History has shown that Advanced Micro Devices doesn’t have the greatest track record for delivering chips as promised (at least right on schedule), but the company’s looking to make a change for the better starting with its highly anticipated six-core Istanbul. Said CPU, which falls in the Opteron family, promises to provide up to 30 percent more performance within the same power envelope and on the same platform as current Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, and while we’ve already seen it demonstrated and slated

Neoseeker published their review of the AMD Phenom II X4 955. Find this and other reviews from around the web by visiting our forums!

“Given that the Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition is AMD's new flagship, I had high expectations about it, and I was far from being deceived… I did not imagine it could step on the Core 2 so easily.”

ASUS Revamps the Best Selling Eee PC 1000HA with New Chiclet Keyboard– Available immediately through ASUS authorized resellers, the new Eee PC 1000HA offers a supremely comfortable keyboard and 7-hour battery life for true all-day computing — FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (April 23, 2009) – ASUS, a world leader in the mobile technologies, has updated its best-selling Eee PC 1000HA with an all-new chiclet-style keyboard that improves overall comfort and allows touch-typists to type at full-speed on its 92% keyboard.

ASUS Revamps the Best Selling Eee PC 1000HA with New Chiclet Keyboard– Available immediately through ASUS authorized resellers, the new Eee PC 1000HA offers a supremely comfortable keyboard and 7-hour battery life for true all-day computing — FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (April 23, 2009) – ASUS, a world leader in the mobile technologies, has updated its best-selling Eee PC 1000HA with an all-new chiclet-style keyboard that improves overall comfort and allows touch-typists to type at full-speed on its 92% keyboard.

Notebook Computer Study Reveals Security Implications of Mobile Workforce Study Uncovers Surprising Financial Repercussions of Lost and Stolen Notebooks SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 22, 2009 – An independent study on notebook security, commissioned by Intel Corporation, analyzes the potential business costs of stolen or lost notebook computers, suggesting that in an era where “the office” can be almost anywhere, good security precautions are essential. The study, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute, calculated

Notebook Computer Study Reveals Security Implications of Mobile Workforce Study Uncovers Surprising Financial Repercussions of Lost and Stolen Notebooks SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 22, 2009 – An independent study on notebook security, commissioned by Intel Corporation, analyzes the potential business costs of stolen or lost notebook computers, suggesting that in an era where “the office” can be almost anywhere, good security precautions are essential. The study, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute, calculated

Aliph has just released a new headset, the Jawbone PRIME, which replaces the eleven-month-old Jawbone 2. Realistically, it hasn’t changed that much in terms of looks or size or price ($129.99 MSRP), but it has changed inside. For one, the Jawbone PRIME offers Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, which means multipoint and easier pairing. NoiseAssassin has been revved to NoiseAssassin 2.0, which “delivers an order of magnitude improvement in the noisiest environments (6 to 9dB) extracting even more noise while keeping the user’s

Over the course of a few months in late 2007 and early-to-mid 2008, AMD unveiled their Spider platform, consisting of AMD-built desktop processors, chipsets, and graphics cards, and refreshed said platform with faster processors and graphics cards. Fast forward to today, and AMD is doing the same thing, but this time with the newer, more powerful Dragon platform. It’s like Déjà Vu all over again, as they say.Even though some components have been available for much longer, the complete Dragon platform–consisting

Many companies are taking advantage of Earth Day to call attention to the green products they offer. Today, Seagate is capitalizing on the Earth Day buzz by announcing shipment of a power-thrifty desktop hard drive family that combines large storage capacity with the best power efficiency and performance in its class. According to Seagate, the new line of Seagate Barracuda LP (Low Power) hard drives uses as much as 50% less electricity than standard desktop hard drives. Seagate also claims the Barracuda LP hard

Not much has changed about the Wind U100 PLUS compared to the U100 we burned in earlier this year, but when something’s hot, you might as well strike (again), right? MSI’s certainly agreeing with that mantra, pushing out a mildly refined version of its hit netbook that takes advantage of Intel’s 1.66GHz Atom N280 and adds a few other small niceties not found on the original.In addition to Imperial Black, Angelic White and Regal Red, two brand new colors (Rose Champagne and Metallic Blue) are being added to Wind