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Apple Says MacBooks May Have Bad Nvidia Chips

Apple has acknowledged that some MacBook Pro notebooks may suffer from the same sort of faulty Nvidia GPUs that have affected other manufacturers.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332325,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

AMD Pulls Out of Manufacturing in 'Asset Smart' Plan

On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices finally announced its "asset smart" strategy, which, as expected, involved spinning off its manufacturing operations into a pure-play foundry company.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331941,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

Acer's Predator Gaming PC Comes to the U.S.

The Acer Aspire Predator features an Intel Core 2 Quad 9300 processor, a nVidia GeForce 9600GT graphics card, 8GB of DDR2 memory, and two 640GB hard drives.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331516,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

ZT Affinity 7221Xa

The ZT Affinity gives some extra oomph for a little more money.

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Acer's Gemstone Blue Notebooks Get Centrino 2

Several months ago, Acer just missed the Intel Centrino 2 boat with the launch of its HD friendly Gemstone Blue Series: the Aspire 8920G and the 6920G. On Wednesday, Acer made up for lost time.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331460,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

New AMD Chip Pushes Graphics Cards Under $40

Here's a thought for you lonely gamers: for less than the price of a dinner out with a blind date, you can buy yourself a graphics card.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331412,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

Microsoft Teases 'New Xbox Experience' Site

Microsoft still hasn't given an exact release date for when the "New Xbox Experience" dashboard overhaul will be released, but if you want to get an early impression of what to expect then head over to their new Web site.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331349,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

HP Pavilion Slimline s3600t

The HP Slimline s3600t will please all but the most demanding media mavens.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331288,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC

Nero's LiquidTV puts TiVo on your tuner-equipped PC, where you can add storage easily--a big plus for the TiVo fan. But, ultimately, a TiVo box is easier to set up and use.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331273,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000751

RCA Small Wonder EZ205

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