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GeekTech: AMD Buys ATI: Should You Care?
PC World - AMD has always been the scrappy processor underdog fighting the good fight against the corporate behemoth Intel. (Mind you, AMD is a billion-dollar-earning underdog that has owned the high-performance desktop CPU crown for several years.) Meanwhile

Epson Launches its New Device Controller LSI for High-Speed USB2.0
WebWire - Particularly well-received is Epson s proprietary low-power mode, the CPU Cut Mode, which makes it possible for this device to consume only 3.9 W during standby mode, achieving the industry s lowest power consumption*1 and making an extremely

Freenex DXM-760 combines DMB and GPS, has picture-in-picture
MobileMag - It'll gobble up MP3s as well, making use of the 32MB of NAND flash ROM, or via the SD expansion slot (for up to 2GB). Other key specs include a large 7-inch touchscreen TFT display (VGA resolution), an Atlas II CPU, WinCE.net Version 4.2 Core OS, SirF

Mac Pro RAM from Crucial experiencing inconsistencies
Ars Technica - Reading xlr8yourmac today, it looks like a reader had success getting his Crucial RAM to work in his Mac Pro by only placing it in the top slot, vs. the lower slot that sits just behind the hot CPU. So rather than RMAing this RAM, purchasers may be

EA threatens to scale back PSP support
Ars Technica - Even right now, there are so few games that take advantage of dual core / multi-cpu environments. The entire software design process needs to evolve and developers need to learn how to take advantage of the new hardware. There is a learning curve

RAPTOR PCS: Pimp your PC
Grand Forks Herald - The lights that you put inside the CPU now are like those lights that glow underneath the car." Finley replaced the tan case of his 3-year-old computer tower with an acrylic cover enhanced with royal blue accents. The wires inside the computer exposed