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I was cruising the Internet before I dropped off my research paper that I’ve been hacking out over the last week and I noticed that Engadget had a very interesting article on a new computer from Hewlett Packard. About two years ago I had written off HP as something to be consumed by Dell or to gracefully fall off the face of the planet but it looks like they are still cranking out computers and printers and this particular piece of hardware looks like it might actually have a market.

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For roughly the last 6 months or so Intel has been confidently sitting on the performance crown in computing. The Core 2 Duo architecture has proven to be both highly efficient and capable of scaling very well and when compared to AMD’s K8 architecture there simply is no contest in regards to performance. The next revision of Intel’s lineup will feature quad-core processors that combine two Core 2 Duos onto a single package in a similar manner to the early Pentium D’s of the Netburst era.

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Earlier this week I wrote a piece about Black Friday and I hope you guys enjoyed it. Now I am sitting here outside of Circuit City, it is 3am, and I am freezing. Luckily I have coffee, free wifi from Atlanta Bread Company, and I’ve got a few friends around me. I hope everyone has had a happy Turkey Day with lots of pumpkin pie and other yummy delights. That’s about it from here right now, hopefully I’ll manage to snag the 225BW widescreen that I’m camping out for, it is amazing how many people are out here. Saturday Georgia Tech will be playing the University of Georgia, I highly suggest you guys check it out and cheer on the Yellowjackets, if anything do it out of blogger readership loyalty! I finally got all the parts to finish up my phase cooler PLUS Gigabyte just released a bios fix for my motherboard so I should hopefully have some new results and try my hand at a few world records if the board doesn’t hold me back more. Thanks for sticking around guys, happy holidays!

Over the last week people have been standing in line for lots of things, the Wii and PlayStation3 being most noticeable. While these two new consoles created quite a commotion they will pale in comparison to my favorite holiday, Black Friday. In the past, Black Friday was traditionally the day that companies records went “into the black” meaning they started cutting profits after paying off the bills and debts from the previous fiscal year. Now Black Friday is more of a deal shoppers utopia as all sorts of objects go on sale with huge coupons and rebates making it the perfect day to shop for Christmas gifts, especially for your local tech geek.

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Moore’s law is constantly mentioned whenever progress comes up in regards to computing. This simple law roughly states that computing power doubles every 18 months. Power consumption has followed in the steps of computing power and I would like to say it peaked 4 years ago or so with the onset of the Netburst(Pentium 4) architecture. Now that doesn’t make much sense, does it? Power consumption has continued to rise, so how could it have peaked years ago? One simple performance per watt PER core.

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There has been a lot of buzz lately about advertisers using bloggers to push their products. This single topic has managed to create quite a lot of uproar as some people view this form as advertising as selling out while others view this as an alternate source of income. Just this past week a new company has entered the fray, ReviewMe. Unlike previous forms of advertising that relied on banners, bars, text areas, and images, ReviewMe takes the advertising out of the hands of the advertiser and puts it in the hands of the blogger. ReviewMe features a “pay-per-post” style with the ability for bloggers and advertisers alike to browse through the collection of blogs that have signed up for the service.

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In the past Nvidia has always struggled to compete with Intel chipsets in regards to chipset performance and overclocking. With the launch of the Core 2 Duo processor line and the shoddily created Nforce 5 chipset for Intel processors Nvidia seemed to seal their fate for the future on Intel chips. The Nforce 5 chipset was essentially a spruced up Nforce 4 and it offered pathetic overclocking capabilities with most boards topping out with a meager 25% overclock. Compared to Intel’s 975x and 965P chipsets pushing pasted 80% average overclocks, Nvidia looked to be down for the count. However just in the nick of time, Nvidia has released the 680i chipset with phenomenal results.

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With the advent of the Internet and directed advertising the daily computer user is constantly assaulted with advertisements to buy various products and services. Directed advertising has nearly become synonymous with the Internet and more specifically Google ad-words and I will admit that occasionally advertising has been effective in my purchases. The secret to advertising lies in the fact that the advertisement must not be annoying, obstruct my view, and above all not piss me off. The age of the pop-up advertisement seems to have slowly passed however a new market is opening up, the video game.

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