2005 September

Oh this is bound to tick off some people I am willing to bet. Apparently free shipping is too much for Dell and to be honest, I don’t really blame them as they have to sell a zillion PCs just to make a profit.

I am a firm believer that for the most part, older computers are best kept in the trash - that’s it. But after reading this article on making those old PCs come to life again, it appears that I might have been misguided.

Oh come on! This is such a Mac Mini rip-off! Still, it would give PC users some of the size advantages of this form factor without having to settle for a Shuttle PC, I suppose.

After some debate throughout the blogosphere, it would appear that there is much apprehension in regard to those proposed $100 notebook PCs. I guess just because it sounds good on paper does not mean that the idea is totally sound.

Unlike the Betamax war with VHS, HD-DVD vs Blue-ray has the Internet to help get their arguments across it would seem.

Nvidia looks like they are cooking up some wondrous goodies for us. As things stand now, there is talk of nForce 400 and GeForce 6100-based systems being made available for us by Oct of this year. Hey, works for me!

Now, when I think fanless video card, I find myself thinking that the card itself must be a low-end piece of you know what. But as it turns out, I was actually wrong about this assumption. Check it out:

Can naming a PC case after a form of martial art make it a better candidate to meet your needs? You would like to think not, still, the Thermalake Tia-Chi does have some good things going for it.

High-Performance, TrustedFlash-Enabled Security, Tiny Size, and Industry-Standard Interfaces Offer Fast, Easy Integration
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has introduced SanDisk iNAND, a small, easily integrated high-speed NAND Flash storage device that is available in capacities and price points that make it an attractive alternative to micro hard drives. Embedded Flash memory is a popular storage solution for consumer [...]

Dell appears to be taking the gaming market pretty seriously. To be honest, I can see why. With the major dollars it takes to play today’s games, it would a market worth pursuing…even from a kiosk.

Forgiving the fact that a Compaq notebook would ever be considered as anything more than a paper weight, the review of AMD mobile Turion 64 being used in it does make for a great read in this review from TH.

Yippee, it’s the hard drive round-up, folks! Today, Tom’s Hardware takes 22 hard drives through their paces and then reports the findings directly to you, the reader.

Um, so what? So Kensington has a thinner power adapter for my notebook, big deal! Unless this puppy runs on sunshine or offers some new capability, I really don’t see the appeal.

Dumb, dumb, oh so very dumb. I could not disagree more with DRM on SanDisk Flash cards. Oh well, won’t be buying those anytime soon…

“The vendor made me do it!” Wow, where did that come from? Who knows, but I will tell you that the latest reports indicate that iPod nano screen issues appear to be coming from the vendor according to Apple…

Looks like some updated Mac Minis are well on their way! OK, perhaps this is not getting you too excited initially. Still, once you read the article below I think you’ll understand why this is truly newsworthy…

Wow! This has to be the perfect TV for the drunk man needing to be in front of a TV when using the washroom. OK, too much information I guess. Still, you have to admit that this is pretty cool!

I have heard a lot of talk about PC gaming being dead. The belief that the new next gen consoles are somehow going to offer me everything that I want from my PC option seems a little too unlikely to me, personally.

AMD has a new item up their sleeves - the dual-core MP Opterons. Some how, I am not sure that Intel is going to be all that concerned though…

Even though NVIDIA has often been better in the driver arena than ATI, I have been hearing mixed comments about this latest ForceWare driver.