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    Industrial Light and Magic has joined the empire, at least in terms of hardware.

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  • Dell exec: We're not Wintel's lapdog

    To some, Dell marches to the beat of Intel and Microsoft drums, dutifully following their research and development plans. But to hear Kevin Kettler tell it, the PC maker often takes its own lead.

  • Dell, AMD expected to expand chip pact

    Dell is expected to announce on Thursday in the US that it's expanding its partnership with the chipmaker to include new AMD-based servers, desktops and laptops.

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    We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.

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    Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.

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    It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  • Apple-Intel: Winners and losers

    Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.

  • What's the best blade server?

    Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

  • Four mid-range servers compared

    What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

  • Dell and SAP -- what's the attraction?

    Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. But what do all the smiles amount to beyond the teaming of two of the industry's biggest players?

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    If you're shopping at the premium end of the business desktop market, you'll be hard-pressed to do better than the Dell OptiPlex 960.

  • Dell Latitude E4300

    Dell's Latitude E4300 shares many of the exciting features of its larger siblings, but also sacrifices a lot in exchange for portability.

  • Supercomputers getting super-duper

    It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  • Apple-Intel: Winners and losers

    Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.

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