Archive for July, 2006

My look at the future

Monday Intel officially unveiled its newest line of processors, the Core 2 Duo. It looks like Intel will also be launching Merom, the mobile variant of Conroe, during the middle of August. If I remember correctly Merom was about 25% more efficient, clock for clock, when compared to the Core Duo. With healthy price cuts, [...]

One Percent Rule and Digg.com

Late last week I was cruising around Digg.com and I picked up an article talking about how the top 100 Digg users submit over half the content to Digg.com. When I read through the article I couldn’t help but going “duh”. On Thursday I found another post that discussed a very familiar topic called the [...]

Review: ICY DOCK MB122 Internal Enclosure

Generally when someone mentions hard drive enclosures I associate this phrase with plastic external enclosures with USB or Firewire connections. What I don’t think of is a 5.25″ bay hard drive enclosure like the item I have to review today. The people of ICY DOCK sent me one of their single bay enclosures for review, [...]

A Look into Vista Part I

I really haven’t spent a lot of time talking about Vista as Conroe has been on my mind but I decided to take a step back and give Vista a little bit of my attention. To some people Vista is just another bump in the operating system road but for others Vista is a new [...]

Want a PS3? You may have to wait even longer

It looks like the super chip from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba may actually be too complex to easily manufacture. Since each Cell processor contains a single controlling Power Processor Element and then 8 “Synergistic Processor Elements” or SPEs there are a lot of places were mistakes can be made in the manufacturing process. With a [...]

Review: Antec Super Lanboy

A case is the shell that protects your computer from the rough real world. Computer cases come in all sorts of sizes, colors, fashions, and materials. In this particular review I will be looking over the Antec Super LanBoy. My current case happens to also be an Antec, the Performance TX server case, but this [...]