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  1. These guys seem to be on the right track by LecheryJesus · · Score: 0 · on Building a Green PC

    Take a look at this http://www.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=93535

    LJ

  2. Motorola cellphones do mimic sidetone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes

    http://homeoffice.consumerelectronicsnet.com/artic les/viewarticle.jsp?id=37150/ as well as plenty of other reviews mention it (though not many use the phrase "sidetone" to name Motorola cellphones' behavior of having the speaker echo anything picked up by the mic.

    For some weird reason, Nokia's don't (didn't -- I suppose its possible their newer phones diverged from this years-old Nokia characteristic).

  3. Samsung not furstW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player

    Pioneer was first and this is even a burner.

    Why buy some Korean crap (read: Samsung) when you can get real Japanese quality.

    The BDR-101A drive will be bundled with Sonic Solutions' Roxio Blu-ray Disc software and a blank TDK 25GB write-once (BD-R) disc with a $999 suggested retail.

    http://camcorders.consumerelectronicsnet.com/artic les/viewarticle.jsp?id=43466

  4. Re:I Like Components... by jackjeff · · Score: 1 · on Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way

    It's not as closed as you think. It used to be, but things have changed a lot in the last 10 years.

    I find it actually much easier. Somehow, when I open a PC I'm often scared by the spaghetti cables spreading everywhere, and the poor general design.. well there's no general design "each component was not mean to be with the others".

    Have a look at my old G4, everything is neat and clean and the cables are not an inch longer or shorter than they should be, and attached on the box:
    http://audiovideo.consumerelectronicsnet.com/artic les/viewarticle.jsp?id=13374

    I don't want to start a flame war, I'm sure any PC builder could to the same thing (and I would really appreciate it), but so far I have not seen comparable. (I like those Shuttles though)

    Now seriously, there's no longer any major architectural differences between a PC and a Mac. A Mac is a PC so you can buy your components anywhere. It can even boot windows. come on..

    * memory, hard drives, optical drives: no more problem than on PC.

    * cpu: not really easy to change. Even worse for motherboards. I think that issue is not as open as in the PC world, but the move to Intel will probably improve things.

    * gfx: i have a radeon 8500 for PC working on an older G4. I had to flash the firmware of the gfx (because Mac BIOS was/is different) and be sure it'd work with the drivers on OS X. It's entirely up to the gfx manufacturers to support these, but truth is, it's not "that" easy to use PC's gfx just like that. ATI and GeForce are charging a lot for their Mac editions... (but Macs are by no way a gamer's machine anyway).

  5. Re:Alternative (mod down the FUD) by voidstin · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Mini-ITX Linux PVR Project

    Did you miss the announcement of the dual core mac mini with the GMA 950 chip? and the recent update of EyeTV that supports 1080i on the mini?

    http://hometheater.consumerelectronicsnet.com/arti cles/viewarticle.jsp?id=38271

    http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/

    mmm.... FUD.

  6. Re:But but but!! by planetmn · · Score: 1 · on Apple Announces Wonderful Toys

    Researching a little further, that $499 price may include a TV tuner with PVR functionality.

    A few more links:
    http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product _locator/product_details.asp?prodid=7004
    http://wifi.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/vi ewarticle.jsp?id=36714

    Now I'm kind of excited to see how this FIC comes out on the market. $499 for out of the box PC and DVR functionality in a nice package, I may just have to buy one.

    -dave