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Reports that Dell is experiencing a high rate of returns for notebooks that include solid-state disks are flatly untrue, a Dell spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Toshiba said Tuesday that it had begun shipping multi-level cell solid-state disks. Which is somewhat odd, because its PC division began advertising the fact a day ago.

Intel and Microsoft jointly announced an initiative to create two "universal parallel computing research centers" on Tuesday, designed to give new multicore processors something to do.

The popular NYKO Charger Grip wobbles its way to the new, lighter, slimmer PlayStation Portable 2000 series.

Graphics cards based on the new Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 architecture have hit the street – and boy, what a price tag.

Nvidia's new 790i chipset melds DDR3 memory with Nvidia's SLI dual graphics card technology. Is that enough to dent Intel's dominance in chipsets?

At a press and analyst briefing, Intel dished out some new details on its next-gen CPU Nehalem, future processors, and the Larrabee visual processor.

Intel provided an architectural update to its roadmap on Monday, setting the stage for its transition into the "Nehalem" architecture near the end of the year.

Japan's major Internet service providers have agreed to jointly terminate users who repeatedly engage in piracy, according to reports.

Need a second or third display? Got money to waste? You should still avoid this external, USB-based graphics adapter from StarTech.com.

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ZDNet UK: Flash-based notebooks plagued by returns "Notebooks with flash-based hard drives cost a lot and, according to managing partner Avi Cohen at Avian Securities, don't work very well either"

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