Eurocom Leaks Details Of The Upcoming GeForce GTX 480M
Eurocom might have let the cat out of the bag a little early as it has updated the specifications of its X8100 Leopard mobile workstation notebook to include a GeForce GTX 480M graphics chip, probably to replace NVIDIA’s 280M. The chip is described as using the Fermi architecture, and offers a large 2GB worth of [...]
Shuttle To Unveil Its J3 Small mold Factor PC At Computex
Small style factor (SFF) computers don’t have to be weak, and Shuttle is planning to unveil its highly-anticipated Shuttle J3 SFF PC in Taiwan during the upcoming Computex 2010 in Taipei. whether you needed a reason to buy that computer, you only need to go through its specifications, which include a 3.33GHz Intel Core i7-980X [...]
Adobe Releases Flash For Mac Beta With GPU Acceleration
Adobe has just released Gala, the first version of Flash for the Mac that supports GPU-based hardware acceleration, taking advantage of OS X 10.6.3’s hardware video decoding API, pushing the task of decoding H.264 videos to the graphics chipset rather than the main processor, easing the strain on the system and helping to preserve battery [...]
EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW Graphics Card Now Up For Pre-order
Shopping around for a new graphic card? EVGA has started to take pre-orders for its upcoming GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW graphic card. Specifications of that water cooled graphics card include 448 CUDA cores, a 320-bit memory interface, 3-way SLI support, 1280MB or GDDR5 memory and dual-DVI and mini HDMI outputs. whether the water [...]
Macbook Pro: GeForce 330M Always On in Windows 7
It looks like the Macbook Pro battery life “curse” under Windows is still haunting us, even with the most recent hardware release. The 2009 Macbook Pro had ability management issues with the display (too bright) and the keyboard backlight (always on). Both issues have now been corrected (yay!). However, it seems that on the new Macbook [...]
Asus N82J notebook gets Optimus graphics management
Asus’ latest multimedia-oriented notebook, the N82J, will be powered by a choice of Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors as well as having the Nvidia Optimus graphics management which allows you to seamlessly transit within a committed GeForce GT335M 1GB video card or an integrated Intel GPU, depending on your current needs. Apart from [...]