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New MacBook Pro owner, joining the dark side?

Published on Dec 14th, 2007 in apple, blog, hardware, software, techspot, the web, windows | 3 Comments »

Depending for how long you’ve been reading TechSpot you may have read a variety of comments about Apple products, from hate to well, less hate :). No, but seriously, despite of being mainly a Windows site we have tried to remain balanced and objective when time has come to report on any product, no matter [...]

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Unlike Creative’s SB X-Fi, the Auzentech X-Meridian works fine with 4gb+ RAM

Published on Dec 7th, 2007 in blog, gaming, hardware | 5 Comments »

Just got me a new computer, went with 8GB RAM.
Felt sensible since it costs about as much as a day’s lunch. Put it in my Asus Maximus Formula, along with a Creative SB X-Fi ExtremeGamer.
Took the absolutely latest WinXP x64 drivers off Creative’s site, only over 1 year old.
Launched up Crysis and was greeted with [...]

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GeForce 8800 GT deal…

Published on Nov 19th, 2007 in blog, deals, hardware | 2 Comments »

Update: There is a newer deal on 8800GT that I posted here.

Wait a second… getting the almighty 8800GT for the actual $250 MSRP? And from BestBuy? When a majority of desperate gamers are overpaying as much as $70 for getting one of these cards, this almost sounds too good to be true. But according to [...]

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Crysis is AMAZING

Published on Nov 18th, 2007 in blog, gaming, hardware, video | 4 Comments »

Every true PC gamer had this week marked on their calendars, Crysis the spiritual successor to Far Cry is out and I can tell you this is one game that will live up to the hype. By now you have probably read some of the reviews, even played the demo yourselves, and seen our videocard [...]

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ATI’s new Radeon HD 3870 is no 8800 GT killer…

Published on Nov 15th, 2007 in gaming, hardware | 5 Comments »

Our friends at Legion Hardware were the first website in the whole net to post official benchmark numbers for AMD/ATI’s latest videocard the ATI Radeon HD 3870. It definitely paid off living in Australia for our good friends as they were almost 18 hours early to the game…
The bad news are however that the Radeon [...]

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Optimus Maximus keyboard in action (video)

Published on Nov 13th, 2007 in blog, hardware, interesting links, video | 5 Comments »

For over two years we have reported several times on this keyboard that is supposedly being actively developed by a group of russian designers and developers. So many times in fact I have pretty much told TechSpot news editors to stop posting news on this topic until we can see some actual progress…
For some, the [...]

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Xbox 360 HD DVD drive bundled with Heroes Season 1 (for free)

Published on Oct 31st, 2007 in deals, hardware, interesting links | 2 Comments »

Ever since we started discussing the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD, I always thought and assumed that when time came, I would jump to the Blue team bandwagon. After all, Sony’s format offers a larger technological leap and seems to be more data (PC) friendly…
Almost two years later, neither format dominates the market and [...]

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New MacBook update on its way

Published on Oct 30th, 2007 in apple, blog, hardware, rumor mill | 1 Comment »

Update: This didn’t take too long, the minor MacBook update has been confirmed. No word on LED backlighting unfortunately.
Whether you are a Mac user already or are planning to give one a try, it’s only obvious that any plans for upgrading or getting a new machine revolved around the release of OS X Leopard. We [...]

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Trouble connecting an external drive in Vista?

Published on Oct 4th, 2007 in hardware, tips & tricks, windows | 2 Comments »

Bashing Vista for whatever reason you can imagine seems to be the most hip thing to do nowadays, and while a post with my take on Vista is on its way, for now I wanted to share a tip with you for connecting external hard drives successfully to the OS.
I should note that not all [...]

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