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Continue reading →: HP L2335 Monitor
The folks at “Anandtech”:http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467&p=9. They really liked the image quality and said although more expensive than the comparable Dell 2405FPW which has a street of $800 while this has a street more like “$1100”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__HP_Hewlett_Packard_L2335_Silver_23_LCD_Monitor,__8222432/sort_type=bottomline. The panel in HP is the L.G. Philips SIPS while Dell uses the Samsung PVA panel.…
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Continue reading →: Shanghai
Ok, so if you want the ultimate in a good experience while traveling to Shanghai, my buddy Gary filled me in: Pudong Shangri-la. This hotel is right on the new side of town, the Pudong (literally East River) side, great views, and a incredible rooms. Beside the rooms, it has…
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Continue reading →: OMG Hitachi 7K500
Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K500 hard drive – The Tech Report – Page 1. My newegg order got bounced but I’m sure glad. I had ordered a 300MB Maxtor, but now with the 500GB coming out, you really have to wonder. It is incredibly fast and alarge. A pair of these is…
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Continue reading →: MilesAway
United Airlines – MilesAway! Redeem your miles for these exciting destinations.. Smart idea on United’s part, they now have a dedicated page that will tell you where there are current Award travel seats, so you don’t have to figure out. For instance, in the Pacific, New York to Tokyo
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Continue reading →: Speakeasy
Speakeasy – Speed Test. Speakeasy is a great ISP that is dedicated to power users and small business. Reminds me a lot of the early Dell model where the point was to get 2nd users of PCs to get the right computer. Dell has of course come far from there…
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Continue reading →: Sumicom S600 follow-ons
I built a “Sumicom S600”:http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h419.htm a while back and Grace uses it now. It has worked pretty well. The main issues have been that it is still quite noisy even with the tunable fan I installed and it runs very hot even with a relatively low power Pentium 4 2.53…
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Continue reading →: Arrggh Brother
Brother International – Service Center Locator to support your Brother Product. I knew when I bought this printer that I might have issue. It was between an HP networked laser printer and a Brother DL5170DN, the Brother was just so much cheaper. Well, shame on me, this is the second…





