Posted 11/02/2009 at 09:36:38pm

Well, that totally ruins it for me.  Bastards.

 Looks like I'll be sticking with WinMo at $15 a month (yes, on ATT, you can cheat and use the cheapest plan on anything)

Posted 11/01/2009 at 12:33:07am

Any effort spent adding things to Vista is less time spent improving Windows 7.

 Just. Let. It. Die.

 Same can be said for Windows Mobile; 6.5 is a complete waste of resources that could have moved Windows 7 up to a late 2009 release.

Posted 10/30/2009 at 07:56:05pm

Two products they need to make:

 Native playback of Bluray for Media Center (not the crappy hack they have now)

and

Bluray plaback for Mac.

 Not huge markets in either, but there is certainly a demand.

Posted 10/02/2009 at 07:12:07pm

Hack to Tivo (Google it)

Use Tivo Desktop 2.0 (not newer) to transfer your recordings to the PC over Ethernet.

Posted 09/30/2009 at 01:46:45pm

We are talking about devices such as the Verizon hub that was an absolute disaster (and pulled off the market yesterday).

 
While I think the idea "sounds" good, the reality is a netbook with a USB or wireless headset for Skype sitting next to it works just as well, if not better.

We'll see... 

Posted 09/05/2009 at 05:48:34pm

Ok, according to EVGA's Website, ONE "GTX285 Classified" can use up to 640w of power because it has three 6 pin connectors. 

2560 watts for 4 cards. 

Never mind the rest of the computer... just the video cards. 

A standard US electrical socket supports 1300 watts, hence that is the maximum you will see on any US power supply, the exception being the 1600 watt Koolance PSU, and it only gets that high when operating on 220V outside the US.

Cool yes, but there is no game that can trully take advantage of this system, nor while there ever be, since the GTX285 Classfied isn't DX11 compatible.

Posted 07/01/2009 at 07:32:53pm

Anything over 11 inch diagonal pushes the "netbook" term a bit too far.  I want to seen an Ion packed into a 10" netbook like the Asus 1005.

Posted 06/10/2009 at 12:15:36pm

90% of the internet traffic already is video.  It's called porn.

Posted 06/03/2009 at 05:18:56pm

I'm sorry, but the "Pentium" name hasn't meant much since the first RAMBUS packing 1.4 Ghz CPU came out back in '01 and has generally dissapointed since.

 These days, I acsosiate "Pentium" with "old, slow, runs hotter than hell".  If it's a rebadged Core 2, just call it a "Core 2".

Posted 04/30/2009 at 11:17:35am

I agree with Ashegam.

Motherboards have become expensive, proprietary, unreliable pieces of ####, and I'm sick of having to replace my board, CPU, and RAM all at the same time, EVERY time I want to upgrade. 

I miss the good old days of nice simple boards without the crappy onboard Realtek audio and Lan, and those horrible Jmicron RAID controllers...  Seriously, remove all that junk and give me 7 PCIe X16 slots and be done with it.