Month: November 2001

(Ed. note: This discontinued monitor has been floating around various places for a while. I haven’t mentioned it in the past because of the problems rather nicely described below. While it’s not available at least at the Costco website anymore,

I’ve been reading comments about the Best Buy Visiontek purchases. You’d never think it was just one chain of stores. Some people bought ahead of time went back for a pricematch, and not only got the pricematch, they ended up

Apparently, Dell doesn’t want to be bothered with providing Linux as a general rule to people buying their computers. Some people don’t like that. So what? Dell has decided that they would not be better off generally supporting Linux than

Palominos This is turning out to be a hardcore overclockers’ chip, because you have to do hardcore things to get a lot out of it. Provided that you’re not into voltage mods and heavy duty cooling, 1700 is unlikely. Even

I’m beginning to think this is going to be an educational experience in more ways than one. I’ve been reading through the comments on video quality, and I think to make a few reassurances and other comments. What Do We

What we do here is pretty inconsequential compared to the big things in life. Sometimes I get communications that display certain common but dubious attitudes and approaches to life. While they hardly matter in this arena, they’re really not good

Got quite a bit of comment about the video quality. Over 90% would prefer seeing measurements of video quality over performance. Some at least wondered about why it had to be either/or. There’s a very simple reason for putting the