I am sure this is a question that was asked many a time and a real solid answer is deserved, but was never given.  Somewhere in early summer things slowed down more than usual for the site.
There were many factors involved in this, but none so great as the fact that our physical lives took [...]

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Tom’s Hardware has posted its monthly “Best Video Cards for the Money” list, and for the first time in recent memory, AMD is pretty much unanimously preferred across the board.
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Note: Author is a recent convert to Vista, who was very hesitant to switch from XP.
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It has been more than a full year since Microsoft’s revolutionary operating system was available to the masses. Harsh reviews, astounding features, and a lot of troubles, it is still seen as the dark horse amongst most users. Even among power users, Vista is looked down upon. Dissecting the features of Vista, and noting considerable [...]

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A continuation of my rant about problems with the hardware review industry. Please read the first part first, or you will have no idea what is going on in this one.
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To those called out in this rant: don’t take it the wrong way. I’m going after the core of the problem here, not it’s vehicles.
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My Samsung 17″ LCD I’ve been running for years has recently started experiencing random backlight flickering issues. Besides the fact that running 1280 x 1024 with an eVGA 8800GTX made no sense, I was tasked with finding a suitable 24″ LCD that was first person shooter friendly.
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Last Thursday, Major Nelson released his weekly top Xbox Live Activity List and to no one’s surprise Rez HD was atop the Xbox Live Arcade chart.
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Today, the Cairo Development Team announced they’ve reached their first milestone in the development process of their Windows shell alternative. Ever since I laid my eyes on a computer I’ve been interested in human-computer interaction since it has the most profound effect on the users perception on how they work with a system.
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Here is something you probably didn’t know about reviewing hardware: benchmarking sucks.
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Within the next month or so we will be on the verge of another Intel chip release, the mid to low range Yorkfields. AMD just released their Phenom chips (Barcelona), and while they are solid performers and with some price adjustments they could be competitive, they aren’t really the Intel [...]

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Hopefully by the time you guys read this it’s not beyond trivial but I do want to thank all of you readers out there for your support. Not just as me being on staff but as a individual also.
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