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Alienware updates their Area51 line – now more NVIDIA-ish

James Allan Brady, Mar 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

Its not quite their best desktop, I think the ALX still holds that marker, but its their flagship desktop for sure. They are adding the two new products that were announced from NVIDIA the other day, the 790i SLI Ultra motherboard and the GeForce 9800 GX2. Read The Full Story

Sanyo Xacti CG9 – new, more user friendly Xacti

James Allan Brady, Mar 19th 2008 Discuss [1]

This is the latest effort from Sanyo to penetrate the market of the common/casual user with their video cameras. It still supports H.264 video which is great for those major YouTube uploaders out there, but its been fattened up due to surveys of the general public. Read The Full Story

SSD drives not so hot after all – told you they weren’t worth the money

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [3]

From a single manager they have seen 20% of their notebook returned on average, and 30% of their SSD equipped notebooks. Not all of those are for failures, but about 20% of those SSD equipped notebooks are being returned due solely to SSD drive failures. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 – big, beasty, shiny, and pricey

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

This is the perfect card for playing your HD video content and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD movies on, and that’s it. Those 256 stream processors, dual GPU’s, and 1GB framebuffer just isn’t good enough for doing anything more than watching movies. Read The Full Story

Siftables from MIT – domino sized computers to take over world

James Allan Brady, Mar 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

This little half-domino shaped/sized squares are actually individual really tiny computers. You build them together to add functionality to whatever pieces you already have. They each have a bunch of component in them starting with a 20MHz AVR processor and full color OLED screen on the top. Then they have tactile/haptic drivers, a 3-axis accelerometer, built in flash memory, and rechargeable Lithium-Polymer batteries. Read The Full Story

USB Memory Bomb – “They Set Us up The Bomb!”

James Allan Brady, Mar 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

Sure, there aren’t actually any bombs shaped like this, but it’s a homage back to the good old days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Road Runner. Wil E. Coyote should be on the package and “A.C.M.E.” printed on the side just for effect. Read The Full Story

Samsung SWT-W100K MID – has WiBro and DMB inside

James Allan Brady, Mar 10th 2008 Discuss [0]

This device is fairly amazing, not only does it look great, but its small and feature-packed. It has a 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, DMB and DMB PIP digital TV and WiBro (like WiMAX, but slightly different). Read The Full Story

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ASUS Lamborghini ZX1 phone – for cruising through the mobile web at high speeds

James Allan Brady, Mar 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

It has a 2.8-inch touch screen with 65k colors and 240×320 resolution. It also has a 450MHz TI processor to drive the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS that’s running on it.

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Asus G70 gaming notebook – like playground bully, big and mischievous

James Allan Brady, Mar 3rd 2008 Discuss [4]

It has a fast-response 17-inch monitor built into its large body. It uses Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo processors and can be stuffed with up to 4GB of memory.