Archive for July, 2006

OCZ and Wal-Mart Ink a Deal

Earlier in the week OCZ, maker of high performance RAM modules, signed a deal with Wal-Mart. This deal will make OCZ products available online at walmart.com. Besides the exposure that OCZ will gain from joining up with Wal-Mart I don’t know what they will gain. Wal-Mart has never been a good venue to purchase electronics [...]

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 [...]

2 Cores Not Enough? How about 32?

In June I heard that Intel has a working sample of Kentsfield, it’s new quad-core processor. Kentsfield was just another bump in Intel’s product line as it simply combined two Conroe’s together just like the Pentium D (Presler) simple combined two Cedar Mill processors together. Now Intel has announced that they are aiming at [...]

Firefox 2 Enters Beta

A few months ago Firefox 2, also known as Bon Echo, was released as an Alpha stage product and I was very impressed with the improvements performed on the browser. Now Bon Echo has been released as a Beta stage product meaning there are still bugs and this isn’t a final product but it is [...]