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- Poll: What will be the best PC game of the season?
It's that time of year again. Days are shorter, the weather is colder, folks are putting up decorations and prepping for the holiday shopping rush, and a new batch of games is coming out. Well, unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case you're probably enjoying long, warm...
Poll Question: • What will be the best PC game of the season?
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Last by zima at 9:38 AM on 11/16/09 - Poll: Are you upgrading to Windows 7?
So, Windows 7 is finally out in stores. What does this mean for TR gerbils? Are our trusty readers rushing to upgrade, or are they biding their time? A number of you must already be running pre-release versions of the OS. Perhaps you've even gotten hold of the release-to-manufacturing build...
Poll Question: • When are you upgrading to Windows 7?
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Last by Voldenuit at 8:43 AM on 10/29/09 - Poll: The dominant removable storage medium in 2014
Floppy drives took years to disappear from pre-built PCs. These days, optical drives are starting to fade from many machines, especially laptops of the ultraportable variety. Unless they want to watch a good DVD, users seem more content shuffling data around on USB thumb drives, SD cards, and through the...
Poll Question: • What will be the dominant removable storage medium in five years?
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Last by sigher at 4:06 PM on 09/15/09 - Poll: What are you most looking forward to?
Looking at the latest roadmaps, both official and not, it's hard to be indifferent about the wave of shiny new products coming this year. We can look forward to Windows 7, of course, but also Intel Lynnfield processors, consumer ultraportables and netbooks loaded up with Win7, and quite possibly
Poll Question: • What are you most looking forward to?
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Last by paulWTAMU at 12:46 PM on 08/24/09 - Poll: Will Chrome OS stand a chance against Windows 7 next year?
So, it's official. Google will release an operating system for x86 netbooks next year. Chrome OS will be based on a Linux kernel and will (apparently) be little more than a platform for the Chrome web browser and standards-based web applications. Already, a number of netbook makers—Acer, Asus, HP,...
Poll Question: • Will Chrome OS stand a chance against Windows 7 next year?
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Last by PeterD at 7:32 AM on 07/13/09 - Poll: Do you have an iPhone, or are you getting one soon?
With the iPhone OS 3.0 out, the iPhone 3G now down to $99, and the iPhone 3G S due tomorrow, one would expect many people to be contemplating an upgrade—either from an older iPhone or from a competing device. That bit of speculation has led us to formulate a new...
Poll Question: • Do you have an iPhone?
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Last by Da_Boss at 8:29 PM on 06/23/09 - Poll: How much did your motherboard cost?
Pay a premium for a better processor or graphics card, and there's a good chance you'll get better performance in return. Do the same when buying a motherboard, and the benefits may be harder to quantify. Generally speaking, motherboard pricing tends to be tied to features—be it extra Serial ATA...
Poll Question: • How much did your mobo cost when you bought it?
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Last by Cannyone at 2:46 PM on 05/23/09 - Poll: How will Windows 7 compare?
The positive hype surrounding Windows 7 seems almost as fervent as the negative reactions to Vista. Apparently, Microsoft's next operating system will fix all of Vista's ills with improved performance, less bloat, and better polish, finally giving Redmond an OS to be proud of again. What's not to like? Dissenters are...
Poll Question: • Once Windows 7 is released, the best desktop OS will be:
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Last by Vrock at 6:59 PM on 05/18/09 - Poll: Does Intel's Atom provide a good user experience?
Intel's Atom processor took the world of low-cost PCs by storm last year, and it's accelerated the decline of traditional systems with more expensive, mainstream CPUs—not to mention the decline of PC makers' profit margins. But its popularity raises an important question: is the Atom really fast enough to...
Poll Question: • What do you think of the user experience on Atom-based systems?
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Last by JustAnEngineer at 5:57 AM on 04/26/09 - Poll: If you were building a PC now, what socket would you choose?
In both our latest system guide and our processor value comparo, we pointed out that AMD's Socket AM2+ and AM3 platforms actually have a better upgrade path than their direct competition. Intel is about to switch sockets for its mainstream processors, leaving LGA775 in the dust. AMD's Phenom II...
Poll Question: • If you were building yourself a PC now, what socket would you choose?
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Last by pullmyfoot at 10:28 AM on 04/19/09 - Poll: Your take on Nvidia's mobile GPU branding
If you didn't know any better, you might think Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 280M and 260M graphics processors were mobile versions of the similarly named desktop parts. As we explained early this morning, though, that's just not the case: both mobile offerings are based on the same 55nm G92b...
Poll Question: • Renaming the G92 GPU as a mobile GeForce GTX 280M is:
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Last by StuG at 5:40 PM on 03/23/09 - Poll: One last netbook question
Yes, we've already done a netbook survey, but you know how those things go—some great addition can come to mind a little while after the fact, when it's too late to make changes. Since our front page poll also needed an update, though, we decided to indulge ourselves. Our last...
Poll Question: • My netbook is:
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Last by ChangWang at 12:50 PM on 02/04/09 - Survey: Your netbook and you (or other people)
Netbooks seem to be everywhere lately, and some analysts expect hardware makers to ship about 35 million of them this year alone. Considering the state of the economy, that's not entirely surprising, either—decent 9" netbooks can be had for as little as ~$330, and they can fill in...
Poll Questions: • Do you own a netbook, or have you purchased/helped someone purchase a netbook in the past year? • Which company made the netbook you bought? • Who is the primary user of the netbook you bought? • Is the primary user male or female? • What is the netbook's primary use? • Aside from price, what were the most important features you considered in your netbook purchase? • Aside from price, what feature would you consider most important in a future netbook purchase or upgrade?
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Last by zima at 9:50 PM on 01/31/09 - Poll: What kind of keyboard do you prefer?
In light of our latest keyboard review, it seems only appropriate to ask: what kinds of keyboards do TR readers favor? We've put up a new poll to quiz you on that very subject. Do you like your keyboards with as many extra buttons, knobs, switches, and dials as...
Poll Question: • Poll: What kind of keyboard do you prefer?
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Last by floodo1 at 12:21 AM on 01/28/09 - Poll: What's the best PC game of 2008?
Say what you will about the latest AMD and Nvidia graphics cards; most folks use them for the same purpose: playing games. With the year practically over, we've put up a new poll asking what you think is the best PC game of 2008. Has a big blockbuster like Fallout...
Poll Question: • What's the best PC game of 2008?
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Last by Pax-UX at 8:21 AM on 01/10/09 - Poll: How will the Phenom II do against the competition?
Now that we've taken a look at the performance of AMD's 45nm Opterons, we can better guess how upcoming Phenom II processors will do against Intel's Core i7 processors—not too well. The dice haven't been cast yet, however, and AMD could still get Phenom IIs to perform unexpectedly well...
Poll Question: • AMD's Phenom II processor will:
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Last by danny e. at 4:50 PM on 12/09/08 - Poll: At what clock speed does your main PC's CPU run?
Our PCs all have different processors with different numbers of cores, different cache sizes, and different architectures. Right now, however, one factor can determine everyday performance more than others: clock speed. With inflated Pentium 4-era speeds now far behind, a look at a modern desktop or notebook CPU's clock speed...
Poll Question: • At what clock speed does your main PC's CPU run?
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Last by pixel_junkie at 9:42 AM on 12/29/08 - Poll: What's the best netbook?
We don't have to spell it out for you at this point: the netbook market is getting very crowded, with dozens of contenders from Acer, Asus, Everex, Dell, HP, MSI, and other firms fighting it out in the $250-600 range. We shared our preferences in our back-to-school netbook guide...
Poll Question: • What's the best netbook?
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Last by xtian24 at 4:18 AM on 08/10/09
