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- New Stepping G Intel Core 2 chips clocking over 4 GHz
- The latest manufacturing revision of 65nm Intel Core 2 Duo chips based on the new "G0" Stepping is hitting stable clock speeds in excess of 4 GHz according to Tomshardware. With the help of some extreme motherboards like the Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 which Gigabyte calls "Ultra Durable 2" technology and some DDR2-1000...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Singing search engines have it all wrong
- On an off-topic item, I came across fellow blogger Roland Piquepaille's blog about search engines that let you find music by singing to the computer. Well Midomi has just such a search engine where you sing to the computer to find the song you're looking for. While Midomi sounds interesting,...
- Tags: Hardware, Fun Stuff, Development, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- AMD 690G versus Intel G965 PC shootout
- The integrated graphics market is one of the least glamorous platforms in desktop computing, but it is probably one of the most important since 90% of the PC market is dominated by integrated graphics. Not only is the chipset itself a valuable price to AMD and Intel, but the chipset...
- Tags: Vista, Intel, Energy efficiency, Processors, Servers, Desktop, Consumer electronics, Storage, Microsoft, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Intel Quad Core CPU drops below $280!
- The low awaited price drops on Intel Quad Core CPUs has finally arrived and we're just now seeing the Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz Quad Core CPU drop below $280. MWave has the chip for $279.00 while Newegg has it for $299 including shipping. From now on I'm going to have...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, News, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Where is AMD's Intel-killer Barcelona?
- Back in May when speculation on AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core CPU was still running rampant, I wrote that "AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel" if high clock speeds at sufficient yields could be produced in a timely manner. AMD needed to hit 2.5 GHz to reclaim the performance crown and release...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- More Father's Day weekend gift ideas
- It's Father's Day weekend and I thought I'd leave a few more ideas for the weekend after yesterday's PC builder's guide. Yes I know I didn't cover Mother's Day and I'm sorry to all the Mother's out there. I promise I'll make it up next year though I'm no expert...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Desktop, Fun Stuff, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition
- It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer. The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Three motherboards for Intel and AMD CPUs: June 2007
- It's June 2007 and we have a whole new generation of motherboards for AMD and Intel. If you're looking to buy or build a new computer, you'll want to read on. See more images of these motherboards at higher resolution.Intel 3-Series ChipsetIntel launched a new set of motherboard chipsets called...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Practical strategies for protecting your data
- In my series on RAID technology and why it makes sense for home users, fellow blogger Robin Harris took me to task saying that RAID won't ever fly in the home. Robin's main gripe with RAID is that it doesn't address the backup along with other complaints such as the...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Security, Microsoft, Linux, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase
- ASUS and Intel have actually created an alternative for Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC One Laptop Per Child called the "Eee PC". The difference here is that the ASUS Eee PC is actually something that looks usable and perhaps even desirable for everyday use as a super cheap UMPC Ultra Mobile PC. The...
- Tags: News, Mobile/Wireless, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Why HD movie downloads are a big lie
- There's a lot of buzz lately about the delivery of HD TV and Movie content over the Internet with shows like Lost being delivered by ABC.com and other video download services with XBox360 or iTunes. I even have friends and colleagues telling me that BlueRay or HD-DVD won't make it...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Fun Stuff, Infrastructure, Net Neutrality, Networking, VoIP
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Windows Home Server versus Linux or BSD
- Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There was no way anyone would spend a few hundred dollars on Windows Small Business Server...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Networking, Microsoft, Infrastructure, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Solving the network storage dilemma
- Ive had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Before I begin to answer that...
- Tags: Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Vista RAW image support getting better
- Back in February I talked about the lack of RAW image support in Windows Vista and the inability to install the Microsoft RAW Image Viewer because it only worked for Windows XP. Vista uses a new modular design that allows camera vendors to add their RAW image codecs to...
- Tags: Vista, Microsoft, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- 2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!
- I still remember the first hard drive I ever bought. The year was 1992 and I had my friend drive me 70 miles in to the silicon valley for the deal of the month in hard drives. The prize at the end of that grueling drive without air...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview
- Microsoft Live Labs now has a working preview of their Photosynth technology technology overview and Video. The preview initially only worked for newer versions of Internet Explorer but now theres apparently a Firefox plugin for as well but it only works on Windows XP SP2 and Vista at this...
- Tags: Security, News, Microsoft, Fun Stuff, Consumer electronics, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Don't buy an HDTV without reading this first
- Forking out a few thousand dollars or even just a few hundred is a serious investment and the last thing you want to do is buy an HDTV with lousy color rendition. Navigating the land mind of consumer electronics is a confusing proposition even for the seasoned gadget geeks...
- Tags: Hardware, Fun Stuff
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Did Intel rig test or out engineer AMD/ATI?
- When Humphrey Cheung at TG Daily wrote a glowing review of Intels G965 embedded graphics chipset beating an AMD/ATI X1600 dedicated graphics board on a video playback quality test, AMD cried foul, and other journalists echoed some concerns with the massively one-sided test. That prompted Cheung to write a follow-up...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video cards, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Willis, ATI X1600, video, graphics, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop
- I had a chance to try out one of the latest Microsoft home entertainment Bluetooth wireless keyboard and laser mouse sets shown below. You can also check out the full image gallery here.This is the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 which includes an entire kit with a Bluetooth receiver,...
- Tags: Desktop, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Vista, VoIP
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Annoying quirks in Vista Photo Gallery
- Last week was my living with Vista week one report card and there were many things I liked about Vista. However not all was well and a few quality issues like DVD interlaced playback problems on widescreen video content were still bothering me. Microsoft did inform me that...
- Tags: Desktop, Fun Stuff, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
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