Right after announcing the affordable line of GPUs, ATI introduced the energy-efficient, high-performance Radeon HD 5570, which is geared toward small form factor PCs. The new card supports both Direct X 11 and OpenGL 3.2, can drive up to three monitors, and only draws 45 watts when under a full processing load. is selling the HD 5570s for around $85.

The Apple rumor mill is at it again, but this time it has nothing to do with mythical tablets: Instead, reports are circulating that Apple will release an updated MacBook Pro featuring Intel's newest . What leads credence to this rumor? spotted on the Web site lists a system that identifies itself as a MacBookPro 6,1. Current MacBook Pros identify themselves with "5,x" codes.

Details include a 2.66GHz Core i7 processor and an unreleased build of Mas OS X (10.6.2 Build 10C3067; the current release is 10.6.2 build 10C540). However, the track record of is spotty at best, so your guess is as good as ours as to the validity of this leak.

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