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Netbooks: Permanently Shaking the Laptop Market By Vince Freeman | Article Published January 13, 2009 Netbooks – they're now everywhere. Vendors are busily working on netbook product lines, promoting their current editions and quickly adding newer revisions. Gamer's Hardware Guide, Fall '08 By Vince Freeman | Article Published October 6, 2008 If you're looking for the best combination of parts available for a little less than than top dollar, check out this guide to extreme gaming PCs. PC Hardware Trends: AMD's Most Affordable R700s By Vince Freeman | Article Published October 1, 2008 AMD unveils more bad news for Nvidia by bringing the R700 graphics processor architecture to the under-$100 segment -- and a mix of price, performance, and power consumption that surpasses anything yet seen. Platform Trends: Budget GPUs Galore By Vince Freeman | Article Published September 12, 2008 Sure, AMD and Nvidia have fast, fire-breathing graphics cards, but the rivals are now tempting bargain hunters. How do these strategies stack up against each other -- or against price cuts on last year's cards? Friday Platform Trends: Next Move, Intel By Vince Freeman | Article Published October 18, 2003 The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition hasn't shipped, and its 'Prescott' successor seems to be running a little late, while AMD's Athlon 64 3200+ and Athlon 64 FX-51 have wowed the critics. What can Intel do to recapture its desktop luster -- and is it time to retire the Celeron? Clash of the Titans: Next-Generation Desktop CPUs By Vince Freeman | Article Published July 23, 2003 This fall's biggest battle won't be movie theaters' Freddy vs. Jason -- it'll be Intel's Pentium 4 successor 'Prescott,' the ultimate 32-bit PC processor, versus AMD's Athlon XP replacement, the pioneering 64-bit Athlon 64. Vince Freeman offers an updated preview of the desktop duel and which technical and marketing issues will be critical for both CPUs. Weekly Platform Trends: It's a Workstation World By Vince Freeman | Article Published May 2, 2003 You may not be a scientist or special-effects artist, but hardware vendors have decided you need a high-powered workstation anyway -- and with 2GHz-plus processors, dual-channel DDR, and supersonic 3D headed for even economy models, the desktop PC will never be the same. Here's why the trend that started with Nvidia's nForce2 and Intel's Hyper-Threading now threatens to make AMD's Athlon 64 obsolete before it ever ships. Weekly Platform Trends: Prescott -- The Supercharged Pentium 4 By Vince Freeman | Article Published February 21, 2003 After the Hyper-Threading 3.06GHz Pentium 4, what will Intel do for an encore? Well, in the short term, look for new chipsets and higher memory and bus speeds -- but this week, the chip giant tossed out a few tantalizing tidbits about its desktop flagship's 90-nanometer-process, 1MB-cache makeover. Can you say 'Pentium 5'? When Vendors Turn Vicious By Vince Freeman | Article Published October 24, 2001 It's not just fear and loathing of Microsoft, says columnist Vince Freeman: Company after company seems to be reacting to hard times by squeezing its customers and ignoring the synergy that's always linked different sectors of the PC industry. Cash for Your Old CPUs By Vince Freeman | Article Published July 27, 2001 It's tempting to trash your old hardware after a business upgrade, and praiseworthy to pass it on to charity. But in these tight times, you shouldn't overlook an ROI option that might not sound too businesslike: selling it on eBay or another Internet auction service. |
