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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: Have PC games improved in terms of system requirements?
- When Crysis was released last year on the PC platform it merely reinforced a fact that was becoming more evident game release after game release, shooter after shooter. Pushing the graphics envelope should no longer be the target at large…
Weekend Open Forum: What was your first computer?
- This week’s topic will be a favorite among those nostalgic ones. Although our readers come from all kind of backgrounds, countries and ages, the history of the PC is just a few decades old, so it will be interesting to…
Weekend Open Forum: DRM in games and music, does it prevent you from buying?
- Nobody on its right mind would dare to defend DRM (Digital rights management) in front of a web crowd, unless you represent one of the few enterprises pushing it forward, of course. It’s a simple fact of life, the consumer has…
Weekend open forum: Download accelerators and managers, are they still relevant?
- As most of you are likely aware of, we keep an up to date downloads section here at TechSpot. While we mostly focus on the more prominent software tools and utilities we foresee our readers will appreciate having listed here,…
Weekend open forum: Are netbooks here to stay?
- After struggling to become mainstream in the late 90s, the netbook market has seen somewhat of an unforeseen revival in 2008. While most PC literates would have agreed years before that a smallish, low-cost and straightforward laptop could easily carve…
Weekend open forum: What are your software 'essentials' or the first things you install after a clean format?
- The operating system debate is too big and heated to diminish its value, but then again, the OS is meant to sit there and serve as the platform where your work is actually done, not in the OS, but in…
Weekend open forum: How many CPU cores power your PC today?
- There was a time when clock speeds were all the rage, and reaching the gigahertz mark in consumer CPUs was like this golden milestone so far away from realization. Then after several decades of continuous clock speed bumps, somewhere in…
Weekend open forum: Google Chrome, are you using it on a regular basis?
- As much as we’ve got used to hear rumors about Google, only a handful of those finally become a reality, from the Google browser, to the Google Operating System (that would rival Windows). When the Chrome browser was unveiled to…
Weekend open forum: Windows 7 target to boot in under 15 seconds
- Last week Microsoft began rolling developer updates on the next-generation Windows through the Engineering Windows 7 blog. For better or worse, the first topic they decided to touch on was boot time, a particular feature of previous and current iterations…
TechSpot Poll: Besides performance, what do you consider most important in a laptop?
- Being this a site that caters primarily to gamers and the technology enthusiast crowd, it's probably safe to assume that many of you will undoubtedly choose a desktop when buying / building a new computer as it provides more flexibility…
TechSpot Poll: Will you get a Blu-ray player now?
- With the demise of HD DVD, many are finally ready to make the move and get themselves a new Blu-ray player, which you may as well call the format of the future. But wait, it's not that simple anymore. Unlike…
TechSpot Poll: I buy my PC games...
- Not so long ago, PC titles were the mainstay of video gaming, but they have slumped in recent years overshadowed by game consoles. The latest indicator of this trend comes from some NPD numbers, showing the games industry made a…
TechSpot Poll: Do you think Vista is hurting PC gaming?
- 2007 was a great year for gamers. There were a ton of great titles to choose from across all platforms, with some PC games long in development finally getting released and, in many cases, living up to the hype. But…
TechSpot Poll: PC Game of the Year goes to...
- With its clean design, small form factor, modest specs, and low price, the Asus Eee PC has made its way into the hearts of gadget lovers. If Amazon’s wish-lists are of any indication the 7-inch notebook is the must have…
TechSpot Poll: Pick our December giveaway prize!
- With the Christmas holiday season upon us, we figured it was time we rewarded those readers who continuously participate in our news comments and community forums, so we have posted a new poll asking what is your pick for the…
TechSpot Poll: My next video card upgrade…
- November will see the debut of a number of highly-anticipated titles for the PC including Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3, Call of Duty 4, and of course the hardware-intensive Crysis everyone has been buzzing about. With all these great…
TechSpot Poll: How much of the video content you watch is downloaded and/or played using a PC?
- Although the HD DVD versus Blu-Ray format war continues to heat up, many skeptics believe that neither format will succeed, arguing that movie download services via the Internet will render them obsolete. While I agree that downloading content is the…
TS Poll: What makes the most noise in your PC?
- Over the years, PC components have become increasingly faster. As a result, they tend to generate the amount of heat that can't always be dissipated without spinning, and often noisy, fans. They are not the only source of noise, for…
TS Poll: What graphics card is on your main PC?
- In recent years the leadership in the videocard market has been disputed between Nvidia and ATI, with their biggest selling models belonging to the GeForce and Radeon series, respectively. Now that DirectX 10 games are just starting to surface, many…
TS Poll: Which portable device satisfies your IT needs on the go?
- Nowadays mobile computing is the sector with the most growth or at least the most media attention and innovation. Recently products based on Microsoft's Origami concept were unveiled and launched into retail. The hybrid device called the UMPC (Ultra Mobile…
TechSpot Poll: Blu-ray or HD-DVD?
- A couple of weeks ago we posted an article on the two upcoming disc formats, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and we noticed many of you favoured either one or the other. With its advantages and disadvantages, there are only two things…
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