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TDK promises printable Blu-ray Disc blanks - but not until Q3, 2006

26 April 2006, 16:56

At this week's NAB 2006 show, TDK is promising to introduce inkjet printable single-layer and dual-layer write-once Blu-ray Disc blanks - though not until the third quarter of 2006

Linspire announces two free Linux distros

26 April 2006, 16:14

Linspire has announced two free versions of its paid-for Linux OS, one completely open-source, the other including some proprietary software

Ulead claims HD DVD authoring first for VideoStudio 10 Plus

26 April 2006, 13:22

Latest version of Ulead's VideoStudio - V10 due in early May - is claimed to be the first consumer video editing program able to author high-definition discs in the new ...

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OS X n XP dual-boot Macs selling retail

25 April 2006, 14:08

After Apple introduced its Boot Camp dual-boot utility, it had to happen - and US online reseller MacMall is the first company we've heard of offering Intel-based Macs with Windows ...

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Patriot launches lowest latency DDR2 PC8000

25 April 2006, 09:07

There's a new RAM war hotting up and it's at the high-end of the DDR2 spectrum.

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Patriot Memory Releases the World’s Fastest 1GHz Memory Module

25 April 2006, 08:57

By achieving a blazing latency of 4-4-4-12 at 1GHz, the Extreme Performance DDR2 8000 XBL is the fastest memory module in its class.

Fancy Quad SLI but don't want the cost of a complete system?

24 April 2006, 18:42

The Chassis and PSU are the most important bit for these systems; these cards are LONG very long. The AKASA Eclipse 62 is one of the only chassis which will ...

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Apple's 4th Intel-power Mac - a 17in laptop at £2K

24 April 2006, 15:57

Apple is set to introduce its fourth Intel-power Mac - a two-grand 17in laptop fitted with a 2.16GHz Core Duo CPU and claimed to be up to five times faster ...

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Review: Sapphire Radeon X1800 GTO

24 April 2006, 15:43

With NVIDIA's AIB partners offering versions of GeFroce 7600 GT at even higher clocks for sensible money, NVIDIA seem to have the ˜£150 mid-range market to themselves. ATI's counter offensive ...

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Evesham £699 AMD-based e-box Media Center PC

24 April 2006, 13:57

Evesham's latest Windows Media Center PC - the e-box3, due May - is based around an Athlon 64 CPU and designed to fit in among other standard-size boxes that live ...

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Rockdirect produce limited edition DnD laptop

21 April 2006, 10:40

Any big D&D fans looking for a new laptop will want to take a look at the latest limited edition model from Rockdirect.

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HD DVD and Blu-ray: The Format Wars

20 April 2006, 12:59

Sony and Microsoft battle it out over high-def DVD

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Apple PowerBook Pro GPU 'massively underclocked'

19 April 2006, 19:27

According to HardMac.com, Apple is massively underclocking the ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor in its Intel-powered MacBook Pro laptop PCs - to reduce fan noise and extend battery life - ...

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Review: OCZ Technology DDR2 PC2-8000 Platinum XTC Extreme Edition

19 April 2006, 18:47

If your system can effectively utilise 1GHz-rated DDR2, and it's a big if, OCZ's 2GByte pack should be at the top of your shortlist. Summing it up in a word ...

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Share your USB devices between two PCs - the SMSC solution

19 April 2006, 12:28

Integrated-circuit maker SMSC has come up with a low-cost IC that will, it says, allow four USB devices to be shared between two PCs or even between a games console ...

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Blu-Ray is like Betamax and HD DVD is like VHS, say Microsoft

19 April 2006, 09:29

Microsoft make a great analogy

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Firefox 1.5.0.2 fixes bugs, adds native Intel support for Macs

18 April 2006, 15:04

Firefox 1.5.0.2, the latest version of the Mozilla Foundation's free web browser, is now available for download in versions for Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS X. Apple users can ...

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Oracle may launch own Linux distro

18 April 2006, 14:04

The CEO of database firm Oracle has said that the company may look to launch its own Linux distribution, or even acquire an existing one.

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Get ThinkFree Office V3 cheap - but only for a few hours!

18 April 2006, 13:27

The £24.99 special price (inc VAT and delivery) being offered for ThinkFree Office 3 by online reseller Computrolley looks set to end in a few hours when it rises by ...

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Sony stick Walkman offers '3hr play from 3min charge'

18 April 2006, 11:44

Sony's latest Walkman is a multi-format, USB stick player due to arrive at the end of April in three capacities (512MB, 1GB, 2GB) and claimed to offer three hours' battery ...

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Scale this

18 April 2006, 09:24

Amdahl’s law says that it is the algorithm that decides the speedup and not the number of processors, and you eventually reach a place where parallelization doesn’t buy you anything, ...

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Google Store - over-priced rubbish or what?

14 April 2006, 12:12

The Google Store has one area dedicated to software (most of it free) but is largely given over to branded goodies (and not-so-goodies), mostly at somewhat inflated prices

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Silverstone make new uber-heatsink

13 April 2006, 17:39

Introducing the Nitrogon NT06, a redesign of the NT01 intended for CPUs that are hottest of the hot.

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Apple intros V1.1 Aperture RAW image app, cuts price by 40%

13 April 2006, 15:46

Apple today announced the launch of a revamped version of its widely-criticised RAW-image editing and management program Aperture that sells for far less than the original and runs natively on ...

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Review: Apple Boot Camp Public Beta

13 April 2006, 11:57

HEXUS.community stalwart Gordon Handley (Gordy) gets down and dirty with Apple Boot Camp Public Beta - the utility that let's Intel-based Macs dual-boot between Windows XP and Mac OS X

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Review: ECS C19-A SLI

13 April 2006, 09:00

I usually start an ECS mainboard review with a little bit of chatter about their renaissance in the world of enthusiast mainboards. It's about time to drop that, though, and ...

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ATI Catalyst 6.4

12 April 2006, 18:51

It's April, and that means episode four of the Catalyst story for the year. In this release comes a video conversion utility for MCE, video quality improvements, performance improvements and ...

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Gecube throws its HDMI cards into the ring

11 April 2006, 12:27

Support for the latest in multimedia interfaces, HDMI, is slowly growing. From the graphics card market, ATI-based cards seem to be the ones we hear about the most, with GeCube ...

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Linux drivers for ATI Radeon X1K on their way

10 April 2006, 15:49

While ATI remain comitted to monthly Catalyst driver releases for Windows, Linux users seem to have less faith in support for their OS. ATI could change all that, however.

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Overclocked out of the box: Sapphire's Blizzard X1900XTX

10 April 2006, 13:58

Cast your mind back to our coverage of CeBIT and you might remember us showing you Sapphire's up-coming watercooled Radeon X1900XTX, by the name of Blizzard. A US release is ...

Webaroo aims to deliver disconnected web browsing

10 April 2006, 11:43

Webaroo is a new search and caching service which aims to bring the Internet to mobile devices even when there's no Internet connection.

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ATI's ninja programmer, 'Chuck', speaks about Oblivion driver

9 April 2006, 11:19

ATI's 'Chuck' has agreed to an exclusive interview with HEXUS to explain how the patch works (and totally debunk my initial analysis!) in a technical sense. But not before answering ...

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Hands-on running WinXP on IntelMac WITHIN Mac OS X

7 April 2006, 14:57

We go hands-on with Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X - a utility that lets users of Intel-based Macs run Windows, Linux and other operating systems at the ...

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