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The same Singapore event that brought us our first look at AMD’s humongous Radeon HD 6990 has also served as the stage for the company’s first showing of a new, even lower-powered Fusion APU. The regular dual-core Ontario (C-50) variant requires a 9W power budget to operate, but AMD’s managed to shrink that down to 5W in a chip designed specifically to be used in tablets. Clock speed remains at 1GHz and the core count hasn’t bee touched, but the memory controller has been dumbed down and peripheral ports have been reduced to one of each type. This streamlined C-50 has already found a home in Acer’s 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet and should prove decently popular among manufacturers looking for an x86 alternative to the coming tidal wave of ARM-based devices.

AMD has a 5W Fusion APU to put in your future tablet of choice originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 27, 2007 by CyberNet.

Acer, the Taiwan based computer company, has announced that they are buying Gateway! The acquisition of Gateway for $710 million will make Acer the 3rd largest PC company in the World, overtaking China’s Lenovo. Gateway, which is probably known best for their infamous cow spotted boxes, and Gateway Country retail stores (which failed), is expected to help Acer’s presence in the United States. The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by December.

Gateway’s chief executive, Ed Coleman says:

“Joining with Acer will enable us to bring even more value to the consumer segments we serve and capitalize on Acer’s highly regarded supply chain operations and global reach.”

I remember back in the mid to late 90’s when Gateway was actually a pretty popular brand and their Holstein cow mascot was recognized by just about anyone. Things started to get rough for them after the dot-com bust which is when they tried a variety of things to help increase sales like selling plasma TVs and digital cameras. Then in 2004, they acquired e-Machines which they hoped would help them in the retail aspect of business.

This acquisition sounds like a win-win situation for both sides if you ask me. Acer wants a bigger presence in the U.S. market, and Gateway was really in need of something like this to help get them out of the slump that they’ve been in for many years. Hopefully this also means that the infamous Gateway cow spots will be ditched for a new look that will appeal to more than just those from Iowa where Gateway was actually founded (ahh, now the Cow Spotted boxes make sense!).

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This article was written on June 19, 2006 by CyberNet.

Million Dollar Monday

Approximate Price: $27,000
We find more and more things to store on our computers as hard drive capacities continue to increase. Do you remember when computer games only took a few megabytes but now they take a few gigabytes! It isn’t a big deal because most desktop computers come standard with more than 100GB of disk space. Even with all of this space you will find yourself deleting files to clear up room if you are trying to store movies on your computer. That is where Kaleidescape saves the day.

Kaleidescape Server
It will be your media server and give you storage capacities up to 5.5TB! How much can you store with that much room? It will hold up to 825 DVD’s or 10,000 CD’s on the twelve 500GB disks that make this machine a media monster. If 5.5TB isn’t enough for you then you can network multiple servers together to give you the space you need.

If you didn’t want to shell out so much money initially then you can gradually expand your server to the 5.5TB. Kaleidescape makes this easy by using hot-swappable RAID drives which also provides a lot of reliability. If a drive fails then the server will not lose any of the movies or music because of having the RAID drives installed. Now you don’t have to worry about losing your database when that dreaded power outage occurs.

Kaleidescape Movie Player
The server is just for storing the movies and music so you have to have a way to get the media from the server. The movie player will let users retrieve music and movies from the Kaleidescape server and play them. Multiple people can be accessing the server at the same time to retrieve the movies from the server since they are only reading a file and not writing to it.

The movie player can be controlled by a Web-utility or by a remote control. It communicates with the server using an Ethernet cable. A big advantage of the movie player is that it can play either DVD movies or HD movies but the movies must be stored on the server because this does not have a DVD drive.

Kaleidescape Music Player
Okay, so you may think that having a music player is stupid if the movie player will already play music. You’re right in terms of playing music, but it also has the features of the Kaleidescape Reader (below) built into it. This means you can copy your DVD’s and CD’s to the server using this music player (the server doesn’t have a built-in media copier). It will take 8 minutes to copy a CD or 30 minutes to copy a DVD without compression.

Just like the movie player it can be controlled using a Web-utility or you can use a remote control. All you have to do is hook it up to the network via an Ethernet cable and you can start copying and playing music.

Kaleidescape Reader
If you don’t want to get the music player above then you can get the Kaleidescape Reader which will copy your DVD’s and CD’s to the server. This box doesn’t do anything other than read the CD or DVD and send it to the server.

It can copy a CD in 8 minutes or a DVD in 30 minutes which is also the same as the music player. The server will automatically add any media to the library that is copied over.
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The entire Kaleidescape System works seamlessly together so that you can get your entertainment no matter where you are in your house. They were clever when designing the whole system by making it all integrate together will little configuration needed.

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How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That’s the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the weekend. It’s not every day you hear of a 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC, but our discovery of corroborating evidence for the T25 module sitting alongside it makes us more willing to credit the possibility of a Blu-ray-crunching, 13,800 MIPS-capable, multicore Cortex-A9 Tegra 3. Moreover, the roadmap of production samples in Q4 of 2010 fits perfectly with NVIDIA’s claim that Tegra 3 was “almost done” in September of that year. The ULP designation on this listing stands for Ultra Low Power in NVIDIA parlance, which would indicate an aggressively tuned power management system — the only way we can envision a quad-core anything operating within a tablet. Fall 2011 is when we should know for sure.

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This article was written on December 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

Some of you probably overclock your PC’s so that they run a little faster. I doubt many of you have tried to take the processor all the way to 5GHz though! One man did decide to do it and actually succeeded with a little help from our buddy Liquid Nitrogen. Check out the quick video of the setup here.

I would say that is the ultimate heat sink on top of that bad boy, wouldn’t you? I wonder if the computer would actually operate correctly by doing this because I have overclocked some machines before and then I typically hit a barrier where the PC constantly receives errors. If you continue to overclock it way to high it will either burn up or it will try to process information so quickly that it will error out during the startup process.

Overclocking is fun and my reason for doing it isn’t because I need the extra speed but mostly just because I can. Some systems let you do the overclocking right in the BIOS but some of the older PC’s have jumpers that you need to adjust on the motherboard. Percentage wise the most I have ever overclocked a processor is from 100MHz to 125MHz which is a 25% increase. The largest frequency increase for me was taking a 2.8GHz P4 to 2.9GHz which is nice because it is a 100MHz difference but that is only 3.6% higher than before. You also have to remember that the processor may seem fine when you first run it but as you use the PC more and more the processor will get hotter. Some PC’s will then shutdown while others will wait until the processor is completely fried. I’m proud to say that I haven’t fried any processors yet.

Anyone have some fun stories from overclocking a PC?

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