The “Break it Down” Blog

Intel QX9650 (Yorkfield) Not That Great

If you are one of the folks, like me, that has been waiting for the Intel refresh of the quad-core chips before jumping on top of one, you were likely waiting to see how the QX9650 did before making your decision. (Double-check our previous coverage of the chips, their names and making sense of it [...]

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Intel Turbo Memory Not Until 2008

For those of you waiting on Intel’s Turbo Memory (ReadyDrive, ReadyBoost, etc.) bit-tech reports that manufacturers have given a resounding “Not until 2008 at the earliest” to the question of “When?!”. The idea behind “Turbo Memory” and all this jargon is simply this: Use flash-memory attached to the computer via a PCI-Express slot as a “faster than [...]

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Ubuntu to Work with Intel on Embedded / Low Power Devices

OSNews pointed me over to this announcement on the Ubuntu mailing list, and it looks like Ubuntu will be working to get a low-power/embedded version of Ubuntu on some new Intel platforms. When you combine that announcement with the Dell announcement, the light at the end of the tunnel of Hardware on Linux issue is starting [...]

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IBM, Intel, HP + Community Form ‘Linux Foundation’

Interesting… it looks like the big commercial Linux folks are getting together and forming the Linux Foundation, not unlike what happened with IBM and the Eclipse Foundation. It will be nice to see more competition on this front for everyone.

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Ubuntu 6.06 + ThinkPad T60 Wifi (ipw3945) + WEP/WAP

Ok the short story here is that the wireless adapter on the ThinkPad T60 series of notebooks (ipw3945 driver) work fine with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) IF you are using no encryption or WEP encryption. I put “if” in bold back there because I’m a moron, let me explain: I received my ThinkPad T60 from UPS [...]

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Intel Jumps AMD to Quad Core Chips

I was really surprised to see this news today. I know that in response to the Core 2 Duo benchmarks AMD announced quad-core chips for next year in their top end gamer line of chips, so I figure that next year Intel will release a prototype of a quad-core chip later in 2007 to [...]

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Intel Core 2 Duo chips instock at Newegg

Well it looks like some (the slower ones) of the new Core 2 Duo chips are finally in stock at Newegg now: Here are 6300/6400/6600/6700 Here is the 6800 Extreme One thing I’m surprised to see on the slower chips is how many reviews/votes there are already… people must be building these machines up as fast as they [...]

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