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Lol I did this via QRCode videos, a bit outdated this thought, but it does remind me of the torches from the Lord of the Rings movie :) http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... French Mirror: http://www.clubic.com/insolite... Russian Mirror: http://www.imena.ua/blog/datai...

I wanted to get out of bed and clean then you people post this, lovely - I'll be here 20 minutes typing this one up.

So anyhow I'm in the process of hunting for a new keyboard myself.
I personally feel one of those most important things to focus on first is the layout of the keys themselves on the board, if you don't have a layout you're happy with, what's the point?

You've got several varieties, I'll show several here and my personal opinion on them (and also why you may like or dislike them)
http://img.clubic.com/photo/00351428.jpg
First up the enermax aurora keyboard.
This is absoloutely 100% standard US key layout, every key is exactly where you would expect it, the only slight change is slimmer and closer function keys to the number keys, I think likely quite acceptable and my favourite layout.

http://ak.cdiscount.com/pdt/0/0/0/1/f/PCK8000.jpg
Here is the Samsung Pleomax Zen edition keyboard, this also has perfect and standard key layout, with NON intrusive multimedia keys at the top, aesthetically they look simple (cmon, I'm a slashdotter) but they also don't look like they will get in the way.

http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_images/microsoft_ergonomic_keyboard_4000_black_usb_large.jpg
An ergonomic keyboard, I have no interest in these at all as I like consistency from machine to machine that I use, if they are good or not, I simply don't care as consistency = speed and that's important to me (I use many, many PC's)

https://ssl11.chi.us.securedata.net/miccomputers.com/merchantmanager/v4/images/microsoft-keyboard.jpg
Now this is one of the ones a lot of you should be paying attention to.
I used to use a similar model to this, you will note the multimedia keys are again mostly non intrusive, not in an area you could likely hit them accidentally, HOWEVER! This is one of those new keyboards where MS have opted to well..frankly fuck up the delete key and the function keys (3 grouping not 4) - look at that abomination - it's a disaster, I don't know why they've deviated from the norm but I've accidentally hit delete many a time on one of those things.
AVOID - I hope they die out >:(

http://techgasm.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/logitech-g15-gaming-keyboard-2007.jpg
Finally a 'gaming' keyboard from Logitech, the G15, nice and backlit and frankly one of the worst keyboards humanity has created.
Firstly, I want all of you to press control escape.
I use left thumb (ctrl) and middle finger or index finger on escape.
Where do your remaining fingers go? Mine dangle off the edge of the keyboard - on the G15 however they hit these stupid keys strapped to the left - UGH.
Next problem, the distance between left shift and right shift (ie the keyspace) seems to be ever so partially smaller than most, maybe it's 1mm maybe it's 2 but the whole keyboard feels slightly smaller AND the physical key caps are small!
What this means is I end up typing something and always hitting S intead of D or F instead of D snd "studd csn rnd up lookung lukw thus"
In conclusion fuck that keyboard!

OK! So we've got the layout out of the way, the only really remaining thing is the keytype
This link should explain it better than I can
http://www.ergocanada.com/ergo/keyboards/mechanical_vs_membrane_keyswitches.html

(regular rubber pushback, laptop scissor switch with rubber pushback, or 'full on' mechanical (likely noisy) with spring pushback but reliable)

Over the past 4 years of owning a laptop I've come to enjoy usin

How does your alleged edict explain Football Manager? See that big "Hard Drive Required" stamp on the cover?

But it's a silly argument even besides the imaginary edict: Oblivion on 360 does use the hard drive to cache. If you don't have a hard drive it doesn't. Very simple stuff, and Oblivion is hardly the only 360 game to do this.

Thankfully, my current favourite keyboard uses a more standard layout:
http://img.clubic.com/photo/00143681.jpg

Don't hold your breath man...wearing burqas is forbidden in France.

I read fast through Tom's Hardware' and Xbitlabs' reviews, they dont say a word about overcloking.
Having read 3 franch-language tests this morning I can tell you the results are mixed.

1. 3050 MHz
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/576/page3.html

2. 3010 MHz with good air cooler
http://www.presence-pc.com/tests/Test-AMD-Athlon-6 4-FX-57-314/3/

3. 2991 MHz
http://www.clubic.com/afficher-en-plein-ecran-1346 67.html

The weather is hot here these days and they had just 2 days to do the testing under the NDA, so YMMV

But this judgement goes in the opposite direction of the EMI case, by a Versailles appeal juge. They said EMI could apply the copy protection scheme on audio-CD, given that the costumers knew what they bought. The court asked EMI to give 10 000E to UFC-Que choisir to repair the moral damage, since this system cause some players not to read their audio-CDs. http://www.clubic.com/actualite-19778-la-protectio n-dvd-rendue-illegale-.html/

http://www.clubic.com/t/downloadall.php?idfiche=13 158&titre=D%E9mo+jouable+%231&langue=Multi-langues

So you don't have to deal with the GameSpot crap...
it's french unfortunately. I think 'anglais' means english though right?

DoW Demo

Use at your own risk (of wasting your time- unless you also know french) I suppose, but it is the right size.

The back connector seems to be some kind of proprietary external power supply : take a look at it here

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Its the wireless intellemouse they are talking about. supposedly the black one has a leather cushion looks badass Wireless Intellimouse

I got through!!!

Here is the list of i-Buddie A980 technical peculiarities:

Supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 / Celeron processors with 400/533MHz FSB with 3.06GHz clock-speed and above

SiS650 chipset with SiS962 I/O controller

1 DIMM slot for up to 1GB of PC2100 or PC2700 DDR SDRAM memory

Integrated graphics core, ability to install NVIDIA GeForce4 Go420 mobile graphics card

2-channel ATA-100/66/33 integrated controller

Includes an 8x DVD-ROM drive

Free bay for 2.5" HDD

4 USB 2.0 ports

FireWire (IEEE1394) port

IR port with transfer rate up to 115.2Kbit/s

10/100Mbit/s Ethernet adapter and connector

Integrated 56K modem

6-channel audio solution and built-in speakers

Size: 342mm (W) x 300mm (D) x 34mm(min)/50.5mm(max)

Weight: 1.8Kg

Here is another story (french): www.clubic.com/n/n8018.html

Elitegroup, aussi connu sous le nom de ECS, annonce la commercialisation d'un nouveau barebone baptisé Desknote i-Buddie A980. Ce nouveau barebone ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau à un ordinateur portable auquel on aurait enlevé l'écran LCD. Compact, incorporant un clavier, ce nouveau barebone utilise un chipset SiS651 dédié aux processeurs Pentium 4. Le Barebone intègre 4 ports USB 2.0, 1 port FireWire, 1 port Ethernet 10/100 et 1 port infrarouge. La partie audio du barebone est prise en charge par un chip C-Media et supporte le son 5.1 tout en offrant un connecteur SPDIF. Le Barebone embarque une solution graphique NVIDIA GeForce 4 420Go avec 32Mo de mémoire vidéo.

Vendu $300 ce nouveau barebone pèse seulement 1,8Kg.