An Australian team based at NICTA (National ICT Australia) is claiming to have developed a high-speed wireless transmitter with a host of new breakthroughs. If reports on the new GiFi are accurate, the chip could become the next standard for high-definition wireless transmissions. Read More...
Read more »Hardware makers are dragging coders kicking and screaming into the massively multicore era. Two new initiatives will throw money at R&D efforts to ease the pain, but there are no guarantees.Read More...
Read more »A team of researchers working jointly at Toshiba and Stanford have built the first 1GHz CMOS chip using nanotubes as interconnects. Although the nanotubes are only one part of the circuitry, the chip is an example of real-world nanotube technology that could herald future advances. Read More...
Read more »Our mole pops up to give us more solid information: the Xbox 360 HD DVD will drop in price to $49.99 on February 21.Read More...
Read more »Toshiba appears to be acknowledging the inevitable and is planning to concede the HD war to Blu-ray, according to a new report. In the meantime, Wal-Mart is apparently joining Netflix and Best Buy in picking sides.Read More...
Read more »For most consumers, upgrading you system is an every 3-4 year ordeal. Most people do not have the typical enthusiast mentality that says "UPGRADE" every time something can give you a .005% increase in frame rates. The question for every upgrade has to be, "Is it worth it?" AMD tried to make it worth it with the Spider platform. Did they make the case that an upgrade is in the works for you?
Read more »The iLiad ebook reader comes as close to paper as anything we've ever seen, including the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle, but just how useful is it to write directly on the screen?Read More...
Read more »Sony's PlayStation 3 finally beats out the Xbox 360 in hardware sales. Sony might have Blu-ray to thank, while Microsoft could have supply issues to blame. Read More...
Read more »AGP users who've been patiently waiting for an update to the venerable video card standard can rejoice—the wait is over. PowerColor has announced a 512MB HD 3850 AGP version that's identical to its PCIe counterparts.Read More...
Read more »Memory technology developer Nanochip has secured another $14 million in venture capital funding towards the development of its MEMS-based storage.Read More...
Read more »Toshiba has made no (zip, zero, nada) official announcements about killing off HD DVD, and today they're still defiant. Here's a picture of what we understand is going on in the HD DVD camp.Read More...
Read more »Apple has updated the Mac Pro with four-core Xeons. Ars pits the eight-core 3.0GHz model against its four-core 2.66GHz predecessor to see how much of a difference Intel's new Harpertown Xeons and Stoakley platform really make.Read More...
Read more »The NVIDIA GeForce 9 series of graphics cards has finally arrived! Today, NVIDIA is announcing the GeForce 9600 GT video card and while it may not be as anticipated as previous generations, it still marks a significant turning point. Usually, a new series is kicked off by the fastest card in the bunch, but this time around NVIDIA is launching the GeForce series at the heart of the discrete graphics market, the $169-189 price range.
Read more »Apple has confirmed that the Xserve RAID is dead, but says that the Promise VTrak RAID is more than capable of filling its spot. Xserve RAID support will continue, however, and Apple will continue to sell them while supplies last.Read More...
Read more »Designed to fit securely in the ear in order to improve comfort and enhance sound, the Altec Lansing UHP336 ear phones feature vented armature speakers for incredibly accurate, high-fidelity sound reproduction. Legit Reviews takes a pair of the Altec Lansing UHP336 ear phones and figures out how they stack up compared to the V-Moda Vibe and Maximo iM-490S ear phones, which we recently reviewed. Read on to see which is right for you!
Read more »The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 video card (known internally as the R680) was first seen by the world right here on Legit Reviews a few months ago and was again spotted at CES 2008, where the the retail card was seen. Everyone knew that the launch was close, but today is the day that the card is officially announced. The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is a single-board with multiple-GPUs on it, which is why the card is so interesting.
Read more »The EU launched a surprise raid on Intel's Munich officers and those of several other major electronics firms on Tuesday. The EU is investigating allegations of anticompetitive behavior on the part of Intel; a hearing on the matter is scheduled for March 11-12. Read More...
Read more »Turns out Apple could add the new multitouch features from the MacBook Air to MacBooks and MacBook Pros. But will it? Probably not before expanding their respective trackpads too.Read More...
Read more »What could the HD DVD camp have done to ensure a different outcome than the one that saw the format killed off this week? Ars does the HD DVD postmortem.Read More...
Read more »The Eee PC has made Linux-based ultraportables a popular market, but the Everex Cloudbook has stumbled in a few key areas with its hardware and software implementation.Read More...
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