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The much cheaper "non-gaming" editions of this make much more sense.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

They have VESA mount points and can be mounted on the back of a monitor:
http://assets.hardwarezone.com...

Sure the graphics aren't top-notch, but most people don't need that. They're great if you need a computer but don't have space for a tower (and also don't want the failure issues associated with a laptop).

According to hardwarezone.com:

The iPhone 3GS does not get: Shared Photo Streams, FaceTime over cellular, 3D Flyover or turn-by-turn navigation features of the new Maps app, Panorama mode or the offline reading list feature

The same article quotes Ars Technica as saying:

Features from older iOS versions that didn't make it to the 3GS are still not present in iOS 6: these include location-based Reminders (iPhone 4 and newer), WiFi Personal Hotspot (iPhone 4 and newer), FaceTime (iPhone 4 and newer), AirPlay Mirroring (4S and newer) and Siri (iPhone 4S and newer)

This sounds like an awful lot of work just to get around buying self-encrypting hard drives:

http://www.hardwarezone.com/tech-news/view/144196

Most motherboards have a few extra USB headers that need an expansion bracket like these to be used. Those would be "Unready-to-Use".

Sim Lim Square prices, as compiled by a third-party website.

http://sg.hardwarezone.com/priceguide

It's not a complete list, and not very updated though. I have long given up looking at prices at this website.

GP beat me to it. If the power connector is too big, I'd say use a smaller power connector. I mean it's nearly 3X the size of the data connector and it's usually only using 4 of those pins (photo). Or maybe they could stack the connectors on top of each other to save horizontal space, they'd be well under 1cm tall stacked.

All you'd need is a different adapter to use the small-connector drives in existing desktop PCs. Changing the data connector seems totally uncalled for.

Maybe it's Tmax Window's marketing campaign.
That's the real "viral" marketing.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/articles/2005/1479/olympus_mr-500i.jpg

3G HSPA has already been announced for the next Maemo-based device. See http://sites.hardwarezone.com/sg/nokiazone/content/sersitiv/files/2008/09/maemo-5.jpg (This was during the Maemo Summit in Berlin, September 2008).

Though, I don't really know if a Maemo-based phone would be a good thing for the Internet Tablet. Sure, having data abilities wouldn't be a bad thing (even though the prices are still high, it's starting to come down), but "phoning" it would probably be a mistake. The problem is that when people buy a phone, they expect everything to be shiny, blinky, and worky. And well, we all know the n8x0 platform is far from polished for the consumer market. I would definitely recommend an Internet Tablet to my nerd friends, never to a dumb blonde who just wants to browse the Facespace. In that regard, I am hoping the next evolution of the Internet Tablet remains just that, and Internet Tablet, with added connectivity, for sure, but just limited so that the niche remains quite hacker-focused.

Oh, and: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/2885618332/in/pool-maemo

A while back, AMDTi said that they were not competing at the high-end anymore: "There were also very specific admissions that AMD/ ATI isnâ(TM)t competing at the high end with Nvidia, nor do they intend to match up to the GTX 280 with a release of their own uber-chip." source. So to say "ATI had to combine two cards to be on top!" kind of completely misses the point. (emphasis added.)

For the interested, there's a great article at anandtech talking about how the R770 came to be pretty awesome... Really, though, it's not a super-high-end part.

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
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Here is the most substantial list I've seen of specs on it. I agree with you that calling it a notebook is a stretch. At the same time, I haven't seen anything with that kind of capability at this price point, smaller or larger. I think I could easily go for the $199 model. They don't specifically mention usb in the list of features - but I would think that it would be necessary to augment the storage.

Anandtech not enough for you, huh? How about. . .

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article. php/3261_3660771__12

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2 193&cid=2&pg=12

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-e nergy-efficient_8.html ... but I'm sure you'll just stick your fingers in your ears , complain about a massive conspiracy to pay-off hardware sites, and continue to claim that "Intel's got nothing on AMD as far as Performance-per-watt goes" . . .

From Hardwarezone:

``While the case is the first of its kind here, there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States.''

OMG BUSH PWNS CIVIL LIBERTIES!!

More details at the local HardwareZone Forum:

Teen, 17, first to be charged with unauthorised wireless Net access

By Chua Hian Hou

A 17-YEAR-OLD polytechnic student has become the first person here to be charged with piggybacking on someone else's wireless Internet connection.

Garyl Tan Jia Luo was accused yesterday of using a laptop computer to gain unauthorised access to a home wireless network on May 13 this year.

If convicted, Tan faces up to three years in jail and fines of up to $10,000 under Section 6(1)(a) of the Computer Misuse Act.

Tan was released on $6,000 bail and is scheduled to appear at the Subordinate Courts on Wednesday.

Court documents did not describe the circumstances in which Tan was arrested, but The Straits Times understands that a neighbour near his Casuarina Walk home had lodged a complaint against him.

While there are no statistics on how commonplace the practice of piggybacking unsecured home wireless networks is, networking firm Cisco System's spokesman, Mr Rayson Cheo, said it is probably quite widespread here.

Most modern notebook computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have the ability to sniff out unsecured networks and hop online for free with just a few clicks.

There are numerous guides online that describe how to do this and the low cost of wireless networking equipment means that most HDB or condominium blocks have unprotected networks users can log on to.

Said Mr Cheo: 'People assume, wrongly, that since it is there, it is okay to use it.'

Mr Aloysius Cheang, the chairman of local infocomm security association, the Special Interest Group in Security and Information Integrity, said: 'Most people probably do it because it is convenient, or because they are cheap and want free Internet.

'But, for some, it is because they want to do something illegal like defaming someone or downloading pirated MP3s, and they don't want the activities traced back to their own network.'

In the online world, there are even special terms for it, like 'wardriving' and 'Wi-Fi mooching'.

The problem, said lawyer Bryan Tan, is that while most people know that mooching is not quite legitimate, they probably do not know that it can be treated as a serious offence.

'Blinkered by the convenience and allure of ?free Internet', people don't realise that mooching is the virtual equivalent of trespassing,' he added.

Likewise, many users do not seem to realise that they can block moochers simply by installing a password on their Internet connections.

For most users, the only indication they get that someone is mooching is when their connection speed slows down, though Mr Cheo said software tools are available for download that can track who is using a network and what they are doing on it.

While the case is the first of its kind here, there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States.

In some countries like Holland, Mr Tan added, Wi-Fi network owners can even be held liable by the courts for crimes committed on their unprotected networks.

chuahh@sph.com.sg

Anybody remember the last time intel came up with a sexy new desktop design

- http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=482
- http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=861&cid=1
- http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538
- http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3357/48/
- http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=287
- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33872
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/23/review_ati _radeon_x1950_xtx/
- http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=954
- http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/radeon-x1950x tx/index.x?pg=1
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2007324 ,00.asp
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/23/ati_releases_rad eon_x1950/
- http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/375/
- http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2 020&cid=3&pg=1
- http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x19 50_xtx_performance/
- http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXreview /

up to date list: http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/showthread.php?s=& threadid=26526

Just a side note "soldering the wires" is not exactly what needs to be done.
I had this problem with mine and fixed it two days ago. There's actually a fairly good site http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid= 9&id=1331 that gives a good tutorial on getting it apart.
There's also pictures of what you need to solder in the forum related to the article. All I needed to do was heat the existing solder for a second, plus put in a little additional re-enforcement of the jack itself.
In the end it cost me $40 altogether, since I bought a new cordless iron and some decent solder that I didn't need. Considering Creative wants a $30 cheque just to look at it after the first 90 days and the receipt, if not gone completly, would be in the hands of my ex (a much higher price than $30 to try and get it, although not monetary) I got off lightly for a fix that took maybe 15 minutes.

Lucasfilm CTO Cliff Plumer Talks Technology

Given the [b]opening of the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio, the new home of Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts,[/b] along with subsequent announcements such as HP becoming Lucasfilm's preferred technology provider and ZBrush being added to the ILM pipeline, VFXWorld invited Barbara Robertson to dig a little deeper with Lucasfilm cto Cliff Plumer.

[...]

BR: Does everyone get new machines at the Presidio?
CP: They're transitioning. [b]Our three key vendors for the desktop are HP for workstations, AMD for processors and NVIDIA for graphics. Everyone is moving toward 64-bit workstations.[/b] Most have dual heads [monitors] today. They will all have dual processors. We're working closely with AMD, our processor vendor on dual core processors. We'll get to the stage over the next year where artists will have a dual core dual processor -- two processors on one chip; like four CPUs. Plus, two graphics cards. We're looking at a workstation equivalent on the desktop that's more powerful that what we used to have with a fully blown SGI Onyx, something ILM once paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for.

Our render farm [Angstrom Microsystems(TM)] has about 3,000 processors and we have a proprietary tool that lets unused desktops become part of the render pool at night, so we can scale up to over 4,000 processors.

http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=7086b920&atype=ar ticles&id=2608

Lucasfilm Selects HP Technology
ASIA PACIFIC, Singapore, September 13, 2005 - HP and Lucasfilm Ltd., the leader in visual effects and sound engineering for feature films, today announced a global, three-year, multi-million dollar technology and marketing agreement.

Lucasfilm will use HP Adaptive Enterprise solutions to generate new video games, visual effects and animation. The HP technology, also being used to store and manage LucasFilm's business applications, will be deployed at Lucasfilm's new Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco and at the company's Singapore operations.

Lucasfilm will roll out up to 1,000 high-performance HP workstations powered by Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors for the production of its visual effects and video games. The HP xw9300 Workstation environment at Lucasfilm will run both Linux and Windows XP operating environments in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes, with in-house software applications for creation and editing.
http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=2553

21 avril 2004: Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) selects Angstrom Microsystems(TM) as provider of next generation server render farm [Opteron]
http://www.angstrom.com/about/press20040421.htm

18 avril 2005 : At NAB today, AMD and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. announced a three-year strategic alliance naming AMD the Preferred Processor Provider for DreamWorks Animation and enabling the company to experience significant advantages in their computer-generated ("CG") filmmaking process.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoo m/0,,51_104_543~96831,00.html

Aopen Aeolus PCX6600 Passively Cooled Nvidia Geforce review

Product PAge for Aopen Aeolus pcx6600

That heat sink is huge! if you needed something low profile and didn't need the "GT" an option to consider...

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Its not that a game console is something like a desktop pc

They aren't?

You might want to check out the pics taken by the N90..looks great.
here

But if you're naive about the net and you go online maybe once a month...then you're a raw piece of meat in a pool full of sharks.

I am one of those naive that really don't have a clue what hardware review sites to trust. My comfort is that I am probably far from alone, in this matter.

To assist me and other naives(sp?), please join this silly poll and review the following sites (regarding credibility) with a scale ranging from 1 to 10, where 1 is "No credibility at all" and 10 is "Perfect credibility, these guys wouldn't post a biased review for world domination":

About PC Hardware Reviews
Ace's Hardware
Anandtech
Ars Technica
Beyond 3D
Cnet Reviews
Dan's Data
Dev Hardware
Extremetech
Firingsquad
[H]ard|OCP
Hardware Analysis
Hardwarecentral
Hardwarezone
IT Reviews
OcPrices
Overclockers.com
ProCooling.com
The Tech Report
The Tech Zone
Tom's Hardware
TrustedReviews
Viperlair
Xtreme Resources

If you know only a few of them, give your opinion on those.

Maybe someone with the right facilities could set up an independent poll?

Actually, my dual celeron setup was socket 370, and there was no wire soldering, no nothing... ABIT BP6 Reign Forever!

As for using athlon xp as mp.. http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid= 2&id=747&pg=

The problem is limited motherboard support, versus very wide support for hyperthreading on intel.

Dell already went into the gaming laptop business with their Inspiron XPS system. It's a bit pricy, so I bought myself a Inspiron 9100 (much the same realy, except for the P4EE). There's an excellent review here.

While plextor was the first to release this, they are no longer the only one! Philips DVDR824P is available as well as Memorex's 8X entry.

Sony is also releasing the DRU 530A in Decemeber at about the same time as the Pioneer DVR-A07 and Cyber Drive 8X DVD+R drive.

Pretty soon we'll see 16x DVD recording speeds.

1) Google: athlon XP modding MP L5 bridge
2) One article at hardwarezone

Like i've said i just heard about it and was wondering if any /.-ers did it recentley. Seems the best price/performace by far.

Nintendo updates GBA
Much as sources including reputed UK gaming mag Edge have been speculating over
the last few months, the GBA SP boasts an updated clamshell design, improved ...

Nintendo announces Backlit GBA
Dubbed GBA SP, the new model comes in a redesigned clamshell case with
a screen that flips up (think cellphone) to reveal the control pad. ...

New Game Boy Advance revealed ... conditions. Partly to offset the demands of the internal light, Nintendo
has added rechargeable batteries to the GBA SP. And to ...
The Next Game Boy Is Here
Nintendo to sell premium model of Game Boy Advance

This doesn't run on the voodoo3 since it doesn't support multitexturing.

I cannot comment on Xeon versus Pentium 4, but the Athlon XP and MP are decidedly not different chips. Athlon XP processors can usually run in SMP without problems, although newer ones may be locked to prevent this.

To check if your Athlon XP is locked (and to unlock it if it is), you might want to have a look at this article.

I will agree with you, they are not different. And the XP can run in SMP mode. However the newer versions of the XP have their L5 bridges laser cut. So you have to use some materials to unlock the SMP mode. This site used to have an article on unlocking the XP with cut bridges. basically it required filling the bridges with a non-conductive material, then spreading some sort of material over each to achieve the proper effect.

This is not a very smart thing to do as its can make your system unstable. But it can be done.

How about XPs modded into MPs?

Just when I thought that my workplace would never spring for a card with these features, up popped Page 6 (just ignore all those pictures of people playing games with the card) with Glyph Antialiasing for "business appeal!" Three monitors, here I come.

Just when I thought that my workplace would never spring for a card with these features, up popped Page 6 (just ignore all those pictures of people playing games with the card) with Glyph Antialiasing for "business appeal!" Three monitors, here I come.

Ah.. nice. Dual though, wouldn't that require the MP chips?

Not according to this, which links to an article on modding newer Athlon XPs so they'll work in multiprocessor configurations. (Older Athlon XPs have been said to work without this mod.)

Geez, some people... :)

There's a link at the end pointing to an update with benchmarks, so I think they did more than just POST.

In one of the discussions, a moderator claims to have had a machine run. Not for very long (yet), but it's run an iteration of Sysmark.

HardwareZone did a review of this a couple of days ago. They weren't too happy about it.