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Anandtech have a 320GB showdown between Seagate and Western Digital. What makes it interesting is that the Seagate drive is the first production model to use Perpendicular Recording. Simply put, during perpendicular recording the magnetization of the disc stands on end, perpendicular to the plane of the disc, instead of lying in the disc's plane as it does in current longitudinal recording. The data bits are then represented as regions of upward or downward directed magnetization points.
HKEPC have a flashback through Intel's desktop processors of the last 25 years, beginning with the 4004 and ending with Core 2 Duo.
Heh, seems Metallica are now OK with being on iTunes, despite previous concerns about internet availability of their songs. Fire bad!!!
Metku have a cool-but-kinda-pointless mod of a mobile phone LCD into a mouse. One can find LCDs and TFTs embedded to almost everything so why not inside a mouse.
BusinessWeek report on the Top 100 Brands in the world. Here's a look at the world's most valuable brands according to the latest BusinessWeek/Interbrand survey.
On a similar note, eWeek pick the top 25 tech products of the last 25 years.
Apparently the MSDN library is now free to download. Sure, the whole thing is available online and searchable, but I've always enjoyed having my local copy. It's much faster than going out to the web, plus the search isn't nearly as bad.
GamePC checked out NVIDIA's Quad SLI. A few weeks ago, nVidia released an official driver which allows for multiple GeForce 7950 GX2 cards to be run in a Quad-SLI configuration without the need for specialized hardware or software. As of today, this technology can be purchased by anyone with a big enough wallet.
FiringSquad have a report on Quad SLI performance too. Now that NVIDIA and Alienware have had a bit more time to work some of the bugs out of Quad SLI, a fully-equipped Alienware ALX Quad SLI system sits on our desk for testing. As a result, we figured this would be a good time to take another look at the platform.
We linked this earlier, but it's worth a closer look: PC Perspective reviewed a Core 2 Duo Mobile or "Merom" CPU. This new mobile CPU is the successor to the wildly successful Yonah Core Duo CPUs and comes with many new improvements including EM64T (Intel x86-64 extensions) for 64-bit processing.
Digit-Life examine how much a PC's video performance is CPU limited. Evidently, a weak CPU is unlikely to unveil all the video card's potentials. A contrary example - a powerful CPU with the explicitly weak video subsystem is unlikely to enjoy the high-quality picture.
While we're having a Tomcat day, these two pics are from Wishywashy: Took these two photos on my vacation to Corpus Christi, TX. It's of a F-14 on board the USS Lexington.
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