Intel's 2nd Generation Core processor family announced, includes 29 new CPUs and enhanced graphics

 They're here! That is, Intel's Sandy Bridge mobile and desktop processors herein known as the 2nd Generation Core processor family or more simply as Intel Core 2011 processors to us. After months of teasing and on-stage demos, Chipzilla is finally unleashing the details of its new Core i3, i5, and i7 processors, and considering there are 29 new CPUs in total as well as new integrated graphics options (now known as processor graphics) there's quite a bit to digest. Hit the break for our rundown of the new platform and a look at some of Intel's newest performance and graphics-focused features. Intel Core 2011 processor details It was just a year ago that Intel released its first generation Core processors, so what exactly...

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June 2, 2011, Macintosh product updates

Macintosh product updates and announcements for June 2, 2011: Software Zoo Entertainment, Inc has announced plans for its indiePub label to release Kona’s Crate, a physics-based title, this summer for the PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices. Kona’s Crate is a physics-based game in which players need to help deliver a crate of celestial supplies to Kona, a star hungry mystic waiting on his island. The crate rests on a jet-powered platform, which players must cleverly maneuver to complete their delivery on time. Praised on PC for its lush visuals, sharp writing and quirky story, adventure game The Next BIG Thing, the spiritual successor to the million-selling Runaway series created by Pendulo Studios, releases today for Mac through digital download...

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Previewing ‘Windows 8’

Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse. The demo showed some of the ways we’ve reimagined the interface for a new generation of touch-centric hardware. Fast, fluid and dynamic, the experience has been transformed while keeping the power, flexibility and connectivity of Windows intact. Here are a few aspects of the new interface we showed today: •Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces...

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