After missing the whole fight for buying tickets for the first few projections of Avatar, we finally got to a RealD cinema to see it for ourselves. If you don’t have a clue what is the whole IMAX/RealD/etc. thing, you should read that article about 3D cinema at the 3D Vision Blog – it explains everything in details. Back on the movie – there is only one real choice you have – go see it. There is no other movie like that to compare it. There is no other movie that redefines cliches in such way to make them as desirable  as glass of cold water in Sahara. There is only one thing you can do and it is to sit and watch in awe this masterpiece that makes everyone in Hollywood who didn’t take part in it too look like bunch of 15th century peasants looking at the 10 km mothership from District 9. …read on

The German website notebookjournal.de just released a review of HD5650 and Core i7-720QM equipped notebook which shows the performance of the new ATI mobile graphics card codenamed Madison, which we expect to see in most Acer models coming in January and may be many other in the next few months. The review lacks much data about the graphics card and it’s prone to speculations, but it shows that HD5650 will run at 600 MHz core and 800 MHz memory (600 MHz DDR) and it is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory. …read on

Today’s news said that NVIDIA is going to hold on ION 2 release a bit and probably make it more powerful that expected. If you read the articles about ION 2 so far, you would know that it was expected to have 32 shader cores (uhm.. CUDA cores), which made double the original ION’s 16 cores, and also double the power in 3D, yet not enough to be useful for 3D gaming. It was supposed to be like GeForce GT 130M die shrink made on 40 nm process. BSN even published some specifications of ION 2: …read on

Acording to leaked HP slides that we found in engadget, HP is going to release at least two new Pavilion PC models in early 2010 (Q1), both based on the new Intel Clarkdale cores and ATI Mobility radeon graphics gards. …read on

One of the leading antivirus software developers – Kaspersky Lab, just announced they started to integrate NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U GPU system in their threat prevention infrastructure. The main goal is speeding up the work on identifying highly advanced virus threats by using file similarity detection techniques. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the company’s antivirus lab. …read on