Deal ahoy! Avid surfers who've got more than two bookmarks pointing toward Newegg claim that Intel's dual and quad-core processors have experienced some price slashing, and it's evident from their excitement that this is the best deal you're ever going to get midway into 2008. So what will you and 999 others be doing this summer? Shopping begins at the full story.

Dell has announced that it has launched inaugural special art edition version of the Inspiron 1525 laptop. Users have the option to pick from two exclusive artworks created by artist Mike Ming. To find out more, head on over to the full article.

Were you worried that Dell and AMD might be ending their celebrated partnership? Chill out because the exact opposite seems to be happening. New Dell systems are being built around AMD processors, adopting Athlons, Phenoms, and other hardware models of that ilk. Details follow after the jump.

Gamers planning on upgrading their systems might want to know that Blizzard's World of Warcraft is optimized for Dual Core systems. Community Manager Drysc explained this on the official forums of the game. Check out the full article to find out what he had to say about it.

For those of you who enjoy lightweight gadgets, you might want to take a look at Lenovo's X300 Series Thinkpad. Weighing in at only two and a half pounds, this laptop is sure to make connoisseurs drool at its slim, yet very substantial features.

More details on this thin laptop in the full article after the jump!

Dell has started the marketing campaign for its XPS One all-in-one PC. You can check out the online ad by clicking on the Read link below.

It hasn't been officially revealed yet, but images and info from the FCC has shed some light on the Dell XPS One. The XPS One is expected to rock a 22-inch WSXGA monitor with a slot-loading Blu-ray burner along the right bezel, a pair of stereo speakers and a dual core Intel processor.

The Dell XPS One is rumored to be launching in mid-November. This baby is expected to be around the US$ 2,000+ price range. Those interested in buying an XPS One when it comes out can also sign up for email alerts via the Read link below.

Epic Games has released the System requirements for the PC port of their up-and-coming FPS, Unreal Tournament III (also on the PlayStation 3). We're happy to say that it doesn't look like it will be asking too much of our PCs, with the game requiring just 512 MB of RAM at the very least.

What may get your goat, however, is the large chunk of space UT3's expected to chomp out of your hard drive. Be prepared to shell out 8 GB of space for UT3, whether you're running this multiplayer frag bonanza within its minimum or recommended settings. Here are your required specs:

• Minimum System Requirements:
• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
• 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
• 512 MB of System RAM
• NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
• Recommended System Requirements
• 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
• 1 GB of System RAM
• NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
  

Keep in mind that UT3 for the PC is due this November, at least if Epic decides to stay the course of the game's original launch date. In the mean time, we've also picked up two more screenshots for UT3. Enjoy your ogling!

 

Acer has announced through a recent press release that it's bringing the new Ferrari 1100 laptop series to the market. True to the sports car maker's reputation, the notebook line will feature speed, style, and portability at its core.

The Ferrari 1100 series is powered by an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core processor, an ATI Radeon X1250 integrated 3D graphics card with up to 960 MB of HyperMemory driving a 12.1" WXGA display with Acer CrystalBrite technology, and a hard disk drive of up to 250GB.

Acer's InviLink technology assures users that communications will be smooth sailing on the Ferrari 1100. An an integrated slot-loaded DVD SuperMulti DL adds to your multimedia pleasure without adding weight and the system comes with Microsoft Windows Vista variants of your choice pre-installed.

Pricing was not announced, but Acer should reveal it around the time that the launch date draws near. If you love the Ferrari cars and you want a notebook to match, this could be what you're looking for.

So what's better than today's Intel dual core processors? Why a new quad-core processor, that's what. The Xeon 7300 series is twice as fast performance-wise, more than three times the performance per watt over the old dual-core processors, and up to four times the memory capacity.

Intel has unveiled the new series of processors yesterday designed specifically for multi-processor servers running heavy applications with unmatched performance, reliability and scalability. The more energy efficient quad-core processors will enable customers a much more cost efficient ownership of the new machines according to its performance. Intel plans to overhaul their microarchitecture to the new processors within the next 15 months.

Here are just some of the new features that the Xeon 7300 series is sporting:

• Includes frequencies up to 2.93GHz at 130 watts, several 80-watt processors and a 50-watt version optimized for four socket blades and high-density rack form factors with a frequency of 1.86GHz.
• The Intel® 7300 chipset with Data Traffic Optimizations provides a balanced platform design with several new technologies that enhance data movement between the processors, memory and I/O connections.
• HP* delivered a new blade world record** for SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark with a result of 3,500 SD users on a HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade server with four Quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor model E7340s running at 2.4 GHz.

Tom Kilroy, Intel vice president and co-general manager of Digital Enterprise Group had this to say about the new processor:

Intel Xeon-based multi-processor servers are the backbone of the enterprise. With the Xeon 7300 series, Intel is delivering new levels of performance and performance per watt, and driving the Intel Core microarchitecture into such innovative systems as four-socket, 16-core blades that use less energy than our older models. It's simply amazing.

Those of you tech savvy people may want to take a look at the benchmark performance of the Xeon 7300 series at the Intel website through the via link. The estimated price range of the new processors are somewhere within US$ 856 to US$ 2,301 in quantities of 1,000. Given a little time, we're pretty sure we'll be seeing these new processors go commercial and give us the chance to play our favorite game without any (or at least considerably less) of those annoying lags in between frames.

PSP homebrew developer lefbe has just announced the release of a media application we imagine videophiles in the community will take a shine to.

This new app is dubbed Unlimited Video For PsP v1.3, and is a Windows-based video encoder capable of encoding the following video resolutions: 368x208 (Fm 2.0+), 480x272 fw (3.03 OE-B and above), and 720x480 (Firmware 3.30 and above). As for the application's changelog:

• Add : More information on the form.
• Add : Image 3.30 support for ImageToPsP
• Fix : Problem with "Configuration.xml".
• Fix : Encoding time for 3.30 firmware is more quicker. for Simnle Core, and Dual Core
• Addition of partners:
• PsPGen
• Ultimate
• GX-MOD
• Dapics
• Dark~AleX
  

The author further indicates that Video Unlimited will offer users several choices of bit rates, and will work on wmv, avi, mpg, MPEG, mp4, vob, 3gp, 3g2, mkv, and mov video files formats. 

Download: Video Unlimited For PsP v1.3