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People need to stop thinking about 'Oh this doesn't count because its actually two chips'. So what? The HD4 series was designed as a shift AWAY from monolithic GPU cores to a multiple scalable design. Nobody cries that Core 2s are fast because omg they have two cores. The design for their (SINGLE) graphics card happens to have twin GPUs on it. It is very much different to two cards, and if AMD can make the design work to have TWO GPUs on a single board and price it and manufacture it as a single board, all power to them. nVidia are welcome to as well. The mindset of one graphics card = one gpu core needs to die. Multiple scalable cores are the future.
A DSLR sensor, especially a full-frame one already does shoot in a pretty high dynamic range anyway. Medium format and above have even higher dynamic ranges.
Everyone remembers laughter. Just nobody remembers exactly what in your post was funny. I wonder why that could be.

I have one of these in my laptop and I can categorically state that yes, yes it can run Vista. And Doom. And Crysis. So let's not go there, either.
Do you have any justification for writing this of as 'another buggy product'? Or is this generic omg its microsuck!1onetwo crap. Because it's wearing thin. And sounding rather tired. CE is a pretty reliable OS to start with.
It's question time. How many cores does a Xeon X3360 have? I'll save you the effort, its four cores. That makes it a quad (four) core processor. It doesn't matter how the cores are arranged on the die. It has FOUR PROCSESING CORES. You don't go around telling people with V6 engines that no actually, they don't have a V6, they have two lots of three cylinders, they have a V6.

Stop failing and eating up the 'true' quad core nonsense. Performance figures would suggest there was no advantage in dumping R&D into getting out a 'true' quad core when Intel's 'fake' quad cores seriously outperform AMD's 'true' quad cores.
"processors ranging from 1GHz to 1.6GHz"

So it will be using a crappy Via C7 just like the HP 2133. Which is a shame, I actually wanted a 2133 until I saw the processor. Somebody please put an Isiah or a Penryn or something into one of these.
Penryn based chip or Isiah and this thing could quite possibly be the ultimate Eee type device. Interesting theres an option for a 7200RPM drive on a device like this; I'd have guessed the device isn't powerful enough to have the extra spindle speed have a shred of difference.
Considering MBAs already have melt problems anyways and they are as you say rather underpowered, imagine throwing a quadcore in there. No.
Kris, I experience none of the problems you do, and I use a Logitech MXR, have an 802.11g connection, use a ZX-6000 Lifetech headset and have an Xbox 360 with wireless controllers (which are reported to be death to 2.4ghz spectrum devices), and I experience no problems at all. No breakup, no signal loss, no interfering.

On topic, I'd be more excited if this was bluetooth, like alot of posters. One minor complaint is that looking at the design of the device, it seems to be fixed so that the boom is on always on the left, its not apparently a symmetrical dseign where the boom can be rotated over to be on the left or right (example, 360 wired headset). It's a minor thing, but I use my headset boom on the right, and it just a personal preference, but it can't be difficult to implement. I don't even mind if I have to switch the stereo left/right in my drivers, its just how I roll. And it seems an irritating omission.
Funny about the PCI cards with slot in processors. Aren't AMD planning something similar?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"
 

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