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Dedicated to our weekly open discussions, the TechSpot community debates and voices its opinion on a range of different subjects. Common themes include the latest product launches or polls about your computing habits.
Weekend Open Forum: Where do you get your entertainment?
- With the distribution and consumption of media rapidly shifting to Web-based mediums, bigwigs are scrambling to carve out their niche. It's never been easier to hop online and download music, TV shows, movies, and games through entirely legal – and…
Weekend Open Forum: What's the first video game you ever played, and on what platform?
- Visiting Google's homepage today you'll get a fun surprise: the company has transformed its ever-changing website logo into a fully functional game of Pac-Man to celebrate the classic arcade's upcoming 30th anniversary tomorrow. This is Google's first ever interactive, playable…
Weekend Open Forum: How fast is your home connection?
- There were roughly 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide last year, and that figure is undoubtedly trending upward. In a perfect world everyone would have access to the same bandwidth. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and some folks simply have it…
Weekend Open Forum: Your take on solid-state drives
- Even though 2009 appeared to be the year that was going to mark a wider adoption of SSDs and a big nosedive in prices, ultimately only part of that came to realization. Things have slowed down a bit during 2010…
Weekend Open Forum: How many cores power your PC?
- We asked you this very same question over a year and a half ago. Back then, dual core processors were already quite common and quad core parts were coming down in price to more affordable levels -- you could get…
Weekend Open Forum: How many displays are on your desk?
- With an insatiable desire for big screens and high resolutions, it's only natural that multi-display setups are increasingly popular among tech buffs. From desk jockeys to gamers, having tons of screen real estate can be a godsend for productivity (I…
Weekend Open Forum: What are you playing right now?
- PC enthusiasts are no strangers to long gaming sessions, and those who have recently upgraded to one of the latest and greatest graphics cards offered by ATI or Nvidia will surely be looking for something to throw at it. With…
Weekend Open Forum: Time for a graphics card upgrade?
- With the arrival of Fermi-based graphics cards later this month we have run out of major GPU launches for the months to come, at least that we are aware of. The most important part is that we now know how…
Weekend Open Forum: Your next hardware upgrade will be...?
- Looking past the troubled economy, 2009 was actually a good year for the tech industry -- and in particular for PC enthusiasts. It marked the arrival of much-anticipated standards like USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps, a deluge of faster, larger…
Weekend Open Forum: OnLive Games on Demand -- the future of gaming or destined to fail?
- After a year of teasing skeptics, OnLive finally announced a launch date and price earlier this week. For $14.95 a month, users will have access to demos, various social features and the ability to watch others play games. You'd expect…
Weekend Open Forum: Desktops doomed to irrelevancy?
- There's no denying the current trend towards mobile computing. As more efficient CPUs and GPUs become available and storage densities increase, laptops have become a viable replacement to desktops for everyday computing tasks, while smartphones are often lifesavers when on…
Weekend Open Forum: What's your preferred mobile phone platform and handset?
- In the past three years we've seen a number of new smartphone operating systems burst onto the scene. From Apple's wildly successful iPhone OS, to Google's increasingly popular Android and Palm's praised yet still floundering WebOS -- to name a…
Weekend Open Forum: Do you (still) Twitter?
- From the early days of the blogosphere, there's always been a fashionable Web company everybody seems to love talking about, justifiably or not. In most cases we've tried to steer clear from these trends, like with Twitter, giving the Web…
Weekend Open Forum: Is the iPad for You?
- With an unbelievable amount of hype behind it, Apple's rumored tablet launched this week with mixed reactions, but an overall positive reception considering the crazy expectations set over the past few months. If anything, the iPad announcement has opened the door…
Weekend Open Forum: HTPC In Your Living Room, Anyone?
- Cable and satellite TV providers are scrambling to smother or otherwise capitalize on the rise of Internet-based video. From free user-driven sites like YouTube, to paid services like Netflix, video streaming is here to stay. Media center software like Boxee makes…
Weekend Open Forum: What's your backup strategy? You do have one, right?
- In recent weeks we've shown you two very different hardware solutions for safeguarding and sharing computer data depending on the scale of your actual needs. The first device was a rugged, portable hard drive aimed at road warriors who need…
Weekend Open Forum: What's on your Christmas wish list? Santa is a TechSpot regular
- Christmas is now just around the corner. While you may have missed this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, there are still a few short weeks to finish your shopping. While the holiday season is not just about gifts,…
Weekend Open Forum: Share Your Black Friday Experience
- Although the last hours of Black Friday are ticking by, the steep sales and shopping season have only just begun. Many businesses will continue to offer discounted merchandise over the weekend, and Cyber Monday is only two days away. Until…
Weekend Open Forum: Google Chrome OS and the future of cloud computing
- After much speculation Google introduced Chrome OS this week, a feature-stripped operating system aimed at netbooks that's built around the company's browser and relies on web applications. Actual data and programs are stored and run online, while local storage is…
Weekend Open Forum: Modern Warfare 2 on the PC, a multiplayer fiasco?
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released worldwide this week to an overwhelming success, selling 4.7 million copies on a single day and raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone. Reviews have…
Weekend Open Forum: Have you upgraded to Windows 7 yet? What is there to like/not?
- Inevitably the past few weeks have been a lot about Windows 7. We have contributed our fair share of information and resources in the process, from nifty tips and tricks for those of you coming as far back as the…
Weekend Open Forum: Your last game purchase
- It's no secret that tech enthusiasts enjoy playing video games, and the holiday season typically brings some of the year's greatest titles. A few weeks back we created a list of PC games we're most excited about for the fourth…
Weekend Open Forum: Is AMD CPU strategy working? Are they on a collision course?
- Let’s be honest for a second. We are not actually asking you whether you believe AMD’s current CPU strategy is working or not. It’s a well known fact AMD is getting killed out there and at the pace Intel is…
Weekend Open Forum: PC Game of the Year 2008 goes to...
- It's been a rather interesting year for PC gaming. An industry that's been said to be dead year after year has just kept coming back stronger. In fact I’d bet that if more publishers were as creative as Valve when…
Weekend Open Forum: Blu-ray versus Digital Distribution, is it even a contest?
- Even with digital distribution still on its early stages, for many it already poses a serious threat to other traditional distribution mediums. Be it music, videos, software or even books, among the young there's likely as much people preferring digital…
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