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- Remembering the Gotbyte incident
During this celebration of our 10th anniversary, it seems only fitting to look back on a fun episode from our long-ago past. Back when the Pentium 4 was the new hotness, only not quite the hotness it became with Prescott at 90 nm, we featured a review of...
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Last by AmishRakeFight at 6:02 PM on 11/18/09 - iLove you, iLove you not
Let me say up front that I am torn, like Natalie Imbruglia but without the naked floor writhing, by the new Verizon campaign for the Droid. Which is a phone that has long been sold exclusively to the moisture farmers of Tatooine. The campaign, which is meant to launch Motorola's...
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Last by JustAnEngineer at 11:04 AM on 11/21/09 - Shooting my way through Borderlands
"Okay, just one more mission..." That phrase usually preceded me going to bed far too late through most of last week. Yes, I was bitten by the Borderlands bug. For a total of around 20 hours across a few evenings, I shot, electrocuted, set on fire, disintegrated, and drove through...
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Last by lilbuddhaman at 7:41 PM on 11/16/09 - Apple declares 2009 done
Sorry, Mac fans and foes alike, but it looks like you'll have nothing to celebrate/desecrate until the clock strikes midnight on December 31 and finally rings in a decade without the ridiculous nomenclature of "The Aughts." A couple of things happened within the last week or so that tell me...
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Last by d0g_p00p at 9:32 PM on 11/16/09 - Tech Share moves forward thanks to large donation
Earlier this year we shared how the students at Ebenezer Educational Center have been able to spend some time with the Eee PCs you helped us procure and ship half way around the globe. Although they've been using them on an occasional basis, daily access was not...
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Last by FireGryphon at 5:01 AM on 10/30/09 - Partly made on a Mac
This week, The MacHole is going international. No, not to the House of Pancakes, but to Vancouver, British Columbia. Which is neither part of Britain or Columbia, but is instead located in America's main source for sketch comedians and semi-punk pop stars, Canada. And it's flippin' beautiful here. Let's just hope...
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Last by fdman at 12:51 PM on 11/13/09 - What about Symbian?
I love my Nokia E71x cell phone. There, I said it. Question me all you want, but I've tried everything else out there and stuck with Nokia. I've used the iPhone—almost half of my co-workers and even my mom has one. I've used Android on both the G1 and myTouch, and...
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Last by zima at 8:05 PM on 11/15/09 - An upgrade tale 2: upgrade harder
So, almost three years had passed since my last major system upgrade—downright shameful negligence for someone in this line of work, clearly. I won't rant about diminishing returns all over again (that was last month's topic), but suffice it to say I remained largely satisfied with my Core...
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Last by Left_SHifted at 3:58 PM on 10/25/09 - Cupertino Bong Water™—ask for it by name
So here's what usually goes down in my adhole (that would be my office) on the day of an Official Apple Event Sponsored by Apple and Brought to You by Apple in Cooperation with Steve Jobs and His Amazing Technicolor Imagineered Liver of Doom: I bring my lunch, fire up...
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Last by Rakhmaninov3 at 9:23 PM on 10/01/09 - Chance to win a Core i7 gaming PC
Intel and a couple of its system-building partners are going out of their way to make this week's launch extra special. CyberPower and iBuypower are giving away a handful of well-outfitted PCs based on the new Core i7-870 CPUs. The best news is that one of these systems...
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Last by khands at 11:10 AM on 11/06/09 - Diggin' out
So, yeah. I've been living with Mac OS X 10.6—aka Snow Leopard—for a week now. The short review is this: If you're not reviewing (or quasi-kinda-sorta-reviewing) operating systems for publication on the interlubes or in glossy rags that people read at Borders but don't actually buy anymore, then feel free...
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Last by Nitrodist at 12:27 PM on 10/16/09 - It's a mad, mad Internet
A relative recently created OddNod.com, which showcases unique social media profiles. My favorite is a Facebook group called "The Bertrand Russell group for people who aren't a member of any group." Once you join, you're automatically expelled. So is this web 3.0, or beyond? Have we gone a bit...
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Last by pikaporeon at 4:04 PM on 09/09/09 - A few podcast scheduling notes - Updated
I'm sitting in front of my laptop, looking at hours and hours of audio I recorded while covering MSI's Master Overclocking Arena 2009 event in Beijing, China. With these recordings, I intend to compose a thrilling audio essay chronicling the exciting ins and outs of the overclocking event as well...
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Last by SAMSAMHA at 5:07 PM on 09/10/09 - So that's why it only costs $29
Last Saturday, I decided to head down to my local Apple reseller and grab a copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The new operating system costs €29 here in France, but the clerk told me that, because of a fault in the store's pricing database, I would only...
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Last by derFunkenstein at 3:03 PM on 09/14/09 - It's addictive, but is it fun?
I made a dreadful mistake a week ago. With my Radeon HD 4870 in MSI's hands in City of Industry, my desktop has been cheerfully running on a Radeon HD 4670. The 4670 is a beast for what it is, and miraculously, a bunch of my games play perfectly fine...
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Last by kamikaziechameleon at 10:09 AM on 09/26/09 - Contemplating SpeedStep and Cool'n'Quiet in performance testing
Howdy all. I've been hard at work in Damage Labs setting up new test systems with Windows 7. This is a particularly agonizing chore for me, because I want to be sure to set up everything properly and perfectly the same (as much as possible) between the different systems. Also,...
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Last by derFunkenstein at 8:08 PM on 09/14/09 - Waiting for the blizzard; mmm, Dairy Queen
As I clickety-click-clack out this blog post, I am only a scant 48 hours away from receiving a shiny new box from the FedEx man. This box will contain Macintosh OS X version 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, aka Barry. Anticipation for Barry the Snow Leopard runs high throughout...
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Last by ThorAxe at 7:09 AM on 08/31/09 - Gearing up for Lynnfield and Win7
The advent of new mainstream CPUs from Intel and a major (and promising) new release of Windows has us reworking all of our CPU test rigs in Damage Labs, in preparation for a busy period of testing. After using the same basic hardware and software on...
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Last by Clint Torres at 6:31 PM on 08/31/09
