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Samsung Introduces First SATA II Hard Drive

Samsung has introduced a Serial ATA II hard disk drive that boasts twice the speed of a SATA I hard drive and has other...

Apple Updates Dual-Processor Power Macs, Lowers Display Prices

Just in time for the release of Apple Computer Inc.s new Mac OS X "Tiger" operating system, the company announced upgrades to its line...

IBM Develops ThinkPad Tablet PC

IBM is readying a ThinkPad laptop that features a rotating screen designed to turn the machine into a tablet computer, according to documents from...

HP Rolls Out 64-Bit Workstations, PCs

Hewlett-Packard this week is introducing a workstation and a desktop PC that both have 64-bit capabilities, better security and support for Intels dual-core Pentium...

Orions 96-Node Workstation Brings Clusters to Desktop

Orion has begun shipping a 96-processor clustered workstation aimed at users who want to run complex workloads on their desktops. Orion Multisystems Inc., of Santa...

Opteron Goes to Dual-Core

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., over the next two months, will bring dual-core capabilities to many of its processors, a move it began last week...

Inside Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Rome wasnt built in a day, and neither apparently will be 64-bit computing. But we finally have the second pillar needed to hold up...

Microsoft Pushes PC Design Innovation

Microsoft on Monday announced the start of a design competition to rethink the desktop computer. The company thinks it is time to move beyond...

64-Bit Driver Support Is Still a Mixed Bag

Will hardware vendors have 64-bit device drivers in place to support Microsofts 64-bit Windows release? The answer is a definite maybe. While a significant number...

Intel, AMD Fire First Multicore Salvos

Having hit the processing-power limits of traditional single-core chips, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are moving the battle to the multicore processor...