Archive for July, 2009

PC Pro did a little article on PC repair shop’s and their ability to honestly diagnose hardware and software problems.   The results were a little suprising with all but one engaging in dishonest business practices.  The magazine intentionally caused a hardware fault on their test computer and put on several invisable pieces of monitoring software in [...]

Toms Hardware has a neat write up on how a CPU is made, from beginning to end.   The details were pulled straight from a Intel walk through that was recently released.   Pretty interesting read in you have ever been curious how the magic happens.   Read about it here.

If you are like me, you most likely have plenty of electronics.   My house is filled, so why would I need a HTPC when I already have 3 computers, DVR’s, DVD players and about every game system except for a PS3. Well about 6 months ago, out of curiosity,  I figured I’d build a HTPC [...]

Sony has responded to recent rumors stating that there will be no PS3 price cuts in the near future.   Sounds like a bad businesss decision to me.  With game developers threatening to pull support, Sony clearly in last place in the console race, how can they justify the huge price premium for their console?   The [...]