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- Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)
- Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components
- Another ideaThe KH family must look forward to Santa's arrival if those are your ideas of gifts!One I think worth considering is and external drive and a back up program. You know which friends need those. (Sorry Zack :- Well, those choices were...... different.Why the i7 extreme, when you can...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Windows 7 OEM pricing emerges ... some serious discounts available
- You forgot to mention ...... That OEM means it must be pre-installed on the machine that was purchased by the end user ... meaning it cannot LEGALLY be purchased for installation by your average Joe ... I own a small IT company in Canada, and I have a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- AMD debuts Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs with DirectX 11 support
- That's great...Now if only DX 11 were out. Seems a bit premature to me, let's hope firmware updates are easy.ATI had better get the power requirements right with this one, it doesn't matter how much money you save if you have to buy double the psu to use it.I'm going...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD
- The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Thieves ransack NJ Apple Store in 31 seconds
- WowSomething tells me they had this planned out in advance...Who is this reporter?He makes it sound like these guys were criminal masterminds."Throwing a blunt object through the plate glass window like pros."How is that a pro move? "Me pick up brick and throw it through window."Honestly...he picks the brick, he...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09Adrian:Use Intel much?I appreciated your lineup, but noticed one glaring fact: while I can agree that Intel offers the best extreme processor in the i7 965 EE (for $1000), I noticed the glaring omission of any AMD parts. I think that if...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Corsair launches 64GB, 128GB 'performance' SSDs; 220MB/sec read, write
- Corsair launches 64GB, 128GB 'performance' SSDs; 220MB/sec read, writeThat's great. Lemme know when the price drops to around $50;)Prices right?US$659 = AU$835.The P256 is selling for AU$945. Double the capacity for only $110. Strange!Bleh. Not worth the cost.Ditto.In 15 years of computing, I've had ONE single hard drive...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Maingear introduces 'world's greenest gaming PC' for $799
- Maingear introduces 'world's greenest gaming PC' for $799This is NOT the IonThe Ion platform is the chipset designed for Atom processors. It is NOT the same as the GeForce 9300 chipset that is available for Core 2 processors. I advise that you change the wording in your story...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shots
- Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shotsHaha, this is a blatant copy of Vista!!Using Apple zealot logic where the HTC Touch Diamond (and every other full screen touch screen cell phone ever released in the last 5 years) is a clone of the iPhone instead of the HTC Touch (that...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Put together a solid barebones system for $350
- Put together a solid barebones system for $350Put together a solid barebones system for $350[i]Solid motherboard for the Intel AMD.[/i]Intel makes AMD chips now? I'm kidding of course but still fun to bust your chiggity chops.RE: Put together a solid barebones system for $350While I think your choices are...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- $99 - The new "high end" for GPUs
- $99 - The new "high end" for GPUsReally oddFor twelve years now I've heard that available graphic cards are way too powerfull for imaginable needs. For twelve years I have thought the comment was stupid far I alone let alone a world full of software developper could imagine...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Apple's $500 or Microsofts's 81% tax?
- Apple's $500 or Microsofts's 81% tax?Just my opinion . . .I'm not going to compare Apples to MS based products, but I would rather pay 81% gross margin and save $500. Also, even if I have to buy AV software for the Microsoft device, at $40 a year, for 5...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- News to know: Homebrewing, Google options, Windows, Smartphones, Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Perlow: Extreme PCs and "Homebrewing": Rest in Peace Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Extreme PCs and homebrew systems are here to...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- News to know: Homebrewing, Google options, Windows, Smartphones, Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Perlow: Extreme PCs and "Homebrewing": Rest in Peace Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Extreme PCs and homebrew systems are here to...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?
- So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?Don't some of these supplies need special power connectorsThat are not usually found in a regular home? Heck, one person I was reading about said that anything above 1000W maximum draw in most homes, even very new homes, would need a special dedicated circuit hooked...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?
- Your PC not burning through enough electricity as it is? You need a Sapphire FirePSU 1,250W PSU! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Interactive Outlier Review and Regression Analysis in Stat Studio
- The National Agricultural Statistics Service NASS conducts hundreds of surveys every year covering the breadth of US agriculture from aquaculture and horticulture to the more traditional crop and livestock farms. Most of these surveys are sampled from stratified lists of farm and ranch operators. An exception to this is the...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Planning on buying a high-end graphics card soon? DON
- Planning on buying a high-end graphics card soon? DONAnother reason to avoid SLI/CrossfireOne of the main reason's I haven't taken advantage of Dual GPU setups is the power required for these setups. Even with a high end GPU you can get away with a 450W or 500W PSU but if...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
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