Vince Freeman

Netbooks: Permanently Shaking the Laptop Market

It seems that everyone and his dog are busily working on netbook product lines, promoting their current editions while quickly adding newer revisions. Asus may have started...

PC Hardware Trends: AMD’s Most Affordable R700s

After Nvidia introduced its entry-level GeForce 9 Series graphics-processing-unit (GPU) lineup, we expected a response from AMD, and that company wasted no time in giving...

Platform Trends: Budget GPUs Galore

The loudest buzz in the PC graphics market is usually about Nvidia's and AMD/ATI's latest ultra-high-end products -- cards with graphics processing units (GPUs) strong...

Friday Platform Trends: Next Move, Intel

Has the Athlon 64 Duo Upset the CPU King's Roadmap? The CPU market is one that rewards innovation and performance, but chews up and spits out players who...

Clash of the Titans: Next-Generation Desktop CPUs

Athlon 64 and Prescott Get Ready To Rumble After a busy spring, desktop PC processor buffs have nothing to watch but summer reruns -- Intel's Pentium...

Weekly Platform Trends: It’s a Workstation World

Ultra-High-End Technology Goes Mainstream The insatiable need for ever-higher-performance hardware is one of the hallmarks of personal computing, but lately it's gotten positively decadent. There used to be...

Weekly Platform Trends: Prescott — The Supercharged Pentium 4

Intel Leads the Way To 90 Nanometers Intel has a number of different strategies to blunt the blow of AMD's Hammer, and one of them was formally announced...

When Vendors Turn Vicious

Suffering Companies Take It Out on Consumers Each morning I check the technology news, and every day I ask the same question: Why are so many companies actively...

Cash for Your Old CPUs

Let's say your company recently upgraded a fleet of 450MHz Pentium III desktops to newer, faster processors. What are you going to do with the original chips? One...

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