Month: October 2005

I’ve decided to cancel Christmas for myself. It’s not a matter of not having the money, but rather not wanting to spend it on what will be available before December 25. It’s not that the AMD systems you can put

Ever since Intel’s Prescott was introduced to the world, our opinion on buying Intel processors has been quite simple. No. Just no. They were literally too hot for the average overclocker to handle, and the results they produced for the

AMD officially “announced” its price cuts Monday, “twice.” What appears to have happened is that the first October 24 price change didn’t adjust the prices for the Athlon 64s, and the second one did. In any event, the official prices

AMD is supposed to have price cuts on Monday. Well, some places seem to be starting early, and a couple of the drops are startling. Most notably, the 3200+ has gone from around $190 to $150 on the U.S. Pricewatch.

The New York Times had an interview the other day with one of the execs of Rockstar, Hillary Clinton’s favorite video game company. 🙂 There’s a couple very interesting quotes from the article: “Games are going to take over from

Sometimes it’s the little, even the little, stupid things that count most. For instance, how do many people judge how “fast” a computer is? By how fast it boots, even though boot time can be greatly affected by a lot

Keyboards make up a great part of our day to day computing and people/producers only look at ergonomics. Ergonomics is not, and I repeat is not, the only important part for the end user. So here I am treating some