Posted 09/17/2009 at 10:04:54pm
FINALLY USB will be competitive with eSATA. This will make it a lot easier to have a very fast external drive for backup, that can be transported to almost any other computer. eSATA seems to still be ...
Posted 08/07/2008 at 12:49:29pm
I'd actually be satisfied with 4 GB DDR3 modules. I've been planning to go from my Opteron 185 system to a new Nehalem-based build sometime next year. After reading Maximum PC's excellent writeup abou ...
Posted 10/04/2007 at 02:56:17pm
Actually, she took her hard drive in for replacement BEFORE the RIAA came after her. That was confirmed by a Best Buy Geek Squad dude that was called to the stand. It could maybe be argued that she su ...
Posted 08/09/2007 at 05:42:37pm
That's like getting in your car, starting it up, and driving over a mosquito to kill it. No Windows PC is complete without a copy of Irfanview for simple photo viewing/altering/resizing duties. While ...
Posted 08/06/2007 at 07:15:14pm
High Dynamic Range will be a great advancement in the art of photography. Getting HDR support into the JPEG standard would be an excellent step, and I'm hoping that digital camera makers will be able ...
Posted 08/06/2007 at 07:07:23pm
Now I don't have to agonize about whether to keep or recycle my old copies of the magazine. You guys always have great stuff that I want to follow up on, so now I can keep the PDFs on file instead of ...
Posted 08/01/2007 at 10:37:54am
Well, it's *almost* impossible for it to happen here in the 'States. China, like Europe, uses 220V outlets, while we use 110V. It's pretty tough to kill yourself with only 110V, although if you're car ...
Posted 07/31/2007 at 10:38:14am
Unfortunately, this list is rather outdated already. Within the past week we've had:
-Target announce they will only carry a Blu-Ray player this holiday season.
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind ...
Posted 07/25/2007 at 05:22:36pm
I've seen this news posted on various blog sites, and it sounds good. My question, however, is how does this power consumption compare to other manufacturers' drives? If WD reduced power consumption c ...
Posted 06/28/2007 at 02:24:11pm
The AO game rating and NC-17 movie ratings ought to be abolished. What business does a corporation or government have in deciding what's safe or not for children to experience? Only the parents can de ...
Posted 06/08/2007 at 11:03:33am
"Do we now need to operate under the assumption that anything we do could possibly be recorded unless we’re in our homes with the blinds drawn?"
In a word, YES, and you should have operated under ...
Posted 04/18/2007 at 07:19:22pm
This is the best writeup I've seen so far on the Penryn processor benchmarks. I'm already mentally preparing to build a new PC in 2008. Mmmmm... 45nm processor...
Now more than ever we need AMD to ...
