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When Gateway launched their UC series less than three months ago, the UC7807u retailed for $799. Today, the exact same model and configuration sits at $599. We'll tackle the reasons as to why inside, but let's just say, for $599, the UC7807u is one heck of a notebook, thanks to both being...

I've been goofing around with the Linux install on what will be our Core i7 testbed, and I found something quite interesting. Up until now, it's been rare to see any scenario ever top-out a processor, but apparently compiling applications under Linux can. In the shot I attached here, you can see...

This is what has confused the heck out of me over the course of the past few months. When Core i7 was first released, I believe we all thought (at least I did), that Core i5 (or Lynnfield in general) would essentially be Core i7 minus a few perks. It was my thinking that it wasn't going to be...

That's a good point. When I purchased a TV I later regretted back in 2005 (no fault of the TV... I just was a little too ambitious on the size), the store was kind enough to come and pick it up. Still had to deal with the hassle of unhooking it and all that jazz, but it wasn't such a big deal...

If that's the case, I have to question... what on earth takes them that long to develop if all it is, is a browser inside of a Linux kernel? I'm not even a developer, but given the tools and basic knowledge of the Linux kernel, I think I could build almost the same thing in a week (you know, if...

Dual-Cores still make perfect sense for a lot of things. Many people who build HTPCs today, for example, don't at all require the overall horsepower of a Quad-Core... two cores are plenty. The same would apply if you're just trying to build a low-power box for simple means. So I think Dual-Cores...

Ahh... I getcha, that makes sense. As for opening it up in the store, kudos to anyone who has the patience. It might be simple, but I get annoyed hauling a monitor out of a box <em>when I'm home</em>... I'm not sure how much patience I'd have in a bustling store! But for smaller things, I'd...

That's the first time I actually saw a DVORAK layout, and wow... talk about different. You're right though... a lot about it does make sense. I don't think I'd be willing to learn it though. Once you get on any other machine, it's going to have QWERTY, so why make more work for yourself? As for...

That's still quite expensive though. For this, I think $150 would be a lot more manageable.

I was thinking of that same exactly story. I have bought media like that before that was roughed up, but I really don't think it had anything to do with employees at the store. The last time it happened was with a Blu-ray movie... I forget which one, but I believe it was Iron Man. Looking at the...

Not at all... changing ANYTHING is going to result in complaints en masse. It's funny though, because as you said, the history is that they created QWERTY to slow things down, yet in all reality today, it's completely efficient. I honestly couldn't imagine a better layout, and certainly not if...

Glad there's a work-around... it's just too bad that it's a matter of time before Apple breaks that as well. History proves that they're extremely adamant with it comes to things like this.

That's how I do things as well. If I want just one song that doesn't make me want to go and purchase the album, then I'll get it online. I do hate taking that route, because amongst the 7,000 or so FLAC files I have, I have a couple hundred 256K/bits files as well. I cannot wait for lossless to...

We <em>should</em> write some, I agree. The sad thing though, is that we'd have to keep updating it, because with each new architecture launch, things can change rather drastically. It's definitely something we've been planning on for a while though, and hope to accomplish within the next six...

Just to give a quick update on this... I'm still chugging away, and I'm <em>really</em> hoping to be finished wrapping up the CPU test suite within the next two weeks. Thanks to some folks at the Gentoo forums, I think I've pretty much found the perfect collection of real-world Linux benchmarks...

It's still ridiculous to me to have two freq. like that so close to one another! 200MHz is one thing, but this is even tighter than that. Lynnfield will be 45nm still... Westmere will be the first 32nm out the gate from Intel. As for HT, no it doesn't affect gaming, and in some cases, it might...

It all comes down to panel quality, and although some TVs look amazing, it's doubtful they'll look as good as a quality computer monitor. One thing to consider, is that on a large TV, the actual resolution is lower than what a decent computer monitor will provide, usually 1920x1080 or less...

Meh, I still pick the big jets. But rather than land, I just quit the game ;-)

I am not at all familiar with this title, but for me, I tend to jump to the console very quickly if it's a platform-type game. If it's an FPS, racer or something similar, I'll use the PC. Really hard decision though, I can see the dilemma!

From our front-page news: Not too often do the results of a report pique my interest, but one recently held by two firms in the UK does, and it likely will for music-lovers of all stripes as well. Despite how it seems right now, it looks as though the majority of music purchasers equipped with...