Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA3650 Review

Notebook Check has reviewed the FSC Amilo SA3650 using the integrated video and also the XGP with a Radeon 3870.Notebook specifications: Processor AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86 2.4 GHzMainboard AMD M780GMemory 4096 MB, 2x 2048 DDR2 PC-6400 Samsung 6-6-6-18-24Graphics adapter ATI Radeon HD3200Display 13.3 Zoll 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, BrilliantView, GlossyHarddisk Fujitsu MHZ2320BH G2, 320GB 5400rpm SATA-IISoundcard Realtek ALC888Connections: 1 Express Card 54mm, 5 USB, 1 Firewire, 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington...

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Merry Christmas

A Christmas e-card from AMD, click the Fusion Stamp to openor click here:http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DigitalMedia/holidaymessage.htmlBelow is a Christmas Tree made by Vic's fa...

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AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership

XFX, known for its high-performance NVIDIA™-based products, is pleased to announce the addition of AMD/ATI as a new technology partner. A world leader in graphics cards, motherboards and computer accessories, is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the elite group of successful AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new products based on the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series GPUs to consumers, beginning in early 2009.“With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series,...

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Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition "KUMA"

Most of the news out of AMD lately has been out of ATI with their video cards lately and most new attention is focused on Phenom II which should be coming out very soon from AMD. But AMD is also launching a new CPU series codenamed Kuma.AMD today announced the Athlon X2 7750 – a STARS-based processor that is a brand new dual-core processor based on the Kuma core. Since this processor is based off the Phenom core it has L3 cache, this should make it competitive in terms of both price and performance...

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Getting To See Phenom II Before It Launches

After AMD showed off the new Phenom II processors and the Dragon platform to the media they went one step further and did a private showing to select forum members that were able to come to a scheduled showing in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.Legit Reviews put an alert out to forum members about the event and XstollieX jumped at the chance and made it to the Chicago event (December 9th). By going to the event he was able to get a sneak peak at Phenom II a month before it launches and will be...

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Catalyst 8.12 now Available

With the release of ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream™ technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide.ATI Stream™ enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream™ enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with...

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OpenCL 1.0 spec released

The Khronos Group has released the first version of the OpenCL specification. The 1.0 spec has been ratified by a large number of companies, including AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, and many others. Since this is a public release, developers can grab the spec itself and documentation right now through this page.The OpenCL programming standard and associated technologies are aimed at better enabling developers to write vendor-neutral applications that can execute on either...

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Core i7 'Nehalem' also have TLB issue

If you open Intel’s official document that is stored here, on page 37 AAJ1 Clarification of TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFERS (TLBS) Invalidation part, you will see that Intel says that in some rare cases improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior and can hang your OS or result with incorrect data.Here is the word to word quote: "In rare instances, improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior, such as system hangs or incorrect data. Developers of operating systems should take this documentation into account when designing TLB invalidation algorithms....

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Mobo Makers Announced AM3 Support

Asus have announced that 15 of their Socket AM2+ motherboards will support AMD's AM3 CPUs. This seems to be most of the newer boards to come out the past year from the AMD 700 series, and Nvidia GeForce 8000 and 7000 products.Gigabyte also have announced a wide range of motherboards which will support the AM2+ and AM3 45nm versions of AMD's processors. It looks like they're going deeper as they support Nvidia's 750 chipset as well as 790FX boards with the dated SB600 chipset.MSI has put up a similar...

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Phenom II Overclocks Well

As we all know, the Phenom II (codename Deneb) will be AMD's second 45 nm part (the first is officially the Shanghai server part) that is scheduled to hit Q1 09. This heavily redesigned processor based on the Phenom architecture has already showed some significant per clock performance gains over the older product, and AMD considers this to be their best design ever in terms of performance, functionality, and eventual clockspeed. The first desktop products are expected to hit 3 GHz at the top end,...

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Introducing AMD "Dragon" and Phenom II

AMD plans to bring higher-performance and more energy efficient 45nm processor technology to the desktop PC market in Q1 2009 with the AMD platform codenamed “Dragon”. This platform will be the second generation AMD performance desktop platform, featuring all next-generation components in comparison to the first generation AMD “Spider” platform released in 2008. The AMD “Dragon” platform is designed to harness the power of fusion by optimizing the performance of new 45nm AMD Phenom™ II X4 quad-core...

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Opteron 45nm Quad-Core "Shanghai" Available

AMD today announced widespread availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivering up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle. With IT decision-makers looking to do more with less, the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor can help drive data center efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualization performance and increased performance-per-watt. Global OEMs are expected to immediately offer...

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85 Server Motherboards and Barebones Servers for Shanghai

More than 85 server motherboards and barebones servers are validated to support the upcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and are available today. Leading server infrastructure providers including ASUS, Supermicro, and Tyan are currently shipping high-performance server motherboards.These boards are optimized for OEMs, ODMs, solution providers and business customers to take full advantage of the enhanced power management and virtualization capabilities and unprecedented levels of price/performance-per-watt delivered by the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed “Shanghai”EE Times...

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ATI Radeon HD 4850 Becomes The Most Popular Graphics Card in the U.S. Retail

The recently released market share numbers by Jon Peddie Research clearly show that ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, is starting to fight back market share from the arch-rival Nvidia. According to another market tracking firm, NPD, the latest products by ATI – Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 – are indeed gaining popularity in the U.S. retail market.Even though 7 out of top 10 spots are still occupied by Nvidia GeForce graphics cards, the best selling graphics board in the U.S. retail...

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Hercules eCAFE Netbook

Hercules eCafe netbook is AMD Geode powered. Technical specifications:* AMD Geode LX 800* 512MB DDR RAM* 8" LED-backlit LCD screen (1024x600 interpolated)* 1.8" 20GB P-ATA HDD* Ethernet 10/100* WiFi 802.11 b/g* 2 USB ports* 1 multiformat card reader (SD/SDHC/MMC/MS)* 80 key keyboard* Integrated touchpad* Integrated 300,000 pixel webcam* Integrated microphone* Audio input and output* Integrated stereo speakers* 4000 mAh battery (4 cells)* 100-240V, 50/60Hz power adap...

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ATI Radeon HD 4830 - Resetting the performance bar below $150

Today we see the introduction of the Radeon HD 4830 which is to be priced at or below $130. This part is poised to split the difference between the 4670 and 4850, and filling in this market segment should finish rounding out AMD's line up of RV7xx based cards for now.This new model is, like the 4850 and 4870, based on RV770 silicon, but in its tamest form yet. On the 4830, two of the RV770's 10 SIMD units have been disabled, reducing shader power (and likely performance) somewhat. Since those SIMD...

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F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 7th Concert - Osaka

Overall - today's last show is the BEST of all 7, a number of surprises, the guys performances and fan's participation and today's seat was quite good.Thank U messages:Ken (spoke in Mandarin): Today's the last show, after today don't know when will be the next time F4 will reunite. I wish the other 3 to have their own successful path and I believe the next time when we reunite, each person will have their own genuine "sky".Zai (in Japanese and Mandarin): .... Thank U, I would like to thank my 3...

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F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 6th Concert - Osaka

Today Taiwan medias wrote a few comments on Zai Zai as they were invited to see F4 Japan Concert at Osaka. Their review are supposed to be on F4 but seems they are targeting on Vic more than other F3...Ming PaoUDN EntertainmentOn Vic's performance, the reporter wrote:Zai Zai caught a really bad cold when he returned to Taiwan for a break. Except for his voice sounding coarse for a little while amid the concert because he was trying to hold back coughing, he was very professional. He has broken his...

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F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 5th Concert - Osaka

TONITE is the first night of F4 Concert in Osaka. Our friends in Osaka, Japan seem so excited now for the last 3 concerts tonight and over the weekends. They're like having a big party in Japan right now for 3 consecutive days. This fan is the 1st to put up the flower basket at Osaka...

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V.I.C website renewal

Zai Zai official fanclub (Vic International Cooperation aka V.I.C) has change their webpage design and layout...Here is Vic official fanclub link:http://www.vic-fanclub.c...

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Black & White Trailer

This summer,the most unlucky two policeman ever...With two totally different values...But are forced to work together...One Alfie loves flirting and cares nothing but saving his skin...The other man who is too aggresive on cases drives everyone crazy...Three of them who are supposed never get together with...But were involved by fate...Tracing one drug deal seems simple...But bring out a serial breathtaking inside stories...The real enemies however come from where you've never imagined...And the...

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F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 4th Concert - Tokyo

Today concert concluded perfectly. The atmosphere was warmer than yesterday, the four member of F4 also have more interactions than yesterday. Nobody sit on their chair. All fans stood up to dance and sang together with F4. The show took time almost 4 hours, yet everything goes smoothly.Flowers from Da S (Barbie Xu) & Xiao S was so special because she is ex-girlfriend of Zai Zai. Leaflets distributed at the concert to every person. The organizers sure know how to promote other F4 projects.Today,...

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Official : AMD Splits

AMD along with Abu Dhabi, has created a joint venture known as "The Foundry Company." This will leave AMD as a design house and will give the newly found company AMD's manufacturing assets - including the Fabs in Germany. Time will tell how this works out. AMD's stock opened $1/share higher today than it closed yesterday.The new company is planning to launch early next year with 3,000 employees worldwide. The new company is a foundry and appears to be willing to work with more than just Advanced Micro Devices. Additionally, AMD still plans to break ground in New York for Fab ...

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F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 3rd Concert - Tokyo

F4 Japan Tour 2008 heading to Nippon Budokan, Tokyo. Their concert made a realization towards the Japan's Fuji Television Network so a special featured story about the F4 concert will be broadcast on Wednesday, October 8, at Fuji TV station.NIPPON BUDOKAN entrance photos taken in the afternoon before the concert began. We could clearly see the BIG WELCOME towards F4 judging from the big board put up in front the concert venue.Flowers were seen from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia,...

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Acer Aspire 5530G

Acer Aspire 5530G, which as part of their Aspire line up, features both looks and affordability. Inside this Acer kitty, you'll find that it's powered by AMD's 65nm Turion X2 RM70 (2.0GHz) processor, has 3GB of DDR2 RAM, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 for its graphics chipset. As far as entertainment functions go, the 5530G has what's needed, including Dolby Surround Sound, a 15.4-inch screen for viewing your videos. Let's see what the Aspire 5530G has in store for potential buyers.Processor...

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