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• Dell Ships Wrong Keyboards Again 3 days, 10 hours ago
  
  This summer appears to be a rather unlucky period for Dell's keyboards. It seems that the computer giant had some of its XPS One machines shipped to the UK with US keyboards. The company announced the mistake in a statement on Friday, yet it did not unveil the actual number of the XPS wrongly shipped.
• Intel Shows Off New Centrino Notebook Chips 1 week, 1 day ago
  
  Intel, the world's top PC chipmaker, on Tuesday launched the next-generation of its Centrino wireless chip that it hopes will provide a new revenue stream amid a broader push into mobile technologies.
• Feature: Tour of Panasonic’s Toughbook Testing Facility 1 week, 2 days ago
  
  Ever wonder what goes into making a Toughbook? These are not your typical notebooks so, as you probably guessed, they are not designed or built like that 15.4-inch boring book you are typing away on right now. I recently stopped by Panasonic’s Toughbook factory and design facility in Kobe, Japan and took some shots of the testing procedures. Read on to see what makes a Toughbook so tough.
• After miscue, Centrino 2 takes the stage 1 week, 2 days ago
  
  Though a little behind schedule, it's finally here. Despite a minor snafu that held up the launch by three weeks, Intel officially introduced its new Centrino 2 platform at a press event here Monday night.
• IBM's 4.0GHz Power7 to fuel 40,000 chip monster 1 week, 5 days ago
  
  "IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip .... "
• Asus reveals specs, pricing for Eee 904 and 1000 1 week, 6 days ago
  
  "Asus has released the final specifications and UK pricing for its two new Eee PC models, the 904 and the 1000 .... "
• ECS GF8200A Black & ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI 2 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  Back in April we had looked at the ECS A780GM-A, which was a nice low-cost motherboard and had worked well under Linux with the newer desktop distributions. This motherboard had integrated Radeon HD 3200 graphics, which we had found to perform well and equivalent to a Radeon HD 2400PRO discrete graphics card. However, for those interested in NVIDIA graphics, there is the GeForce 8200 IGP that also performs well on Linux. If you are interested in the GeForce 8200 chipset, today we are looking at two of the cost-effective motherboards deploying this chipset: the ECS GF8200A Black and ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI.
• Super Micro C2SBX+ on Linux 3 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  "Super Micro, are you familiar with them? Chances are that unless your focus is on the workstation and server markets, you probably haven't heard of them ... Super Micro manufacturers a variety of different Intel server motherboards -- and they are one of the few that offers quad-socket Xeon motherboards -- but they also have a growing selection of Core 2 desktop motherboards .... "
• Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers 3 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  "NETGEAR has announced a wireless router specifically targeted at the Linux community. The WGR614L is based on a MIPS CPU with 16M of RAM an 4M of flash, along with 802.11g and 10/100 ethernet connectivity. It currently runs Tomato and DD-WRT firmware and will soon add support for OpenWRT."
• ATI Radeon HD 4850 Linux performance 3 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  "Last week we exclusively shared the steps AMD was taking to make an evolutionary leap in Linux support with same-day support for their brand-new Radeon HD 4800 series, Linux drivers shipping on the product CD, some manufacturers showcasing Tux on the product packaging, and their proprietary Linux driver reaching a feature parity with their Windows driver .... "
• Apple Is Killing the Mouse, Making Room for Multi-Touch 4 weeks ago
  
  Word on the web is that one of our favorite peripherals, the mouse, is facing extinction. Invented in 1963 by Silicon Valley engineers Douglas Engelbart and Bill English, the mouse first went mainstream when Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984. Apparently, the company that introduced us to the mouse is now killing it.
• Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  We got a nice helping of slides dropped on our virtual doorstep this evening, fleshing out Dell's upcoming netbook -- which they seem to be calling the "Dell E."
• Why Hardware Is Important For Operating Systems 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  What’s the first thing that you notice when you look at a computer? Is it the operating system? Probably not. For all you know, the computer could have Windows Me or Windows Vista installed on it, and the only way that you’d have any clue as to which OS was primarily being used is if the monitor was turned on while the computer was running.
• Five Million Eee PCs by the Year's End, Says ASUS CEO Jerry Shen 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  It appears that ASUSTek chairman Jerry Shen is confident that his company will ship no less than 5 million Eee PC units this year alone. Now, don't think that Jerry Shen is going to change the company's policy and manufacture more Eee PCs just to achieve this target. No, far be it from him - he’s just positive that ASUSTeK will move a total of 6.6 million notebooks (excluding Eee PCs) by the end of this year. Talk about high-hopes.
• AMD Cancels Some Phenom Processors 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Advanced Micro Devices intends to cancel the introduction of dual-core AMD Phenom processors based on the company's latest generation K10 micro-architecture. The processor lineup in question is manufactured on AMD's current 65nm process technology. But no need to worry yet, as AMD also plans to bring out two energy efficient triple-core Phenom processors in mid-Q3.
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