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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of the AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks, enabling exceedingly thin and light OEM designs with rich entertainment capabilities at an affordable price. Previously codenamed “Yukon,” the platform is based on the new AMD Athlon™ Neo processor, ATI Radeon™ X1250 integrated graphics and optional ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3410 discrete graphics and brings true HD entertainment to a new category of stylish notebook PCs. The AMD platform debuts within the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC ultrathin notebook, which measures less than one-inch thick and weighs less than four pounds. The HP Pavilion dv2 also comes equipped with a 12.1-inch diagonal LED BrightView display, nearly full-size keyboard, and optional external optical disc drive with Blu-ray capability.

“Before today, there was a compromise associated with selecting a highly portable notebook, forcing consumers to choose either the full PC experience of an ultraportable at a high price or the limited PC experience of a mininotebook at a low price,” said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president, client division, AMD. “In introducing the AMD ultrathin notebook platform, AMD enables balanced PC performance, including the option of advanced graphics and video for true HD entertainment, all in an affordable, ultrathin notebook, bringing consumers uncompromised mobility.” (more…)

LG Display (NYSE:LPL, KRX:034220), a leading innovator of TFT-LCD technology, announced today that it has developed the world’s first “Trumotion 480Hz” LCD TV panel, which has an impressive 480 refresh rate per second, accelerating the advent of ultra high-speed images, without sacrificing picture quality.

LG Display’s ‘scanning backlight’ is the technology that enables a backlight to be repeatedly turned on and off to reduce motion blur. When combined with the company’s 240 Hz technology, the display can refresh 480 images per second.

In addition, LG Display’s “Trumotion 480Hz” display boasts an lower motion picture response time (MPRT)of 4ms, eliminating motion blurring for fast moving images and enabling a realistic, crystal clear picture. The display also makes dark images even darker and bright images far brighter — providing unparalleled, vivid picture quality. Moreover, it can reduce energy consumption by adjusting the backlight brightness. (more…)

Apple’s latest update to its Leopard operating system, OS X 10.5.6, appears to be creating more problems than it’s fixing on users’ Macs.

A day after the software was released via Apple’s download service, users flooded the company’s online support forum with hundreds of complaints about the upgrade. Most centered around OS freezes and so-called “Blue Screens of Death.”

“The latest version of Leopard (10.5.6) downloaded automatically via Software Update. However, when I attempted to install, the process hangs on ‘configuring setup,’” wrote a user logged in under the name Davald. (more…)

I just woke up with a terrible headache, not just from the fireworks but seeing I drinked some vodka during the new years celebration. I dont usualy drink vodka so half a bottle screwed up my first morning in 2009. Other than that it was awesome. Here’s a shot of the fireworks which took place in rotterdam.

So I hope every one still has all of their limbs intact after the fireworks and I whish everyone a happy new year and offcourse the best whiches for 2009. Hope to see you all in 2009 and thanks to those that have supprted me untill now.

Why not stop on the forums, it’s free!

Great news for Liquid Cooling System enthusiasts! New liquid cooling system upgrade from Thermaltake —WB100 waterblock for CPU and WB200 for North Bridge.

North Bridge thermal issue is often neglected in pc cooling field, but all true pc enthusiasts know it not only important but it also but one of the vital elements to the computer performance.. Thermaltake new WB200 is a perfect solution to North Bridge cooling in liquid cooling application. WB200 is purely copper-made for efficient and speedy heat dissipation in the first place; adding up the flawless contact surface with the chipset and the well-known brazing technology, WB200 should definitely guarantee impressive performance without worrying about leakage problems. Moreover, the Rotational Hose Connector used for connecting the tube and WB200 had made installation extremely easy! (more…)

A new year has almost past and there have been a lot of changes over the last couple of months. Here at QuentinRademaker Dot Com we will start publishing stories about anything thats wurth rambling about, from everyday stuff to computer hardware. I cant I am e nerd but I am indeed a Hardware Junkie so yes Hardware will be and stay the main topic of interrest. I have also implemented a forum where everyday topics can be posted. Apart of the everyday topics I have also added some section related to computer hardware. If you have any more ideas to add to the forums let me know because I am counting on you to help me build this community to last.

I wanted to thank everyone that supported HardwareXL in the past and I hope that you all will be coming back to Quentin Rademaker Dot Com to make it a well known community again. To all I would like to say Merry X-Mas (dont eat to much) and I wish everyone the best wishes for 2009.

Here in The Netherlands loads of people start to make promisis like when the new year starts I am going to stop, beating my wife or start giving more attention to their family or stop drinking some even might consider to quit playing World of Warcraft. But the number one resolutions for 2009 must be to stop smoking.

I myself started smoking at the age of 15, it started with just a few smoke a day at school. Why, coz I thought it looked cool. Now after 20 years I do regret that I have ever started smoking but the damage has been done, these days I smoke about a pack a day. Today I realized what I have could saved if I saved every penny spend on sigarettes. (more…)

Today The TechLounge launched a raffle benefiting the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program. The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help needy children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation’s most valuable natural resources - our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.

For every $5 you donate, you will receive one chance to win one of over 80 prizes, including the Grand Prize: a custom-made, hand-painted SmoothCreations PC gaming system, equipped with some of the latest high performance gear on the market. In these tough economic times, we would like to give some sense of hope to those less fortunate. Our communities need us now more than ever, and we can’t do it without you. Every bit helps, so please donate whatever you can afford to help us reach our goal of $25,000.”

Full details @ The TechLounge

PC Online got a phone call last friday and got some more information about the iPhone clone which Meizu is about to launch. Till now PC Online only published photos of the M8, but they did mention they would review the iPhone Clone as soon as possible. The M8 is going to be produced as of next week, at least thats what IT Tech News reveiled. The interface which looks a lot like the iPhone itself is published ovver at the productpage of Meizu.

The phone has been in development for a long time now. The Chinese manufacturer Meizu reported (three weeks after the launch of Apple’s iPhone) to be working on a iPhone clone. The release was postponed time after time, because a lot of people started to suspect it contained vaporware.

It’s still a question if and when the M8 be released in The Netherlands. The phone from Meizu looks exactly like the iPhone from Apple, weird part is that Meizu was able to get the iPhone clone patented in China. I wonder what action Apple will be taking towards Meizu, they can’t be to happy about the lauch of a iPhone clone.

Ever heard of “NerdCore”? Nerdcore, for the uninitiated, is basically rap for geeks. Checkout the following video from the Sniper Twins feat. Rob Collier rapping about “Stacking The Memory”, yeh that’s right you thought 50cent gotta going on…. have a listen to these guys.

Whether you are working on a Mac, a PC, or even both, the way your workstation is setup tells more or less about your attitude and style of working. The workstation could also be your source of inspiration, therefore you might want to put in more thoughts on the place that you’ll spend most of your time at.

The people over at Hongkiat.com crawled through the net, checking out at how people setup their workstations, focusing how what machines they use, how they are positioned, the decorations, and how other peripherals come in order. Some might think setting up a cool workstation is nothing much but an ‘ego-thing‘ but we’ll like to add a point - lots of great ideas and inspiration came from great working environment, particulary the workstation. (more…)

If all goes according to plan, the first alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope) will be released tomorrow. It’s not even been one month since the release of Ubuntu 8.10, but this first alpha release will show early signs of what we can expect to see in this next Canonical-sponsored release, albeit many of the features are still in planning. In this article we will provide a glimpse at what Ubuntu 9.04 should hold in store to captivate Linux desktop users. (more…)

EVGA Corporation, the leading-edge 3D processor and motherboard manufacturer, announces the first motherboard based on the next generation Intel® X58 Express Chipset platform supporting the Intel® Core™ i7 processors. The EVGA X58 SLI motherboard features 6 DIMMs of triple-channel memory, and a board layout optimized for the enthusiast including 2-way and 3-way SLI support. The EVGA X58 SLI motherboard is designed for those who demand no less than the best! (more…)

Just introduced and already it’s got a reputation of being a “SpeedDevil”. The Intel Core i7 is build to suit the needs for running applications which use great quantities of data, complicated algorithmes but will also meet any high demands in terms of real-time rendering applications. Codenamed “Bloomfield” the designteam from Intel has put the dot on the i which is based on the innovated “Nehalem” microarchitecture, manufactured according the technology Intel calls the “Hafnium-infused 45nm high-k metal gate transistor technology”. Bloomfield is ready fot the next generation which is called Core i7. (more…)

A few week have gone by, and my girlfirend is getting more and more familiar with Vista (she was a XP fan). Today she had a problem with the trash can. Well….problem. You can say it was the result of 2 seconds of brain malfunction. She , by accident, deleted the trash can from the desktop.

So… how do you retrieve the trash can? I thought that Microsoft must have had a programmer or product analyst that took in account that there are people that stupid enough to delete their trashcan…. So they have a very simple solution for it…. (more…)

Ever wanted to know what would happen when The Matrix would run on Windows? Well the people at collegehumor got the answer, just watch the following clip….

CollegeHumor.com was founded in 1999 by two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland who went to different colleges as a way to share all of the pictures, videos, and links their friends would IM and e-mail each other.

They now showcase hilarious original videos, articles, contests, and interactive features, as well as pictures and videos submitted by fans like you and me.

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The suspect in the Holloway case the Dutch Joran van der Sloot is in the news again. Peter R. de Vries the Dutch reporter who filmed Joran undercover about the Holloway case, did it again. Joran is currently living in Thailand.

Peter R. de Vries went to Thailand to make a new undercover operation possible about the current activity of van der Sloot. In a TV special Peter R. the Vries showed that van der Sloot is into trafficking Thai Woman for the prostitution market in the Netherlands. (more…)

You are writing a new post in wordpress and are desperately trying to add multiple line breaks and spaces to make your post look nicer and easier to read? You tried adding manual line breaks with the tag but wordpress visual editor automatically deletes them?

You might have tried to create those extra spaces by using a point or dot between your paragraphs but it doesn’t look very professional. So how the hell can you have multiple line breaks in your posts? (more…)

The following is a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs I signed up for to make money online. There are more than 130 ad networks so let the sales pitches fool you in to signing up. Some of the following networks I already work with but the rest come highly recommended by big bloggers. The reason for this post is to show you how it works and if it realy works. First lets have a look at some ad networks wurthwile signing up with. (more…)