Today we bring you a special treat. We hooked one of our forum members with all the latest hardware and told him to find a notebook chassis that he wanted to build. He got the parts, ordered the notebook, and wrote up an article on his experience. Read on to find out how a first timer built his first notebook.
Grokster, a fairly popular file-sharing service, is shutting down their free file-sharing service for good. What will take its place, however, is their fee-based service Grokster 3G. As I have once stated, the days of Continue reading “Grokster agrees to shut down for good”.
And who says video games are only useful for causing carpal-tunnel and bad vision. A NASA-developed technology, called Smart BrainGames, is showing to be promising in helping children with ADD/ADHD. The technology was originally intended Continue reading “Attention deficit disorder? Try video games”.
One industry’s fizzling out is another industry’s chance to shine! Due to a strong demand for plasma TV’s and closing of PDP fabs, the LCD market has a chance to take ahold of a stronger Continue reading “PDP shortage may open the door for LCD TVs, says DisplaySearch”.
Apple may start using Intel processors sooner than originally stated. According to X-Bit, Apple may be launching their line of Intel-based Mac’s as early as January ’06. They plan on using mobile processors in their Continue reading “First Intel-Based Macintosh Computers May Be Released in January”.
AMD has another company under its belt! Hewlett-Packard has decided to use a special version of AMD’s Athlon 64 chip in their bc1500 Blade PC series. This will undoubtedly drive revenue up for both companies, Continue reading “HP Switches to AMD for Blade PCs”.
Media device manufacturers such as Apple may have competition on their hands from unlikely sources: iPod refurbishers. Companies like Small Dog Electronics, for example, is offering up to a $100 trade-in on your old iPod Continue reading “Market growing for used iPods”.
Watch what you say when you distribute a rather controversial, unsigned Word Document through a network. There are pieces of data that, while not on the actual document itself, can still be discerned through 3rd-party Continue reading “Beware your trail of digital fingerprints”.
Today Legit Reviews takes a look at the latest and greatest from Crucial Technologies, the Ballstix PC4000 2GB kit. While the PC4000 may look like any other modules with its 3-4-4-8 timings, don’t be fooled. We take a look at this PC-4000 memory kit and give you our thoughts.
The inevitable is coming to pass: analog TV will no longer exist as of 2009, the date the Senate set to eliminate analog television and fully implement digital broadcasts. Mid-range TV sets (25-36 inch), however, Continue reading “Senate approves 2009 for end of analog TV”.
Microsoft has made claim that the Xbox 360 enables the user to transfer MP3’s from any MP3 player, including the very popular (and very proprietary) Apple iPod. However, that compatibility is only for MP3 and Continue reading “Xbox 360 and iPod interoperability? Sort of”.
Dell’s spurning competition amongst PC manufacturers in the notebook department. Dell has added the XPS M140 to its line of XPS notebooks, driving it down into the sub-$1000 market. With a Pentium M 740 processor, Continue reading “Current Analysis: Dell sub-US$1,000 models to drag down Media Center notebook ASPs”.
According to Anandtech, it looks like the release of socket M2 will be a delayed reaction. The promising DDR2 platform will not launch until early second-quarter of 2006 (around April or so). So, for those Continue reading “Socket M2 Processor Roadmap; FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5200+”.
Further deepening the online software apps that Microsoft will be providing soon, they bought FolderShare from Texas-based software company ByteTaxi. The software allows the sender to send attachments that would otherwise be too large due Continue reading “Microsoft buys FolderShare”.
Asustek, a widely-known manufacturer of motherboards and other wares such as optical drives and video cards, plan to launch their brand of LCD TV’s either at the end of the month or near the beginning Continue reading “Asustek to launch own-brand LCD TVs this month and 3G handsets next year”.
