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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. hardware review sites are practically scams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please stop accepting stories that link to these 'review sites'- they're nothing more than mouthpieces for the companies hawking all sorts of trash. Just witness insights such as:

    "Generally, CPU nowadays generates bigger and faster cycle-speed."

    Direct quote there, folks. Most of these sites seem to have reviewers equipped with the grammar skills of a middle school student.

    Notice also the banners advertising products from the same company(Zalman); hardware review sites are totally shameless when it comes to advertising and even selling what they review. The term "journalistic integrity" is not even in their (limited) vocabulary.

    Even if they don't sell advertising for the product(or the product itself), they blatantly suck up to companies, just like certain digital camera review sites. Why? Because there are 5 billion review sites, and if they don't gloat about the product, the manufacturer won't ever send them a product again(nor is another manufacturer likely to take the risk.) If they don't get sent products to review, they don't HAVE anything to review because none of the "sites"(ie, some teenager and his 4 friends, or some unemployed guy) have money.

    If they don't have anything to review(or, if they don't have the latest/hottest item), they don't get visits to their sites. That means no ad revenue...and that means they go out of "business".

    Same thing happens in the automotive world, the consumer electronics world(ever notice stereo review magazine writers seem to have a LOT of VERY expensive toys that they own?), movie reviews, etc. It's all just a game to see who can do the best job of sucking up to the biggest audience to get the best perks from the companies.

    I haven't trusted reviewers for about 4 years now...

  2. Logitech leaving out us Lefties! by thesolo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That new Logitech MX 500 Optical mouse looks beautiful, but I won't be buying one. Unfortunately (and this isn't just logitech), us lefties are left out of the mouse market, no pun intended! Mice that are designed for right-handed users are just shy of worthless for us.

    What's the point of having quick launch thumb buttons, when the mouse is designed for a right-handed user? Those buttons would be worthless to me, and the mouse becomes counter-intuitive to use. There seems to also be more of a push towards right hand contoured mice; I can barely even find decent symmetrical optical mice anymore (besides Logitech's low-quality offerings)!

    I'm sick of this! Does anyone know of any good optical mice that are either symmetrical or come in a left-handed model?