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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, this list is rather outdated already.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...