The stage is set for a great graphics cards battle this summer. In one corner you have NVIDIA gearing up to release their next-generation architecture and in the other you have the ATI R700 that will be designated the Radeon HD 4800 series. The cards that we are waiting for would be the Radeon HD 4870 512MB and Radeon HD 4870X2 1GB as they will feature super fast GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 4850 will use cost effective GDDR3 memory and as a result cost just under $200 if the rumors are true. Are you ready for faster graphics cards? The time is almost here and many of the cards will be spotted at Computex in a couple weeks.

ATI will introduce the much-anticipated 4800 series of graphics card on a date “somewhere between the 15th and 22nd of June” according to our old mate Theo over at TG Daily. This is, coincidentally, the same week in which Nvidia is expected to unveil the significantly more expensive (though not significantly more advanced) GT200. The 4800 range is expected start at less than two hundred of your yankee dollars for the 4850 variant with half a gig of GDDR3 graphicy goodness and the abilty to run up to four cards per system. The 4870, and 4870X2 to be launched in July, will carry 512MB and 1024MB of GDDR5 respectively.

There are plenty of hybrid cars on the road, but hybrid boats?  They haven’t been seen.  Until now.The super-fast, super-sleek 25-foot speedboat uses a combination of electric and diesel engines to produce a low-emission vessel that should warm the hearts of the greenest motorboat sailor. “Everybody knows about hybrid cars, but hybrid boats are different,” said Michael Frauscher, managing director of the company that built the boat. Most air pollution from motor boats comes in the harbor, when the

Comcast customers are still waiting for the nation’s largest broadband provider to make good on their promise to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic according to a recent survey:The Max Planck Institute tested the connections of 788 Comcast customers, 494 (62%) experienced a slowdown of BitTorrent traffic. Comcast is not alone though, well over 50% of the Cox subscribers that participated in the study were also throttled. The good news is, other ISPs don’t seem to restrict BitTorrent traffic on a wide scale.Ben

This summer the graphics war might be hotter than the temperature.   While NVIDIA is gearing up to release their next-generation architecture, AMD hasn’t exactly been sitting on their laurels:“The 4800 range is expected start at less than two hundred of your yankee dollars for the 4850 variant with half a gig of GDDR3 graphicy goodness and the abilty to run up to four cards per system.The 4870, and 4870X2 to be launched in July, will carry 512MB and 1024MB of GDDR5 respectively.”We’re certainly eager to see

All right, all right, it wasn’t the greatest show on TV – and this is just a replica – but still, it’s Airwolf! Ernest Borgnine was great as “Santini.” Of course, the auction is available only to pre-approved bidders.A friend invites you over for a BBQ and you ask, how big is your lawn? He asks why and you tell him not to worry about it — then you land in his front yard in frickin Airwolf and fly away with his girlfriend. Kid getting bullied in school? Pick him up in AIRWOLF and see what happens. If he doesn’t

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Samsung has a couple of new products that break the mold on what you might expect from computer peripherals. Samsung’s Dual Display 2263DX is a dual display with a twist. It is actually a normal 22-inch LCD display that also includes a 7-inch “companion” display that attaches to the larger display, “via a pivoting, swiveling arm which allows it to be positioned on either side or above the main display for a truly comfortable, customizable work environment.” The smaller display uses the USB-based DisplayLink

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Open-source advocates like saying Linux is free, as in free speech; not free, as in free beer. Well, for the price of a cold one, Microsoft plans to make its software an option on laptops throughout the developing world. The software giant and the One Laptop Per Child project said Thursday that they will install the Windows operating system on the OLPC's cheap XO laptops. The plan, says OLPC spokesperson Kyle Austin, is to redesign the laptops, adding another $7 worth of hardware so that they can run a stripped down version of Windows, which costs $3 a copy, in addition to running the OLPC's version of the Linux operating system.

That makes sense on a machine where every dollar counts. The XO currently costs roughly $180, although as more laptops are cranked out, they will likely come down in price, Austin noted. Trials of so-called dual-boot laptops will begin in June, although those will involve machines equipped with secure digital card readers, rather than gear designed to handle a dual-boot system. Laptops designed for poor children have become a sort of proving ground for low-cost Internet devices. Intel is pushing a rival design, dubbed the Classmate. Intel's processors power the Classmate, while Advanced Micro Devices chips are powering the XO.

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