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more about #nvidia IN THE FACE!: pixie dust and unicorn vomit. more » dagamer34: Possibility 2 won't happen. Apple's products have only once regressed in performance and that was with the lowly selling "Mac Mini". If they tried to ... more » Fanwashere: i'm thinking Intel is probably gonna make some custom i7/i5 for the Macbook to use with nVidia GPUs. more » Leonard Nimrod: I expect Core-3, Core-5, GPS chip, and optical drive finally removed. Remove the ODD and you have plenty of room for cooling, space to improve battery... more » YuImbicile: They as in Apple do own a chipset company, do they not? more » mruler360: Perhaps this could have something to do with Apple's recent CPU maker acquisitions. Maybe Apple will now not only design and manufacture the computer ... more » OMG! Ponies!: Any word on whether the next generation of MacBook Pros will be able to accurately display colors without yellowing? more » Hospitals in Hawaii?: It's good to see some true competition in an industry. Back when I built my PC several years back, Nvidia was whooping ATI cards both in performance, ... more » CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: Brian, are you channeling Curb Your Enthusiasm with the "prettty" good repetitions? Or am I thinking things. more » NotSoSiniSter: ATI is whipping Nvidia with the 5000 series cards. Nvidia is losing money fast, they better get cards out that will kick ATI in the ass so the tables ... more » vagrawal: So Google started selling netbooks also? The next thing you know, you'll be buying a Google Car. more » Nitesh Singh: Are you serious? Even if they launched TODAY, it would be too little too late. more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: I gotta admit, the idea of a $300 netbook with a cellphone contract is kind of lame. more » bagellord: This would be sweet for school. Don't have to rely on school's crappy wifi and I don't have to lug my MBP around. more » vantagex4: Curb Your Enthusiasm! more » Kyle Green: Your mock up picture has a windows key on it. Fail :) more » Kirkaiya: I wonder if NVidia was genuinely taken by surprise by the Radeon HD 59xx cards? I mean - they were expecting the 5870, and must have been planning fo... more » aThingOrTwo: Technically it won't be installed with Google Apps… It won't be installed with anything other than Chrome. more » pakimetalhed: that loading bar roght there, infact the whole layout of loading screen kinda looks like xp more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: If it's mostly for cloud computing, why are they including a 64 GB SSD? They could have made it a bit cheaper without that drive. Of course, these sp... more » -
#macbook
What's Inside the Next MacBooks?
Intel's announcing superfast and incredibly efficient new notebook processors soon. They're the biggest jump in notebook hardware since the Core 2 Duo. But we might not see them in MacBooks for a while. More » -
#rumor
Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leaked: Multi-touch, SSD, and More
Google's Chrome OS netbook's rumored specs are out, and they're looking pretttty, pretttty, prettttty good. More » -
#graphicscards
Nvidia Fermi Now Delayed by 4 Months, ATI Licks Its Chops
According to a report on DigiTimes, Nvidia's new 40nm DirectX 11-friendly Fermi chipset, after encountering development delays, has been pushed back again. Originally slated for November 09, now we're looking at March 2010 for the release. Meanwhile, ATI will release its comparable 40nm chips in January or February. [DigiTimes] -
#processors
Next-Gen Nvidia Ion Is Pine-Trail-Compatible, Promises Better Performance
Intel's Pine Trail Atom chips are pretty disappointing in the power department, so it's good to see Nvidia step up with a new, Pine-Trail-compatible line of Ion chips. If you want to watch HD YouTube on a netbook, read on. More » -
#nvidia
Tegra 2 Coming in January: Nvidia Promises Netbooks, Smartphones and Smartbooks Galore
The Tegra system-on-a-chip, the zippy hardware that powers the Zune HD, had so much potential. Then, the delays. Slow pickup. Disappointment. Whatever happened to the Tegra, Nvidia doesn't want it to happen again. This time, they say, will be different. More » -
#graphicscards
The Graphics Cards You Should Buy at Every Price
Choosing a graphics cards is a confusing endeavor. So Tom's Hardware shared their buying results after testing pretty much every card on the planet. Whether you've got $50 to spend or $250 to spend, this list will come in handy: More » -
#intel
Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card is Dead
Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a "standalone discrete product," and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters] -
#intel
Intel's High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won't Be Released Anytime Soon
Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn't ever coming out "as standalone discrete product," because they're behind where they'd hoped to be in development, meaning you won't be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon. More » -
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#netbooks
ASUS Eee PC 1201N Available for Amazon Pre-Order
You can now put in your order for the first ASUS Eee PC running on an Nvidia Ion platform (and find out how good a bargain it really is) from Amazon for $500, shipping January 15th. [Amazon via Electronista] -
#intel
The FTC Still Wants to Slay the Intel Monopoly Monster
Sure, Intel paid off AMD to drop their antitrust suit, but the FTC's still mighty interested in their their fights with Nvidia, and concerned about preserving competition in the chip marketplace overall. It could get ugly. [BW] -
#iphone
The iPhone Is an Affront to Language
I dislike capital letters. I dislike exceptional capital letters even more. The iPhone, and indeed most Apple products, suffer from "camel case," as the NYT's On Language calls it. "Steep is the descent into orthographic antinomianism." He's right. More » -
#laptops
The Asus G51J 3D Laptop Is '3D Done Right'
We reviewed Acer's 3D laptop not so long ago. We found it fun, but reeking of gen 1 quirks. Now Laptop Mag has played with a new 3D laptop by Asus and found it to be pretty fantastic. More » -
#mods
Borg-Like ION Cube PC Wins Nvidia's Case Mod Contest
A few months ago, 5 master modders were tasked with building one crazy Nvidia ION ITX-based PC using the best user-submitted designs posted at Modders-Inc. A final winner has now been selected, and it looks pretty amazing, no? Pics! More » -
#nvidia
Mystery Nvidia Tablet Identified: 2010 Arrival and Android Rumored
An update on that sleek, but unknown Nvidia Tablet we showed you yesterday. As widely expected, it's actually a prototype Tegra-based device built by an ODM for Nvidia to shop around to wireless carriers worldwide. Here's what we may know: More » -
#tablet
Nvidia CEO Reveals Tablet, Declares His Love for Apple
In an interview yesterday, Nvidia CEO revealed two things: First, their sleek tablet prototype, which looks just like my wet dream Apple Tablet concept: Simple, thin, and omfgIwantone. Then, he declared his enraptured love for all things Apple:
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#usb
Nvidia Confirms Intel's Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011
Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel's stance on USB 3.0—no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won't hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope? More » -
#desktops
Maingear Shift's Spartan Case Belies Meaty High Performance PC Line
Maingear, the custom PC maker and purveyor of tramp stamp laptops, has let loose a duo of simplistic-looking desktop towers this morning designed to "shed the bling" and focus instead on what's going down inside the case. More » -
#xbox360
Rumor: ATI Locked in for Next-Gen Xbox Graphics?
Nothing is official, but Fudzilla's sources suggest Microsoft liked the Xbox 360's Xenos graphics enough to stay with ATI for its next console, possibly slated for 2012. Given the lead-time, it may even be a 28-nanometer chip. [Fudzilla via CrunchGear] -
#rumor
Next Nintendo DS Might Get a Huge Speed Boost from Tegra
The Nintendo DS is great, but seriously underpowered. That could change in the next version, though, thanks to a little help from the same processor that drives the Zune HD. More » -
#nvidia
Nvidia's Nforce Chipset Is Dead in the Water
I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I'm a little sad to see that Nvidia's freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia's license covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia's not developing new chipsets for AMD's processors, either. Lame-o. [PC Mag] -
#graphicscards
Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
Fermi is Nvidia's new GPU architecture that's going to be the basis for all of its upcoming graphics cards. With 512 cores and 3 billion transistors, it will nuke Crysis. More » -
#flash
GPU-Accelerated Flash Player Provides Smooth HD Video, Arrives Next Month
At last, here's a GPU-accelerated Flash player. That means two things: One, my laptop won't melt every time I run freaking Hulu. Two, since almost every Nvidia GPU is supported, even smartphones will be able to play HD Flash video. More » -
#netbooks
Acer AspireRevo Nvidia Ion LE Variant Hits U.S. Shores For $200
The Acer AspireRevo nettop (a netbook for your desktop, get it?) is nothing new, but the one with an on board Nvidia Ion LE graphics card is something special, and it's available now for $200 over at Newegg. More » -
#netbooks
HP Mini 311 Comes Original With Nvidia Ion Transistor Graphics Powah for $400
This might just be the netbook we've been waiting for: An Nvidia Ion-powered HP Mini with an 11-inch, 1366x768 display for 400 bucks. And you can actually buy it soon! September 23. Did I mention it plays 1080p video awesomely? More » -
#asus
Asus Eee Keyboard Confirmed For October, Wireless HDMI Included
Hell yes. Asus has finally committed to an October U.S and European arrival for its entertainment-PC-in-keyboard. The sleek device has a 5-inch touchscreen and Ultra Wideband HDMI (with receiver) to connect to your TV. I want it on my coffee-table. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Why Tech Standards Are Vital For Apple (And You)
Tech standards are important. They're, well, standards. They shape the way the world works, ideally. So if you wanna influence your little world, you probably wanna shape (or maybe even create) standards. Take Apple, for example. More » -
#unconfirmed
Your Graphics Card Is Obsolete Again: ATI and Nvidia DirectX 11 Cards Soon
The first graphics cards that support DirectX 11—the next version of Microsoft's gaming APIs with more fiyapowah—from both ATI and Nvidia will apparently arrive in the next couple of months. More » -
#asus
Asus Eee Keyboard Expected "As Early As October"
In the latest twist of the Eee Keyboard's delay, DigiTimes reports the entertainment-PC-in-a-keyboard should be ready "as early as October". It also says the 20-inch Eee Top AIO, and two new ultra-thin U/UX series notebooks will arrive in September. More » -
#netbooks
Samsung N510 Ion Netbook Arriving Next Month for $599
NVIDIA's Ion platform is pretty snazzy, welding an Atom and a 9400M graphics chip (the same found in Macbooks, fanboys) to handle high def content with ease. Samsung's N510 is an 11.6-inch netbook built on this platform, arriving next month. More » -
#graphics
ATI Stream vs. Nvidia CUDA Graphics Accelerated Deathmatch
The eternal graphics war: ATI vs. Nvidia. With the rise of GPGPU computing, if you're deciding who to fall in line with based on their graphics-accelerated platforms—Stream or CUDA, respectively—PC Perspective's done the dirty benchmarking work for you. More » -
#netbooks
Nvidia Ion LE: So Windows XP Netbooks Don't Have Crappy Graphics Either
The Ion LE is a quiet launch from the usually boisterous Nvidia: It's a cheaper version of their Ion graphics chip for netbooks, stripped of DirectX 10 support, which is only needed in Vista, so hopefully it'll find its way into more cut-rate XP-powered netbooks. [Fudzilla via Engadget]] -
#pmps
Samsung M1 Media Player Confirmed, May Use Nvidia Tegra
Samsung Korea has teaser up for its YP-M1 media player (pictured to the right of the pink R1). Notably, the site mentions an Nvidia chipset…could it be Tegra? That would match recent reports, and make the M1 a worthy successor to the P3. More » -
#unconfirmed
Nvidia's Tegra-Based Netbook Christened "Firefly"
Nvidia seems to be shopping around a teeny netbook running the company's Tegra ARM chipset and, of all things, Windows CE. It looks very barebones, since Tegra is really meant for smartphones, and nobody seems too thrilled with it. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: How to Choose the Right Graphics Card
There are plenty of great graphics cards out there, no matter what you're looking for. Thing is, the odds are seemingly stacked against you ever finding the right one. It doesn't have to be that hard. More » -
#zunehd
Confirmed: Zune HD Rocks the Nvidia Tegra
We were pretty confident before, but now we've got it straight from the horse's podcast: The Zune HD will indeed pack the Nvidia Tegra chip, which should give it better battery life and enviable video acceleration. [ZuneInsider] -
#zunehd
Zune HD Packs Nvidia Tegra: Better Video and Better Battery Life
If you were wondering how the Zune HD could pack in such iPod touch-beating smoothness into such a small size, we might have an answer for you: It's packing Nvidia's teeny, high-performance Tegra processor. More » -
#notebooks
Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Just Made Your Notebook Old and Busted
A year after Nvidia's monstrous GeForce 200 series graphics cards first stomped onto the scene (literally the biggest GPUs ever), Nvidia's finished making them mobile, delivering double the performance of current 9M series using half the power. More » -
#gizexplains
Mobile Chipsets: WTF Are Atom, Tegra and Snapdragon?
Low-power processors aren't just for netbooks: These computers-on-a-chip are going to be powering our smartphones and other diminutive gadgets in the forseeable future. So what's the difference between the Atoms, Snapdragons and Tegras of the world? More » -
#nvidia
Nvidia Announces 12 Tegra Products You'll Probably Never See, Tweaks Expectations
Nvidia is using Computex to herald the arrival of their system-on-a-chip Tegra platform, but it's not the most explosive debut. They've announced 12 netbook and tablet products from relative unknowns, and bizarrely altered their claims about the platform's capabilities. More » -
#netbooks
Nvidia Ion-Powered Cheap PCs Arrive En Masse
Lenovo and Acer were the first, but now they're not the only ones with cheap computers powered by Nvidia's Ion platform—GeForce 9400M graphics paired with an Intel Atom CPU. Besides Asus's eeetop here, there's 20 others, though you won't find the likes of Dell or HP here: More »
