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  1. Rob Williams

    Xbox 360 60GB Model Slated to Hit $299?

    From our front-page news: Whew, two weeks have barely passed since the 'official' price-drop of the Xbox 360 Pro 20GB model, and already rumors are floating about that real price-drops are right around the corner. For those unaware, the first price-drop wasn't so much a price-drop, as the 20GB...
  2. Rob Williams

    Lightsmark Updated to 2008, Adds Linux Support

    From our front-page news: Lightsmark, the popular OpenGL real-time lighting benchmark, has just seen a new release, which includes few new features, but many refinements. What is new is a faster engine, better image quality, a more stable score system and native support for 64-bit OS'. Most...
  3. Rob Williams

    Intel Opens Up About Larrabee

    Intel's Larrabee architecture has been on the mind of many enthusiasts for the past few months, but sadly, Intel hasn't released any specific performance data today. What they have revealed are the base mechanics of the architecture and other tasty tidbits to whet our appetites. Intel today...
  4. Rob Williams

    KDE 4.1 is Significantly Better than 4.0

    From our front-page news: From what I gather, the excitement level was rather low when KDE 4 first launched. Although it was a rather significant upgrade over 3.5, bugs seemed prevalent and not too many people were completely sold on the new design, like myself. I have never installed it...
  5. Rob Williams

    Apple to Skip Intel Chipsets in Upcoming MacBook Lineup?

    From our front-page news: When Apple first jumped onto the Intel bandwagon, fans cheered. Making the move to an x86 processor meant great compatibility, and given Intel's most-recent track-record, it also meant getting a much faster product. Well if recent reports are to be believed, then Apple...
  6. Rob Williams

    Nintendo Says "Game Over" to DS Piracy

    From our front-page news: If you own a Nintendo DS, chances are good that you've at one point heard mention of the R4 Revolution, a special cartridge for the handheld that introduces new functionality. In addition to allowing MP3 playback, Internet browsing and the ability to play homebrewed...
  7. Rob Williams

    Dell Announces Cheap 13" Notebook, Hybrid PC

    From our front-page news: I have to admit, it's been a while since Dell has released something to truly impress me, but today, they launched two different products that take care of just that. First is the 13" Inspiron notebook, which will retail for under $800 and without even seeing the specs...
  8. Rob Williams

    SplashTop Hacked, Functions on Non-ASUS Motherboards

    From our front-page news: When Splashtop was first released with a few ASUS motherboards last fall, I for some reason became interested immediately. Part of the reason might be attributed to the fact that I'm a Linux user to begin with, the other reason might be thanks to its uniqueness...
  9. Rob Williams

    Cuil Off to Rough Start, Considered Laym by Most

    From our front-page news: Alright, so I'm not the biggest fan of Google to begin with, but what's up with the immediate "Watch out Google!" statements whenever a new search engine rolls around? I think it's obvious that Google would have to have really serious competition before they would even...
  10. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Launches Mainstream 9500 GT

    From our front-page news: Summer. Time for fun, beaches, warm weather, and new GPUs! Well, new GPUs show face all the time, so it's not much of a surprise when a new one gets launched, but the latest entrant from NVIDIA might be worthy of attention if you are looking for a capable budget option...
  11. Rob Williams

    Intel's Atom vs. VIA's Nano - Performance & Power Consumption

    From our front-page news: It's not often that we report on CPU competition between Intel and someone other than AMD, but that happens now. Our friends at PC Perspective have two platforms on hand, Intel's Atom and VIA's Nano, and pits them against each other to see which one comes out on top...
  12. Rob Williams

    SteelSeries Acquires Ideazon

    From our front-page news: Ideazon, creators of some of the most unique gaming keyboards on the market, has just been acquired by SteelSeries, yet another developer of higher-end gaming peripherals. Both companies share similar goals, and develop similar products, so the acquisition seems to make...
  13. Rob Williams

    NewEgg Preparing to Launch Canadian Counterpart

    From our front-page news: Living in Canada can avail unique experiences for a tech-head. It's hard to read forums and not see some reference to NewEgg, which of course has never offered shipping to Canucks. With a recent move, they even stopped accepting Canadian credit cards for products that...
  14. Rob Williams

    Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 320GB

    Rory has posted an in-depth look at Maxtor's latest external enclosure, the 320GB OneTouch 4 Mini: Maxtor's diminutive OneTouch 4 Mini pushes the capacity envelope again, packing a positively huge 320 gigabytes of storage into a tiny enclosure. It's also one of the sexiest mini external drives...
  15. Rob Williams

    Turtle Beach X3 Xbox 360 Headset

    Let's face it... the headset included with the Xbox 360 leaves a lot to be desired, which is why third-party companies come along and release their own products that aim to blow it away. We are taking a look at one such headset today, in the form of the Turtle Beach X3, and answer the question...
  16. Rob Williams

    ASUS M70Sa 17" Multimedia Notebook

    Does the idea of having Blu-ray capabilities on the go excite you? How about the idea of having 1,000GB worth of storage at the tip of your fingers? Or having a 1920x1200 resolution to keep the best possible work-flow? The ASUS M70Sa has those and a lot more, in a beefy 17" package. You can...
  17. Rob Williams

    Intel Introduces EP80579 SoC Designs

    From our front-page news: No official press release has yet been posted, but our friends at HotHardware have the scoop on a brand-new Intel integrated processor family, called EP80579. This launch isn't so much for just the processors, however, but rather entire system-on-a-chips, meaning that...
  18. Rob Williams

    Is a Digg Purchase Around the Corner?

    From our front-page news: The popular social-networking site, Digg, has been around for a while... close to four years. Many sites of such stature don't normally last a single year before being snatched up, and for big money. Look at MySpace, for example. Paying attention to either TechCrunch or...
  19. Rob Williams

    Can Ubuntu Catch OS X in Two Years?

    From our front-page news: As far as current operating systems are concerned, Microsoft's Windows is undoubtedly the world-leader when it comes to installations on home desktops. In second place is Apple's OS X, and in a relatively close third, all Linux distributions. Thanks to Mark...
  20. Rob Williams

    Hackers on Planet Earth 2008: 'The Last HOPE'

    The seventh HOPE conference was held this past weekend in NYC and I was there to take in the numerous talks. Such subjects covered were lock picking, Wikipedia's evils, YouTube, FOIA, hardware hacking and a lot more. Special talks were also given by Steven Rambam, Steven Levy, Adam Savage and...
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