Tag Archives: hardware

New Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU released

Late last year Intel released the Q6700, their brand new baby that was a Core 2 Quad (not duo) and had a clock speed of 2.66 GHz. So what is the difference between the Q6700 and the brand new Q6600, well, other than 100, there is a difference in clock speed of .26Ghz. The new Q6600 runs at 2.4Ghz intsead ...

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Dissecting the Nokia N95

Before the almighty, all-expensive Nokia N95 made it into the market, the guys at IT168 had taken a preproduction model and decided to take it apart. You can follow the link below for the stills, the video was not the dissection (corrected — Jan.8) but just a review walk-through. IT168 also made a comment that we have not heard of: ...

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Want Gran Turismo HD with realistic driving and wheel? Sorry

According to Sony, the dream of actually having force-feedback in driving games will never come to full bloom. Partial bloom won’t happen either. So why will force-feedback never arise? It’s all to blame on that damn Sixaxis controller which does not have a rumble function. All PS3 games are programmed for the SIXAXIS which doesn’t have force feedback, therefore the ...

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Shuttle announces the Mac Mini hating X200 mini-MCPC

Media center PCs are really picking up speed. Even if you didn’t buy a PC with the intended purpose of hooking up your cable to it, so many PCs have a TV tuner in them that the title of MCPC is beginning to lose its glamor. The new Shuttle X200 mini-media center PC completes every objective of Shuttle’s. It has ...

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Savit Micro portable hard drives keep out your pesky housemates

Passwords are getting so old. Aren’t you sick and tired of trying to remember what the passwords are for that account you created last year, but are only now getting around to using it? And last year you had a couple different passwords, but you cant remember whether which password from last year it was. Well, the Savit Micro DataMore ...

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Sony’s next PSP to have 60GB hard drive?

Ohhhhh, man. Someone is definitely going to lose their job over this. It seems that whoever the presentation director of the Samsung N-Series (small and high storing units) presentation “accidentally” let the wrong PowerPoint slide pop-up on the wrong day and now the blogs have their engines revving with anticipation. What exactly does this mean for us? What it means ...

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I-O Data TV Tuners perfect for upcoming Vista release

Are you one of the few eagerly looking forward to the release of Vista next month? Now, you can’t be running unverified hardware on the brand new machine you bought with the free Vista upgrade, can you? I-O Data has solved the unverified hardware problem… at least on the TV tuner card front. Right now, their official Vista approved TV ...

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Pimp your ride with Sony CDX-GT610U/CDX-GT616U CD tuner/changer controllers

Sony added to the GT lineup of car players with release of the CDX-GT610U/CDX-GT616U CD tuner/changer controllers. Connect many different audio sources to the USB-port on the controllers, making MP3, WMA, and AAC file types a breeze to play. If you�re still kicking it old school with a CD player (it�s amazing that CD players are old school now), these ...

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