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Microsoft’s recently announced Xbox One console is a bit of a strange one. On the one hand, it seamlessly captures the experience of an all-in-one home theatre device, merging TV *cough* American TV *cough* with gaming and other apps and functionality you’ve come to know and love from the existing Xbox Dashboard. But in the bid to have every console ship with Kinect and in order to extract as much profit from the device as possible, Microsoft has dumbed down the hardware somewhat. Still interested? Hit the jump for more info with high-resolution pictures taken by Wired.

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Intel’s HD graphics have previously been notoriously bad since they began integrating them on motherboards and in notebooks. Over the years they’ve improved and the first real shot at Intel having “good enough” graphics was reached with the HD3000, which allowed for 1080p decoding and could run browser-based games with little trouble.

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Beyond that, however, was still a slideshow. HD4000 brought that up even more and even made some games playable at 720p. Now, with Haswell, Intel’s going for better performance with the HD4600. Chinese site ITOCP released a preview of Haswell’s performance and it looks like the latest pre-release drivers have solved some performance issues. Hit the jump for more details. 

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Typically whenever a roadmap is announced, people assume that the company will stick to that roadmap and deliver on its promises and then some in a bit to keep up profit levels and attract more customers. AMD has been on track with 15% performance increases between processor families and Intel’s been trucking along with overall increases of 10% per family for years. A recently leaked product diagram, however, may be a blueprint for a future AMD product that could blow Intel out of the water, but it’s not intended for consumers – the internet exploded last weekend when people thought this was a new graphics card.

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The month of May is upon us and in a few short weeks it’s going to be absolutely crazy – Computex, Intel’s Haswell reveal, the PS4, E3 and everything in it and whatever AMD decides to squeeze in to steal the limelight. It will also be the last month of Intel’s Ivy Bridge for desktop processors. This month, it’s pretty much the end of the road for Intel’s mobile Ivy Bridge processors – from June onwards, all the focus will be on Haswell and rightly so – it will change a lot of things. But for now, lets focus on bargains that laptop buyers can look forward to this month!

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When I reviewed the Turtle Beach PX5 headphones I was astounded at just how good they felt and sounded. Coming from a pair or wireless headphones from Phillips, it was like magic. I had similarly good experiences with the Steelseries Siberia V2 headset and as a bonus it was compatible with the PS3. The majority of the headsets I’ve reviewed recently have been made with console use in mind and so it was the same with the PX21 headset. Lets dig into the review and see if Turtle Beach has another winner on their hands.

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It seems McAfee has decided to join the party with software to detect piracy. The company has put forward a patent that links into SiteAdvisor to help block and stop illegal activities such as piracy on tne net. SiteAdvisor is a link scanner in the McAfee anti-virus and anti-malware security suite. McAfee hopes that the software will help curb piracy and bring down unwanted or unintended malware infections by downloading software on sites that are not trusted.

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I swear, I do not have an AMD bias – they’re just constantly in the news these days. This latest piece of news comes from a Taiwanese retailer that confirms the existence of a new card in the HD7700 family, called the Radeon HD7730. Its a chopped-down version of the HD7750 and is designed to fall in under the $100 price point to combat the Nvidia GT640. More details after the jump.

MSI HD7730

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I never really understood the attraction of the Raspberry Pi when I first heard about it. I mean, how successful can a little ARM-based computer that’s fully programmable be that next big thing that every geek wants? Over time though, I’ve seen some rather cool stuff done with the Pi and I think it’s time it earned its place in the Fantasy Friday column.

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AMD Catalyst driver

For those of you running Radeon cards from the HD7000 series, AMD has just released the Catalyst 13.4 drivers. These drivers carry a lot of performance improvements and they specifically address latency in Radeon cards. If you’re a gamer, click through and check it out. 

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AMD’s HD7970 launched to much fanfare on the 22nd of December 2011. It was a paper launch and there were only a few units available owing to supply issues at TSMC. At the time, Nvidia was still experiencing issues with die yields from Kepler, while Intel was furiously fabbing away in a closed room at 22nm. The race for efficiency and superiority and AMD’s aggressive rollout plan gave it the benefit of four full months of a free market from launch to Nvidia’s competing product. But in all that time, whispers and rumors abound that AMD was making a dual-GPU product once again. But nothing came to fruition.

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