Archive for June, 2009

“Fisker Automotive is a green American premium sports car company with a mission to create a range of beautiful environmentally friendly cars that make environmental sense without compromise.”
What makes the Fisker special?  Materials, technology and style from what I gather.  Build materials are eco friendly and the technology is pretty forward thinking, at least for [...]

So everyone pay attention.   From today until July 11th, you will be able to preorder Windows 7 for a huge discount.   Pre orders will be available through participating vendors such as NewEgg, Amazon, Fry’s, etc.     The non discounted pricing structure is as follows:
For full retail versions:

Home Premium Full: $199
Professional Full: $299
Ultimate Full: $319

For retail upgrades:

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Anandtech has a interesting write up on DDR3 memory and the Intel Core I7 , comparing how performance scales with memory latency and bandwidth.   Pretty good read for those of you that are interesting in moving to a DDR3 platform and would like to know what is the best bang for your $$.   Read about [...]

According to reghardware British researchers have created a hard rectanglular drive. The media is double sided and fits within the confines of  3.5 inch casings used by current HDD’s and SSD’s.   The read-write layer is made up of a grid of millions of read-write heads that are created using the same lithography process that is [...]

MSI Radeon HD 4890 1GB for $165!!!! ATI HD 4890’s are my favorite card on the market at the moment for affordable high performance single card solutions.   NewEgg has a killer deal just for Fathers Day. $199.99 – $20 Rebate -$15 (VGA61915 promo code) and free shipping = $165 of gaming [...]

According to a source quoted by Digitimes, current Blu-Ray production costs are at about $100 per unit. By 2010, these costs should drop to as low as $50, which paves the way for much more affordable Blu-Ray players which typically are still in the $250 range for cheaper players. This should hasten [...]

According to rumors, AMD is going to cut prices on the existing 4800 series graphics cards this next month. This makes sense as they are supposedly getting their next generation gpu ready and should be available by the end of the summer. So the price drop should help them clear out [...]

Last week or so I posted a little about the MotoCzysz electric motorcycle and somewhere in my ramblings I complained about the boring american motorcycle industry.   Well I forgot about a cool little start up motorcycle company right here in the United States by the name of Fischer.   They just finally started shipping their [...]

Again today, Xbitlabs has a nice little article on the power requirements of several different computer configurations.   From a light duty office computer all the way to a dual gpu performance gaming computer.   It goes to show how even with the most exhausting test programs even the highest spec and energy hungry configuration in their [...]

Xbitlabs has a good article on the performance gains on running two ATI HD 4770’s in crossfire mode.  Normally I’d say they are a fabulous option, but due to a global 40nm chip shortage, the 4770’s are going for $110 a piece.  You can pick up a HD 4890 for under $200 after rebate these [...]