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Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition
The Sum of the Parts We frequently get the same question from our readers in the ExtremeTech forum: I want to get rid of Windows, so which Linux distribution should I try? Now we have a definite answer: Get Xandros. With the release of version 3, the Xandros folks have finally come up with a…
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Review: $200 Graphics Showdown—GeForce 6600GT vs. Radeon X700 Pro
High-end graphics cards get all the glory. A card like a GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X850 can cost over $500, but not many users are willing to shell out that kind of money. In fact, these extremely high-end cards probably account for only 1% or 2% of all graphics cards sales. Where do people…
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Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0
Based on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite well, both on Web-based mail like Gmail and on POP3 accounts. It also supports IMAP for connecting to Exchange and other servers, but we didn’t test that feature. Outlook Express users should…
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More Power to You: nVidia’s nForce 4 SLI is Fastest
SLI. Those three little letters conjure up memories of a bygone era. If you wanted the biggest, baddest 3D performer for gaming, you’d have not one, but two 3dfx Voodoo2 cards in your system. And since Voodoo2 didn’t do 2D, you’d need a third graphics card to run Windows or DOS 2D. That system would…
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Radeon X850 Platinum Edition Review
Well, we certainly saw this coming. For the last several years, every generation of graphics card has followed pretty much the same pattern. About six months after a new graphics chip architecture is released, we get the “kicker” version. This clocked-up variant takes advantage of better manufacturing processes and slight redesigns of the silicon to…
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Fedora Core 3 Caps Linux Distribution
Fedora Core 3, the latest release of Red Hat Inc.’s free, unsupported, bleeding-edge Linux distribution, is stacked with changes that include the way it partitions disks by default and the appearance of the window managers that ship with it. Click here to read the full review of Fedora Core 3. Fedora Core 3, the latest…
