SUMMARY: Escalating PC heat = larger heatsinks; running out of room?? Intel’s Prescott hit the market and it seems like Moore’s Law hit a snag – heat. The CPU heatsink manufacturers responded along two dimensions – increasing surface area with
Yesterday, I mentioned that AMD had an analyst conference with with lots and lots of slides Today, let’s look at more of them, and see what they tell us. For The Short and Medium-Term This confirms much of what we
Over the past few months, there’s been a growing amount of talk that AMD is having this huge surge in demand. A particularly vehement assertion of this can be found here: Unfortunately, unless you think there are millions of people
Introduction/Background This article will show the owners of Pentium M / Celeron M laptops how to optimize the power management features to get more battery life, less noise and less heat output from your trusty laptop. I will be optimizing
The following is a review of the Asus M3N centrino notebook. I bought this machine on Ebay, it was an open box barebones kit. The specs on the M3N (and mine in particular) are as follows: Processor Type : Intel
SUMMARY: Dothan Pentium M CPUs offer users “low power” overclocking. Having played around a bit with Intel’s mobile CPU Pentium M (Dothan) in a laptop, I have been impressed with the ease at overclocking this CPU – switch the FSB
I’ve had my HP ZE5517EA laptop for almost 1.5 years now. Lately it sometimes BSOD’s or simply locks up. It’s been returned to HP when it was still under warranty but they sent it back, stating “fault not reproduced, updated
There’s a voice among Macsters that is crying out loud after the switch. What it is crying out is, “Macs won’t be special anymore.” (this is just an indirect way of saying, “I won’t be special anymore,” but we’ll leave
Heat And Apple I got two emails this morning. One asked me to comment on a blog talking about the heat-related reasons why Apple would decide to go with Intel; the other asked me why AMD wasn’t chosen rather than
The biggest reason why Apple moving to Intel is a good move for Apple hasn’t even been mentioned by Apple yet. It can be illustrated by two conversations, one Before Intel, one After Intel: Before Intel MacLover: You’re getting a