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Weekend Gadget Watch: Apple iMac 27-inch, unibody, 2009
Photo With a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, the 27-inch Apple iMac that we reviewed doesn't offer a dramatic increase in speed compared to previous models, but the LED-backlit display and specification tweaks are still very... [30 Oct 2009]
Photos: Apple tablet: What's on our wish list
Photo An Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and Nvidia GeForce 9400 graphics Apple doesn't currently offer built-in mobile broadband connections on any of its laptops, even though nearly every other major PC maker does. As... [05 Aug 2009]
Inbox: 'Microsoft - focus on what you do do, not what you don't do'
Comment The real difference is CPU, memory - MS have it right. I've had Mac and PC products with no discernible reliability, usability differentiator.in fact the PC I'm using now is... [05 May 2009]
Using Smartphone as Carputer Keyboard/Mouse Input With GRemote
White Paper The next best option for carputer input would be a device like the Logitech diNovo Mini, but the thing costs more than the author's carputer motherboard, CPU, and memory combined! GRemote allows one to use the... [01 May 2009]
Thin Client Performance
White Paper Ever since Thin Clients were conceived the message has always been that unlike PC's the CPU on the Thin Client is unimportant. The concept this comes from is that the Server is doing most of the work and... [14 Mar 2009]
Nvidia to give netbooks high-def graphics
News The Ion platform pairs the GeForce 9400 with a truly great Intel Atom CPU and lets consumers surf the internet, play top games, edit photos and watch videos - all in high definition. According to Nvidia, "the GeForce... [19 Dec 2008]
SPRAT: Runtime Processor Selection for Energy-Aware Computing
White Paper CPU and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). A commodity Personal Computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. Since the superiorities of GPUs... [25 Nov 2008]
UNIX Based Front-End Processors Used for DOOCS at the TESLA Test Facility
White Paper This paper presents the use of VME at TTF in general and then compares the different features of the CPU's. The DOOCS control systems, operating the TTF Linac at DESY, runs so far on SPARC desktops, SPARC-VME based... [21 Oct 2008]
Gadget Watch: Asus Eee Box
Photo Tiny media-oriented desktop PC with Atom CPU It's not powerful enough to challenge the vast majority of desktops on the market and, as a Media Center PC, it's only mediocre. Considering... [29 Aug 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of... [30 May 2008]
Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter
White Paper CPU manufacturers are rapidly working on implementing hardware-based hypervisors, such as AMD's Pacifica project. With enterprise-class virtualization software hitting the market from VMware and Microsoft (ESX Virtual... [26 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment My first Mac, a 533MHz single CPU, replaced a 1GHz Windows desktop. My first PC was a Sinclair ZX81, but my first 'main' PC was a VIC20, which took me through four years to my O'levels,... [24 Apr 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News The report claimed at Windows XP's launch, for example, the minimum CPU requirements were 75 per cent greater than those for the operating system it replaced, Windows 2000. Vista's minimum CPU... [06 Mar 2008]
IT at your service
Comment Charging them access to CPU time spent crunching numbers for business intelligence might, too. I remember paying for mainframe time based on logged-on hours on the terminal and on CPU cycles," says Rob... [09 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. It goes all the way down to the bread and butter... [10 Dec 2007]
