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Mar 4, 2013	Seagate is done making 7200rpm 2.5-inch pure hard disk drives	reader comments 58 with 49 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Anandtech is carrying the news (sourced from X-Bit Labs) that Seagate will be ceasing production of three of its four Momen...
Feb 20, 2013	Ars Technica System Guide: Bargain Box, February 2013	reader comments 83 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Since the early 2000s, the Ars System Guides have been helping DIYers to become system-building twe...
Jan 3, 2013	Requiem For The PlayStation 2: What A Ride It Was	After reports streamed in at the tail end of 2012 of the end to the PlayStation 2’s nearly 13-year lifespan, the predictable response might be “so what?” After all, the end was inevitable – even the most popular game consoles don’t last for...
Dec 19, 2012	All we know about Nvidia’s next-generation Tegra chip	reader comments 61 with 42 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Nvidia's Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip for smartphones and tablets is getting a bit long in the tooth, b...
Oct 23, 2012	AMD lança processadores FX Vishera: até 8 núcleos e 4,2 GHz	A AMD lançou hoje uma atualização na linha de processadores FX. Com codinome Vishera e arquitetura Piledriver, o modelo mais potente é o FX-8350, que possui oito núcleos e impressionantes 4,0 GHz de clock nativo, chegando a 4,2 GHz no modo ...
Jun 25, 2012	How SSDs conquered mobile devices and modern OSes	Flickr user Kominyetska reader comments 103 with 56 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit In part one of our "SSD Revolution" series, we covered the basic...
May 6, 2012	Apple Brilliantly Invents Display-Integrated Cellular Antennas Categories Search	Apple's Patent Background Devices such cellular telephones, media players and hybrid devices are often provided with wireless communications capabilities. For example, electronic devices may use long-range wireless communications circuitry ...
May 4, 2012	Apple Not Challenging the Hybrid Ultrabook could be a Big Mistake Categories Search	Wintel's Haswell Based 2013 Hybrid Ultrabooks will deliver a Powerful Punch In 2013, the Ultrabook will be powered by Intel's advanced processor called Haswell. Some of what we know from various keynote slides and notes is that it will be t...
Apr 30, 2012	Apple rejects tablet PC hybrids	Apple rejects tablet PC hybrids Apple CE Tim Cook claims the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would "wind up compromising" both, BBC News reports. Rival Asus already markets such products in its Transformer series, while...
Jan 30, 2012	Open source community gets WebOS	Open source community gets WebOS Tech giant, HP is making good on its promise to deliver its now-defunct smartphone platform to the open source community, InformationWeek reports. HP will no longer use WebOS, the OS it acquired when it boug...
Dec 20, 2011	Ars Technica system guide: December 2011	Illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 113 with 70 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit After a fairly dull year for new hardware releases, this fall's floo...
Sep 20, 2011	Samsung goes green	Samsung goes green Electronics giant Samsung has unveiled a new line of green DDR3 memory modules for ultra-low power servers, reports Slash Gear. The new RAM is offered in RDIMM modules, and is designed for use in low-power enterprise serv...
Sep 20, 2011	Back-to-school season boosts PC sales	Back-to-school season boosts PC sales Sales of PC notebooks beat expectations for the back-to-school shopping season, according to new research from NPD, writes StreetInsider.com. Sales of Microsoft Windows-equipped notebooks fell 4% in Jul...
Sep 16, 2011	A “Late 2011 iMac” update may be imminent	Here is a screen shot of Apple's KB article as of 4:30pm CT on September 16. reader comments 25 with 22 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Here is an odd detail we noticed while taking ...
Sep 7, 2011	AMD’s Bulldozer processors now shipping; in servers by end of month	reader comments 31 with 28 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit AMD announced today that it has started revenue shipments of processors based on its new Bulldozer architecture. The first ...
Jun 9, 2011	Ask Ars: with Xeon’s improvement, why bother with Itanium?	reader comments 43 with 37 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and o...
Mar 29, 2011	Gigabyte Unveils Utility To Allow Higher Storage Capacities On 32-Bit Systems	Sometimes things get complicated and your old 32-bit machine can no longer handle the new array of 3 TB hard drives. You see, 32-bit systems cannot easily run more than 2.19 TB of hard drive capacity. If this problem presents itself, you ha...
Mar 2, 2011	AMD Belittles Thunderbolt, Says It's Unnecessary	AMD certainly would benefit from minimizing Thunderbolt. If Thunderbolt were to catch on, AMD would likely have to purchase components from chief rival, Intel. AMD says that they support USB 3.0 and that Thunderbolt’s speed would be superfl...
Jan 11, 2011	What is AMD’s Cloud Strategy?	We do not hear much about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) when covering the cloud computing space. This struck me after reading the news yesterday about the dismissal of AMD CEO Dirk Meyers. It took a bit of digging but we see a few salient la...
Dec 9, 2010	Apple may drop NVIDIA for Sandy Bridge’s IGP next year	reader comments 104 with 70 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Apple plans to drop NVIDIA in favor of Intel's integrated graphics in its upcoming Sandy Bridge processors for use in Appl...
Sep 14, 2010	Beyond the PC: The Emerging Smart Revolution Categories Search	Intel's IDF Focus Otellini began this segment by stating the he wanted to focus his keynote on three areas: "Number one: Intel's transformation into a computing solutions provider. Number two: The Essentials we see at Intel for buildin...
Jul 22, 2010	Seagate predicts the coming of hybrid hard drives	In a recent interview, a representative from Seagate stated that the future of hard drive technology lies in the so-called “hybrid” technology. In this case, “hybrid” refers to the concept of using a flash memory buffer to increase the read...
Oct 28, 2009	The God Box: October 2009 Edition	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The God Box takes an unusual step in this update: it becomes substantially more simple. That's overstating things a bit, but AM...
Oct 15, 2009	Want To Get In On The Novafora-Transmeta Fire Sale?	Novafora, which acquired low power chip company Transmeta in late 2008, is out of business. And all that Transmeta x86 code morphing source code, build servers, documentation and prototypes are for sale. There are some complications to the ...
Aug 17, 2009	A third of desktops to go multi-GPU in 2012? Not likely	reader comments 51 with 40 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Last week, the respected Jon Peddie Research Group released a major report on the history, technology, and future of multi-...
Jul 24, 2009	Atom migration plans spur N270 regicide, N450 confusion	reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Intel's Atom processors have rocked the global computing market since their release last year, but plans for migration from t...
Jul 18, 2009	Shock: Toshiba to launch Blu-ray player	It had to happen at some point. With HD DVD long gone and Blu-ray sales rocketing up 91 percent (Q1 ‘09 over Q1 ‘08), Toshiba really had no choice, but to join the other team. According to Yomiuri, Toshiba will be launching a Blu-ray player...
Jun 2, 2009	XBit Labs: AMD’s Phenom II duals to compete well with C2D	reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit AMD will update its dual core processor lineup very shortly, releasing a line of dual core parts based on its Phenom II quad ...
May 30, 2009	Mandatory Core i7 laptop; was anyone not expecting this?	reader comments 26 with 25 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Some things are virtually mandatory. Whenever a new line of Intel processors comes out for the desk...
Apr 27, 2009	OVP Invests $1.5M in Cloud Data Storage Startup, Symform	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Seattle-based Symform, a small company that provides data storage and backup in the Internet cloud, is announcing today a $1.5 million Series A financing from OVP Venture Part...
Feb 19, 2009	AMD’s spinoff: Intel-tested, now shareholder approved	reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit AMD's plan to split itself into a foundry and a design firm have continued apace through the financial upheaval of the past f...
Dec 29, 2008	New iMacs to include hotter components, new cooling?	The new line of iMacs due early this coming year are likely to sport some pretty serious upgrades, most notably (we reckon) a quad-core processor and new NVIDIA chipsets. Of course, this more powerful hardware will be producing more heat, a...
Dec 16, 2008	AMD launches “new” Phenom-based dual cores at sub-$100 price	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Blink and you might miss the announcement, but AMD is finally refreshing the aged K8 family that has anchored the company's pro...
Nov 7, 2008	Windows 7 post-PDC roundup, links galore!	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit After our coverage of PDC 2008, we thought that Windows 7 news would slow down for a bit. Not so. Instead, PDC was only the tip...
Oct 8, 2008	Roundup: Central banks coordinate rate cuts, market falls anyway, and the latest on Sarah Palin	Dow drops nearly 200 points: Despite the interest rate cuts mentioned below, the Dow fell 189 points to close at 9258.1, down 2 percent. [photo from rednuht on Flickr] Central banks step up with interest rate cuts: The Federal Reserve coord...
Oct 8, 2008	Rumor: External Blu-ray drive coming to the Xbox 360	Umm. I don’t know about this one. Xbitlabs is reporting that Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp has been charged with pumping out external Blu-ray drives for the Xbox 360. They will supposedly retail anywhere from $100 to $150. Not cit...
Oct 3, 2008	AMD expects Direct X 11 GPUs in 2009	Direct X 11 is on track for a 2009 release, according to AMD’s little slide up there. You’ll also note that the company expects Windows 7 in 2009, too. That’s cute. And how many Direct X 10-only (or even DX10-enhances) games have there been...
Oct 3, 2008	System Guide: the Ars Ultimate Budget Box	reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Introduction For when less is all you really need, there's the Ultimate Budget Box. Lots of computers out there very rarely d...
Sep 2, 2008	AMD bringing back 'FX' microprocessors	Sometime in the middle of next year, AMD has plans to bring out code-named Deneb FX microprocessors aimed right at the enthusiast market. You might recall that AMD once had competitive high-end chips, the Athlon 64 FX, but eventually, those...
Sep 2, 2008	Rumor: AMD planning to raise FX brand from the dead	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit If current rumors are true, AMD could be planning to relaunch its "FX" brand of Athlon/Phenom processors by mid-2009....
Jul 29, 2008	Overclock world record: Q6600 2.4GHz run at 5.1GHz	What a ridiculous project! But how awesome would it be to be the hardcore system building nerds they asked to do this? A couple months ago, a French Tom’s Hardware-related superteam got together to overclock an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GH...
May 2, 2008	Storage roundup: RAMDrive fast, inconvenient, SSD a mixed bag	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A recent three-way roundup of hard disk technologies pits traditional magnetic hard disks against flash-based SSDs and the Giga...
Mar 24, 2008	MacBook Air makes a great ultraportable… for Vista	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit X-bit labs, who last month replaced Mac OS X with Vista on a MacBook Pro and concluded that "The MacBook Pro is better in ...
Oct 12, 2007	Intel set to introduce dual-core Celeron processors	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit In the years since AMD and Intel debuted dual-core processors, both companies have driven the price of dual-core technology ste...
Oct 8, 2007	AMD planning new round of price cuts	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Recent times have not been kind to AMD. While the CPU manufacturer gained significant ground and market share in 2005-2006, Int...
Oct 5, 2007	Get your USB on with Samsung’s 940UX LCD Monitor	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Running out of VGA and DVI ports and don't want to drop the dough on another video card just to add another monitor? Samsung ha...
Oct 3, 2007	Asus declares official support for 1600MHz bus	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Asus has become the latest company to throw its hat into the 1600MHz frontside bus speed ring. Though it's not the first to cla...
Sep 12, 2007	NVIDIA ending “Designed by NVIDIA” program	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit First introduced in 2006 and widely promoted early in 2007, NVIDIA has now formally decided to end its "Designed by NVIDIA...
Sep 3, 2007	S3 announces DX10-capable Chrome 4 series	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit S3 has announced plans to introduce a new series of DX10-compatible video cards by the end of the year. It's not yet known whet...
Aug 3, 2007	Intel steps up pace, plans to launch 45nm Penryn in Q4 2007	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Xbit Labs claims to have seen documents indicating that Intel is planning to accelerate the launch of its 45nm Penryn processor...
Jul 16, 2007	Intel announces Core 2 Extreme mobile, five new desktop processors.	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Today Intel officially announced its first Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor, the X7800. Also announced were five new d...
Jul 4, 2007	Speculation on Phenom, early performance numbers on Barcelona (updated)	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit There's a fair amount of news swirling around both Barcelona and Phenom this week, particularly concerning the former's perform...
Jun 12, 2007	Samsung Shipping 1TB HDD	The Samsung we’ve all grown to love is making a strong push to put a foothold into the HDD market with a 1TB drive that is far more superior then anything else available. Poppycock, you say? Not at all. The SpinPoint F1 is the first to use ...
Feb 5, 2007	PS3 Effect May Be Boosting Blu-ray Movie Sales	Beginning with its first issue in February, Home Video Magazine has been presenting "scale-tipping" graphs depicting the current status of the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray movie sales worldwide, based on data provided by Niel...
Nov 30, 2006	AMD’s QuadFX (a.k.a. 4×4) disappoints	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Today, AMD officially launched their much-anticipated 4x4 enthusiast platform under the name QuadFX. The results of the rash of...
Oct 31, 2006	Are High Prices For Next-Gen Gaming Consoles Propping Up The Market For Old Machines?	The talk of the video game industry at the moment is the imminent launch of Nintendo’s next-generation Wii console and Sony’s long-awaited (and oft-delayed) PlayStation 3. But despite all the hype, recent earnings reports reiterate that it’...
May 30, 2006	DirectX 10 to be Vista-only (in case you didn’t know)	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Although it has been known for some time that DirectX 10 will be Vista-only, as reported in our own coverage and Microsoft pres...
Apr 25, 2006	Intel releasing DirectX 10 capable chipsets as early as this year?	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit DirectX, Microsoft's toolkit/platform for games development on Windows, is set to receive an update (from DirectX 9 to DirectX ...
May 27, 2005	Friday morning link dump	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Xbit labs reports on ATI's next generation video cards which will feature hardware acceleration of the H.264 codec. Omnigroup a...
Mar 1, 2002	TechWatch: Wintel Commentary, Vatican on Internet, IDF	Although suffering from post-IDF hangover–yes, TechWatch struggled into the office at 11 AM, and we’re very sorry about that– we’ve still tried to scan the wires to make sure the tiniest little detail did not go unreported. Over at JC’s New...

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Parsers VC has collected 61 articles mentioning XBitLabs, among them “Seagate is done making 7200rpm 2.5-inch pure hard disk drives” (Mar 4, 2013) and “Ars Technica System Guide: Bargain Box, February 2013” (Feb 20, 2013).

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