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Our friend David writes in with another set of questions involving the Playstation 3:
Dear Jason,
First of all, some people have said that the online expereince will get enhanced, therefore making it better. If you know anything about any of this, can you tell me what is going to change?
Also, when you buy a PS3, there [...]
linux_user_73 writes:
Which has better life span? I have had issues with laptop screens going bad, which, to my knowledge, are LCD’s! I am in the process of saving up money to purchase a high end maxed out Linux PC. I want to purchase a PC with a dual core 64-bit processor, 3.0 gigaherts minimum. With [...]
DanMXP writes in with a question for us:
I have an HP Machine with XP Installed and I am thinking of upgrading it I can install vista on it. I am looking looking for a new processor, which is currently a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4.
I have the HP Pavilion 403. Do you have any recommendations [...]
AMd is apparently facing supply problems with their quad-core Opteron processors, and it’s rumored to trace back to errata in the L3 cache of the design:
“AMD’s quad-core “Barcelona” Opterons have been notably difficult to find since their introduction two months ago, and The Tech Report has learned that a chip-level problem has impacted the supply [...]
According to Nelson Guirado, the newest Dell laptops are the “cheapest-feeling laptops [his] hands have ever hovered over.”
“I don’t know about you, but I consider my notebook computers (less so, my desktops) a core possession like a watch or a car. Just like I’d spend a little more on those items, I’d gladly shell out [...]
World of Warcraft has over nine million subscribers. So, it was only a matter of time until a company came out with some hardware that was dedicated to playing the game, in one for or another. Cue the Dell XPS World of Warcraft Laptop. And, like the behemoth that is world of Warcraft, these laptops [...]
We’ve finally got some good news for the OLPC charity, with Peru contracting 260,000 of the $188 laptops. According to C|Net:
One month after the One Laptop Per Child charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian government has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 units. Nicholas Negroponte, an MIT professor and founder [...]
Well, OK. It’s an attempt at VoIP, right? I mean, they could have done worse. It’s just so…white.
Take a look at what can happen when you tell your engineers to start from scratch and build a VoIP phone that’s specifically built to be a VoIP phone… not a weak imitation of a landline or cellular [...]
I think the real question is whether or not Nintendo really can pull off the expected revenue with their new Wii console.
Even without the launch of the Wii, Nintendo will have a good shot at becoming the most successful video game hardware company this year. The manufacturer today said that it expects global sales of [...]
This one will be getting pretty juicy I suspect. Seriously, as these types of reviews go, things could get ugly!
After HP’s recent acquisition of Voodoo PC, it seems fair to compare and contrast a very high-end, luxury gaming PC with a high-end, stock gaming PC from a mainstream PC manufacturer.
The Gateway FX510XT has been previously [...]
Alright, even cynical old me has to admit that this is pretty darn cool. A mouse of all seasons, even?
We do plenty of mouse reviews here at ExtremeTech. And why not? High-end products like Logitech’s G7 Laser Cordless and Creative’s Fatal1ty line cater to the kind of performance enthusiast gamers and do-it-yourselfers want. Even mice [...]
Everyone’s favorite mouse is back, folks. It’s back and it’s as ready to go as ever. Just take a look for yourselves…
No matter how many times I try to wrap my mind around it, the idea of a Skype phone just seems very foreign to me.
Never thought I’d say this but wow and why? Seriously, the idea of 1980’s looking hardware is cool, but why am I impressed again?
Apple is quite frankly, a long way from taking over anyone’s living room. Their hardware is functional and attractive in the computing realm, but in my living room – give me a break
The use of a very old Commodore 64 may very well toss a serious wrench into the efforts of a police investigation.
Oh this is just hardcore. SLI notebooks are beating out desktops, eh? Impressive!
Alright, this is definitely pretty interesting. It seems that modern PC video cards offer substantially better video quality than that of stand alone DVD players.
It’s been my experience that Microsoft has had mixed success in the realm of hardware. Perhaps they will have the kind of luck with Zune that they have had with the Xbox?
Now is this really all that unexpected? Ah, guess that is a question that each of us will have to ask ourselves I suspect.
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