen may well appeal to gamers keen to take advantage of next-generation GPUs like Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GTX. …

    HD 27 Nov 2006, 13:01

  • 'Altair 8800' kit reaches $1,725 on eBay

    'It's only a model...'

    We could describe this eBay auction as your opportunity to own a piece of computing history, but that would be an utter lie. No, this is an eBay auction that gives you the chance to own all the bits you'll need to make something that looks like a piece of computing history. What we have on offer here is a replica of the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Nov 2006, 13:24

  • Asus W6 leather-clad laptop

    Review Mrs Peel's notebook?

    Leather, a material that calls to mind, at one extreme, Diana Rigg, tight thigh-length boots, the crack of the whip and, at the other, well-worn sofas, ancient libraries and the air of long-faded wealth. Somewhere in between sits Asus' latest leather-covered laptop, the W6Fp... Asus might like to think so, but let's not kid …

    PCs 27 Nov 2006, 15:31

  • Evesham blends Alqemi LCD HDTV line

    32-42in line

    Evesham today unveiled its Alqemi HD Ready TV line-up, five screens all equipped with HDMI ports, four with integrated Freeview digital TV tuners. Every telly in the range has an analogue tuner too. Screen sizes run from 32in to 42in, all with native resolutions of 1,366 x 768 - so you're looking at 720p for your HD …

    HD 27 Nov 2006, 16:05