Brighthand brings sad news of Sony’s pull-out of the handheld PDA market in the U.S., the largest company to pull out since, uh, Apple and its Newton I suppose. They had some impressive PDAs, with nice features, but crazy price…
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Bytesector has a review of the iRiver H140 40GB portable digital audio player. The device comes with a nice set of features including a wired remote with built-in FM tuner and offers Ogg Vorbis along with the usual MP3 support…
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It seems all of those lovely non-disclosure agreements have expired, simultaneously might I add, and out come a flood of Socket 939 processor reviews. Here are some sites that have reviews of AMD’s new high-end chips consumer chips: AnandTech Beyond3D…
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AnandTech has peeped out a few of the upcoming products and technologies before the open of Computex in Taipei, Taiwan this week. Lots of interesting stuff but BTX seems like the most “important” “technology” at the show. BTX is an…
Read more Computex Sneak Preview
Intel has started to bundle CPUs with some of its motherboards in the European market putting motherboard makers in a tough situation. Sounds like an odd move to alienate your “partners” with, but no specific bundles are mentioned and no…
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X-bit labs brings a bit of news about AMD’s upcoming Socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. The new chips will have half the cache of the “old” FX line but it does have a faster clock rate and dual channel memory…
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Buffalo News has the story of a Buffalo, NY man sentenced to a prison term over his theft of identity. Sadly he wasn’t arrested for the hundreds of millions of spams he sent out using stolen and forged email addresses,…
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Hexus.net does a bit of comparing between the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. Both chips appear to be capable performers, good enough for some gaming on the road. The number of choices for quality mobile…
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System Cooling has, in their possession, the SilverStone SST-ST30NF power supply. This PSU combines a few different features such as heat pipes and power indicator LEDs into a fan-less design which is impressive, but the high price will drive most…
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SystemCooling has a cursory look at the Thermalright XP-120 Pentium IV heatsink. This large mass of aluminum and heatpipes takes a 120mm fan as its native cooling source making it one of the larger (consumer CPU) coolers available. If it…
Read more Serious P4 Cooling Preview
PCSTATS has compiled a whole lot of tuning techniques for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Some of the tweaks are common sense deals, such as disabling unnecessary services, while others aren’t as recommended if you have no idea what…
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