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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: More bang for your PC buck

Crave Power-hungry computer users should get a kick out of this: Intel has unveiled a new range of quad-core desktop CPUs to complement its existing Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor. The Q6600 will cost system integrators $851 (£541) when bought in 1,000...

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10 January 2007, 1:27

Intel's new Core 2 Duo L7200 and L7400: Completely pointless?

Crave Intel has started shipping a couple of new low-voltage processors designed to help make tiny laptops faster. Intel, sort your life out: We know you're constantly chasing Moore's law, but how about following Crave's law, which states it would be...

Tags: intel, power, battery, law

8 February 2007, 10:44

Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800: Four brains in one skull

Crave Now, at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, Intel has upped the ante by unveiling quad-core processors -- CPUs that have four processing cores on a single physical processor, or, as we like to think of it, four brains in a single skull.

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28 September 2006, 12:03

Intel heart beats inside new Apple iMac

Crave Arriving much sooner than expected, the new iMacs use 1.83 and 2GHz Intel Core Duo processors with a 667MHz system bus. Apple gave up on waiting for IBM to produce a worthy successor to the G5 and is introducing the faster Intel chips across its...

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19 January 2006, 10:56

Meet the winners of Intel's PC design competition

Crave Crave US: Intel announced today the winners of its Intel Core Processor Challenge, a competition with a total of $1m in prize money that encouraged computer manufacturers to use its Viiv processor technology to create a high-performance, media...

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17 April 2007, 10:40

New Apple MacBooks: Now with added Penryn

Crave Apple has just unveiled what we've all been expecting for months: new MacBooks and MacBook Pros that sport new Intel 'Penryn' Core 2 Duo CPUs. Simply put, it's Intel's first 45 nanometer microprocessor.

Tags: apple, multi, core, models

26 February 2008, 15:50

Intel vs. AMD: Centrino Duo/Turion 64 X2 laptop showdown

Crave Lukewarm on the heels of Intel's Centrino Duo mobile processors (and following the news that there'll be a Core 2 Duo), AMD has just launched its own dual-core mobile chips, known as the Turion 64 X2 Mobile series.

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25 May 2006, 12:23

Asus A7J: Multimedia powerhouse

Crave The onslaught of laptops using Intel's new Core Duo processors and next-generation Centrino technology (Napa) continues in earnest this week. The unit uses an Intel T1400 Core Duo CPU clocked at 1.83GHz, 1GB of DDR2 memory, and has more switches...

Tags: asus, intel, core, adaptor

30 January 2006, 10:18

Wanted by Intel: Stylish PC designs -- $1m reward

Crave The Intel Core Processor Challenge was sparked to evolve consumer perception of PCs being "big, grey boxes", and bring to market living-room-friendly designs that fit Intel's Viiv brand of in-home media-optimised PCs.

Tags: pcs, mini, mac os, core

2 October 2006, 12:11

New Apple laptops: 13-inch MacBooks are go

Crave Here come some new MacBooks, Apple's new name for its consumer laptops: there's a black one and a white one, and they both feature dual-core Intel processors, 13.3-inch widescreens, and all that Apple goodness, such as iLife '06, Front Row, the...

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16 May 2006, 14:50

PlayStation 3: What's with the watts?

Crave So, while an Intel Core 2 Duo PC with high-end graphics card chews politely on a 160 watt entrée, the PlayStation 3 gorges itself, splashing electricity about like a toddler with a bucket of fizzy drink.

Tags: sony, console, intel, core

1 November 2006, 11:24

Apple unveils Extreme new iMacs and Mac Mini

Crave It has a quad-core 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU. They all sport the same all-in-one theme as previous iMacs, but have been spruced up with fast Intel components, aluminium chassis, a glossy screen and extra thinness.

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8 August 2007, 12:22

Crave TV: Toshiba Spurs Engine puts PS3 Cell chip in a laptop

Crave The system was demonstrated in modified Qosmio G45 laptops, each of which uses a standard Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four 1.5GHz synergistic processing elements (SPEs). Toshiba says it's possible to do this using an...

10 January 2008, 17:51

Apple says "That's not a knife. This is a knife": MacBook Pro

Crave It's been a while since Apple could claim its laptops were the fastest on the strip, but with the transition from IBM to Intel chips, the new Apple MacBook Pro is one of the first widely available dual-core processor laptops in the world, and...

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16 January 2006, 11:25

Centrino 2: What's in the Intel sequel?

Crave Centrino 2 will use the latest 45nm Intel Core 2 processors, codenamed Penryn. As of 14 July, Intel will unveil a new collection of CPUs, chipsets and Wi-Fi adaptors -- all built to make the Centrino sequel a must have.

15 July 2008, 10:30