Similarly, AnandTech's handy table above shows just how far ahead Trinity is across fifteen common titles.
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"There's definitely more attention this time, " said Brian Klug, smartphones editor at Anandtech.com, a U.S.-based gadget site.
Emphasis on the word "matched, " however, because Anandtech's gaming benchmarks suggested a tie at all except multi-monitor resolutions.
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Thanks to some help from Kishonti, AnandTech has learned that Apple may still have an ace up its sleeve.
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According to AnandTech, the company will release boards that are based on the Haswell architecture before completely suspending development.
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The improved performance in either direction is a useful boost to on-the-ground performance, as both AnandTech and Storage Review will tell you.
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Because AnandTech discovered that Apple switched to smaller 32nm transistors, compared to the 45nm chips it used in previous runs of the iPad 2.
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According to AnandTech, this results in an overall 16 percent increase in battery life during web browsing and as much as a 30 percent boost when playing games.
Well Shuttle is trying change this perception, and AnandTech believes they have a good shot at reaching a larger audience with their XPC M1000, although some notable exceptions apply.
The table above, provided by AnandTech, confirms the models we heard about a couple of weeks ago, though we'll have to wait a little bit longer to get confirmation on pricing.
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AnandTech brought some history to mix, declaring this was the first time AMD has matched NVIDIA within a single-GPU product cycle since the Radeon X1950 hit stores back in 1950 (jk: 2006).
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Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) is just about ready for store shelves, and Anandtech managed to get their hands on the DC3217BY model to provide us an early inside look at the mini-PC.
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Just check out these benchmarks at Anandtech.
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However, the company has now confirmed to AnandTech that its Indilinx Everest 1 and 2 controllers are actually still based on Marvell products, with a little overclocking on the side, and it hasn't yet implemented its own hardware.
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As you'll no doubt be aware having read our headline above, there actually isn't a 1GHz CPU at the helm, as AnandTech and IOSnoops report the dual-core ARM chip is dynamically clocked around 900MHz, likely in search of reduced power consumption.
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