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Motion’s C5v and F5v both sport 10.4-inch 1024×768 LED-backlit display with Gorilla glass and optional ViewAnywhere. They start at $2299 and $2548 respectively.
MSI CX705MX Notebook
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As a member of the CX705 series, the CX705MX comes with a 17.3-inch 1600×900 LCD display. It supports WIFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1. You can also find a 1.3 Megapixel webcam, 4-in-1 card reader, chiclet keyboardstereo speakers with subwoofer, HDMI output and a 6-cell battery.
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Dell Inspiron 17R, 15R, 14R and 13R Core i5 Notebooks
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New 2010 Intel® Core™ i5 processor
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About the New 2010 Intel® Core™ i5 Processor
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology◊1
Automatically speeds up your processor when your PC needs extra performance—that's smart performance with a speed boost. Available in select models of the new 2010 Intel® Core™ i5 processor-based systems.Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology◊2
Features 4-way multi-task processing that allows each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking. You and your PC won't be slowed down, regardless of how many applications you have open at once.Intel® HD Graphics◊3
Intel® HD Graphics provides superb visual performance for sharper images, richer color, and life-like audio and video. Watch movies and Internet videos in high-definition, play popular game titles and get full support for Microsoft Windows* 7. It's all built in; no need for an extra add-in video card.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sT2_JpjWr-QJ40a4ii4aTWFs36HO6fObIgzbMJfqYBKCMMWaxR7_InqTMP2Iac_swbCBpYiZ28D5L5TMoEvpPabS9CAJAC2iyX1tNHCdvn0Q7rDmReiXEMgwy_aKsekgGE9AIBnGcVV-aLRUfUTXs=s0-d)
New 2010 Intel® Core™ i3 processor
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About the New 2010 Intel® Core™ i3 Processor
The wait is over—now everyone can move up to smart performance. As the first level in Intel’s new processor family, the new 2010 Intel® Core™ i3 processor is the perfect entry point for a fast, responsive PC experience.
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology◊1
Enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking. Don't let too many open applications slow you and your PC down. Get smart performance now.
Intel® HD Graphics
Intel® HD Graphics provides superb visual performance for sharper images, richer color, and life-like audio and video.◊2 Watch movies and Internet videos in high-definition, play popular game titles and get full support for Microsoft Windows* 7. It's all built in; no need for an extra add-in video card.
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MSI Wind Box DE200 and DC200 Nettops
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MSI officially announced two new nettop PCs, the Wind Box DE200 and the Wind Box DC200. Both of them are powered by Intel’s Atom 230 processor, like Acer’s AspireRevo R3600, and 1GB of memory. The Wind Box DE200 gets an ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card with HDMI port while the onboard GMA950 graphics. They have a 160GB hard drive and a 6-in-1 memory card reader. WiFi 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity is included. The MSI Wind Box DE200 is available from Amazon for $299.99 and Wind Box DC200 for $249.
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Super Talent 4GB dual channel DDR3 kits for Intel P55 i5/i7 Systems
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Super Talent launches its new line Performance Series DDR3 and Speed Series DDR3 4GB dual channel DDR3 kits for Core i5 and Core i7 systems based on Intel’s P55. There are in total nine kits and are available in speeds ranging from DDR3-1600 to DDR3-2200.
Performance Series DDR3
| WP200UX4G8 | DDR3-2000 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24 |
| WP200UX4G9 | DDR3-2000 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28 |
| WP160UX4G7 | DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 7-7-7-21 |
| WP160UX4G8 | DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24 |
| WP160UX4G9 | DDR3-1600 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28 |
Speed Series DDR3
| WS220UX4G8 | DDR3-2200 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24 |
| WS220UX4G9 | DDR3-2200 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28 |
| WS213UX4G8 | DDR3-2133 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 8-8-8-24 |
| WS213UX4G9 | DDR3-2133 4GB (2x 2GB) Kit, 9-9-9-28 |
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Intel and Nokia Partner To Make Future Something-Or-Other
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Just as reported, Intel and Nokia had a big fancy announcement to tell everyone that they're going to be doing something together in the future—the specifics of which wasn't important (or defined) enough to mention today.
The two did say that they're going to be sharing Nokia's HSPA/3G modem technology so Intel can put those into their own equipment, and that they're going to be all up in the open source world. Other than that? Not a whole lot going on. Sounds to us like Nokia's going to be making some more N800-like devices with Intel inside. [Nokia]
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Intel Launches New Desktop Processor
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Following AMD’s launch of its latest server chips last week, it’s Intel’s turn to be in the spotlight.
Intel plans to launch its newest generation of desktop processors on Monday. Called Core i7, the chips are aimed at the high-end desktop and gaming market.
The move puts Intel ahead of its rival AMD by more than a few months, as AMD’s comparable desktop processor isn’t scheduled to launch until early next year.
"AMD now just doesn’t have a competitive chip against Intel on the desktop," says Patrick Wang, an analyst with brokerage firm Wedbush Morgan.
And until AMD launches its product, Intel is going to be the only option for consumers who want the latest chips for their computers, says Wang.
The Core i7 will be almost four to six times faster than Intel’s current platform, says the company, and will have greater power efficiency than ever. It is based on the 45-nanometer production technology that first appeared in a server chip called Xeon (aka Penryn), which debuted earlier this year.
The 45-nm chips utilize smaller circuitry than the previous, 65-nm generation, making them faster, and also enabling Intel to manufacture them more cheaply.
The new Core i7 chips are based on a newly designed microarchitecture called Nehalem, which includes major design changes in areas such as power management and integrated memory control.
The first three quad-core Core i7 chips from Intel will reintroduce "hyperthreading" technology, which gives the chips the ability to execute 8 threads simultaneously on 4 processing cores, greatly increasing their processing power. Hyperthreading was seen earlier in Pentium 4 chips and some Xeon processors from Intel.
Core i7 processors are also different from their predecessors in that they have "QuickPath," a new microarchitecture that integrates memory controller into each microprocessor. QuickPath will replace Front Side Bus used in
Xeon and Itanium platforms.
The move increases the bandwidth directly available to the processor, reducing lag time before a CPU can begin executing the next instruction.
"Core i7 will be one of the first Intel chips to integrate a memory controller," says Shane Rau, PC analyst at research firm IDC, "though it is something AMD has had for a while."
Intel is taking no chances with Core i7. The company has spent millions to test the chips and ensure flaws in it don’t trip it up, says The New York Times.
In the past, both Intel and AMD have paid a big price for bugs in their chips. In 1994, Intel’s Pentium chips sported a tiny error in floating-point calculation that led to a product recall.
More recently, AMD’s Barcelona range of chips that launched last year were delayed by months after discovery of flaws that among other things caused systems to lock up and crash.more
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Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks
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Linux,
Linux Foundation,
Microsoft,
Moblin,
Netbook,
Novell,
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Over the past few days I’ve been taking Intel’s Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks for a spin. Can Intel compete with its long-time partner Microsoft in the operating system game?
Moblin has had an odd history. Back in April Intel handed over its Moblin mobile Linux project to the Linux Foundation and many took that as a sign that the chip giant wanted to walk away from the project. However, since then Intel announced that it was working with Novell to bring Moblin to netbook desktops.It seems that rather than walk away from Moblin, Intel wanted the project to be seen as a Linux project and not an Intel project.
Moblin is an interesting project that’s based on a Fedora Linux backbone, it uses a GNOME desktop and apps. But it’s also different from every Linux distro I’ve seen too.
So how is Moblin different? Well, rather than being application-centric like most operating systems, it’s function-centric. So rather than firing up a browser, you have a specific tab on the menu bar to change your Twitter status or access the Internet. The home screen, called the M-Zone, is the user’s command center for seeing what social network pals are up to and communicating with them.
Does this function-centric approach work? Well, personally I don’t think it does. When I first loaded it up I was confronted by a whole raft of mystery meat navigation. The only way to figure out what something did was to randomly click about and see what happened. I’m not sure if the problem boils down to the interface just not being usable, or to whether the OS still needs a lot of work doing to it. The current state of the OS seems to turn a netbook into a very limited device, and I can see some users never being able to figure out how to add useful applications such as office apps onto their netbook. The same complaint could be leveled at any Windows-based system, but Linux distros usually make downloading and installing more apps easy.
This project could deliver a nice, workable OS for netbooks, but for now I’m left feeling that the OS turns a netbook into a Fisher Price “My First Twittering Netbook” platform.more
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ntel Corp. said it plans to appeal last week's European Commission decision to fine the company for violating antitrust laws.
The EC found Intel guilty of paying rebates to computer manufacturers and to Europe's largest IT retailer, Media Markt, in order to keep systems based on chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. off of store shelves. Although the rebates did result in lower retail prices for PCs, EC Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes contended that they left consumers without a choice of technologies.
Dean McCarron, an analyst at Mercury Research, noted that the substantial fine "amounts to about $23 for every CPU sold in Europe last year."
During a hastily arranged press conference, Intel CEO Paul Otellini argued that the EC "ignored or disregarded" evidence "refuting" the antitrust charges. "There were a number of documents from OEMs or between Intel and OEMs that refute what was claimed here," he said.
Otellini disputed a key EC allegation: that Intel paid "conditional" rebates to PC makers to prevent them from purchasing chips from competitors. The EC "alleged exclusive deals but couldn't find them, so it said we must have hidden ," he said, adding that the EC "got all of the documents that they wanted . . . so I'm really baffled."
Michael Cooper, an antitrust attorney at Bryan Cave LLC, criticized the EC's decision. "It is hardly clear that the EU's action will benefit consumers. The consumer rarely benefits when enforcers take actions to protect less-efficient firms from the rigors of competition."
Kroes said the antitrust action will protect consumers. "Intel has harmed millions of EU consumers," so the large fine -- the largest antitrust penalty the EC has ever levied against a single company -- should "come as no surprise," she said.
If Intel fails in its appeal, McCarron said the company's pricing structure could become "less complicated," with no more rebates.
This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld 's print edition.
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EU fines Intel $1.45 billion for sales tactics
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The European Union fined Intel Corp. a record euro1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday, saying the world's biggest computer chip maker used illegal sales tactics to shut out smaller rival AMD.
The fine exceeded a euro899 million monopoly abuse penalty for Microsoft Corp. last year. Intel called the decision "wrong" and said it would appeal.
Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, has about 80 percent of the world's personal computer microprocessor market — and faces just one real rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The European Commission says Intel broke EU competition law by exploiting its dominant position with a deliberate strategy to keep AMD out of the market that limited customer choice.
It said Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturers Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC for buying all or almost all their x86 computer processing units, or CPUs, from Intel and paid them to stop or delay the launch of computers based on AMD chips.
Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini said the company would appeal to the EU courts because "the decision is wrong" and "there has been absolutely zero harm to consumers." The company promised to comply with the EU order but criticized it as extremely ambiguous.
AMD's Europe president Giuliano Meroni said the EU order "will shift the power from an abusive monopolist to computer makers, retailers and above all PC consumers."
Regulators said the company also paid Germany's biggest electronics retailer, Media Saturn Holding — which owns the MediaMarkt superstores — from 2002 to 2007 to only stock Intel-based computers.
This meant workers at AMD's biggest European plant in Dresden, Germany, could not buy AMD-based personal computers at their city's main PC store.
"Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years," said EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. "Such a serious and sustained violation of the EU's antitrust rules cannot be tolerated."
Kroes joked that Intel would now have to change its latest global ad campaign — "sponsors of tomorrow" — to proclaiming "the sponsor of the European taxpayer."
"I can give my vision of tomorrow for Intel here and now: Abide by the law," she added.
EU regulators said they calculated Intel's fine on the value of its European chip sales over the five years and three months that it broke the law. Europeans buy some 30 percent of the euro22 billion ($30 billion) in computer chips sold every year.
They could have gone even higher as EU antitrust rules allow them to levy a fine of up to 10 percent of a company's annual global turnover for each year of bad behavior. Intel's worldwide turnover was euro27.9 billion ($38.8 billion) in 2007.
European consumers group BEUC welcomed the fine and said Intel should be held to account to consumers through civil suits in European courts. So far these are rare but the EU is urging victims of antitrust action to seek damages.
"Intel should be liable to compensate the victims of its illegal practices," said Monique Goyens, head of the group. "Consumers have been paying too much for their computers and they should be compensated."
The manufacturer rebates started in 2002, the EU said, with most ending in 2005 — apart from a 2007 deal for one unidentified company to only source notebook computer chips from Intel.
Regulators said rebates that give discounts for large orders are illegal when a monopoly company makes them conditional on buying less of a rival's products or not buying them at all.
Manufacturers depend on Intel to supply most of the chips they need and faced higher costs if they lost most or all of a rebate by choosing AMD chips for even a small order.
Hewlett-Packard buys a fifth of Intel chips with Dell taking 18 percent, according to market research from Hoovers.
The discounts were so steep that only a rival that sold chips for less than they cost to make would have any chance of grabbing customers, the EU executive said.
It said AMD offered 1 million free chips to one manufacturer — which could not accept because that would lose it a rebate on many millions of other chips. It only took 160,000 free chips in the end, regulators said.
Intel's payments to manufacturers ordered the company to delay the European launch of AMD's first business desktop by six months. They were also paid to only sell the AMD line to small and medium companies and to only offer them directly to customers instead of to retailers.
Other manufacturers were paid to postpone the launch of AMD-based notebooks by several months, from September 2003 to January 2004 and from September 2006 to the end of 2006 — missing the key Christmas market.
The European Commission said Intel tried to conceal the conditions attached to these payments and details only emerged from e-mails that regulators seized in surprise raids on the companies.
Regulators refused to rule out returning to other parts of their probe where they had investigated Intel's behavior in the server market and allegations of below-cost pricing designed to hurt AMD. Intel strongly denies these charges.
The EU charges also cover a time when AMD managed to take market share from Intel by launching higher performance microprocessors for servers in 2003, previously an Intel stronghold.
Intel fought back successfully by rolling out Core chips. More recently, it has grabbed more market share with Atom chips for netbooks.
EU regulators are not the only ones chasing Intel — South Korea fined the company $21 million last year.
And the U.S. may be stepping up action. The Federal Trade Commission upgraded a probe into Intel last year — and as the Obama administration is set to take a more aggressive approach against monopoly abuse by reversing a strict interpretation of antitrust law that saw regulators shun such cases.more
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Intel® 64 architecture delivers 64-bit computing on server, workstation, desktop and mobile platforms when combined with supporting software.¹ Intel 64 architecture improves performance by allowing systems to address more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory.
Intel 64 provides support for:
- 64-bit flat virtual address space
- 64-bit pointers
- 64-bit wide general purpose registers
- 64-bit integer support
- Up to one terabyte (TB) of platform address space
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HP Pavilion dv3510nr Notebook Reviewed
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Bluetooth,
GeForce,
Hewlett-Packard,
Intel Core 2,
Intel Corporation,
Laptop,
Nvidia
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HP Pavilion dv3510nr is a 13.3-inch notebook PC that can be configured with Intel or AMD platform. NotebookReview has tested the notebook. The reviewed unit is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 2GHz processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard NotebookReview’s comments: The HP Pavilion dv3510nr could be an impressive notebook given its features which include an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA 9300M GS graphics, and backlit keyboard inside a 13.3” chassis. What we got was a notebook that had some quality control issues, with a bowed, separating keyboard and a squeaky, flexible chassis. For almost $1,000 we expect a higher level of quality for a notebook. If the cost of the dv3510nr was between $500 and $600 some of the problems could be overlooked. On that note, HP currently offers the AMD-equipped dv3z for $679.99 if you are looking for an alternative to the Intel configuration.
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Intel® Desktop Board DP45SG
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ATX,
Hardware,
Intel Core,
Intel Corporation,
Microsoft Windows,
overclock,
PCI Express,
Windows Vista
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Welcome to the extreme performance platform brought to you by Intel® Desktop Board DP45SG, supporting the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor with up to 1333 FSB. Built in the full size ATX, this board comes with dual PCI Express* (PCIe) 2.0 x16 graphics connectors, DDR-3 1333 support and overclocking capabilities. Intel® Desktop Board DP45SG will take your gaming experience to a higher level.
Intel Desktop Board DP45SG supports Dolby Home Theater* and is Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium WHQL certified.
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Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO
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ATI Technologies,
Central processing unit,
Components,
Hardware,
Intel Corporation,
motherboard,
Nvidia,
Processors,
Scalable Link Interface
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The Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO is designed to unleash the power of the all new Intel® Core™ i7 processors with support for up to eight threads of raw CPU processing power, triple channel DDR3 memory and full support for ATI CrossfireX* and NVIDIA SLI* technology. Today’s PC games like Far Cry 2* need a computing platform that delivers maximum multi-threaded CPU support and eye-popping graphics support.
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Intel Tweaks Atom Netbook Designs for China
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Anand Chandrasekher,
Beijing,
China,
Intel Atom,
Intel Corporation,
Intel Developer Forum,
Linux,
Personal computer
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Intel is expanding its cooperation with small Chinese PC makers as it offers partners netbook designs tweaked for niche customers in China.
The designs are part of a program targeting small PC manufacturers that aims to tap new markets for Intel's Atom microprocessor in netbooks, or ultra-portable notebooks, an Intel spokesman said Tuesday.
The program, called Hurdle, offers designs that meet specific price targets and the hardware and software requirements of Intel's Chinese partners, the spokesman said.
The designs are based on Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor and are intended for netbooks running Linux with 8.9-inch or 10.2-inch screens and priced as low as 1,750 yuan (US$256), according to Chinese media reports.
Intel sees netbooks as a "significant opportunity" in China and elsewhere, said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing last week.
Intel is following an industry trend by turning to small Chinese manufacturers to boost its sales in a troubled economy, said Simon Ye, an analyst at Gartner.
Small Chinese PC makers have a tarnished image and are known in local slang as "mountain stronghold" firms for quality problems and generic brand names one might expect of companies found in undeveloped areas.
That reputation discouraged hardware providers from dealing with the firms until the recent rise of netbooks made low-cost products essential, Ye said. PCs from small manufacturers in China sell best to cost-sensitive consumers often outside of booming coastal cities.
But "mountain stronghold" netbooks doing well in the recession may not remain popular in China for long, Ye said. Users will still be willing to pay more for a netbook from another firm if quality issues afflict the small brands, he said.
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