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Video: Lenovo’s parody on the MacBook Air, promotes X300

Published on Apr 30th, 2008 in blog, advertising, interesting links, hardware, humor, video, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

Having had my friendly and not so friendly encounters with my MacBook Pro and the bundled OS X operating system, at the end of the day I believe that for a powerful laptop I couldn’t have done much better other than buying another ThinkPad. The last one I got was a T42 and still runs […]

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The reason I will never buy a Mac desktop

Published on Apr 17th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, hardware, apple, thumbs down | 2 Comments »

While browsing around this morning I stumbled upon this bit of news: “Apple released a new graphics upgrade kit today.” For those Mac Pro users out there (that is, the tower desktop system, not the laptop) can now upgrade to a GeForce 8800GT for about x1.5 the actual price of the card, ain’t those wonderful […]

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Turn a small home UPS into a giant UPS (video)

Published on Mar 2nd, 2008 in blog, tips & tricks, hardware, video, thumbs up | 4 Comments »

Having a UPS is fairly common these days. However, one gripe I’ve always had and that you might too is the limited capacity you get on them. Even nicer $200+ ones might only give you a few minutes on a powerful PC, and for large capacity you could easily spend $1000 or more. Neither option […]

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Incoming: Dell 2707WFP 27″ LCD monitor

Published on Feb 4th, 2008 in blog, hardware, deals | No Comments »

There is no better advice to give than one you follow yourself… That’s what I was thinking when I finally bought a Dell UltraSharp 2707WFP monitor last week to use as my primary monitor and replace my older but still trusty Dell 24″ screen. Back in November I was the one who recommended to include […]

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Untapping Wii’s hidden potential (video)

Published on Jan 29th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, gaming, hardware, video, thumbs up | 2 Comments »

Erik posted this on his NATW (News around the web) post yesterday, but in case you missed it, this is too cool to bypass just like that - see the video after my comments below…
In case you haven’t noticed, every week day we have in our frontpage the “News around the web” coverage with 4-5 […]

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3dmarks per $

Published on Jan 28th, 2008 in blog, the web, interesting links, gaming, hardware, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

The guys at Futuremark (developers of the popular 3dmark benchmark) emailed me late last week letting me know of the launch of a new service available through their YouGamers portal that gathers submitted benchmark results, system specs, and ultimately pricing information to build a table of the best values in videocard and processors.
There are obvious […]

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Motivations for an upgrade & Far Cry 2 eye candy video

Published on Jan 25th, 2008 in blog, techspot, gaming, hardware, video | 1 Comment »

While I barely touched on the subject of high system requirements yesterday on my post about Vista and gaming, it got me thinking about my plans of upgrading my desktop system, where gaming Crysis is basically my only justification for upgrading an otherwise very responsive system. And I know what you are thinking, as TechSpot’s […]

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Vista and gaming, a bad combination?

Published on Jan 24th, 2008 in blog, techspot, windows, interesting links, gaming, hardware | 1 Comment »

Last week we posted a new poll on the main site asking readers if they thought Vista is hurting PC gaming, and while I don’t necessarily agree that the question is a completely fair and valid one to ask just like that, looking at the partial results I have to say my experiment has gone […]

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Gizmodo’s CES prank gets them banned for life?

Published on Jan 13th, 2008 in hardware, humor, video | No Comments »

If there was something that caught my attention during last year’s CES was the massive amount of flat panel TVs being used all around the floor. As you can imagine this year was even more packed in that sense, and it was only a matter of time until someone did not resist and did something […]

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Drivers and Windows Vista

Published on Jan 3rd, 2008 in windows, software, gaming, hardware, thumbs down | 2 Comments »

Mostly when people post something about Vista it’s either bashing it or praising it, however those two camps generally agree on one thing; that drivers have matured quite well since its release.
I’m gonna create a third group now; they are both wrong!
UAC, admin accounts, memory requirements and all other stuff aside, I’ve concluded one thing: […]

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