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Monday Afternoon (8 Comments) (link)
Monday, 8-May-2006 16:26:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Intel has officially dropped the Pentium name for its upcoming CPUs, with Merom and Conroe both being called "Core 2 Duo". The Core 2 architecture is a blend of earlier Intel architecture ideas, with some new features added in. It derives most of its microarchitecture from the Pentium M processors used in mobile PCs.

Timbot noticed this Gadgets Now and Then article which is interesting. Did you know that you have to carry around 54 RAZRs to carry the same weight as the BOSCH phone? Reminds me of our Time Warp Computer Pricing article from a while ago.

There's some new footage from that amazing Spore game.. discussion continues in this thread from a couple of months ago.

Smoken found this interesting computer desk/bed.. discussion in this thread. Bit pricey tho!

The Huygens probe has sent back some movies from Saturn's moon Titan. These movies were built thanks to the data collected by DISR on 14 January 2005, during the 147-minutes plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed.

Some PSU reviews: SilverStone Zeus 750W on Phoronix, Ultra-X Infinity 500W on Viperlair and Scythe Kamariki-2 550W on ThinkComputers.

Interesting Forum Threads:
AMD brings quad-cores to the roadmap in AMD Hardware.
Project p.max in Modding & Electronics: Worklogs.
Is it worth being a budget gamer? in Overclocking & Hardware.
Should Australia go nuclear? in Current Events.
Cold engine inefficiency - why? in Motoring: Technical.
Turtle keepers in Other Toys.
Had our mini International Beer Festival, pics & notes in Geek Food.
Working in the pharmaceutical industry in Career, Education & Finance.

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