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Submission + - The best SSD for under $100 (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: The major issue with SSD adoption over the past few years has been price, the astronomically high price when you are counting in hundreds of gigabytes. TechSpot is running a comparison review looking at 8 popular SSDs that cost $100 or less, featuring capacities of up to 128GB. The contenders include the OCZ Vertex 4 128GB, Samsung 840 120GB and Crucial m4 128GB, along with affordable SSDs from Kingston and Samsung 830 64GB that still offers stellar performance for under $70.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft at War: Keeping Score of Redmond's Successes and Failures (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Microsoft sits on the edge of a product launch that is plainly among the most important in the company’s history. Pundits can and will pontificate on Windows 8’s chances. However, what might be more useful is looking at Microsoft’s other make or break moments. The upcoming launch is far from the first time that Redmond has fought with its back against a wall. A backward glance at these moments, and careful evaluation of them, may provide a better, ahem, window into the company’s chances this Winter.
Windows

Submission + - Windows 8 RTM benchmarked (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Microsoft's PR machine has been hard at work over the past few months, trying to explain the numerous improvements Windows 8 has received on the backend. But are there real tangible performance differences compared to Windows 7? TechSpot has grabbed the RTM version of Windows 8 measuring and testing the performance of various aspects of the operating system including: boot up and shutdown times, file copying, encoding, browsing, gaming and some synthetic benchmarks.
Hardware

Submission + - Raspberry Pi Reviewed, Initial Setup Guide (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: It has been six years in the making, with the original goal of the project intending to reignite computer programming in schools across the country. Despite those honorable intentions, the $35 ARM-based credit-card sized computer has captured the imagination of programmers, consumers and tinkerers alike, resulting in unprecedented demand for the product.

Last month the first 10,000 credit-card sized computers were set to make their way to those who pre-ordered them back in February. TechSpot takes a look at the Pi Model B, covering the basic steps for setting up the computer, as well as basic post-installation tasks those first using it might encounter.
Hardware

Submission + - Ivy Bridge makes its debut, Core i7-3770K reviewed

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Today is the day that Ivy Bridge gets official. Its name truly embodies its purpose. While Sandy Bridge was a bridge to a new architecture, Ivy connects a different set of things. It's a bridge to 22nm, warming the seat before Haswell arrives. It's a bridge to a new world of notebooks that are significantly thinner and more power efficient than what we have today. It's a means to the next chapter in the evolution of the PC. Reviews from the usual experts are now out: AnandTech, TechSpot, Hothardware, ExtremeTech.
Hardware

Submission + - SSD caching for your HDD: Two solutions that work

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Crucial announced their latest SSD series called Adrenaline last January. Not meant to replace their existing m4 SSDs, the Adrenaline is a cache solution meant to work along your existing disk drive, using a 50GB SSD to act as solid state flash-based cache for your larger primary hard drive.

OCZ also offers a similar caching solution called Synapse, which comes in 64GB and 128GB capacities. This is not to be confused with a previous product that similarly tried to marry a traditional disk drive to a SSD for caching purposes (Revodrive Hybrid). Both Crucial and OCZ latest offerings work extremely well under the right circumstances, enhancing disk performance even though they are based on different hardware controllers, but the same software that handles the caching of data.
Hardware

Submission + - AMD Radeon HD 7870Radeon HD 7850 Launched (anandtech.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Today AMD is taking the wraps off the final piece of the Southern Islands puzzle: Pitcairn. The middle child of the family, it will be the basis of AMD’s $250+ enthusiast segment Radeon HD 7800 series. We’ve seen AMD capture the high-end with the 7900 series and struggle to control the mainstream market with the 7700 series, but how does the 7800 series fare amidst AMD’s lead in deploying 28nm GPUs? Reviews are now out from Anandtech, Tech Report, TechSpot and HardOCP.
Data Storage

Submission + - HDD Pricewatch: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices (techspot.com) 1

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months.
Hardware

Submission + - The Year in Tech: 2011 Most Relevant Stories (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Twenty-eleven is almost over and it's time to look back at some of the most relevant stories of 2011. TechSpot has published a brief recount of tech happenings in six categories: Desktop CPUs and Graphics, Hardware Industry, Devices and Components, Software, Gaming, Mobile Computing and The Web.
Hardware

Submission + - Building the perfect ultrabook – and where P (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: Ultraportables, thin and light laptops, ultrabooks, no matter what the name, arguably they represent the future of the form factor. It appears as though we're just now arriving to that sweet spot where fewer compromises can be made to build fast and svelte machines that are budget-friendly, all at the same time.

However, it's easy to miss what a true next-generation ultraportable notebook should be. Manufacturers are short-sighted if they only focus on building fast machines that weigh 3 pounds or less, without putting design and user experience at the core of their future developments.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Sandy Bridge-E Arrives: Core i7-3960X Review (techspot.com)

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jjslash
jjslash writes: "With the Sandy Bridge processors hitting full stride, the recent release of AMD’s Bulldozer processors was not enough to slow sales. Meanwhile, Intel is preparing to strike back by bolstering their 2nd generation Core processors even further.

Today marks the arrival of Sandy Bridge-E and three new processors which include the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition, Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3820. Powered by the new X79/LGA2011 platform supporting quad channel memory and up to 40 lanes of PCIe 2.0 bandwidth."
AMD

Submission + - AMD's Bulldozer CPUs make its debut (techspot.com)

Submitted by jjslash
jjslash writes: The Phenom II has had to deal with the Intel Core i7 on multiple platforms, as well as the Core i5 and Core i3 processors, for almost 3 years now. After all this time, is the pain finally coming to an end for AMD? Today AMD is launching its new FX processor lineup comprised of the flagship FX-8150 along with the FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4170 processors. TechSpot explores the inner details of AMD's new FX series and runs benchmarks on all four to see how they stack up against Sandy Bridge.

Submission + - Full-Tilt Poker Is A Real Ponzi Scheme (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by blair1q
blair1q writes: Popular (and heavily advertised) poker website Full-Tilt Poker was sued today by the US Government, following an investigation that revealed it to be a massive Ponzi Scheme. The principals in the company set up a complicated system to direct funds from subscribers' poker accounts into their own bank accounts. This was in contravention of their own claim that users' money was untouched. Players' accounts amounted to $390 million, but the company only has $60 million in the bank, having over time distributed $440 million to its own directors and executives.
Hardware

Submission + - Nvidia reveals 5th core in upcoming Kal-El SoC (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nvidia today revealed some interesting new details about Tegra 2's much-anticipated successor. As it turns out Kal-El will include a fifth core, or companion core, built using a "special low power silicone process" which works on tasks at a low frequency. Each of these cores is an ARM Cortex A9 CPU that's individually enabled and disabled based on workload, but all five can't run at once.
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Submission + - Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Since 2009

Submitted by MightyMartian
MightyMartian writes: According to CNN Money, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since its launch in 2009. But it gets even better. If you include Microsoft's other online offerings, all the way back to 2007, the losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 billion.

But not to worry, analysts expect Bing to become profitable in "three to four years".

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