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Altech Maestro Pro 2 - Home Theatre
PC Authority - The CPU is cooled by a Zalman HSF and the NVIDIA 6600 graphics card is passively cooled by a large Zalman heat sink. With only an 80mm exhaust fan and the PSU fans in addition to this, it was noticeably the quietest system. Only the hard disk was

An introduction to video compression
Electronic Engineering Times - Many processors targeting multimedia applications provide a specialized instruction to accelerate SAD computations, or a dedicated SAD coprocessor to offload this computationally demanding task from the CPU. Note that in order to perform motion

The Next Best Thing to Being There
WAFF - Obviously, the better your computer, the faster the speed and CPU capacity, which you ll need to make music. Have Windows 98 or higher. A hard drive of at least 15GB is good, and at least 128 MB RAM. Most importantly, make sure you have a good

My First Macbook, love it..but ..
Mac Addict - It gets very hot, especially after CPU and graphics intensive apps. It also seems to heat up more when it's plugged in vs. using it on battery. It's the price paid for a powerful system in a small package. It shouldn't be burning hot though. I

Apple's Intel Notebooks To Be Faster Than Expected
TechWeb - The $2,499 MacBook Pro, which now sports a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU, up from the previously announced 1.83 GHz processor, will ship later this week, Apple said. The less expensive $1,999 MacBook Pro, meanwhile, will be powered by a 1.83 GHz Core Duo