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• Keyspan's Latest USB Serial and PDA Adapters
  Thursday 23 August 2001 – 08:41
  Keyspan just let us know about new versions of its USB PDA Adapter and its High Speed USB Serial Adapter.
• Dell recalls portable power adapters
  Friday 2 July 2004 – 09:43
  Dell is recalling about 38,000 power adapters sold worldwide that can cause an electrical shock if they are used with power cords from third-party manufacturers, a company spokesperson says.
• SMC Ships Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
  Friday 15 August 2003 – 04:41
  SMC Networks today announced that it has begun shipping its newest 'Gigabit to the Desktop' product, the EZ CardT 1000 (SMC9452TX) 32-bit Gigabit Ethernet PCI network card.
• Dell recalls nearly a million defective adapters
  Friday 8 October 2004 – 06:24
  The U.S.
• Adaptec iSCSI Adapters Now ca smart Certified
  Wednesday 3 September 2003 – 12:58
  Adaptec today announced that its iSCSI host bus adapters have been certified ca smart with Computer Associates International, Inc.'s BrightStor ARCserve Backup, enabling storage area network-based backup solutions built on low-cost, simple-to-deploy IP storage networks.

• Fast Network Adapters - What's Holding You Back?*
  Thursday 20 June 2002 – 01:00
  One of the "lessons learned" from our testing of higher speed (>10Mbps) network adapters is that you don't always get what you think you're getting, i.e. higher network speed. Things that didn't matter at lower network speeds come into play when using products such as 100Mbps Ethernet adapters and even the newer 802.11a wireless network adapters.
• 3DNow! Enabled 3D Adapters - Which solution offers the best performance?*
  Monday 14 June 1999 – 07:00
  3D-gaming used to be a tough call with non-Intel CPUs for a long time. The floating-point performance of CPUs from AMD, Cyrix, IBM, IDT, etc. could never really come close to the number crunching ability of a Celeron or Pentium II
• Brave New World: Operating IDE Hard Drives on SCSI Host Adapters*
  Thursday 30 January 2003 – 06:00
  Today's IDE hard drives are large, fast and extremely cheap. So why not create a bridge to SCSI and operate IDE drives on top-class SCSI adapters with special adapters? THG has done just that.
• Premium Controllers Under Scrutiny: Ultra160 RAID Adapters from Adaptec and LSI*
  Wednesday 15 January 2003 – 06:00
  Everyone is familiar with RAID. But the small controller chips installed on every third motherboard do not even come close to matching the functional range offered by professional SCSI RAID controllers. Tom's Hardware Guide has taken a closer look at two Ultra160 models and has put them to the test. How powerful are premium controllers, really?
• New Processors On Old Boards: Adapters From Upgradeware for Socket 370 and Socket 423*
  Tuesday 24 September 2002 – 07:00
  Because architectures and manufacturer support change so quickly, the life expectancy of the average computer is only couple of years. Upgradeware supplies adapters so that even older motherboards can run the fastest processors.