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Laptops of the future coming up at CeBIT 2007

Crave Specs-wise, it's said to have a 5.6-inch 1,024x768-pixel screen, a Pentium M CPU and Windows XP. The M55 will probably use a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM, a GeForce 7600 GT graphics card and a (somewhat lame) 120GB hard drive.

Tags: hd, samsung, ball, tech

6 March 2007, 11:20

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave Inside, the entry-level sample is packing a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive, so it's not going to win any awards for speed or storage. Update: A previous version of this article stated the Nova Lite had 802.11n Wi-Fi...

26 June 2008, 12:53

Shuttle KPC K45: £180 Linux desktop

Crave Inside you'll find an Intel Celeron 430 CPU running at 1.8GHz, 512MB of RAM -- upgradeable to 2GB -- an Intel GMA 950 graphics adaptor, and an 80GB hard drive. More demanding users should check out the barebones version, since that lets you supply...

Tags: cpu, intel, linux, hard drive

25 March 2008, 11:25

Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800: Four brains in one skull

Crave Among them will be the Intel Xeon 5300 series server chips, and the more consumer-oriented QX6800 Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU, which is aimed at gamers, hardcore video editing folk and those with more money than sense.

Tags: intel, laptops, core, processor

28 September 2006, 12:03

Dual-core: rockdirect Xtreme 64 laptop

Crave And it's not any namby-pamby, tree-hugging laptop CPU designed to save power and heal the world, it's the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which up until last week was the fastest desktop CPU reasonable money could buy.

Tags: rockdirect, cpu, laptop, xtreme

12 January 2006, 10:51

Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor: Qosmio X300, F50 and G50

Crave The Quad Core HD system can also be used to transcode video footage at twice the speed of a traditional CPU alone. The Toshiba Quad Core HD system is essentially a co-processor consisting of four separate Cell CPUs -- the PlayStation 3 uses a...

18 June 2008, 10:35

Dell XPS M1730: The Beast

Crave Physics-processing units are handy because they take the strain off the CPU and graphics cards, making your system even faster. It'll take an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 CPU clocked at 2.8GHz, a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo T7700, or a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T7500.

Tags: dell, core, gaming, cpu

13 November 2007, 10:29

Apple unveils Extreme new iMacs and Mac Mini

Crave The base 20-inch iMac (£799) has a 2GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, 8x slot-loading SuperDrive, and ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics. The faster 20-inch model (£949) has a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 350GB hard drive and ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics.

Tags: apple, hard drive, hd, model

8 August 2007, 12:22

Photos: HP TouchSmart IQ500 all-in-one desktop slims down

Crave The IQ506, with a TV tuner, a faster CPU and a larger hard drive, will go for more. For its core specifications, the TouchSmart IQ504 includes a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 CPU, 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 320GB, 7,200rpm hard drive, and an...

11 June 2008, 11:09

Mesh Elite Quad 6600 FX: Back-to-school favourite

Crave It uses a quad-core CPU, which means it's among the fastest desktop machines on the market -- and best of all it only costs £699. Here's what you get for your pennies: an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU clocked at 2.4GHz; 4GB of RAM; 250GB SATA hard...

Tags: mesh, school, core, cpu

24 August 2007, 11:50

Centrino 2: What's in the Intel sequel?

Crave Any CPU with the part number 'Pxxxx' belongs to the 'power-optimised performance' range, so they'll be quick, but they'll give you longer battery life, save trees and prolong the life of our planet. To qualify as a Centrino laptop, machines need to...

15 July 2008, 10:30

Dell XPS 420: Gorgeous media monster

Crave This, Dell says, can convert an MPEG-2 video to the MPEG-4 format 25 per cent faster than using the CPU alone. Not that the CPU is slow -- you get a choice of Core 2 Duos, Core 2 Quads and Core 2 Extremes -- depending on how much money you have to...

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6 December 2007, 10:53

Acer Aspire 9500: VoIP-phone laptop

Crave The Aspire 9500 isn't one of these new-fangled laptops that use the latest Core Duo CPU (it uses previous-generation Centrino), but it's got a fast 2GHz Pentium M CPU, 1GB of RAM and a fairly nippy Radeon X700 graphics card.

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31 January 2006, 10:22

Eco-friendly PCs: An inconvenient upgrade path

Crave Intel has promised a CPU that it claims will run on "a median average" of just 0.75W, but this is some way off. In the meantime we'd recommend using a laptop CPU in your desktop (you'll need a compatible motherboard) as these are designed to be...

Tags: hard drive, film, cpu, processor

3 July 2007, 10:50

WannabEees: Eee PC vs Elonex One vs OLPC vs EasyNote XS vs MSI Wind and more

Crave It uses a 7-inch display with an 800x480-pixel native resolution, a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 30GB 2.5-inch hard drive, which puts the 1GB or 2GB models in the Eee or Elonex One to shame. Mobile CPU -- no, we've never heard of it either...

12 March 2008, 11:17