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Valve All But Confirms Steam and Portal 2 Coming to Mac OS X *UPDATED*
PUBLISHED: Sunday, March 07, 2010
It's about time that fans of Apple's Mac OS X operating system get some love from big time game developers. Gaming on the Mac exists, but it's always been a little sparse, limited to a title here or there. If Valve's teasers say what we think, though, gaming on the Mac is about to change in a very big way.

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OCZ Onyx: Cheap SSDs Finally Fast?
PUBLISHED: 3/10/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Up until now, you really had a choice to make when it comes to solid state drives (SSDs): you could get a drive that was good and fast, or you could get a drive that was good and cheap.
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brite-View LinkE: Four-Way Powerline Networking
PUBLISHED: 3/9/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Up until very recently, home networking has required users to do one of two things: string cabling everywhere, or put up with security and configuration issues present with wireless networking. Networking over power lines changes that by using the copper wiring in your home to carry the signals normally transferred by network cables.
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ASUS Eee Box with Linux Now Shipping
PUBLISHED: 3/9/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Nettops have been getting more and more affordable; now that Asus' Eee Box is available with Linux, they're even cheaper. Newegg has started stocking ASUS' little box that could with Red Flag Linux pre-installed. RF Linux is the distro developed by the Chinese government for use in China.
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Newegg Explains Fake Chip Mishap
PUBLISHED: 3/8/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Remember the fake CPU saga Newegg blasted its customers with over the weekend? The electronics retailer made a comment on its Facebook page today that explains in some small part a little of what happened.
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Intel to Release 8-Core Nehalem-Ex Server Chips
PUBLISHED: 3/8/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Six cores? Who needs six cores when you can have eight? That seems to be Intel's view on things. Its upcoming eight-core (octocore!) processor will undoubtedly make short work of the most CPU-intensive server tasks.
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Newegg Accidentally Sells Hundreds of Fake Intel CPUs
PUBLISHED: 3/7/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
One of Newegg's suppliers looks to have let the big 'egg down. This past weekend, the computer parts giant reportedly shipped up to three hundred utterly fake Intel Core i7-920 processors. Not an inexpensive purchase by any means, no doubt the buyers were completely perplexed when they popped the "CPUs" out of their packages.
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NVIDIA Shows Off GTX480 On Video: A Match For ATI?
PUBLISHED: 3/6/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
NVIDIA just posted a video demo of their upcoming flagship card running some benchmarks to YouTube. The results? It seems, with reservations, to be about a match for ATI and their Radeon HD5870.
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Microsoft Shows Off Their Vision of the Future of Gaming: PC, Xbox, Phone
PUBLISHED: 3/6/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Windows 7 has been a pretty big success for Microsoft, and it's hard to deny that they've managed some pretty cool tricks with the Xbox360. With the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, it looks like we're finally going to see them bring all three platforms together.
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NVIDIA Reveals Some GTX480 Details at CeBIT
PUBLISHED: 3/4/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
We talked earlier about how March would see the release of NVIDIA's next generation GPUs in the form of the GeForce GTX470 and GTX480. NVIDIA showed off the cards at CeBIT this week, and let out a few more choice details.
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Dell Releases Flexible OptiPlex 980, CPU-free FX100
PUBLISHED: 3/3/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
We often focus on Dell's consumer side of the PC business, but that does them a disservice - they are remarkably well known for their business and enterprise PC availability and support.
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Hard Drive Makers Enter the SSD Market: Western Digital Releases the SiliconEdge Blue
PUBLISHED: 3/3/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
Until now, the vast majority of solid state drives on the market have been produced by companies not all that well known for being in the storage business - Intel, OCZ, Corsair, Kingston, Crucial (with Samsung being a notable exception) - the big hard drive makers have been substantially absent. Western Digital is looking to change all that.
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AMD Releases Next-Generation 890GX, Reveals Name for Six-Core CPU
PUBLISHED: 3/2/2010  BY: J.R. Nelson
AMD has seen fit to bring out their latest generation of chipset with new integrated graphics, the 890GX. A first model in the 800-series, the 890GX brings a number of improvements to the AMD stable: native SATA3.0, a new SB850 southbridge (finally!), more powerful graphics, USB3.0, dual- and hybrid-GPU options and perhaps most interesting of all, compatibility with the six-core Phenom II X6 processor.
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