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Microsoft: Vista does support Turbo Memory

News These features use non-volatile 'third-stage' memory alongside a computer's RAM and traditional hard drive to boost performance and start-up time. Microsoft has denied Sony's claim that the current release of Vista supports neither Intel's Turbo...

8 June 2007, 10:22

News.blog: MIT's brain-to-machine aid

News Lakshminarayan 'Ram' Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject, said MIT's new graphical models are applicable no matter what measurement technique is used. Scientists are making progress on neural devices that can translate the thoughts of...

4 October 2007, 8:55

Microsoft sued over Vista marketing

News PCs need at least 512MB of RAM, a processor capable of 800MHz or more and a graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable to be classified as "Vista capable". Microsoft has come under attack for the way it advertises the Vista operating system.

5 April 2007, 9:39

News.blog: Asus readies 13.3-inch laptop

News It all runs on Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processors and the Intel GM965 chipset, plus a 128MB Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics card a single memory slot for up to 2.5GB of RAM. With a black piano finish and a leather wrist rest, the Asus U3 joins the...

9 August 2007, 9:45

Apple ditches old-fashioned CRTs

News With a 17-inch widescreen LCD display, the iMac includes a Combo drive for burning CDs and reading DVDs, 512MB of 667MHz DDR2 SD-Ram memory (expandable up to 2GB) and a 160GB disc drive. Apple launched a replacement for the eMac specifically aimed...

7 July 2006, 9:24

XP outperforms Vista in benchmark test

News XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

Tags: ads, windows vista, consumers, beta

28 November 2007, 9:27

Yahoo software turns your PC into DVR

News The Yahoo software, as of yet, only runs on Windows and requires a computer with 20GB of disk space to store recorded programs, 512MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor. Yahoo has released a beta version of software that turns a PC into a digital video...

27 April 2006, 10:51

News.blog: Intel to ship Atom for mini laptops

News GHz, a 7-inch to 10-inch screen, 512MBs of RAM and 2GBs to 4GBs of flash storage should cost around $250 (£125). Intel is ready to ship the latest edition of its Atom processor family, this time going after the emerging market for low-cost mini...

Tags: processor, inch, family, intel

3 June 2008, 9:01

Photos: Dell's giant hybrid laptop

News For that price, back in 1983, you got this: a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor, 128K of RAM, two floppy drives, a 9-inch monochrome monitor and MS-DOS. Dell's new XPS M2010, which starts at £1,999, includes two hard drives with up to 120GB capacity...

1 June 2006, 10:07

Intel ramps up portable chip effort

News Over time, handheld and embedded devices will become true computer systems in miniature," wrote Intel researcher Ram Chary in a white paper on the LPIA project. New details have emerged regarding Intel's plan to bring chips based on the same...

19 August 2005, 10:04

Sony desktop doubles as flat-screen TV

News The VGC-LS1 features Intel's 1.83GHz Core Duo processor and 2GB of RAM. Sony on Tuesday launched the Vaio VGC-LS1 desktop, which serves as both personal computer and TV. The system comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse, as well as with a remote...

23 August 2006, 11:00

Nvidia phone chip plays 'Quake III'

News The GoForce 5500 adds support for the h.264 codec and externally stacked SRAM (static RAM) chips to the GoForce line of handheld graphics chips, first unveiled in 2003. Nvidia's latest graphics processor for high-end mobile phones, unveiled on...

14 February 2006, 10:16

UK firm to launch wall-socket PC

News It can come with up to 64MB of flash memory and 128MB RAM. Newcastle-based Jade Integration will launch one of the smallest computers available in the UK to date, the Jack PC, next month. Containing all the electronics needed to run as a low- to...

1 June 2006, 10:01

Mobile phone crypto aims to baffle eavesdroppers

News It also requires 6MB of RAM (random access memory) and 2MB of storage space. An Australian company last week launched a security tool for GSM mobile phones that encrypts transmissions to avoid eavesdroppers.

2 June 2005, 9:04

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News D/3D graphics acceleration, uses 4MB of video RAM, and can produce a maximum resolution (external) of 1,280x1,024 pixels. CNET News.com is publishing this excerpt. Released in 2000, the PlayStation 2 (PS2) was Sony's second game console.

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53