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Enano

As we are now starting to see 1000 watt PC power supplies, I was interested to see the Enano PC. This is a PC in a 8.8″ x 6.8″ x 1.65″ footprint which uses power sparingly – about 20-25 watts

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What Are We Supposed To Think? . . .

First, we have AMD run a test between Opterons and Barcelonas which seems to indicate that (after taking into account the extra cores) Barcelonas are at best only minimally better than Opterons. No clock speeds, no nothing about the specs

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A Real Virtual War . . .

It is Memorial Day in the United States today, but let’s not talk about warriors of the past or present today. Instead, let’s be imaginative, perhaps a bit bizarre, and look at war from a different angle. Many reading this

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A Sixpack Special . . .

If you need to get a plain vanilla box for a Sixpack with plain vanilla computer needs, you can certainly do worse than this one. For $369, you get a 65nm Athlon 64 X2 4000+ running at 2.1GHz, 2Gb of

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Empire

We’ve recently ran some articles on Ubuntu as an up-and-coming freeware contender in the OS market. While not there yet, Ubuntu’s commitment and resources make it a serious contender. Apparently Microsoft is not about to step aside and let these

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Classmate vs. XO, Part II . . .

In part one of this piece, we spoke a bit about the differences between Intel and OLPC, both in their organizational attitudes and their machines. However, such differences dwindle down to trivialities compared to the real issue: How much bang

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OLPC vs. Classmate . . .

Over the past few months, Intel has gotten into competition against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization . In a nutshell, the OLPC people want to design and sell very cheap laptops for children in developing countries. Initially, the

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“All Powerpoint But No Product” . . .

(If you’re clueless on either Little Orphan Annie or the song “Tomorrow,” well, now you’re not. :)) Yes, this is about AMD, again, but I didn’t come up with the title, Digitimes did Digitimes isn’t normally known for such curt