Oh, brother. We can already tell this one's going to be a fun, enjoyable journey to follow. Shortly after Apple's 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro began making its way out to early adopters, small legions of owners have reported all sorts of bizarre graphical glitches. While we first assumed that it was ...

Yesterday, NVIDIA, the leading graphics chip maker, reported its results for the fourth quarter 2009 and fiscal year 2009. As we saw with Intel and AMD last month, demand has been weak in the chip sector, and NVIDIA been hit hard by it, with a wider-than-expected loss and a 60% slump in sales. Q4....

Rain Recording make audio-ready notebooks - that is, they’re pre-tested to function well with audio software, with Windows tweaks, driver selection, and configuration all chosen and tested for music and visual production, and no crapware installed. They’re one of a handful of music-frien...

In mid 2008, amid growing evidence, NVIDIA acknowledged that a significant number of its previous-generation GPUs (graphics processing unit) and MCPs (media and communications processors) for notebooks are failing at higher-than-normal rates. For readers who are not aware of this story, TheAppleBlog...

Nvidia schenkt een half miljoen dollar aan de biofysica-afdeling van de University of Illinois. Die wordt daarmee de eerste zogeheten 'Cuda Center of Excellence' en gaat het geld voor onderzoek naar parallele rekenmethodes met Nvidia's gpu gebruiken. Cuda is Nvidia's progammeerinterface waarmee het ...

What is the HIS iClear Card you ask? Here is what the product page has to say: "the latest solution to video card noise reduction. It has an excellent implement of state-of-the-art design and technology and give you a better gaming experience by reducing the distortion and noise generated from graph...

The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple's CEO lets fly with very quotable, very understandable quotes about OS X 10.6. We already heard the details, but it was still hard to......

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Alright, we're loving this new hyper-aggressive, sorta-nasty version of NVIDIA. Not only has CEO Jen Hsun-Huang promised to "open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel, the company has been touting its new sub-$45 integrated platform as far superior to Celeron-based systems, and no...

RTFA: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2284065… Dr. Pande: The CPU clients do a somewhat different calculation (”explicit solvent”) vs. the GPU/PS3 (which do “implicit solvent”). All of this depends on how we deal with water. Do we deal with water as individua...

Filed under: Gaming Quick note to the graphics enthusiasts in the house, HardOCP took a long look at CrossFireX using dual Radeon HD 3870 X2s. As you might expect, some games benefit from the raw power, some games require driver tweaks and knob-fiddling to get going right, and some games were just a...