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The future of OS/2 - Open source or not?
24 December 2005, 11:17
Yesterday saw IBM cease the sale of the OS/2 Operating system. Come the 31st of December, standard support for the OS will end also. However, a significant number of companies ...
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XFX launches AGP 6800 GS
23 December 2005, 15:29
XFX's AGP variant of the GeForce 6800 GS is now available, breathing yet more life into the ageing graphics port.
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Microsoft faces daily EU fines
23 December 2005, 14:11
Microsoft had until the 15th December to meet EU demands to provide information on its Windows Operating System that would allow its competitor's group servers to better interoperate with it. ...
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Review: Ultra Portable Disk Enclosures
23 December 2005, 14:01
The 3.5" Portable Disk Enclosure proved itself a product that works as advertised, but there are alternatives out there that perform as well and have a better build quality. However, ...
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ATI Avivo still promising more than it delivers?
22 December 2005, 13:43
HEXUS.lifestyle's standing-on-a-high-horse specialist Bob Crabtree vents his spleen on the latest developments with Avivo - ATI's much-touted, next-generation video decoding, encoding and deinterlacing technology
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Have a happy happy gaming holiday
21 December 2005, 12:47
This year, like every year before it, is going to be the best year ever for fantastic game performance, exciting games, super powerful platforms, affordable prices, and community playing in ...
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Seagate acquires Maxtor
21 December 2005, 11:47
Following on from reports earlier this morning, Seagate and Maxtor have issued a joint press release confirming that Seagate will be acquiring Maxtor.
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Review: Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool
21 December 2005, 09:57
Check out our preview of the Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (IDHCAT) - a benchmarking program intended to allow system builders and professional reviewers to carry out whole-body testing ...
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LG launches massive LCD monitor
21 December 2005, 09:55
If it's not resolution that's being pushed to new limits, it's monitor size. LG has announced a new LCD monitor that's absolutely massive.
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GeCube announces AGP based X1000s
20 December 2005, 13:47
The Accelerated Graphics Port really isn't dead yet. Its 8x variant can still provide enough bandwidth to make an upgrade to a latest-generation card worthwhile. As a result, a few ...
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ITX form factor mainboard with integrated ATI graphics
20 December 2005, 11:28
Eagle-Eyed HEXUS readers may have noticed that the web site of PC Partner, one of the few official ATI beta mainboard R&D and testing centres,
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Review: Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B Radeon X1800 XL 256MB
20 December 2005, 09:56
Gigabyte, then, has simply taken a reference ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB board and packaged it up with its own bundle. The net result is a proposition, when considered against ...
IE7 to adopt Firefox's RSS logo
19 December 2005, 14:15
It may only be a small victory, in that only those who know its origins will realise, but the RSS logo first seen in Mozilla's Firefox web browser will be ...
HP to support HD DVD too
19 December 2005, 10:47
Hewlett Packard have announced in a PRESS RELEASE that they will now support HD DVD.
Best of both big VGA worlds - Rys' HEXUS.blogz
19 December 2005, 09:14
A quick article for HEXUS.blogz that outlines the trials and tribulations of getting a graphics board each from ATI and NVIDIA to work and cooperate in the same workstation system, ...
Review: ATI Avivo Winter 2005 Update
16 December 2005, 19:17
Splash the cash on a Radeon X1000-series and you'll get deinterlacing performance that's equal to the last gen (and pretty much sucks on old Radeon, so some discerning tests will ...
Supermicro ships clever SAS chassis
15 December 2005, 20:02
Uber-server component manufacturer Supermicro has made available its latest SAS chassis, featuring SES2.
Review: ATI Radeon X1800 Crossfire
15 December 2005, 18:32
Radeon X1800 XT Crossfire was always on the cards, bringing the SuperAA and performance acceleration enhancements to that product, but the big question is have the downsides of the first ...
Destinator finds itself a 55% sales increase
14 December 2005, 14:24
The GPS market is growing rapidly, with several brands becoming more of a household name than a niche-product. Maker of GPS-based navigation software, Destinator, has this week announced a sales ...
NVIDIA to buy core-logic designer ULi
14 December 2005, 11:40
In a move that has taken pretty much everyone in the IT industry by surprise, NVIDIA has annnounced that it is to buy ULi - designer of some of the ...
Socket 939 opterons in short supply... unless you know where to look
13 December 2005, 19:57
European vendors are short of supplies of AMD's rather tastful socket 939 Opteron 144 and 146 processors, except for - so a little bird tells us - SCAN International.
Review: WiFi & broadband. The solution to aging-population problem. Oh, really?
13 December 2005, 18:54
For sure, Intel's chairman Craig Barrett is a hugely intelligent man. Otherwise, he wouldn't be heading up the giant chip-making firm. But in our experience intelligence often doesn't equate to ...
Flash Wars: Sandisk strikes back
12 December 2005, 20:59
A virtually silent war is being waged between Sandisk and a number of other memory manufacturers, and it's been going on since 2001.
Review: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS Preview
9 December 2005, 09:46
As demonstrated, the GeForce 6800 GS is a SKU that fits in right where NVIDIA say it does. Matching the old GT for performance pretty much everywhere, the roughly £150 ...
ATI Releases Catalyst 5.12
8 December 2005, 20:53
It's the last Catalyst driver suite release of the year, but what does it provide?
Small-in-one entertainment
7 December 2005, 15:28
Evesham launches the smallest and most stylish home entertainment PC in the UK
Intel will get inside a mac in June 2006
6 December 2005, 20:58
A date has been put on the launch of Mac computers with 'Intel Inside', and that date is believed to be June 6th 2006.
Review: ASUS EAX1800XL 256MB & HIS Excalibur X1800 XL 256MB PCIe graphics cards
6 December 2005, 19:07
ATI's Radeon X1800 XL GPU has enough going for it to be worthy of recommendation in the <£300 pricing bracket. ASUS and HIS take reference cards and dress them up ...
Apple Aperture - raw deal, not real deal?
6 December 2005, 15:26
In his review on Ars technica, Dave Girard does rather more than just deflate most of Apple's claims for its much-hyped RAW-image-handling program Aperture
Fox back Blu-Ray
6 December 2005, 11:58
James Gianopulos, co-chairman of Fox, has said that the PS3’s Blu-Ray ability was an influence on the company’s decision to support the format.
Review: HEXUS.eXclusives :: ASUSTeK A7G with ATI Mobility RADEON X1600 - First Hands-On Look!
6 December 2005, 01:59
Coming early next year is ATI's Mobility Radeon X1600 for laptops, aiming at mid-range mobile graphics performance. However, HEXUS has exclusively had some hands on time with an ASUS laptop ...
QuietPC introduces new cases and gadgets
5 December 2005, 20:04
QuietPC is receiving stock of the attractive Antec P180 case, along with a new iMON package.
Review: Gigabyte GA-G1975X motherboard
5 December 2005, 01:15
The introduction of the Intel i975X chipset renders the current i955X as obsolete; the newer chipset supports all i955X features and adds some of its own, including, crucially, multi-GPU support, ...
