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• Via Starts up Motherboard Division

  Published: Saturday, October 20, 2001 | By: Dennis

  ZDnet reports that Via will start building high-end motherboards for their P4 DDR chipset. This news isn't really new to us but is worth a mention.
  
  The way I understand it Via isn't really going to be producing the boards but will instead outsource the task to other companies that have the resources to build them. Soltek is rumored to be one of those companies.

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• P4 DDR roundup @ DDRZone

  Published: Thursday, October 18, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Steve is being silly over at the OXP today which isn't really anything new. You will also notice the OXP reference, it would seem they think that adding an XP to their name will make them better. who am I to judge.
  
  While I was there I noticed a P4 DDR 4-way at The DDRZone, check it out. It should be known that the site isn't Netscape 6 friendly

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• Playboy Cuts 90 Jobs

  Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

  In an attempt to remain profitable Playboy is cutting 90 jobs. It would seem that the economic downturn is affecting pr0n as well.

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• Radeon 8500 Review @ AnandTech

  Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Reviews of the Radeon 8500 will be popping up all over the net this week now that ATI has released their review samples. There will of course be some who will simply go out and buy one.

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• K7V Dragon Review Posted

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Well the Dragon review has been posted and you can see all of the shiny bits in the reviews section. I really wasn't very impressed with the Dragon's performance over a regular SDRAM system; hopefully the KT266a version will be better.

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• 7200rpm IDE Round-up @ x-bit labs

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  x-bit always has some good stuff this time its a 7200rpm IDE harddrive roundup.

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• P4X266 Motherboard Series

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Here is an interesting tidbit, with the legal battle on between Via and Intel many motherboard companies are shying away from Via's P4X266 chipset until a decision has been reached. So what better way to get your product to market than to finish it yourself.
  
  I get a kick out of the 6 different P4-478 boards using 3 different PCB colors.

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• Mozilla 0.9.5 released

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The code for which most well respected browsers are based on gets an update :)

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• Prototype Wearable WatchPad Running Linux

  Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

  "Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and IBM Japan Ltd. demonstrated a prototype of their wearable WatchPad 1.5 computer on Oct. 11.
  
  Slightly larger than an ordinary wristwatch, the device has a monochrome LCD display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The device doubles as a wristwatch and as a computer running the Linux operating system."
  

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• Intel's BBUL Package

  Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

  To some this is old news but AnandTech has an article up on Intel's BBUL processor package. Just imagine a processor that is thinner than a credit card running 10GHz+.

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