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- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising demo hits the web
With the surge of new and exciting games coming out this season, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, demos aren't an extinct species just yet. As Shacknews reports, Codemasters has just released a demo of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, its tactical military first-person shooter that came out last month.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:31 PM on 11/18/09 - Funny-looking Adamo XPS laptop goes up for sale
Ever felt like spending almost two large on a really thin laptop with a weird hinge design? Well, now you can. After revealing the Adamo XPS to bemused onlookers last month, Dell has begun taking orders for the premium notebook. The 0.39-inch-thin Adamo XPS costs $1,799 in its default...
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Last by d0g_p00p at 2:02 PM on 11/19/09 - Nvidia photo shows running Fermi-based GeForce
In case you missed the big news, Nvidia announced its first Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for high-performance computing apps yesterday. So as not to disappoint GeForce fans longing for some DirectX 11 goodness, the company has now posted a photo of a Fermi-based GeForce in action on its Facebook profile.
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Last by Meadows at 1:20 PM on 11/20/09 - Report: RAM might get cheaper next month
Memory prices have sure swelled up over the past couple of months. In September, 4GB DDR2-800 kits were selling for as little as 40 bucks, but today, the cheapest ones go for almost $90. No wonder memory vendors are finally hopeful about recovery in this long-troubled market. Consumers...
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Last by packfan_dave at 11:52 AM on 11/19/09 - Google plans Chrome OS event for tomorrow
On Friday, the folks at TechCrunch quoted a "reliable source" as saying Google's Chrome OS would become available within a week. That may well turn out to be true. The same site now says it has been notified that Google will hold a "special Chrome OS event" at...
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Last by UberGerbil at 12:34 PM on 11/19/09 - GIS Day Shortbread
GIS Day Boy Genius Report: Apple Black Friday deals leaked? C|Net reports Gartner says chip sales will rebound in 2010 AMD-Nvidia showdown looms as demand for graphics recovers Donanim Haber reports Nvidia Fermi...
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Last by Meadows at 1:10 AM on 11/19/09 - $700 MSI 'nettop' has dual-core Pentium, Nvidia graphics
MSI's latest Wind "nettop" doesn't have the looks or software of Apple's iMac, but it's definitely not far from it in terms of hardware. Unlike previous all-in-one nettops, the new Wind AE2220 features a dual-core Pentium T4300 processor clocked...
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Last by shaq_mobile at 10:56 AM on 11/20/09 - OCZ lets loose the Colossus
After five months in limbo, the Colossus has finally made it out into the wild. We speak, of course, of OCZ's new 3.5" solid-state drive family, which combines impressive performance with even more impressive capacities thanks to a...
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Last by LoneWolf15 at 1:40 PM on 11/19/09 - Catalyst 9.11 drivers introduce Flash 10.1 support
Radeon users don't have to jealously watch their GeForce-using friends enjoy GPU-accelerated Flash video playback any longer. AMD has released its Catalyst 9.11 graphics drivers, bringing official support for the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta plug-in. You can grab these new drivers for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in...
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Last by StuG at 9:31 AM on 11/18/09 - Latest NZXT case is big on cooling, cable management
Is that gigantic Corsair case we reviewed earlier this week a little too rich for your blood? If so, you may want to check out NZXT's new king-sized Tempest EVO enclosure, which has some of the same features but a much more affordable $99.99 suggested retail price. The Tempest...
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Last by holto243 at 5:08 AM on 11/19/09 - 13.3'' Asus UL30Vt laptop has discrete graphics
Fresh from launching the first wave of UL (a.k.a. UnLimited) family of ultraportable notebooks, Asus has struck again, this time with a 13.3" model that couples switchable discrete graphics with typical CULV hardware and portability. The Asus UL30Vt has a 13.3" 1366x768 display, a choice of dual- or single-core...
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Last by KikassAssassin at 12:30 AM on 11/19/09 - Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday Fudzilla reports graphics shortage to continue DigiTimes reports PC price cuts for 2009 year-end holiday season may not be as deep as in 2008 and AMD VP visits Taiwan to seek more support from motherboard...
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Last by wira020 at 9:03 AM on 11/18/09 - GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Last by insulin_junkie72 at 5:14 PM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia announces Fermi-based Tesla GPUs
Don't we all love a good paper launch? Fermi-based graphics processors may not be ready for stores just yet, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from announcing its first Tesla products based on the new architecture. These Tesla 20-series offerings include two workstation cards and two quad-GPU workstation systems, all...
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Last by lycium at 4:39 AM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia unveils GeForce GT 240
As it continues to work on next-generation graphics processor for the high end, Nvidia is also refreshing the mainstream portion of its product line. A pair of low-end 40-nm GeForce 200 GPUs targeted at pre-built PCs first appeared on Nvidia's website in July before hitting retailers in...
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Last by kc77 at 8:59 PM on 11/18/09 - Borderlands zombie expansion shown on video
Completed Gearbox Entertainment's Borderlands? Sick of the multiplayer mode? Don't uninstall the game just yet. Shacknews reported last week that an expansion pack entitled The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was on its way for consoles on November 24, with a PC version to follow some time later. Well,...
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Last by Grahambo at 1:59 AM on 11/19/09 - Microsoft warns of Windows 7 zero-day flaw
Is this the first zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft's new operating system? According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a flaw through which attackers could crash Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Reportedly, exploiting the flaw can bog down those operating systems "so thoroughly that the...
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Last by TO11MTM at 7:58 PM on 11/17/09 - Upcoming Lenovo netbook has Pine Trail, buttonless touchpad
Pine Trail approaches. We first saw netbooks based on the system-on-a-chip successor to Intel's Atom processor at Computex in June, and today, the folks at SlashGear have dug up some FCC documents that reveal an upcoming Pine Trail system from Lenovo. One of the labels photographed details the system's...
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Last by UberGerbil at 12:56 PM on 11/17/09
