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For the past couple of years, Seagate, thanks in part to its success in the desktop PC market, has held its ground well ahead of Western Digital. If trends seen over the past year continue into 2010, though, it will soon be WD well ahead of Seagate, and the reason is just the opposite... WD...

Earlier this week, Valve ended the long-standing drought of game titles available for the Mac by introducing a native Steam client for the OS, along with 56 different games. The company promises to release a slew of new titles each Wednesday for the next few, so it will be interesting to see...

There's a hilarious thread going on over at the official Steam forums created by someone who for some reason decided to open up the Max Payne 2 main executable in a regular text editor. What he saw was surprising... the name of a cracker group in ASCII, "Myth". Apparently, back when Max Payne 2...

It was only a matter of time. Adobe, along with its new-found stance against Apple's policies, has created a new ad campaign to shine some light on how the maker of the popular iPhone and iPad is thwarting choice. The ads appear on select websites and also as full-page ads in the New York...

Many pirates who download movies, music, or really any form of copyrighted material understand the risks of doing so, but rarely believe that there is any chance the hammer could fall on them. After all, organizations such as the RIAA have sued thousands, but that's a drop in the bucket...

It's no secret that many people who purchase PCs, whether they be desktops or notebooks, are not as well-versed in the technology as they could be. You wouldn't likely go and purchase a car on a whim if you knew nothing about cars. Rather, you'd get a car guru friend who can help you out...

Today is the day that Valve finally takes the curtain off of its Mac Steam client, and apparently the company had no intention of launching it without a good deal of games to support it. Unfortunately, out all the games available, the only one from Valve itself is Portal, but we can expect...

For about the past month, AMD's rumored Phenom X4 960T chip has been floating around the Web with pictures, some benchmarks, and even results of core unlocking (that is, to turn the quad-core into a six-core). Along with AMD's launch of new Athlon II models yesterday, many were expecting to...

Among all game developers, Valve is special in many different ways. One of the most noteworthy is the fact that the company readily supports its current games in order to prolong their lives, most often for free. Take Team Fortress 2, for example, and Left 4 Dead, or even the older Day of...

The Humble Indie Bundle has been making its way around the net over the last week, allowing people to set their own price for a set of 5 top-rated Indie games with some or all of the proceeds going to charity - the amount of which you can decide. There is no DRM, no middleman, it's...

With all of the talk surrounding solid-state disks today, it's easy to overlook the technological advances made with mechanical storage. One such example is the beefed-up and super-fast VelociRaptor 600GB, which features a SATA 3.0 interface and speeds that are 15% faster over the previous...

If there's one thing AMD cannot be accused of, it's being slow to update its product line-ups. Today, an announcement only reaffirms that fact, as some models are being bumped down in the ranks, and others brought in. Of these, all are Athlon II's, so unfortunately, we're still going to have...

If you think you've seen everything that an SSD has to offer, you may wish to take a look at OCZ's Vertex 2. Like many other SSDs, it features a SandForce SF-1200 controller, but with a careful helping of OCZ's special spices to deliver unbelievable performance. While we're working on the...

My mom sent this along to me. YES, it's corny as hell, but it's still a good one: http://www.homeschooloasis.com/storehs_obituary_of_pillsbury.htm

During an interview with Forbes last week, NVIDIA's Chief Scientist, Bill Dally, stated that Moore's Law's time is running out, and now is a good time to start thinking in parallel. Of course, such a statement is bold, but not surprising coming from NVIDIA, as parallel processing is where...

When I was young, I obsessed about anything related to Apple. I read Mac Addict religiously, and couldn't get enough information about Apple's hardware and software. At that time, when I was about 12-years-old, our family didn't even own a Mac, but even so, I was excited about a lot of what...

Last month, I published an article called "10 Things Linux Does Better than Windows" which took a look at just what the title suggests. Number five on the list was "troubleshooting", and I based that choice off of the numerous headaches I've experienced in the past when trying to fix an...

This past February, AMD quietly launched the Radeon HD 5550 alongside the much more touted HD 5570. At about $10 less than that card, the HD 5550 is an unusual breed. To help put all of the pieces together, Sapphire sent us its "Ultimate" edition of the card, which uses reference clock...

Not too long after flash-based USB thumb drives first hit the market, they became as synonymous with computing as a computer mouse. Well, almost. Prices were high at first, but plummeted fast, and we're now at a point where a 16GB model can be had for a meager $40. They're popular for not...

Which would you rather, playing a game that was developed in the year 2000, or 2010? I think most would say the latter, and for obvious reasons. In the year 2000, our 3D graphics were rather primitive compared to what we see today (even so, our minds were blown back then), so as long as the...