Archive for June, 2008

Hardware Recommendations for June 2008

I believe it’s been a lengthy 5 months since I’ve slapped together one of these guides. I’d say I’m a bit overdue, so here we go.

Anandtech Previews Intel’s Nehalem

I just feel obligated to call to everyones attention that Nehalem looks to be a multi-threaded monster. While at Computex in Taiwan, Anandtech managed to snag two Nehalem systems, one at 2.66Ghz and one at 2.93GHz. Using pre-production boards with some serious bugs slightly impacted the scores recorded but even with these penalties, Nehalem bested [...]

Time Warner Cable Stiffles The Internet

Al Gore invented the Internet, we all know that. We also know that the Internet is a series of tubes and we can’t continue to clog these tubes. Time Warner has decided to start testing a system that financially punishes those users that heavily utilize the Internet in a move to manage traffic increases. Typically [...]

A Week’s Worth of Progress Post-Robbery

Woohoo! I think that just about summarizes my current emotions. It’s been one hectic week and I don’t think I’ve ever moved/coordinated/arranged/fixed so much stuff in such a short period of time. For the duration of the summer all my basic needs are taken care of, which is great news. I’m not going to lie, [...]