Last week we launched a new sort of buyer’s guide for AnandTech with our Best Budget Ultrabook recommendation. We’ll be fleshing out the “best XYZ” recommendations for other components and categories over the coming months, but for now my focus is on the notebook sector, and the plan is to have a new recommendation for laptops every Friday. Last week was a budget Ultrabook, and this week is the true budget category for all laptops. Let me know what you’d like me to cover next, keeping in mind that there are probably five or six categories of laptop that I’ll rotate through on a regular basis. With that out of the way, let’s talk briefly about the budget laptop sector. Laptops comprise everything from Chromebooks...
Price Guides February 2004: CPU and Motherboards
Hot on the heels of the Prescott NDA, we have a full analysis of last weeks price drops, as well as weekly recommendations and upcoming chipset analysis.
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As the year draws to a close, we took this opportunity to reflect on CPU, Video Card, Memory and Motherboard trends from the last 12 months. Without further ado, let us...
5 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/25/2003Price Guides December 2003: Holiday CPU & Motherboard Guide
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10 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/7/2003Price Guides November 2003: Video Cards and Memory
Over the last couple weeks we saw the retail debut of GeForceFX 5700 and 5950. Today we take a full analysis of how the new IBM manufacturered GPUs...
7 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/23/2003Price Guides November 2003: CPU and Motherboards
Intel and AMD's "official" price cuts came 2 weeks after we started seeing changes, but prices are still on the move. NVIDIA, VIA, SiS, AMD, ALI and Intel...
4 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/2/2003Price Guides October 2003: Video Cards
Need some hot video card deals? With all the video card madness happening lately, we thought we would take a weekly update with just NVIDIA and ATI video cards...
28 by Kristopher Kubicki and Howard Johnson on 10/18/2003Price Guides October 2003: CPU and Memory
Unfortunately, the Athlon 64 launch negatively effected the pricing on Athlon XP chips. This week we take a look at AMD and Intel CPUs, plus DDR memory.
19 by Kristopher Kubicki & Larry Barber on 10/13/2003Price Guides September 2003 IDF Edition: CPU, Motherboards and Video Cards
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17 by Anand Shimpi & Laura Johnston on 9/18/2003Price Guides August 2003: CPUs, Motherboards, Memory and Video Cards
August and July brought us several new products, including DDR500, single channel nForce2 motherboards and 256MB incarnations of ATI and NVIDIA video cards. Fortunately for us, we have...
17 by Kristopher Kubicki on 8/26/2003Sometimes Weekly Price Guides: Motherboards and Video Cards
It's been a more than a week since the last guide, but a volatile motherboard and video card market has prompted us to put out a quick look at...
1 by Kristopher Kubicki on 6/16/2003Weekly Hardware Price Guides: May 2003 Edition
The last few weeks have been full of new activity including new products from ATI, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. Check out recommendations and feel free to use our...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/26/2003Price Guides: Past, Present and Future
We are very proud to become the first independent review site with our own RealTime Price Engine. Never wait for a price guide again!
1 by Anand Shimpi & Laura Johnston on 5/5/2003Weekly CPU & Memory Price Guide: March 2003 1st Edition
New AMD, Intel and DDR news has spun prices and performance charts in circles. Take a look at this weeks analysis of whats going on in the Memory...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 3/23/2003Weekly Motherboards & Video Price Guide: February 2003 2nd Edition
GeForceFX makes an slightly dissapointing debut on our guides as pre-orders are starting to pop up in various places. KT400 and KT333 boards dropped in price as we...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/24/2003Weekly CPU & Memory Price Guide: February 2003 1st Edition
Just to spice things up a little this week, we are going to take a look at CPU's and Memory rather than the traditional CPU's and Video Cards. ...
1 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/6/2003Distributed Computing FAQ Update
Whether you are new to the concept or have been contributing for several years, this FAQ Update tells you everything you need to join TeAm AnandTech and the many...
0 by Andy Hui on 1/26/2003Weekly Hardware Price Guides - January 2003 1st Edition
This week we are taking a brief look at CPU's, Motherboards, Video Cards and Memory! We finally have perfected our price engine, so get ready for the most...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki & Larry Barber on 1/23/2003January FAQ Update
A FAQ roundup for the last few months of 2002, this is an introduction to a large number of FAQ articles.
0 by Andy Hui on 1/4/2003Weekly Hardware Price Guide - CPUs & Video: December 2nd Edition
This week we have seen a large drop in price on both the AMD and Intel fronts. We went through a lot of trouble to provide more ATI...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/18/2002Weekly Hardware Price Guides - Motherboards & Memory: December 2002 1st Edition
Welcome back! The holiday season has got many of us hunting for deals left and right. Check out this week's guides for more deals than you can shake...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/10/2002