Tag Archive: Hardware

Jun 11

WWDC 2012: Hardware

Apple is nothing without its hardware.  Even more than the software, it has been Apple’s incredible attention to detail in the development of its hardware that makes it stand out.  At WWDC 2012 today, Apple gave us a look at a major refresh of their notebook line.  Existing models got major performance jumps but nothing …

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Dec 25

9 Great Moments in Tech for 2009

Amidst an Economic Recession, the tech industry did not rest on its laurels.  Instead it just laid off a lot of people….  But regardless, we soldiered on to make 2009 one of the most important for changes in technology.  This is the year paradigms shifted and new ways to use gadgets came into play.  Here …

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Dec 22

Update to “Pine Trail doesn’t go off the Beaten Path”

Well would you look at that? Hot on the heals of Intel’s Pine Trail announcement and my thorough berating of the chips, NVidia becomes our knight in shining armor. Worry had arisen that because of Pine Trail’s integrated GPU, it would kill any attempt to offer different graphics cores. We looks like we don’t have …

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Dec 22

What’s in a Name…. When You’re Intel?

Naming a processor may seem like an unimportant affair.  For the consumer, what would it matter what the code name is for the processor as long as it’s fast or efficient?  Consumers would probably just rather that processors went by their clock speed and core count right?  Well for industry insiders, OEM builders, and techies, …

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Dec 21

Pine Trail doesn’t go off the Beaten Path

Pine Trail is the name of Intel’s second generation Atom chipset just announced today ahead of CES in January.  Pine Trail is an evolutionary change from the original Atom, as it brings a few modern conveniences to the wildly popular and criminally underpowered chip family.  Pine Trail brings the GPU on to the CPU die …

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