AMD Releases Developer Documention for R600 and R700 Cards
May 11, 2009Recall that AMD published the basic system information for the chip sets R600 and R700 last year. To follow up this info, we now have the first info and code for the OpenGl Acceleration.
more »Dell Freshens Up Its Mini 10 Netbook with Ubuntu
May 11, 2009Dell now provides its 10" Mini 10 netbook with Ubuntu in the U.S. and Canada, with the rest of the world to follow shortly.
more »Kindle DX: Amazon's Reader with Large Display
May 07, 2009The new e-book reader from Amazon now has a 9.7" E-Ink display at 1200 x 824 pixels, weighs in at about 19 ounces and is only 0.38" thick.
more »Radeon HD 4770: New Graphics Chip from ATI
May 05, 2009With a new, powerful chip generation, ATI is challenging Nvidia at the low end.
more »Nvidia: Bug Warning for Linux Driver 180.29
Apr 24, 2009Nvidia's proprietary graphic driver 180.29 can, under certain conditions, turn your Fujitsu Celsius H270 notebook into a brick.
more »AMD Provides Legacy Driver for Old ATI Cards
Apr 20, 2009Contrary to original plans to support the older ATI cards, AMD now wants to provide a legacy driver for them, along the lines of Nvidia.
more »Intel Bottomed Out in Q1?
Apr 15, 2009On this key IRS date, Intel reports a first-quarter revenue and income loss that has hopefully seen the bottom and the company hopes for a resurgence to normal in the coming season.
more »Toshiba Notebooks with OpenSolaris
Apr 09, 2009Hardware manufacturer Toshiba has released a series of notebooks with pre-installed OpenSolaris 2008.11.
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