Just in time for the holidays
By Egan Orion: Tuesday, 14 October 2008
SOUTH KOREAN electronics heavyweight Samsung is re-entering the US laptop market to join in the holiday buying season. It unveiled a broad array of four notebook models in the US on Tuesday. The company hopes to lure potential customers away from Apple's super-slim Macbook Air notebook, smaller netbooks and bulkier desktop replacement laptop PCs. In addition to its aim at Apple, Samsung seems to want to take some market share from all the other laptop sellers in the US, including primarily HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony and Asustek.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Macbook pre-launch gets a deFUDding
Crystal Balls Less is more, come Snow Leopard
By Paul Taylor: Tuesday, 14 October 2008
WITH THE RUMOUR mill on overdrive, one bit of info rings true in the misty FUD-o'-war: Apple adding Nvidia chipsets to its feature list. The reason for this is simple: Apple has been making the case for Open CL since it announced its Snow Leopard back in June. Simply put, it needs Nvidia’s CUDA to enable Open CL. This makes it a reasonable assumption that Apple chooses to stick with Nvidia chipsets and GPUs, not just in the mobile but desktop market. Should you not have noticed the Open CL footnote on the Snow Leopard announcement, Open CL is the CUDA/GPGPU end of business inside the OS. The general idea is to use Open CL to dump CPU overhead to the GPU or simply aid in processing stuff like audio and video transcoding, essentially making GPUs a pro-active bit of your operating system’s resources. You can feel the Mac movie makers quiver at the thought.
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By Paul Taylor: Tuesday, 14 October 2008
WITH THE RUMOUR mill on overdrive, one bit of info rings true in the misty FUD-o'-war: Apple adding Nvidia chipsets to its feature list. The reason for this is simple: Apple has been making the case for Open CL since it announced its Snow Leopard back in June. Simply put, it needs Nvidia’s CUDA to enable Open CL. This makes it a reasonable assumption that Apple chooses to stick with Nvidia chipsets and GPUs, not just in the mobile but desktop market. Should you not have noticed the Open CL footnote on the Snow Leopard announcement, Open CL is the CUDA/GPGPU end of business inside the OS. The general idea is to use Open CL to dump CPU overhead to the GPU or simply aid in processing stuff like audio and video transcoding, essentially making GPUs a pro-active bit of your operating system’s resources. You can feel the Mac movie makers quiver at the thought.
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HP warns of Nvidia problems
38 Slimline models buggered
By John Oates, 14th October 2008
HP has offered free repairs for 38 models of its Pavillion Slimline range of desktop machines, which are having problems with Nvidia graphics units. Last week, Apple admitted similar problems with MacBook Pros and offered free repairs to affected customers. HP said on its support site that the problem was "attributable to the computer's motherboard". Some machines either have problems booting or will not show video. The company is offering a free repair for anyone with a non-working machine which is within 12 months of the expiry of its warranty, or until 31 December 2009, whichever is sooner.
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By John Oates, 14th October 2008
HP has offered free repairs for 38 models of its Pavillion Slimline range of desktop machines, which are having problems with Nvidia graphics units. Last week, Apple admitted similar problems with MacBook Pros and offered free repairs to affected customers. HP said on its support site that the problem was "attributable to the computer's motherboard". Some machines either have problems booting or will not show video. The company is offering a free repair for anyone with a non-working machine which is within 12 months of the expiry of its warranty, or until 31 December 2009, whichever is sooner.
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