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Rumor points to iPad HD name for next iPad by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:32 AM on March 6, 2012 Tomorrow morning, Apple will finally show its third-generation iPad to the world. Today, the iPad 3 rumor mill is grinding harder than ever. The rumor... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	24
A sneak peek at Asus' next-gen Intel motherboards by Geoff Gasior — 2:00 AM on March 6, 2012 Curious about how motherboard makers are tackling Intel's Sandy Bridge successor? We take an early look at Asus' 7-series family to see what's... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards	47
Deal of the week: Storage bonanza by Geoff Gasior — 1:27 PM on March 2, 2012 Despite the relatively high price of mechanical drives, the storage space is still teeming with sweet deals. Most of the discounts are hitting solid-state drives,... Type: News story Tags: Storage	41
High-DPI iPad 3 displays said to be in short supply by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:49 AM on March 2, 2012 Apple products are almost always hard to come by soon after their launch. People queue up at stores, place pre-orders, and sometimes wait days or... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	48
Rumor: 7.85'' iPad to hit production later than expected by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on March 1, 2012 As we count down the days to next week's iPad 3 launch event, the rumor mill is already grinding on about the next shiny Apple... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	38
Toshiba becomes third player in WD's acquisition of Hitachi storage by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on February 29, 2012 As part of its bid to acquire Hitachi's hard drive business, Western Digital has agreed to transfer an "asset package" to rival HDD maker... Type: News story Tags: Storage	18
Apple sets iPad 3 launch for March 7 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 29, 2012 Putting an end to months of tireless speculation, Apple announced the launch date for its next iPad yesterday. And, from what we can tell, the... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	97
A-Data serves up extra capacity for SandForce SSDs by Geoff Gasior — 4:06 PM on February 28, 2012 ... Type: News story Tags: Storage	14
$200 USB stick offers ARM CPU, HDMI output by Geoff Gasior — 11:58 AM on February 28, 2012 People always seem to be surprised that an operating system can run entirely from a USB thumb drive. Imagine what they'll think of FXI Technologies'... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	51
Dell's 13-inch ultrabook goes up for sale by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 28, 2012 The first Dell consumer ultrabook is here, and it can be yours—if you're willing to part with $999, that is. Dell has started taking... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	36
Asus shows new tablets, PadFone by Geoff Gasior — 11:28 AM on February 27, 2012 The Mobile World Congress is on in Barcelona, Spain right now, and Asus is using the event to show off some new additions to its... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	32
Deal of the week: Games, games, games by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:39 PM on February 24, 2012 Solid hardware deals seem scarcer than usual this week, but there are plenty of game download deals to make up for that—especially at Amazon. Let's see...... Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming	22
Linsanity spreads to motherboard market by Geoff Gasior — 12:23 PM on February 24, 2012 Well, I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. ASRock has become the first company in the PC industry to hop on the Linsanity... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	58
Release roundup: High-end gear and a neat SATA dock by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:04 PM on February 23, 2012 This week in the roundup, we bring tidings of fresh product launches from ASRock, PowerColor, Thermaltake, and Spire: ASRock and Fatal1ty... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cooling Storage	40
Ice Cream Sandwich update trickling out to original Transformer tablets by Geoff Gasior — 12:04 PM on February 23, 2012 I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream... sandwich, that is. In a post on its Facebook page, Asus has announced... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	24
Via QuadCore CPU rides in on new Mini-ITX boards by Geoff Gasior — 11:11 AM on February 23, 2012 Remember the QuadCore CPU Via introduced last spring? We've been waiting for the chip to pop up in actual products, and now it... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards	40
SanDisk ramps 19-nm, 128 Gb flash chips by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 23, 2012 And the next stepping stone on the way to uber-cheap solid-state drives has been laid. SanDisk says it has begun shipping 128Gb multi-level-cell NAND... Type: News story Tags: Storage	34
Hitachi's 7-mm Travelstar Z7K500 eyes Ivy Bridge ultrabooks by Geoff Gasior — 2:01 AM on February 22, 2012 Although most 2.5" hard drives measure 9.5 mm thick, ultraportables are increasingly using slimmer 7-mm models. Hitachi says it's shipped 25 million of the slender... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	15

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

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