Tech News
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The Laws of Cartoon Physics
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | By: DennisFor those of us that grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons you have undoubtedly seen everything on this page in one form or another.
"Everything falls faster than an anvil.
Examples too numerous to mention from the Roadrunner cartoons."
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Phjear my Almost Lack of News
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | By: DennisNews should be posted shortly.
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Lindows Strikes Back
Published: Monday, March 3, 2003 | By: Dennis"Lindows.com Inc. has raised the ire and the litigation of Microsoft Corp. with its Windows-like name. While the companies continue to wrangle over trade dress issues, Lindows.com has secured a court order to force Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of evidence, including evidence produced during the 1992 case between Apple and Microsoft that tread over similar ground. "
Some Pro Mac and Pro Linux users will find this of interest though I think the fight is a losing battle considering that Lindows isn't really that powerful. Slack and KDE is a better solution IMO. -
Crappy Cooler Review @ Dan's Data
Published: Monday, March 3, 2003 | By: DennisYou might remember seeing a photo of this cooler posted in my Comdex 2002 write-ups. The concept actually sounds pretty good on paper but it would appear that things are not always built how they sound.
"As it stands, this thing's a white elephant. Don't buy one, and question the motives of anyone who gives you one as a gift." -
Epox Teams with Northgate to Expand Sales
Published: Monday, March 3, 2003 | By: Dennis"Motherboard maker Epox Computer recently announced that it has established sales cooperation with California-based distributor Northgate Innovations to expand its North American business.
Targeting the medium-range to high-end segments, Epox has put most of its focus on the clone markets in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and enjoys high brand recognition in China. The North American market, however, claims only a relatively limited portion of the board maker’s overall sales."
It is very typical for overseas motherboard mfgs. to rely very little on North American sales. In a way it shows stability and that their good products will be hard to obtain. -
Iwill P4GB Review @ Digital Daily
Published: Monday, March 3, 2003 | By: DennisFrom the looks of it this is a Granite Bay motherboard that I can be proud of. The board is clearly designed for the workstation market though as some typical iWill "quirkiness" to it. Power connectors are in strange locations, and the floppy connector is at the bottom of the board. Though on the plus side you get 6 channel audio with a digital connector, no onboard RAID or SerialATA, APG Pro!
, and a nice variety of colors including the now rare green PCB.
Not much in the way of overclocking controls but performance seems to be right on par. -
CoolerMaster Product Announcements
Published: Monday, March 3, 2003 | By: DennisCoolerMaster has announced a few new products in one of their recent newsletters.
TLF-R82 An improved transparent case fan with 4 LEDs, now brighter than ever and even comes in white.
AFP-U02 Just like the alloy front bezel that we recently reviewed, this time in black.
TTC-A18 & TTC-F10 Rounded IDE and Floppy drive cables in 18" and 10" lengths.
There is another one as well, more on that later.
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Rumor Mill Intel Product Roadmap Details
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisExtremeTech is calling this info an "Exclusive" while other sites are simply calling it rumor material. Either way if the info did come from Intel and covers the next 2 years of future product development somebody will most likely be in big trouble.
Thus far ExtremeTech has posted the following information.
Secret Centrino Features:
Pinless Tejas:
Grantsdale Chipset:
"Not only do we have details about other innovations, including a new graphics core, and the "NewCard" expansion format for wireless, we've even tracked down where the codename actually comes from (think big sky country)."
I wonder what part of big sky country they are talking about.. -
Gigabyte SINXP1394 Review @ GamePC
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisHere is another review of the Gigabyte SINXP1394 SiS655 enabled motherboard. I seem to remember that AOpen was first to announce a SiS655 motherboard and the first review of a SiS655 motherboard was the AOpen AX45-4D. So, knowing that why did Gigabyte beat them to market?
"So today at GamePC, we're looking at the first motherboard to hit the market based on the new SiS 655 chipset, Gigabyte's confusingly-named "SINXP1394". The board was previously sold in small quantities, and is still mentioned at Gigabyte's website under the name "GA-8SQ800 Ultra2". The board has a feature-set and design eerily reminiscent of the popular Gigabyte 8INXP, based on the Intel E7205 chipset. Can Gigabyte one-up themselves with a new top of the line Pentium 4 performance board? Let's see. "
Then again this is a online store reviewing their own products so what can you expect. -
ATI and nVidia, What is the Big Deal?
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisTech Report seems to have all of the answers.
" Since ATI released the Radeon 9500 Pro, I haven't recommended a GeForce4 Ti to anyone, and not recommending GeForce4 Titaniums means that I haven't recommended graphics cards from Abit, Jetway, Albatron, Asus, Chaintech, Gainward, PNY, Compro, eVGA, MSI or XFX. It's not that those manufacturers aren't building quality cards, because in many cases they are. The problem is that each of those manufacturers' recent graphics products were, and still are tied to NVIDIA's GeForce4 line, which hasn't been competitive for months. "
Call me a fanboy but I still think nVidia can pull it off, they just need to stick to things they know and create spin offs for the things they don't.
