News: Hardware

• Deutsche Bank turns to blade servers in eco-push
  Siobhan Chapman
  May 08 2009

  Moving to blade servers will help Deutsche Bank to significantly cut its carbon footprint, improve its datacentre efficiency and also slash costs, an executive has revealed. Financial services giant ...

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• Apple breaks into UK Top 5 PC makers
  Lexton Snol
  May 08 2009

  While UK PC sales slid by 5.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, Apple's Mac sales grew 6.6 percent to take the company into the UK top five for the first time (replacing Fujitsu ...

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• Climbing Mount Everest with a MacBook Pro and iPod
  Jim Dalrymple
  May 08 2009

  If you're planning an exhibition to conquer Mount Everest, you need to make sure you have all have of the necessary supplies. If you're list of supplies is anything like the most recent group to ...

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• An Android netbook? "It would be a nonstarter" says one analyst
  Agam Shah
  May 07 2009

  Reports that Dell might use Google's Android OS in a netbook raises questions about what the device might look like and whether Android is ready for use beyond smartphones. Software vendor Bsquare ...

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• Nvidia looks to mobile chips for growth
  Agam Shah
  May 07 2009

  Graphics hardware vendor Nvidia saw its revenue drop during the first quarter of 2010 but is pinning its hopes on mobile devices for growth during the recession. Revenue was US$664.2 million for the ...

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• Safe Sleep and the 'White Screen of Death'
  Derik DeLong
  May 07 2009

  Going hand in hand with my earlier observations about the MacBook's sleep battery usage, I gave myself quite a scare by leaving my MacBook asleep unplugged for an extended amount of time. I plugged ...

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• Intel to stop shipping one Core i7 model later this year
  Sumner Lemon
  May 06 2009

  Intel plans to stop selling one of its high-end desktop chips this year, less than one year after it was released, the company confirmed Thursday. The 2.93GHz Core i7 940 processor is one of three ...

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• Intel's Atom chip finding its way into servers
  Agam Shah
  May 06 2009

  Intel's Atom processor is starting to find its way into some types of servers, bringing a new low-power option for end-users but raising a potential business challenge for Intel. Hewlett-Packard has ...

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• AMD Launches New Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU
  PC World India staff
  May 06 2009

  AMD Wednesday announced the AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU, which is basically a 65nm quad core Phenom with two cores disabled, hence making it a dual core CPU. Apart from being a dual core it ...

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• Amazon's near-$500 price tag kills Kindle DX buzz
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  May 06 2009

  When it comes to e-readers, the hype machine has gotten ahead of the reality. Earlier this week, photos of the super-slim, sexy Plastic Logic Reader -- not available until next year -- circulated ...

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