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Weekend Recap: August 3rd 2009

Well, if you ever shopped at Radio Shack, it will now be called “The Shack” (to read more).  Here is what happened over the weekend… The new Always Innovating’s Touch Book. Now for sale! Its a netbook/tablet. [engadget] Intel pulls the plug on Atom Z-series chips for netbooks. [slashgear] Broadband line over power lines? [engadget] [...]

Weekend Recap: May 25th 2009

Here are some stories from the weekend. Next time you go on a trip, maybe this cigarette charger will come in handy! [engadget] The world’s oldest carmera [gizmodo] ASUS introduces on-the-fly overclocking station [engadget] A look at Samsoung’s 8-inch digiframe monitor [engadget] Dell Studio XPS 13 with Ubuntu installed! [engadget] AT&T first Android phone [gizmodo]

YAWA – Desktop PC upgrade

Original forums link: here Finn writes: I currently have a Pentium D 3.0 ghz. How do I find out what type of motherboard i have? I want to see if there are better CPU’s compatible with my motherboard. I have a Dell XPS (should be called POS). I have replaced everything except the motherboard, CPU, [...]

Intel's future mobile processor: The Atom

Fudzilla announced yesterday, via Engadget, that Intel’s dual core Atom processor will be released sometime in late September with full product launch sometime in the 4th quarter of 2008, mainly due to the CPU’s high demand. But what is special about Atom? And how will it be the new mobile CPU of future laptops and [...]

Intel… NOT Inside?

Although this story falls more under the business side of technology that the truly “geeky” side (unless you’re one of those business geeks who drools over spreadsheets, business models and risk/reward analysis), it is still worth noting.  It looks like Apple has finalized their decision to not use Intel’s line of microprocessors in the next [...]

Weekend Recap – June 16th 2008

Here are some of the stories of interest this past weekend! New Transformers 2 pictures here, first found on Digg Intel releases news on a new quad core processor for budgeted computers Google will be developing software to let you know if your ISP (internet service provider, such as Comcast, Verizon FiOS, Charter, etc) is [...]

The Insides of a Computer – What everything means

The Insides of a Computer – What everything means

Welcome to the first big installment of technewsmadesimple.com. One major piece of technology that most people are afraid of touching is the hardware of a computer. While there are many of us who enjoy building computers, the majority of the people can’t even understand some of the terminology let alone the hardware components. Here in [...]