Monthly Archives: June 2009

Netbook owners are more likely to be disappointed with their machines than people who purchase larger and more expensive laptops, a retail research firm said today. Continue reading →

The Web site of an Iranian research institute has posted the specifications of a high-performance computer that it built using AMD dual-core Opteron chips despite a U.S. trade embargo. Continue reading →

We tested two popular laptop drives, the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB hard drive and the OCZ Vertex 120GB solid-state disk drive to determine just what you get for your money. Some of the results were surprising. Continue reading →

The Web site of an Iranian research institute has posted the specifications of a high performance computer that it built using AMD dual core Opteron chips. Continue reading →

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released the next generation of its software for measuring both the performance and power use of Web servers. Continue reading →

AMD can’t catch a break. First to market with a tweener processor (more powerful than a netbook, but cheaper than the usual fare found in ultraportables), its Athlon Neo CPU is now under fire from Intel’s new Ultra Low Voltage chip, and one of the firs… Continue reading →