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A New Breed of Laptops: The Intel Core 2 Duos
If you’re a student planning to take a new laptop back to school with you this fall, you’ve probably bought it already. But for those of you who’ve held out until now, a whole new breed of laptops is starting to ship. This year, there’s a new kid in town—and by new kid, I mean…
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Linksys Forges Ahead with 802.11n Wares for the SMB
Linksys is forging ahead with its 802.11n initiative now, taking aim at small businesses. However, eWEEK Labs’ tests show that Linksys’ new products do little to resolve the obvious problems with current draft 11n implementations, while adding a host of underwhelming new features and spotty support for newer laptop computers. Click here to read the…
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‘Woodcrest’ Shows Its Stuff
Armed with Intel’s latest dual-core Xeon processors, IBM’s x3500 server offers organizations speedy performance and flexible internal storage and memory configuration for their mission-critical applications—all with a compact footprint. Released in July with the new Xeon 5100 series processors (formerly code-named Woodcrest), the 5U (8.75-inch) x3500 tower server is a solid choice for remote branch…
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Toshiba’s Tecra A8 Strikes Good Balance
Toshiba’s Tecra A8 is a portable desktop replacement that delivers all the things users want—robust performance, good graphics capability and a slew of connectivity options—at a price IT managers will like. This combination of fantastic features and a relatively low price point earns the Tecra A8 eWEEK Labs’ Analyst’s Choice award. Released in June, the…
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Vista Build 5536 Shows Performance Gains
On Aug. 25, Microsoft released to testers Vista Build 5536, the latest in a long line of sneak peeks at Microsoft’s forthcoming desktop operating system. eWEEK Labs’ tests of Build 5536 show that the operating system is gaining speed and losing quirks as its release nears. We downloaded the new build, which is marked “Pre-RC1,”…
