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Apple IIGS laptop from Ben Heck looks oddly modern

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 15th 2008 No Comments

For a computer as old as the IIGS this computer looks only modern. Maybe it’s the acrylic keys or the 15-inch color LCD screen. The old ass mouse brings it all back to its roots though.

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Silicon chips go Gumby thanks to new stretchy circuits

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

FlexibleSiliconChips The class of Professor John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made some serious strides in the world of chip technology. One such advancement is that they now have IC’s that you can bend and stretch instead of the strictly rigid chips that Silicon offers up.

You might be wondering why this is such a big deal since your motherboards aren’t going to be coming in origami shapes any time soon, but it matters a lot in the medical markets. For years people have been striving to achieve some method to easily and conveniently get computers and chips inside the body if not to help keep things in order in the body, then to, at the very least, monitor bodily functions and especially such functions that occur in the brain.

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New AMD Quad-Core is as energy efficient as walking

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

AMD’s new Phenom X4 9100e is a power sipper operating at a low 65 watts. That might sound like a lot, but for a quad-core processor that’s actually considerably low and is more on par with dual core processors of today.

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Android PC Case Mod – I think this whole thing may have gone a wee bit too far

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 1 Comment

So some guy (Read: Eric Burke) decided to build a case/computer in dedication to the Open Handset Alliances’ new development platform known as Android. The logo for the platform is some Clip Art quality green robot and this PC essentially looks like the head of said robot.

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Intel Nehalem processors getting ‘Smackdown’

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 21st 2008 1 Comment

“Smackdown” is the codename for this motherboard that has been fitted for Nehalem processors. Nehalem is Intel’s next micro architecture for their processors and isn’t due out until much later this year.

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Spectrum ZX Laptop – blast from the past

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 20th 2008 No Comments

I am no computer historian but when the two computers that made up this beast are referred to as old and older, its pretty obvious this stuff is old. So some guy took a Spectrum ZX and a Toshiba Libretto 110 and smacked the two together.

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Alienware updates their Area51 line – now more NVIDIA-ish

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 20th 2008 No Comments

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.

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

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 18th 2008 No Comments

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.

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NVIDIA 790i SLI Ultra – has more radiator fins that my truck

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 18th 2008 No Comments

I know heat dispersion is a hard thing to control, furthermore, I know that the more power we give these chips, capacitors, and all that jazz, the hotter they get, but look at the picture below, at some point you just need to start bundling liquid cooling and give up on the conventional cooling methods. However, the features are strong with this one and it’s a badass motherboard.

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CoolIT Freezone Elite and Pure CPU coolers – they’re as cold as ice

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 4th 2008 No Comments

CoolIT is jumping on the ESA or Enthusiast System Architecture bandwagon and has already begun producing component under that architecture. Their first product is the Freezone Elite processor cooler that is a fully enclosed liquid cooling solution that connects to your AMD or Intel processor and then connect to the fan slot just above the backplane of your motherboard.