Preliminary specs and a product render for the Dell Latitude XT2 have been released, and appears the convertable tablet will include the Centrino 2 Montevina platform, an integrated optical drive and an eSATA port. The rest appears to be unchanged for the time being. Nothing shocking or revelatory, but the Latitude XT was a nice piece of tech, and I’m equally interested in the XT2. [Engadget]

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There was a large to-do yesterday with the release of the GeForce 9800 GX2, the dual-GPU supercard from Nvidia. Reviews were cautiously positive, but Bit-Tech had a mysterious problem: constant overheating. They did some testing and found that on some nForce 700 mobos (in their tests, the Asus Striker II), the placement of the nForce 200 […]

There was a massive to-do yesterday with the release of the GeForce 9800 GX2, the dual-GPU supercard from Nvidia. Reviews were cautiously positive, but Bit-Tech had a mysterious problem: constant overheating.

They did some testing and found that on some nForce 700 mobos (in their tests, the Asus Striker II), the placement of the nForce 200 chip made for a hot pocket of up to almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit/90 Celsius. The card itself has a higher tolerance than the mobo and the entire system was shutting down because of this design flaw. So, before you lay down that $600 for a GX2, check your motherboard and see if the placement of the chip is going to be a problem. See the illustration above or the link for more information.

XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 Review [Bit-Tech]

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Today Gartner reversed its opinion on the iPhone: Before, it said the iPhone wasn’t business-friendly, but today, the firm grants it “appliance-level” status, meaning that with the upcoming enterprise-friendly iPhone 2.0 update, it’ll officially be safe enough—and functional enough—for hardcore suit-wearers.

We journalists tend to think of Gartner as a good place for stats and opinions, but IT honchos look to the company for guidance on how to spend their multimillion-dollar budgets. In this case, Gartner explains its decision in terms that IT buyers will appreciate:

“Appliance-level” status permits the iPhone to be used for PIM, e-mail, telephony and browsing applications. It also permits the device to be used for other dedicated functions where the software is supplied by a third party, functionality is kept to a restricted set, the software supplier offers support for a backup platform and IT development resources are not needed to program custom code locally residing on the device.

But this here’s the deathblow, dealt by Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Ken Dulaney:

“The iPhone will thus match up initially in several segments against its main smartphone competitors—BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60.”

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Samsung’s YP-P2 PMP is finally getting a much needed bump in storage from 8GB to 16GB. I’ve got a 4GB or 8GB P2 somewhere, but being a Mac guy hinders me from using the fancy tiny guy. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll run Boot Camp because I’d like to watch video once in a while. It’s […]

Samsung’s YP-P2 PMP is finally getting a much needed bump in storage from 8GB to 16GB. I’ve got a 4GB or 8GB P2 somewhere, but being a Mac guy hinders me from using the fancy little guy. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll run Boot Camp because I’d like to watch video once in a while. It’s roughly $350 but we won’t know the exact pricing in the US until they bring it on over.

Hurry up, Samsung.

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