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Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries. But who's next? And what about UK-based laptop makers?
25 August 2006, 13:19
Apple has followed Dell's lead by announcing a recall of around 1.8 million batteries - 700K of them outside the USA - that present a possible fire hazard
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Review: Antec Fusion Chassis
25 August 2006, 12:56
The HTPC market has seen a big shift recently, with more of the mainstream manufacturers producing higher specification HTPC chassis’s with a much keener price point. Antec previously released NSK2400 ...
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Folding@Home ready for PS3, with GPU version making progress
24 August 2006, 16:04
Distributed computing operation Folding@Home, a hugely popular molecular simulation project, yesterday announced a client version for the Cell processor found on the up-coming Playstation 3 console.
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Review: 2-power XCell 70 universal laptop battery
24 August 2006, 08:58
We reckon the 2-power XCell 70 has enough going for it to warrant serious consideration for laptop users where battery life is paramount.
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Oz airline tells Dell owners to whip 'em out and tape 'em up
24 August 2006, 01:58
Fire-risk worries about the batteries in certain Dell laptops resulted in the Australian airline Qantas instructing all passengers who own Dell PCs to remove their batteries and tape up the ...
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GIGABYTE silent HDMI graphics card for HD media-centre PCs
23 August 2006, 19:58
GIGABYTE USA will launch next month a zero-noise graphics card for enthusiasts of high-definition TV. The GV-NX76G256HI-RH has an HDMI port and handles HDCP-encrypted video
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Review: ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB
23 August 2006, 08:16
Today the shroud can be lifted and you can all get a good look at 'R580+'
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AMEX M505-BDR - Core 2 Duo Blu-ray-burner MCE PC due Aug 28
22 August 2006, 12:47
AMEX says that August 28 is the in-store date for the product it will be pushing at September's IFA show in Berlin, the M505-BDR - a Core 2 Duo media-centre ...
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eXcito BUBBA - reasonably-priced, stupidly-named home mini server
21 August 2006, 14:18
There are a whole lot of good reasons for having a server sitting at the centre of a home notework so BUBBA, a complete Linux-based home mini-server from Excito, might ...
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Review: HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo DL-DVI DVI 256MiB GDDR3 CrossFire evaluation
21 August 2006, 08:29
Multi-GPU technology is good right across the board but it makes even more sense with the midrange market, and upgrading to two cards, when funds permit, is always a decent ...
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Tyan announces massive new Opteron based product line-up
18 August 2006, 16:42
Server platform provider Tyan has this week announced a wave of new products based on AMD's latest Opteron processors.
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Review: 600-700W PSU Shootout
18 August 2006, 14:32
What we'll call workstation-class PCs are those on the market today that demand a PSU with outlandish output power, rail options and cabling runs to suit. You'll know instantly if ...
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MyKeyO Keyboard Organizer - top kit for anal-retentives
17 August 2006, 11:46
It's nothing like brand-spanking new and doesn't even seem to be available in the UK but, nonetheless, MyKeyO's Keyboard Organizer is still a product we just had to tell you ...
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Review: Boston SAS RAID -X- Pack (LSI MegaRAID 8408E, Seagate ST3750640AS & Supermicro SATA M35)
17 August 2006, 08:50
Remember the Thecus N5200? We had it kitted out with 3.5TB worth of disks. The prospect of such a huge amount of storage was just too tempting for us, so ...
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Webhost's own forum hacked
17 August 2006, 08:27
In what can only be seen as an embarrassment to any company, Hosting-Unlimited, provider of web hosting solutions, appears to have had its own forums hacked.
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Review: Shuttle X100HA Small Form-Factor PC
16 August 2006, 20:59
Shuttle's innovative thinking extends to the X100HA. Our final thoughts? Good but not great.
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Apple Boot Camp 1.1 adds XP features & supports latest Macs
16 August 2006, 19:21
Boot Camp - Apple's free downloadable application that lets you dual-boot Intel Macs between Windows XP and Mac OS X - now includes support for the "latest" Intel-based Macs
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Lite-On SHM-165H6S burn-everything LightScribe E-IDE writer
16 August 2006, 11:45
Lite-On is now selling across Europe a burn-everything internal E-IDE DVD-writer, the SHM-165H6S, that's able to create labels directly to disc using the LightScribe system
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Dell recalls 4M+ notebook batteries - UK affected, too
15 August 2006, 16:29
Dell USA yesterday issued a recall notice for an estimated 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries for notebook PCs - to avoid a possible fire risk - and UK models are affected, ...
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Review: 400-500Watt PSU shootout
15 August 2006, 08:32
We've recently been testing a handful of PSUs. Some quite powerful, some very powerful, but none that you might call 'silly'. In this review we have tested four PSUs, all ...
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Sony's first Blu-ray Disc burner won't play commercial BD movies!
14 August 2006, 17:27
Amazingly, it looks like Sony's first PC Blu-ray Disc burner, the BWU-100A, won't play commercial Blu-ray Disc movies, only high-def footage from HDV digital camcorders
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ENlight - 1.4 million PC cases a month and growing!
14 August 2006, 15:11
ENlight is one of the world's leading makers of cases for computers and servers and its production and sales figures boggle the mind
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HEXUS.beans :: DELL assaults the little guys
14 August 2006, 12:04
HEXUS.beans :: DELL assaults the little guys
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101 degrees F in the shade, what are you doing outside?
14 August 2006, 10:21
Indeed, why would anyone be outside at Siggraph when there were so many fantastic and amazing things to see inside?
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Review: ASUSTeK P5W DH i975X mainboard
14 August 2006, 08:46
Regardless of if you're a new user looking to build your first Intel-based system or you're an experienced overclocker, the ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe needs to be considered if you need ...
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Review: Sima Hitch USB-101 transfer device
12 August 2006, 11:37
Most of us now have a USB device that we carry around with us, be it a thumb drive, camera, audio player, or missile launcher. With all of us carrying ...
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The IBM PC turns 25
11 August 2006, 13:01
25 years ago, twelve engineers at IBM bought a bunch of components and built the first ever IBM PC.
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Crazy dev creates flight sim from Google Maps
11 August 2006, 12:08
Games creator Mark Caswell-Daniels has come up with an innovative use for Google Maps, having created a flight sim around the technology.
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Nvidia probes executive stock option practices
11 August 2006, 11:49
Nvidia announced last night it had received record quarterly revenues during Q2 FY2007, which ended 30 July 2006. However, the statement was overshadowed by the company's revelation that it has ...
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Review: ENlight LP791 LCD PC chassis
10 August 2006, 09:00
It's about time somebody came up with a PC-in-a-monitor solution that was easy to upgrade, so when ENlight's LCD PC chassis landed in the labs, we were sceptical about the ...
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Review: eVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2 Black Pearl Quad SLI
9 August 2006, 14:00
A week or so ago the boss got on the blower, breathing heavily. Never a good sign. "Black pearls, Rys, black pearls are coming. Be prepared. 4 chips. SLI. Be ...
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Review: Galaxy GeForce 7300 GT GDDR3
9 August 2006, 07:50
Join us to see if Galaxy's heavily breathed-upon GeForce 7300 GT is worth your hard-earned.
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ASUS/Gigabyte merger confirmed?
8 August 2006, 14:08
They may not be merging in the strictest sense of the word but we can tell you that a new company is going to be formed by the two Taiwanese ...
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