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HardwareZone has taken a look at the top 100 products of 2006. Notable mentions include Core 2 Duo, Seagate Barracuda and Dell Ultrasharp monitors. "The final chapter of 2006 is almost ending, but reflecting back, it has been an exciting year for consumers with new hardware platforms penetrating all segments of electronics."
This article takes a look at hard drive coolers and if they are really nessecary. "With all those crazy high-speed CPUs and GPUs out there, one area of cooling tends to be taken for granted or forgotten: Hard Drives. Is it worth going around and installing fans and coolers onto them to drop those few degrees? What about the noise? Let's find out!"
Intel's Core 2 Duo line up is set to expand next year. "The possibility of twelve Core 2 Duo processors clocked between 1.8GHz and 3.0GHz does make picking the right processor difficult. Currently with just four options the choices are rather obvious."
Karl has sent in word of a Transformers movie of which the preview can be viewed here. "ZOMG TRANSFORMERS, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!!1!"
From Daniel: This lengthy document looks into the hardware costs of Windows Vista's DRM. "Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost."
Hexus has taken a look at the people who are giving up their privacy by using social networking sites. "Prof. Nigel Smart of the Computer Science Department at the University of Bristol has expressed his concern at the worrying trend of people giving up their privacy on the internet via social networking websites. He told HEXUS: "I am concerned that from some of the posts I have seen, by colleagues, students and others, that there is a deep societal problem emerging of people giving up their privacy without realising it"."
This article takes a look at planning computer configurations for tasks. "Computer experts all around the world would be thrilled if all computers would do all tasks equally well, if all configurations were perfect for all tasks. Unfortunately, a basic home computer would be ill-suited to work as a data center, just as using a gaming configuration for office work would be a pretty big waste of money. The reason is pretty obvious - you definitely don’t need a DX10 card on something that’s going to run Word and Excel, and you can’t really expect a machine with integrated graphics to run a 2007 edition game."
Todays timewaster(s) can be found here. Games include a funky keyboard game here.
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