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Thursday, 12-July-2007 18:23:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's been some more "Will It Blend?" videos published on YouTube. I particularly like the iPhone and glow stick ones.
Here's a funny setup that lets you experience third person perspective while walking around, thanks Marc. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.
Bit-Tech have a group test of 900W to 1100W power supplies. None of the PSUs we've looked at are perfect, even the recommended Tagan comes short by not including the 8-pin PCI-Express connectors and as stated, even the perfectly featured Enermax is "noisy", heavy and physically huge. Virtually all the tests performed extremely well with only a couple of cases dropping outside of ATX spec and the OCZ at 100 percent load falling below 80 percent efficiency.
LegionHW compared the Intel Celeron 440 vs. AMD Sempron 3600+ in the value CPU arena. Both processors are clocked at 2.0GHz, but the Celeron has a distinct advantage, featuring twice as much L2 cache. So on paper the Celeron 440 looks to be the more powerful processor, but how will the Celeron stack up again the Sempron when it comes to gaming?
From John: BBC News is carrying a piece by SF writer Charles Stross in which he suggests that almost all human experiences will be recorded in the future, because of the increasing cheapness of data storage, and the ease of collection. "Don't we have history already, you ask? Well actually, we don't. We know much less about our ancestors than our descendants will know about us."
A few people sent word that the ACCC is taking Google to court. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges Trading Post Australia, Google Ireland, Google Australia and Google Inc. were misleading in the search engine’s “sponsored links” section. Discussion thread for this topic here.
Here's an interesting video from Craig, which shows how Dell are moving away from the "closed box" mentality - it's a video showing how to upgrade the motherboard in an XPS 700 unit, turning it into an XPS 720. To help with that, I asked Russell Thompson, who is one of our Worldwide Service Program Managers for XPS, to walk folks through the actual upgrade process. He starts with an XPS 700 unit, and goes through all the steps required to remove the XPS 700 motherboard and upgrades it to the an XPS 720 using the hardware kit that you will receive.
Microsoft are apparently extending the XBOX360 warranty to 3 years for all units, thanks Dan. Then last week Microsoft abruptly announced that it would set aside between $1.05bn and $1.15bn, charged against the just-finished 2007 fiscal year, to cover the costs of extending the warranty for every machine from one to three years, and to fix the many which show the "red ring of death" - three red lights on the front panel control ring, indicating a general hardware failure.
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