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It's been about a month since Apple announced its upcoming OS X 10.7 'Lion' at its developer conference, and with news that it has just hit its 'Gold' status, a release is virtually imminent. Typically, once an OS X version goes gold, it will hit store shelves within two weeks, but being that...

In ye olde days, overclocking was a mysterious art, one that few would dare venture into. Today? It seems to be almost as common as simply using a PC - at least in enthusiast circles. Whether it be your CPU, GPU or memory, overclocking is a quick way to squeeze extra performance out of your...

It's been known for a little while that OS X 10.7, 'Lion', would offer support for the ATA 'TRIM' command, but for those who weren't planning to make the leap to Apple's latest OS, that became a tough feature to ignore. Well, don't fret, because it turns out that the 10.6.8 update Apple rolled...

More often than not, if I return to a game after not touching it for a while, I'll start my quest over from the start, to take in the game as if it were my first time through. In fact, I am currently doing this with Mafia II for the third time, and have been loving it. Well, imagine if you were...

It's not so much the hardware i don't like working with, that's fine... it's the explaining to someone with no PC knowledge that I can't install this 500GB hard drive in their system because it doesn't have SATA ports... or i can't install the latest OS or upgrade its memory because it can't...

Someone dumped a PC on my desk a couple weeks back, so I could fix it... Pentium 3 with a 20GB IDE drive running XP.... I guess ME wasn't good enough :p.

At tech site ITworld, there's a feature called 'I'll Try It!' where one lucky (or unlucky) person gets to live for seven days doing something unconventional, to see how they'll get by. Normally, I'd be up for all sorts of challenges, because how bad could they be? Well, a recent challenge laid...

Bigger is better, right? Lamptron sure thinks so and has just announced the launch of its FC9 fan controller to try and prove it. This controller promises to be able to handle just about anything that users can throw at it, and then some. You can read the rest of our post and discuss here.

The Acer Timeline series have some of the longest battery lives out there. You are unlikely to find 4 hours of multimedia, like DVD playback and such, they tend to cap at around 2-3 hours, but web browsing and such, they can hit 8-10 hours.

Heh... which benchmarks would they be? did he show him any games? 2x CPUs for gaming = waste of money. Workload specifics is what it always comes back to... If he REALLY wants to go dual CPU... show him a Tyan Board with 2 or 4 CPU sockets and then show him the price of the Xeons.... he'll get...

Progress marches on and it looks like it's Best Buy who is high stepping to Apple's beat. Today it was reported that the retail giant has suspended online sales of the current MacBook Air in preparation for Apple's refresh of the little white laptop. You can read the rest of our post and...

Alright, I'm not sure how I let this one slip under my radar, and I really can't believe it's been a full fifteen years since Quake hit the PC, but it's true. The game that followed in the footsteps of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom wouldn't have been easy to fill, but Quake managed to do the job. At...

Take a medium-high population server, put it at the top of a transfer list and watch as all hell breaks lose in a 4 hour period over the weekend. Thankfully, transfers have since been disabled on the Alsbeth server, but it doesn't make up for the fact that what was once an instant login...

Doh!! - Fixed, thanks.

Madness consumes me!! Running out of ideas... maybe some tripped out option needs to be flipped in the EFI, maybe Sandy Bridge is just Shady bridge... maybe i'm just doomed to a life of windows... in any case... 2 different Linux types, 2 different builds, same problem.

From the article... What is he talking about? Fragmented nature of consoles? There are 3 consoles and 2 or 3 handhelds. Sure, there are various SKUs, but they are just minor revisions and bigger hard drives - it's the same console. And short lifecycle? Since when was 7-10 years classified as...

This is to cover my own personal experience, since it would be impossible to add all the details to the quick look article. Both Rob and I installed Sabayon 6.0 at the same time with the same x86_64_k disc (64-bit KDE install). PC specs in signature... After some initial problems related to a...

That's the game being difficult... plenty do that... you can't transfer the file directly, you have to use the backup utility in the system settings somewhere. You save the backup of the game data and then transfer it that way to a new PS3. It's silly and absurd, but that's the only way I know of.

@Optix Yeah... i couldn't resist, it had to be turned into a sig :D @Kougar I know what you mean about the CG - one of the pics had a really basic 3D render look... the one above looks closer to a photo really. As for non x86, yeah, about time, but it brings into question the long term support...

Remember that 2.6 petaflop monster supercomputer from China, the Tianhe-1A, you know, only the fastest super computer known to man? That's so 6 months ago and so slow. This week saw a new supercomputer rise to the top spot, the K Computer from Japan with a dizzying 8.16 petaflops under Linpack -...