Components For Laptop

Advanced Micro Devices has thrown down the gauntlet to graphics rival Nvidia, unveiling a graphics card that runs two graphics chips.
AMD Tuesday unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, which uses two smaller chips - the 4870 graphics processing units (GPUs) — rather than one big chip. The dual GPU technology, said AMD spokesman Matt [...]

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Apple is likely to announce a redesigned iPod Touch and slimmer MacBooks at an event in September, analysts said on Monday.
The announcements — scheduled ahead of the Christmas shopping season — could include price drops for the iPod Touch and MacBook laptops. Starting prices for the iPod Touch could fall to US$199 from $299 and [...]

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Intel AtomIntel’s Atom gets some competition
Intel’s Atom processor has become the darling of netbook manufacturers. The 45nm processor is used in a number of netbook designs ranging from the Eee PC 901/1000h to the MSI Wind.

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Dell left the DAP market in 2003 after poor sales
Apple is by far the 700-pound gorilla in the digital audio player (DAP) market. Apple’s lead in the field is staggering, according to analyst firm NPD Group Apple holds a massive 71% of the U.S. MP3 player market.

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India is developing a laptop to be sold at US$10, that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said Tuesday in Delhi.
Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, said D. Purandeswari, Minister [...]

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(Source: TYCORP/Mac Rumors)

(Source: TYCORP/Mac Rumors)

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Dell will make entertainment more of a focus for all its consumer products, but declined to confirm a report that it will take another swing at the digital music player market.
The music player could ship as early as September, priced at less than US$100, according to the report in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. [...]

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Dell is going small - really small.
The computer maker today unveiled a mini desktop PC that is 80 percent smaller than the average desktop minitower and uses 70 percent less energy. The Dell Studio Hybrid runs Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft’s Windows Vista.
“Our goal was to design a desktop that fits in the [...]

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Component supply problems and software development delays caused Acer to delay the launch of its Aspire one netbook by a month, leading it to revise down its shipment target for this year.
The world’s third-largest PC vendor now expects to ship 5 million to 6 million Aspire ones in 2008, down from a previous estimate of [...]

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Bounces like a ball, stretches like taffy. And now lets scientists create nanoscopic patterns.
It seems nanotechnology will soon be a driving force behind not only scientific research, but production engineering as well. So many recent advancements have been made in the nanometer frontier that it’s almost impossible to keep up with all [...]

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