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Lenovo Officially Starts Up Its First U.S. PC Manufacturing Line in North Carolina

Posted 06/09/2013 at 10:41am | by Justin Kerr

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Lenovo is finally pumping out machines made in the USA.

Lenovo has been on a roll these days. While the PC industry on a whole continues to suffer, they have continually taken market share and have prospered against the odds. Normally when a company has a recipe for success they continue to iterate, but last year they announced the reversal of a longstanding trend. Rather than continue adding production capacity in low cost labor markets, the company would build a brand new state-of-the-art PC manufacturing line in North Carolina. Late last week Lenovo announced it has made good on its promise, and machines are finally rolling off the line.

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Video Cards Drop in Price as Supply Issues Ease

Posted 06/07/2013 at 11:51am | by Paul Lilly

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Watch for falling prices.

Over the past several weeks, AMD has been making a conscious effort to help its hardware partners work through any supply issues they may have been dealing with in regards to the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card. A company spokesman reached out to Maximum PC today to let us know those efforts have begun to "bear fruit," and indeed a quick peek at Newegg reveals one of the lowest prices we've seen for a 7970 GHz card.

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Intel's Thunderbolt Thumb Drive is Twice as Fast as USB 3.0

Posted 06/07/2013 at 11:08am | by Paul Lilly

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World's fastest thumb drive uses Thunderbolt, not USB 3.0.

At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel was showing off a prototype thumb drive that it claims is the fastest in the world. Intel can make that claim because unlike most other thumb-size flash drives, it plugs into a PC's Thunderbolt port rather than a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port. In true thumb drive fashion, it plugs in without the aid of a cable, giving users fast access to 128GB of flash storage.

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Origin PC Adds Silverstone's SG10 Chassis to SFF System Lineup

Posted 06/06/2013 at 11:07am | by Paul Lilly

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Small but spunky.

Small form factor (SFF) systems are growing in popularity, especially as PC gamers look to venture out of their bedrooms and into the living room. Luckily for them, SFF cases are increasingly capable of housing high-end hardware, which is thanks in part to optimized designs but also power efficient hardware. We bring this up because boutique system builder Origin PC just dropped us a note to let us know it's now building systems inside Silverstone's box-like SG10 SFF chassis.

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Uh Oh Microsoft, AMD Wants to See Other OSes (Android and Chrome)

Posted 06/06/2013 at 10:06am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD to bring chips to Google's OS party.

Never has the future of Microsoft looked as uncertain as it does right now. Not only are PC sales down, but Windows 8 is such a drastic change over previous versions, it has OEMs and hardware makers looking at supporting alternative platforms. That includes AMD, which revealed at Computex that it's suddenly interested in developing hardware for Google's open source Android and Chrome OS platforms.

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AVADirect is First U.S. System Builder to Nab Clevo's P375SM Gaming Laptop

Posted 06/06/2013 at 8:59am | by Paul Lilly

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Hello again, Haswell.

The braggadocios system builders at AVADirect are hooting and hollering about being the first vendor in the U.S. of A. to offer Clevo's P375SM gaming laptop, a powerhouse machine built around Intel's new HM87 chipset for Haswell. Pricing starts at just shy of two grand for the 17.3-inch notebook equipped with an Intel Core i7 4700MQ processor, though there are plenty of upgrade options at your disposable if you have too much cash in your pockets weighing you down.

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Asus Unveils New Enthusiast Mobo and Video Card

Posted 06/05/2013 at 4:21pm | by Chris Zele

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ASUS Maximus VI Formula

Hybrid liquid-cooled Maximus VI Formula motherboard and Poseidon video card series announced at Computex

Asus has revealed its hybrid-liquid cooled Maximus VI Formula motherboard and liquid-cooled Poseidon video card at Computex 2013.

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Acer to Auction Off Rare Star Trek Themed Aspire R7 Ultrabook

Posted 06/05/2013 at 10:25am | by Paul Lilly

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The ultimate Ultrabook for Star Trek fans.

One lucky (and presumably wealthy) Star Trek fan is going to win an eBay auction for a limited edition Acer Aspire R7 Ultrabook. Acer and Paramount Pictures partnered to create the Star Trek-themed Aspire R7, of which there are only 25 models in the wild. One of those, and only one, will be up for bidding on eBay, with the proceeds going to two charitable organizations: The Mission Continues and Save the Children.

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Crucial Launches Ballistix Sport SODIMMs for Laptops and Mini ITX Systems

Posted 06/05/2013 at 10:02am | by Paul Lilly

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Little memory has game.

If the PC market is insistent on moving towards smaller form factors and mobile devices, then kudos to Crucial for following along. The memory maker announced new Ballistix Sport SODIMMs designed to boost performance of gaming laptops, all-in-one systems, and mini ITX setups that require the smaller size memory modules. The new memory kits feature low latencies and are optimized for Haswell, Crucial says.

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AMD Rolls Out Richland Desktop APUs

Posted 06/05/2013 at 4:49am | by Paul Lilly

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One part Piledriver and one part Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics.

System builders have no shortage of new processors to choose from this week. Counter-punching the launch of Haswell, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet for its 2013 Elite A-Series of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), otherwise known as "Richland," which supposedly offer discrete-level graphics and an easy upgrade infrastructure.

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