A FEW DAYS ago a story by Computerworld suggested that Acer was about to move away from netbooks in favour of tablets, tablets with Sandy Bridge processors and Android no less. This was meant to have been said by Acer’s Taiwanese sales manager, but now the company has issued a statement to the contrary.
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DETAILS OF HP’s upcoming webOS tablets are finally starting to leak out and the first pictures of what is said to be renders of the new tablet have turned up alongside with some initial specs. Alongside the pictures, information about HP’s plans for the new tablet also leaked which makes for some interesting reading.
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AMD HAS DECIDED it’s time to have its partners launch more affordable Radeon HD 6900 series cards and oddly enough the top of the range HD 6970 is the first card to be given the 1GB treatment including a nice price cut to go along with it. The new cards are expected to hit retail for around $279, making them more affordable than most Radeon HD 6950 cards with 2GB of memory.
Update: January 18, 2011 changes to story at bottom.
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THERE ISN’T MUCH that we didn’t already know about Sapphire’s new P67 after our brief encounter with the board at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch in Taiwan, but the final version cleaned up pretty good and it got it’s retail name, Pure Black P67. The design remained mostly the same, although the final board has now been fitted with some slightly unusual cooling which makes the board stand out from the competition.
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IT’S LESS THAN two weeks since Intel officially unveiled its new Sandy Bridge range of processors and retail notebooks are already hitting the (online)stores en masse. However, it seems to be a bit of an odd launch, as we’re mostly seeing high-end 15.6-inch models with only a handful of smaller models being available so far.
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WE’D ALMOST FORGOTTEN about this one, but we scored some pictures of Gigabyte’s final revision of the GA-H67N-USB3 mini-ITX board which have been fitted with the same style heatsink as its other H67 and P67 boards. It’s also the first H67 board we’ve seen that sports twin HDMI ports, making for some interesting usage scenarios.
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SO FAR WE’VE looked a range of motherboards for Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and the last of the boards this time around is the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 which is at least for the time being, Gigabyte’s top of the line model. It packs just about every feature you could possibly want and then some, although it has a price to match these features.
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ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with touch screens, at least for the manufacturers, is that most touch screen controllers have relied on USB signalling which has required extra wires not just internally between the touch screen and the controller, but also externally between the display and the system in the case of desktops. IDT has found a clever solution to the problem by using the auxiliary channel on the DisplayPort interface to send the touch screen data over, something that should make it a lot easier to implement touch screen technology.
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ASUS’ WS SERIES of motherboards are meant to be appeal to the entry level workstation market and the latest addition is the P8P67 WS Revolution based on Intel’s P67 chipset. As such this board doesn’t quite fall in the consumer category of motherboards from Asus and as a matter of fact, it’s been designed by the server and workstation motherboard team at Asus, rather than the consumer motherboard team.
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AMD HAS MANAGED to drum up a lot of support for its Brazos platform and as of today Fujitsu and Sony has joined the growing group of notebook makers with Brazos powered machines, as both companies have announced 11.6-inch models in Japan. Neither model is available as of yet, but both companies will have their models in the shops within the next two to three weeks.
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AFTER SEVERAL RUMOURS and a lot of speculation we’ve managed to get our hands on what should be close to final specifications of Intel’s Patsburg chipset for its LGA-2011 processors and this is also what the X68 chipset will be based off, although today we’ll be specifically looking at Intel’s solutions for Xeon processors. Intel will launch no less than four different SKUs for Patsburg for its Xeon platform alone, not counting the X68 chipset.
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TO CONTINUE ON our current theme of Sandy Bridge motherboard reviews, today we have three upper mid-range boards going head to head that should leave most users not wanting for anything much more in the way of features. The boards in question are the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, the Intel DP67BG and the MSI P67A-GD55, all having similar features and price point.
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TODAY WE’RE TAKING a look at two mATX H67 chipset motherboards in the $100 price range, namely the Gigabyte H67M-UD2H and the Intel DH67BL. We tested both boards with the Core i5 2500K processor as that is what we had at hand, but there’s no reason to buy a K series processor for an H67 board, as you can’t overclock the CPU when paired with the H67 chipset.
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INTEL’S NEXT HIGH-END consumer platform has so far been a topic for much discussion on the interwebs as Intel hasn’t uttered a word so far as to what we can expect. However, thanks to a Chinese website and some blurred out pictures of an upcoming MSI motherboard, it’s not clear that Intel will be offering the LGA-2011 platform as a replacement for the current LGA-1366 platform.
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SPOTTING ODD HARDWARE is not unusual at product launches and trade shows, but for what it’s worth, we spotted a motherboard at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch event in Taiwan that we can’t quite figure out what it is. At first it looks like a mATX P67 board, but once you start to look closer at it, you notice that it has an HDMI port around the back.
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