• htpc software

    Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related Then you will want to look at building an HTPC around Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005. MCE 2005 is a copy of Windows XP SP2 and a PVR/media center rolled into one. MCE requires a fairly new…

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  • Flash Drives

    “Flash Drive Review”:http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/usb-flash-roundup.html and X-bit labs – Articles – Five Flash Drives with USB 2.0 Interface (page 6). A good review of flash drives if older 2003 review. The net is that drives have very different performance depending on the speed of the flash they use. Most are 8-10MBps whereas…

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  • GamePC – Battle at 90nm : Power Consumption and Performance Compared Our Doom3 benchmarks show the “Winchester” Athlon64 in a more positive light, besting the “Dothan” Pentium-M by an advantage of about a single processor speed grade. The opposite is seen in Far Cry, where the Pentium-M bests the Athlon64…

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  • Office 2003

    JR.com: MICROSOFT Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition in Office Productivity Suites:. _If you’ve got kids, here’s a very affordable way to get Office 2003. For $130, you get a copy of Office that can legally be installed on three machines. That’s a big discount over Office 2003 Standard and…

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  • Terapeak

    Terapeak: eBay Marketplace Research. A pretty amazing site. This is a research database of what is actually selling on ebay. BTW while we are at it, check out our “ebay”:http://stores.ebay.com/Marketing-Playbook to get autographed copies of the Marketing Playbook. Category Research Understand category patterns & make informed decisions.

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  • Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 :: SilentPCReview.com Arctic Cooling’s Silentium series represents one of the most dramatic adaptations of the ATX case standard we have seen so far. With the power supply mounted vertically at the front of the case and the main air intake through the back and bottom, the…

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  • Creative Zen Micro

    X-bit labs – Articles – ZEN Micro: New Digital Player from Creative Reviewed. Well it ain’t as beautiful as an iPod Mini, but at least someone is trying. It is a 5GB device that weighs 108 grams (thats less than 4 ounces for you Americans ;-). They liked the product,…

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  • iSCSI for home

    Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Flexible Data Storage Across Networks: iSCSI put to the Test – Conclusion: Golden Times Ahead For ISCSI. Call me crazy, but the idea of iSCSI in your home seems like an incredibly good idea. The costs are not nearly as high as I would have…

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  • Moore's Law is Ending

    AnandTech: The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: “Is the single core CPU doomed?”. _For the old computer system engineer in me, I just love Anandtech, they don’t pull any punches in explaining what is going on. Here is a great piece about why performance is slowing down so…

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  • Pentium M Review

    AnandTech: Intel’s Pentium M on the Desktop – A Viable Alternative? Does the Pentium M have what it takes to be as competitive on the desktop as it is in the mobile sector? Now that the first desktop Pentium M motherboards are shipping, that’s why this review is here -…

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