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Philip sent in this about Bluesmurf's Imperator casemod, it seems it is getting a bit of attention on a few tech websites. More info here. Behold, the Imperator, a meter-long PC case mod in the shape of an Imperial Class Star Destroyer (that technically makes it 1/1600th scale, fanboys). Instead of the usual turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, and tractor beam projectors, this warship boasts a 3GHz Pentium 4, an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, and a 36 GB Western Digital hyperdrive…er, hard drive. How quaint.
Greg sent in this link about Folding on the PS3 which could perform 20 - 30 times better than a PC. Officials from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Stanford University's Folding@home program met on the college campus and announced that the long-hyped PS3 program that will crunch data on disease is set to go live at the end of the month. "It's really a perfect fit for us because it lets us apply our technological advancement to something that is so good and so important," said Richard Marks, senior researcher with Sony Computer Entertainment America. "One of the main reasons we're here today is just kind of a call to action to PlayStation 3 owners."
Check out this video of an interesting interface. Imagine you’re at another Pentagon briefing and the program manager throws up one of those “death-by-PowerPoint” presentations - an “eye chart” that taxes your patience and makes your lids droop. Now imagine if the presenter used this technology to spice up the briefing…
Sandisk has launched a 32 Gigabyte Solid State Drive. SanDisk has announced a new entry in its line-up of flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs), the SSD SATA 5000, a 32 GB 2.5-inch hard drive designed to function as a drop-in replacement for traditional 2.5-inch hard drives in notebooks and other computer systems.
Intel is launching a classmate PC in Chile similar to the OLPC. ClassMate PC is the portable computer rival of the XO of foundation OLPC, and this designed to be used by students of basic education and average. On the inside it is a Celeron-M of 900MHz, 2GB of storage in hard disk of type flash, 256MB of ram, screen LCD of 7 " and connectivity to networks as much you distill like wireless. As far as the intangible thing, this equipment is compatible with Linux and Windows. All this comes in a robust packing with a single weight of 1.3 kilograms.
This guy thinks DX10 will not be Vista only. But frankly upgrading an operating system just to be able to play a few games would be a bit much to swallow for most gamers, especially the budget conscious ones. That’s right, games aren’t exactly cheap either, but at least most gamers don’t have an issue with paying for those. Paying a minimum $200 price premium for a Vista upgrade is more than a bit over budget for most though. Especially if they’ve just bought that brand-new DirectX 10 graphics card after slaving away at the local 7-11 for months.
Internode has taken a look at the Sauber-BMW F1 Simulator. I think there are two things you need to have in a good racing simulator: a good game to play and a way to immerse you into that game. In May 2006 Image Space Incorporated, BMW and Intel announced they had turned an exceptionally accurate racing simulator into a game - the PC speed monkeys out there would know it as the popular "rFactor" title. (For those who aren't familiar, rFactor is a free, highly-configurable racing simulator that took PC racing by storm over the last year with its new level of realism and map detail. It currently includes 12 tracks many of which are measured using GPS systems and 13 highly accurate cars, from F1 to Rally.) That makes up the software part of the simulator.
Todays timewaster is from Yonas who has sent in Sphere, a point and click adventure game where the aim is to get out of the room.
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