Dell Vostro 3000

Looking for a business laptop, then Dell has the Vostro series, recently with the V13 and now with the 3000 series. Now with the power of Nehalem (that’s Intel’s new Core i5=3, i5 and i7 CPUs) The Vostro comes in a 4 varieties, the 3300, 3400, 3500 and the 3700 aswell as 3 colours :…

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Precision Laptops to get Core i5 and USB 3.0

Dell’s Precision M6500 laptops are a bout to get an upgrade to Intel’s new chipset, USB 3.0 and a handful of other goodies making it the first of Dell’s lappies to get the new USB port. The model is already available with the new Quad-Core i7 CPU(the “Value Package” as it’s known) but has a…

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“Thuban” & “Gulftown”, AMD & Intel 6 Cores

Quad core has been the front of CPU’s for a while now so it seems only logical that the next step was on the horizon. According to Digitimes friends in Taiwan have said that the CPU manufacturing giants will be releasing them later this year. Intel’s Gulftown chipset should be with us first around the…

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Intel Core i7 and Core i5 Platforms get SLI Support

NVIDIA have finally announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA SLI technology for inclusion on their Intel P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket. As a result, customers who purchase…

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Intel Westmere images leaked

Intel’s six-core Xeon processor, known as Westmere, has been seen in a leak of an engineering sample. Still identified as a mainstream Core i7 chip by software, the Xeon W5590 example runs at a relatively low 2.4GHz clock speed but has 12MB of Level 3 cache shared between all cores and 256KB of Level 2…

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