Over the past few years we have seen several new products fizzle despite their industry-leading performance numbers. While pricing tends to be the primary reason for these disappointments, other factors like reputation and public exposure can also cause lackluster sales figures. However, and especially in today’s economy, products are more likely to suffer in the [...]

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As someone who literally spends most of their life observing trends in the hardware world, it is surprisingly difficult to make decisions when it comes to purchasing a new computer. Just as you might expect a mediator to have a tough time concluding when they’ve heard both sides of the story and sympathize equally. We’ve [...]

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Reviews of Intel’s brand-spanking-new processors hit the web today. Nehalem, officially known as Core i7, will be available starting November 17th. There will be three models available at launch: The Core i7-920 at 2.67GHz, Core i7-930 at 2.93GHz, and the range-topping Core i7-965 Extreme Edition at 3.2GHz. It would not be outlandish to say that [...]

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From the latest sneaky snake pictures taken of X58 boards from at least four of the major motherboard manufacturers, it appears that SLI will be absent in the launch products. We previously wrote a nice long editorial about the whole SLI on X58 debacle, in which we stated that Intel would not be putting an [...]

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Lucid, a little-known fabless semiconductor designer, has just announced a new product that could render both NVIDIA’s SLI and ATI’s CrossFire technolgies obsolete. Despite the performance advantages gained using the existing multi-GPU setups, SLI and CrossFire each have drawbacks that prevent many enthusiasts from adopting either. Logic would lead most people to believe that using [...]

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According to Expreview.com Intel’s much-heralded Nehalem will come to market bearing the name “Core i7″. The name “Core i7″ could have something to do with the fact that this is Intel’s 7th generation architecture. Nehalem is set to be announced on August 11th (Monday), so we presume that more details regarding the name choice will [...]

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