• Quadruple Your Fun (and Productivity) With a Four-Monitor System

  
  Think dual-display systems are the bee's knees? This quad-head setup will blow your mind.

• After the Core 2 Duo, What's Next for Apple Laptops?

  
  Hitting the sweet spot between 'too slow' and 'fast enough' is critical.
• Intel's Future: Real Transformers and Power by Wi-Fi
• Gartner Sees Chip Industry Slowing
• Time Working Against AMD's Asset-light Plans
• Five Insane Upgrades That You Should Never Do (and How to Do Them!)
• Intel's Core 2 Extreme Mobile Chips: A New Speed King
• Intel's Nehalem Chips Looking at Long Rollout
• Move Over Quad-Cores, Intel's Ready to Ship 6-Core Chips
• Intel Will Ship Dual-core Atom Processor Next Month

Components News

• After the Core 2 Duo, What's Next for Apple Laptops? Hitting the sweet spot between 'too slow' and 'fast enough' is critical.
• Gartner Sees Chip Industry Slowing Gartner sees the chip market slowing but plans to leave its 2008 revenue growth forecast unchanged.
• Time Working Against AMD's Asset-light Plans AMD wants to sell of its chip plants, but its financial problems will make that difficult, an analyst warned.
• Intel's Future: Real Transformers and Power by Wi-Fi Shape-shifting robots that become whatever machine is needed are already in the works in Intel's labs.
• Intel's Nehalem Chips Looking at Long Rollout At IDF, chipmaker says Nehalem server chips will be launched over four to five quarters.

Components Playing in PCW Video

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  First Centrino Atom Computer Coming in June The Willcom D4 from Sharp is the first device based on Intel's Centrino Atom platform.
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  Intel Introduces Atom Processor The Atom processor is a new line of low-power processors designed for mobile Internet devices.
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  CES: Toshiba Puts the Cell Processor Inside a TV Toshiba has taken the Cell microprocessor, the PlayStation 3 chip, and put it inside a television.

Components Slideshows

• Replace Your Laptop's CPU Upgrading your laptop to a faster, more powerful processor can extend its life span and boost your productivity--but it isn't a project for the fainthearted. We show you how to do it.

Components How-Tos

• Quadruple Your Fun (and Productivity) With a Four-Monitor System Think dual-display systems are the bee's knees? This quad-head setup will blow your mind.
• Five Insane Upgrades That You Should Never Do (and How to Do Them!) Feeling a bit nutty? These five upgrades are a little risky and time-consuming--but if you're up for a challenge, you could end up with the coolest rig on the block.
• Replace Your Laptop's CPU Upgrading your laptop to a faster, more powerful processor can extend its life span and boost your productivity--but it isn't a project for the fainthearted. We show you how to do it.
• How to Buy a Motherboard Whether you're building a new PC or overhauling an old one, a new motherboard is the place to start. Here's our advice for choosing the right one.
• How to Build a Superfast, Superquiet PC, Part 1 The older I get, the less tolerance I have for noisy PCs. So my new desktop computer had to be quiet, not just fast. Oh, and I needed it to be affordable, too.