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    RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.

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  • PC shipments growing faster than expected

    Notebooks and low-cost computers led to higher-than-expected PC shipments in the second quarter of 2005, and many of these machines appeared to go to first-time buyers.

  • New Pentium 4-Rambus chipset on way

    Another manufacturer is expected to start making Pentium 4 chipsets using Rambus memory, which could help revive support within the industry for the memory standard.

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    Michael Dell is back in charge of the company he founded after a terrible year for the PC maker.

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    IT vendors such as Microsoft and Intel have grand plans for 64-bit computing and the improved processing potential it promises but convincing customers may not be so straightforward.

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