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McDonald’s recently opened its first chic concept stores, offering a new fast food experience for consumers seeking “luxury” fast food meals.

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Well, if you spot your competitor marketing themselves in an interesting way then it’s logical that you will want to get in on the act too. And this is exactly what KFC is doing from July, reports J-Cast.

Keeping with the chain’s trademark red theme, customers will be able to enjoy their KFC cuisine in new designer branches. The inside of the store features digital monitors and the exterior will have LCD screens. KFC is aiming especially for young female consumers and, starting with three stores in this quarter, will expand to one hundred outlets in three years.

Basically this is offering the typical (and very familiar) fast food experience but with luxury surroundings. Even the usual menu will be there at the usual price, plus some original (and no doubt more expensive) items.

The first designer 80-seat KFC will open in Shibuya on July 4, open eight till eight.

Sharp-eyed readers and bloggers have noted several leaks and online references to new Intel CPUs, adding to the current Core i3, i5, and i7 lineups.

Fresh off its world-dominating streak in the desktop graphics market, AMD set sights on notebook territory; now, according to “people familiar with the matter,” the company’s scored a big win there, too. Sources told Reuters that the chipmaker’s notebook CPUs will power 109 different laptops over the months to come, compared to only 40 laptop models last year. It seems part of the newfound success is attributable to HP — which announced twelve mainstream ‘tops just last week — but we’re more interested in the mysterious quad-core Phenom II X4 machines leaking out the likes of Acer and Dell. What can we say? We’re suckers for a surprise, especially of the portable, multi-threaded variety.

AMD to ship chips in 109 laptops this year? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 22:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel’s churning out the mobile chips like nobody’s business — no sooner does it admit the existence of Core i5 and Core i3 ULV CPUs, the chipmaker finds itself with more explaining to do. That’s because dedicated Hewlett-Packard fans just found references to three new standard-voltage Core 2010 chips in the service manuals for the new HP Envy 17 and Envy 15 gaming laptops. The i7-840QM appears to be Intel’s new top-of-the-line quad-core CPU, sporting a 1.86GHz clock that turbos up to 3.20GHz (or 3.20MHz, if you believe the above screencap) and 8MB of L3 cache; the i7-740QM is two steps down with 1.73GHz / 2.93 GHz clocks and a 6MB L3 cache; and the i5-450M appears to be indistinguishable from the existing i5-520M with 2.4GHz / 2.93 GHz clocks and 3MB of L3 to help it along. Given the megahertz typo above and the fact that none of these new processors appear anywhere else in the documentation, we wouldn’t be surprised if these specs weren’t rock-solid… but if they are, the new Envy may well live up to its name. Full PDF available below.

[Thanks, Reznov]

New Core i7, Core i5 mobile processors to debut in HP Envy? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 18:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The pun is so obvious it practically insults your intelligence, but we just can’t help ourselves — the iPad has just gotten a little more magical. Using the BTstack application that brought Bluetooth mouse support to iPhone, enterprising individuals discovered the same technique works on a jailbroken iPad as well, and hooked up Apple’s own Magic Mouse to show it off to the world. Mind you, while this implementation does look quite useful, we do detect the barest hint of lag — so it may not be your weapon of choice for pixel-doubled Doom sessions. Video after the break.

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Magic Mouse syncs with jailbroken iPad, enabling cursory cursor control (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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