March 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2004 · 0 comments

VR-Zone Hardware has a review on a new SFF to the market, the rather shiney EPoX eX5 Mini Me. This Intel platform based cube uses the 865G chipset which is host to a wide array of connectivity options making this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo News is running an AP story on Microsoft’s SenseCam, a digital camera designed to be worn around your neck, which can automatically take photos depending on conditions such as sudden movement or changes in light. The gadget has some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC slapped together some components and built two somewhat affordable “servers” to compare. The servers feature competing processors: AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Pentium 4 3GHz which they put through a series of tests. If you need to do some hosting…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2004 · 0 comments

SystemCooling has looked over an Antec P160 PC chassis and decided what they saw was good. The case sports an aluminum body and frame, plenty of space for drives, and great cooling potential if you include a second 120mm fan….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2004 · 0 comments

TechWeb is running a story covering Cypak AB’s paperboard computer. It’s presumably printed onto paper, hopefully recyclable, and could be used in interactive books and identification in the future, but for right now their trials are centered on packaging….

Read more But Can You Create Origami Out of One?

by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has taken a different path in measuring system performance, they’ve picked up a Sony PlayStation emulator and ran it on various video card and CPU platforms. An unorthodox test but interesting results none-the-less….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

A fellow by the name of Kristian Eide has been busy with an indepth review of 5 different email clients. He goes into great detail on features and provides a large number of screenshots showing off the main features of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Beyond3D spent some time with a beast of a laptop outfitted with an equally beefy video solution, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700. The review is geared towards what the chip is good at, games, but it is a very nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a rather large roundup of sleek LCD monitors. They take a look at 7 displays (three 17″, three 19″, and one 20″) and critique their features and visual quality which can be quite subjective, but I’ve…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

The story seems a bit odd but CNN Money is reporting that the upcoming Nintendo DS (dual screen) had succesfully played a 2 hour long movie from 128MB of flash storage. The big story is that it’s capable of playing…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Scientific-Atlanta, known for their cable set-top boxes, are planning on making another set-top box! This one will be able to play video games with possible ties to gaming subscription services. Most people like to keep a copy of their favorite…

Read more Gaming Set-top in the Works