Over the past year, we’ve seen USB 3.0 go from a specification to a real world product, with numerous manufacturers releasing everything from USB 3.0 cards to USB 3.0 compliant external hard drives. Still, uptake has been slow on the new standard, with most notebook manufacturers still refusing to ship machines with even a single USB 3 slot. What’s the hold up? Intel. The chipmaking giant still doesn’t officially support the...

It happened. China just passed the US and the world with the reveal of the world’s fastest supercomputer. The fully operational Tianhe-1A, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray’s 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved the record using 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and...

ORIGIN PC spits upon your battery life expectations. EON17 Gaming Notebook boasts an Intel Core i7 980X desktop processor, dual Nvidia Fermi GeForce GTX 480Ms, and most astoundingly, 24 GB of memory. Feel free to keep all those tabs open. The rest of the notebook’s specs are almost as killer: a 17.3″ display, up to 2 TB of storage, and Blu-ray playback with HDMI 1.4 output. That being said, beefy desktop replacement laptops...