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Posted by michael on from the if-santa-didn't-come-through-for-you dept.

Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late) Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At WinHQ the Xoxide X450 Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights over here, nice MX mouses at LANParty, At ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking Shockwave Fangrills over at ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the iRock 530 here, a Big cooler here, OCIA brings you the Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at Viper's Lair"

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  1. Time for a 'casemodding' section. by Brightest+Light · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Im pretty sure my karma is going to take a dive for this one, but i dont think im the only person to think that its time to put stuff like this off in another category. I think it would be safe to say that the majority of slashdotters are tired of seeing 'articles' that are basically advertisements for casemod stuff. I, for one, would like to be able to block this out, i dont believe that cold cathode lights qualify as 'hardware', really.

    *kisses karma goodbye* just my 2 cents

  2. Re:hardware review sites are practically scams by Ponty · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Thank you! What is it about hardware review sites that are written by people who sound like they're struggling to present each sentence. I know a lot of them are written by people for whom English isn't their native language, and this is not directed at them. I'm bitching about the people who are just plain dumb. This quote is from the LCD panel review:
    "Image quality was excellent using the analog cable, which lead me to believe things could only get better with DVI. Sadly enough, I was wrong. I had the opportunity to test the monitor using a Radeon 7500 that supported both analog and DVI. Using the analog with the 7500, the overall picture quality was poor at best. Switching to DVI fixed this, giving image quality equal to that of the GF3 using the analog cable. This confused me greatly. I was under the impression that DVI was a step above analog."

    Uh...unless I'm reading this totally incorrectly, this guy is a moron. That and it sounds like he's trying very very hard to sound intelligent. I have absolutely no faith in this guy's ability to come up with a single thing worth reading about an LCD display.
  3. Re:Logitech leaving out us Lefties! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hear, hear! I would love to have an MX-700 mouse of theirs, but noooooooo, they can't make a left-handed or physically-symmetrical version so I can use it.

    Years ago, Logitech used to be good about making left and right handed models of all their mice. Now they're just cheap and don't care about ignoring a significant number of people who are dying to give them money for a product they refuse to make.

    Funny how the righties just scoff at us, like becoming adept at mousing with the 'wrong' hand is so easy. Oh, yeah? Let's see YOU try it! It may be possible, but it does not feel right.

    Imagine the stink if Logitech suddenly decided that they would no longer make mice for non-caucasian people because most computer users are caucasian (I doubt this is true, it's just an example). Discrimination is discrimination.

  4. Quite the historian... by hardlanding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hoo boy, the reviewer over at LANParty has really been around...

    Since the introduction of optical mouse a couple of years ago, the technology has evolved many times already...

    I had an optical mouse on my '286 - that would be back in '88 or '89, I think. It needed a goofy mousepad with gridlines on it, but just like the ones today, it didn't get gunked up and it worked pretty well. It's pretty pathetic to hear these "veterans" speak about hardware like they's seen a lot. Probably some snot-nosed 17-year-old who thinks Linus invented Unix a few years back...

    -HL