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This probably won't affect many of you, but its interesting news nonetheless (especially for nostalgic older geeks like me). Hyperion Entertainment has released the final build of AmigaOS 4.0. "Originally released in May of 2004, Amiga OS 4.0 is the most stable, modern and feature-rich...
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Want to see some more screenshots of what is probably the most hotly anticipated PC game on the horizon? Yeah, we do too! Thankfully, incrysis.com has a trio of new screenshots of Crysis on-line for our viewing pleasure. "inCrysis & Crytek have a small Christmas present :) Three...
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Your hard drive is talking to your PC chassis in eSATA, and the manufacturers of computers have gotten the idea you'd like to talk that way too without climbing inside the box. Hello eSATA port! Goodbye USB? "Definitely in 2007, you'll...
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There are some very bad people out there in the world. But it goes beyond bad to put malicious code onto Santa Claus' .net webpage. "Nestled all snug in the bottom of his home page...
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Got that Xbox 360 Santa dropped down the chimney revved-up on Gears of War? Or perhaps your tennis elbow is acting up again, after years of dormancy, due to a little too much Wii-laxing? It's all about the consoles this year it seems. And if you weren't careful you might...
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Hello everyone! And a Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating the holiday, from all of us here at HotHardware.com. Most of the crew will be spending time with family and friends tonight and tomorrow, but we'll check in with a tid-bit or two to keep your appetite for technology satiated. For now, we've got something fun...
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Having just gone out for some last minute stocking stuffers for my significant (very significant if I know what's good for me) other, I can totally relate to this headline and story. I purchased 6 cartridges in total for an HP Photosmart 8450 printer and it cost me over $170. Now mind you, the printer itself, almost a...
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The folks at DigiTimes had a conversation with Edward Chow of AMD/ATI, who seems to think that demand for DX10-class graphics cards won't pick up until mid-to-late next year. "With no boost from DirectX 10, the graphics card market will stay put in the first half of 2007, while watching Vista's acceptability, according to Chow. In the...
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Expect "not much" to happen after noontime in the cubicle farms. In office parks and skyscrapers all over the map, this afternoon is an opportunity for companies to disappoint and anger their employees with crummy gifts and alcohol-free office parties. Slate magazine asked for entries for their Corporate Scrooge contest, and boy,...
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What good is your HotHardware if you don't use it for nifty stuff? Bah spreadsheets! Hooray for Santa! And other than frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads, nothing is more high-tech than NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. You can track Santa's progress on NORAD radar right on your...
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Systems: Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet Review @ XYZ Computing Sony Vaio VGN-SZ3XP @ TrustedReviews CPU & Motherboard: ASRock 775Dual-VSTA @ Phoronix ASUS M2R32 MVP Motherboard @ LostCircuits Memory: PC2-6400 OCZ Special OPS Urban Elite Review @ hi-techreviews.com Buffalo Firestix PC6400 2x512MB RAM @ APH Networks Sound: Auzentech X-Meridian...
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The latest version of the Army's own FPS, America's Army, is out, bringing with it a tool to make your maps and missions. Along with the 2.08 update being released, the new Mission Depot is also available, allowing aspiring map creators to submit their work for review, with the chance of it becoming the next official mission distributed...
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Our friends at the Tech-Report have followed up their initial coverage of AMD's new 65nm Athlon 64 X2 processors with a deeper look into their performance. It turns out, the 65nm processors have higher latency access to their L2 cache, which hinders performance in some situations. ...
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Hello Everyone. We're just writing to let you all know that we've posted a new article where we evaluate the features and performance of HIS' Radeon X1950 Pro IceQ3 Turbo. Here's a snip from the piece: "Today, we will be looking at HIS' take on ATI's mid-range beast, the Radeon...
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ATI made quite a splash a few weeks ago, with the introduction of the Radeon X1950 Pro. The RV570 GPU at the heart of the X1950 card is manufactured on TSMC's 80nm node. It's equipped with 36 pixel shader processors, 8 vertex shader units and 12 texture units. ATI's reference design calls for a 575MHz GPU clock and with...
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Siemens AG has more than doubled the speed at which information can be sent over fiber-optic cable. And they did it in the real world; so it actually might translate into something useful almost right away for us poor, content hungry internauts. ...
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Phil Harrison of Sony was interviewed by MTV, and had a lot of interesting things to say about the PlayStation 3, and gaming in general. Harrison's not shy; he says the PS 3 architecture is so powerful, no one will ever use all the...
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"Today, we have our take on Dell's new UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC, a 92% color gamut capable LCD monitor. With a full thirty inches of screen real estate and a new W-CCFL (wide cold-cathode florescent lighting) backlight, the new HC revision of the 3007WFP is targeted at increasing image quality in an LCD that has already earned high marks in the...
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When you think of the "ultimate computer upgrade", visions of powerful graphics cards, a blistering fast CPU, a spacious-high density hard drive or perhaps another Gig or two of memory to feed your ever-hungry OS might come to mind. On the surface, these are all very reasonable...
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It looks like Intel will make their lower priced follow-up to the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor available soon. Like it's higher-clocked counterpart, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 will feature a 1066MHz FSB and 8MB of L2 cache (4MBx2). The processor will require 1.325v and it will have a 105W TDP. The 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600...
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Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a process for printing all sorts of components right on a substrate, one right over another, that could be used to fabricate electronic and optical devices inexpensively. And it...
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eeTimes has a fascinating look at whether bad web pages are bad for your physical and mental health. It seems that if the internet was a Post Office, poorly designed web pages would have us all "going postal." Or having "Mouse Rage Syndrome," anyway. ...
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