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Another Hardware Site

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the places-to-go dept.

An anonymous reader sent us a link to Ace's Hardware and suggests checking it out. The site looks pretty good- similar to Tom's Hardware, but with some other different stuff. Check it out.

21 comments

  1. Save yourself the click... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I was very unimpressed by this. After reading several of the pages I found only rambling and opinions with absolutely no technical facts to back anything up. Many of them miss the mark quite a bit (this is especially visible on some of the older (late 98) articles). Overall, I'd say there are plenty of better places to go for info on upcomming processors, etc. (Like Tom's hardware guide, assuming the page didn't attempt to set a cookie 50 times on each page... does anyone else find that annoying? Once is enough isnt it?).

  2. Ace's Hardware v. Ace Hardware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yep.. i was going to hint at the exact same thing.. man this guy must be a real 'tool' .. heh

  3. terrible layout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Eh ? .. are you looking at the same site I am ? .. looks like black (or blue) on WHITE pages with a blue border down the side.. Seems perfectly readable to me.. maybe you have 'override document colours' set or summat?

    --Delphis (not AC as mentioned in another article :>)

  4. terrible layout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm at a loss as to what would lead someone to start every line with a blue background befind black text. Practically unreadable.

  5. Not impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To even compare this site to Tom's Hardware is misleading to the reader. I wonder if the "anonymous reader" happens to work on that site. Is someone trying to use /. to boost ad revenue?

  6. Not impressed by Tom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yeah a site that actually updates. who woulda thought. toms hardware used to be cool but its a joke now.

  7. anand is the way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    tom? ace? anand is the king baby!

  8. Clear information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought this site was very clear in giving information about the AMD K7 for example, a well written article that gets the points across. That's to be applauded I think.

    As an aside, doesn't the K7 just seem so *wonderful* ? .. me want .. me want..

    -- Delphis (not AC, just cannae find me passwd as not online from home)

  9. It's dead, Jim. not quite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    irts there but sloooooooow

  10. It's dead, Jim. by planet_hoth · · Score: 0

    Can't get through, anyone know of a mirror site?

    --

  11. slasdotted by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    Posted by Assmodeus:

    splendid. another site /.ed i couldnt get through to it to save my life...

  12. Our server is doing what it can ;) by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    Posted by JohanAce:

    Hi,

    I am editor at Ace's. The reason why our site is slow now, is the visit of thousands Slashdot readers (Thanks Rob!).

    So why should you still bother ?
    Well,if you want the latest about AMD's future K7..
    If you want to solve your videocard problems,
    IF you want to setup a network at home,
    if you want to know more about CPU architecture or
    the latest videocards...
    you should really pay us a visit!

    Thanks again!

    (no, you won't find those things at Tom's hardware)

  13. annoying web site layouts... by Chris+Parrinello · · Score: 1

    This web site is yet another in a growing number of them that insist you have your web browser open to a certain size (this one looks like 800x600) in order for it to layout properly.

    Ugh. No thank you. I don't want my web browser to take up 3/4 of the screen.

    Chris

  14. More goodies exclusive to Ace's Hardware by Albert+Y.C.+Lai · · Score: 1
    So why should you still bother ?
    Well,if you want the latest about AMD's future K7..

    Or if you want to show off the size and resolution of your monitor by displaying ultra-wide paragraphs...

    Or if you want to show off the colors of your monitor and the pixel depth of your display card by demonstrating that turquoise4 text on turquoise3 background is readable...

    And you have the webmaster's personal guarantee: you won't find those things at Tom's hardware!

    On the positive side, the initiative to report on non-x86 hardware (such as sparcs and alpha) and the idea of having a forum are novel.

  15. save your soul webmasters!! by mikpos · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to true salvation.

  16. Save yourself the click... by Mr+Foobar · · Score: 1

    >(Like Tom's hardware guide, assuming the page didn't attempt to set a cookie 50 times on each >page... does anyone else find that annoying? Once is enough isnt it?).

    So?! Just ln -s /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies and accept all the cookies you could want, and never be annoyed again by either the dialog boxes or the fscking cookies!

    (Er, you are running Unix/Linux/FreeBSD, aren't you? Oh, well, never mind...)

    --
    -> I dislike sigs...
  17. Design SNAFU by Chip+Stillmore · · Score: 1

    It looks OK in MS IE5 on my system, but not with Netscape Communicator 4.51.

    Designing for 800x600 is not the best idea either.

    http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com

  18. Ace's Hardware v. Ace Hardware by the_tsi · · Score: 1

    Ace Hardware has more pressing issues to worry about -- like being killed by Home Depot.

    -Chris

  19. Ace's Hardware v. Ace Hardware by angelo · · Score: 1

    Look for the hardware store called "Ace" to sue this guy in the near future. Just like Toys -r- Russ...

    --
    Lowmag.net
  20. Not impressed by Goatbert · · Score: 1

    Acctually, you are right, this site doesn't compare to Tom's Hardware, nor do I think Brian or Johan intend to, nor do I or any of a number of people who run the smaller hardware websites. We don't expect to get nearly as many hits, and we have much more current information most of the time. Tom gets a few exclusive things because he is huge, but thats the nature of the beast. I personally read Tom's once a month at most, and read Betanews, Coolinfo, Anand, Aces, JC's, Sharky's and VoodooExtreme daily.

    And Slashdot of course :)

    -Jeff

  21. Style needs adjustment by SEWilco · · Score: 2

    I didn't know a style sheet could be persuaded to overlay the color background like that. He'll have to adjust things...it's awkward to read when the start of each line of blue text lands on the blue color bar, and the end of each line is past the right margin of the browser.