It’s one thing to cram a PC inside of an old N64 case. It’s another thing to aim for a fanless design. And it’s downright dreamy to slap OS X on the 30GB SSD, effectively turning this into the coolest Hackintosh you’ll ever lay eyes upon. While the modder, “Polvorito”, didn’t succeed with the fanless goal (that little Intel Atom N330 CPU kept overheating), simply admiring the combination of CPU, GPU, Wi-Fi, HDMI and optical...
Of all the tech matrimony’s I could dream up, Intel and McAfee is not at the top of my list. But that’s precisely what’s happening. The way McAfee currently does business is by paying distributers (pc manufacturers like Dell) to pre-install their security software before the PC is shipped out. Perhaps Intel is looking for some type of hardware approach to security so they don’t have to pay distributers and partners for the right to include their...
A CPU is a bland looking piece of silicon and various metals. Not much to look at, right? Well, if you’re a geek’s geek, that statement couldn’t be any less true. Truth be told, computer hardware is hot. With that said, take a look at the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge CPU with all of it’s beauty on display (more or less). Here you can see the result of a higher 2011 pin count over the outgoing king of the hill’s 1366 — a larger,...
USB 3 and eSATA may be the king and queen when it comes to external speed, but no technology is more promising than Intel’s Light Peak. While USB 3.0 was a marginal, linear progression from USB 2.0 and 1.0 before it, Light Peak is exponentially faster. For example, USB 3.0 has a theoretical top speed of 5.0Gbps. Though real-world speeds tend to hover around 100-130MB/s. Still, that’s a helluva lot better than their previous technologies. Light Peak on the...
Well if this turns out to be as serious as it sounds, it’ll be a massive blow to Intel’s image (in my book) and give plenty of people reason to switch to AMD. As the story goes, Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge platform will completely switch up the current Core i3/i5/i7 way of overclocking. As it stands now, overclocking enthusiasts ramp up the base clock (which starts at 133MHz) in order to speed up the processor itself and RAM — those are the two...
