At a news conference in Taipei, Intel showed off a range of new stuff, including several high-performance desktop and low-cost server processors, the new single chip P55 chipset and a range of products from third party manufacturers that support the new Intel technology. On the processor side, the company showed off two new Core i7 processors, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870, and the first Core i5 processor, Core i5-750.
The new desktop chips were formerly codenamed “Lynnfield,” and are based on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture, providing very high performance for digital media, productivity, gaming and other resource hungry tasks. All three are Halogen-free, Lead-free and feature Intel Turbo Boost Technology. The Core i7 processors also support Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.
The new Core i7 and i5 processors are the first Intel processors to integrate both a 16-lane PCI Express 2 graphics port and two-channel memory controller, enabling all input/output and manageability functions to be handled by the single-chip Intel P55 Express Chipset. The P55 Express Chipset is the first from Intel to be composed of one chip, not two.
Result for: hype
The much hyped Nokia Ovi Store is now live everywhere, and is available from your mobile phone as well as from desktop PCs and Macs.
So far there are only about 700 apps, games, and audio/video pieces of content, but Nokia promises 20,000 at least.
Check it here: Nokia Ovi Store
Be warned however, the site is running extremely slow as of publishing, from the PC and from the mobile browser.
Result for: hype
Over the last few years Exact Audio Copy (EAC) has gotten a reputation as one of the best (if not the very best) audio CD ripping tool around. Despite being officially designated as “prebeta” software it’s actually one of the most reliable and full-featured audio tools available. We’ve recently added three guides that take you from installation to ripping CDs, and even explain how to work with the unusual CD Image backups it produces. But before you read these guides you may want to find out more about the program to see if it’s right for you.
Secure Ripping
Although most people tend to think of CDs as sounding the same every time they’re played, in reality almost every time a disc is read there are errors. With modern media like DVD, or even CD-ROMs, this can be dealt with using very sophisticated error correction to re-create the original data. Audio CDs, on the other hand, primarily use a strategy of hiding errors instead of correcting them. While this increases the amount of damage it takes to audibly reduce quality, it also increases the complexity of performing perfect backups.
Afterdawn’s new EAC guides
Exact Audio Copy Installation and Configuration
