Jan 08

NVIDIA announces new GeForce chipsets for laptops, starts selling GTX 295s for desktops

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NVIDIA announces new GeForce chipsets for laptops, starts selling GTX 295s for desktops

Spare a thought for NVIDIA’s GeForce 9M series of laptop GPUs, just announced this past summer and already being put to pasture by the newly announced G100M series. The first trio of members for the club are the G105M, G110M, and GT 130M. The G105M is intended to replace the 9200M GE and scores a 2177 in 3DMark Vantage compared to 1391 for the old one — a tidy 56 percent boost. Meanwhile the G110M supersedes the 9300M GS, scoring 2481 and beating its predecessor by 35 percent, and the GT 130M beats the old 9600M GT’s score by 17 percent. The chips are in production now and will be featured in Lenovo’s upcoming Y-series laptops. Meanwhile, for those looking for a little boost at home, EVGA’s version of the GTX 295 is now available for purchase — if you have a spare $510 lying around.

Update: Sean just commented to let us know that there are other 295 flavors now available as well, some for a penny under $500.

[Thanks, Sean]

Read – 100M series announcement
Read – GTX 295 buy link

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NVIDIA announces new GeForce chipsets for laptops, starts selling GTX 295s for desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 07

NVIDIA offers up GeForce 3D Vision, takes WoW players further down the rabbit hole

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Look for something to drive your new Samsung monitor or 120Hz 3D HDTV? Enter NVIDIA’s GeForce 3D Vision package, loaded up with powered 3D glasses (no red / blue silliness here, charged via USB) and an IR emitter to keep everything synced between the display and your glasses. Left 4 Dead, WoW: WotLK and several other games are already compatible with more expected to come soon. CES had a quick demo and didn’t notice any of the headaches sometimes associated with stereocopic 3D, but at $399 for the display and $199 for this set when it’s available in the next few days, we’re not sure how close we want to get to those zombies, but WoW fans may see things differently.

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NVIDIA offers up GeForce 3D Vision, takes WoW players further down the rabbit hole originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

The New 17-Inch Macbook Pro: Light, Thin, and Non-Removable Battery

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Who would’ve thought a Macbook Pro would be the spotlight of the Macworld conference, instead of desktops? (See our live blog of the event.)

The 17-inch Apple Macbook Pro was rumored to receive the same aluminum brick, glass trackpad, and new Intel CPU treatment–but that was a long shot, to say the least. The biggest story here is the non-removable battery.

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Jan 06

17″ MacBook Pro Unibody First Hands On

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The new 17″ MacBook Pro with a unibody construction and an integrated battery feels thinner than the previous version and really looks beautiful. Check out our gallery to see for yourself.

The 17″ MacBook Pro is basically a supersized 15″ with an Air no battery bottom, which is at the least aesthetically pleasing. But with no battery compartment there is now no way to easily change Ram or Hard drive. So have your #00 Phillips ready.

The unibody construction makes the machine feel much more compact when picking up and overall condenses the already thin casing. It does indeed feel heavier than any other MacBook model but that’s to be expected from a 17″ casing. The trackpad has also been updated to the same no physical button pad found in the other MacBook models and even though the 17″ MacBook Pro is bigger the trackpad has not grown.

The 17″ Glossy LCD looks crisp as it did on the previous version but the new black plastic border makes colors pop just as it does on the 15″ Pro and 13″ MacBook. For some reason apple is only showing the regular glossy LCD model today so we can’t yet report on the new anti-glare model.

Overall the new 17″ MacBook Pro with unibody construction is nothing we haven’t seen from the other models in the MacBook line. With the 15″ MacBook Pro look and the Air’s no battery bottom the new 17″ MacBook pro can now stand proudly inline with its smaller siblings.

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Jan 02

Intel Atom coming to larger notebooks?

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Why does Intel have to be so darn stubborn? First it insists on only bundling the Atom processor with their own graphics (simultaneously breaking poor NVIDIA’s heart), and then there’s whole thing where it restricts the CPU to netbooks under 10.2-inches. But like all good things, this too might someday come to an end. According to Gadget Mix, HP is currently negotiating with the chipmaker with the intent of using the processor in notebooks 13-inches and larger. This isn’t without precedent — the Dell Mini 12 is Atom powered, after all, and there is certainly a market for folks who only need a notebook for web browsing and productivity apps — but we’ll see if people are willing to sacrifice performance without gaining portability.

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Intel Atom coming to larger notebooks? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 26

NVIDIA reportedly urging customers to buy new problem-free GPUs

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NVIDIA has yet to step in and confirm this publicly, but a purported leaked memo from the outfit has been posted over at VR-Zone. What’s it say, you ask? Only that the company “strongly recommends that customers transition to the latest revision of the NB8E-SET GPUs as soon as possible.” Said revision taps a new Hitachi underfill packaging material that “improves product quality and enhances operating life by improved thermal cycling reliability.” If you’ll recall, certain PC vendors such as Dell issued their own firmware updates to combat the weak packaging set in the chip maker’s faulty GPUs earlier this year, but it appears that NVIDIA’s solution is to just let bygones be bygones and get on with the new and improved.

[Via Electronista]

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NVIDIA reportedly urging customers to buy new problem-free GPUs originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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