Components For Laptop

After watching the market’s giants move into its territory, Via Technologies Thursday began moving to push back against the likes of Intel and Advanced Micro Devices with five new processors.
On Thursday, the company launched the five single-core chips, which have been newly designed from the ground up. Unlike specialized processors from chip-maker rivals, the

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Update adds numerous stability and security updates to the latest Mac OS
Windows users aren’t the only computer users that need to apply security updates to their machines. Apple has released an update to its Mac OS that brings the OS to version 10.5.3.

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GameStop cites lack of customer interest as reason for dropping the Zune
Microsoft’s Zune was dealt a blow recently when one of its large retail partners opted to not sell the Zune any longer. GameStop says that it decided to remove the Zune from its product line because of poor demand from its customers.

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Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to launch Wind, an ultra-low cost laptop that runs on Intel’s Atom microprocessor, this June in the US, the company confirmed Friday.
The US edition of Wind will come in two different versions, one for US$549 running Microsoft’s Windows XP. A few things set Wind apart from competitors, including the 1.6GHz Atom [...]

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Under the new ACTA deal, iPods and other electronic devices will be subject to searches. It will be at border agents’ discretion what material is infringing. The searches can be conducted without lawyers present and those found in violation will be fined and have their devices destroyed.(Source: Canada.com)Under the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [...]

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AMD’s next generation Radeon graphics card to get a boost from GDDR5
Although NVIDIA may be grabbing headlines lately with leaked details of its next generation GeForce graphics cards, AMD isn’t exactly standing still with its Radeon offerings. ATI is preparing its Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs which will replace the existing HD 3800 lineup.

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Apple will rule the living room in five years, analysts said Thursday as they slapped down the Tarot cards to predict what the company would be up to in 2013.
“The home destination is where Apple wants to roost,” said James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research who co-authored a report released Thursday grandly titled The [...]

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HP 2133 Mini-Note PC - Linux Edition @ Trusted ReviewsDailyTech’s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
Notebooks
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC - Linux Edition @ Trusted Reviews
Motherboards
ASUS P5E3 Premium WIFi-AP @n Edition @ motherboards.org
Memory

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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate a patent complaint by semiconductor vendor Tessera, alleging that 11 companies have infringed its patent for semiconductor chips with a minimized chip package size.
The Tessera complaint, filed April 21 against 11 competitors, mirrors a similar complaint the company filed in December. The earlier complaint targeted [...]

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